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POETRY MONTH
April 2010
The Art of Dance
April 8 - 10
Municipal Auditorium
Dinah Was
April 9 - 18
St. Philip's College
Fiesta POPS
April 16 & 17
Majestic Theatre
Fista Arts Fair
April 17 & 18
Southwest School
of Art & Craft
Community Performance
April 18
Guadalupe Theatre
King William Fair
King William
April 24
Fiesta del Rio
April 25
McAllister Auditorium
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Dreams Take Flight Reception
March 25, 6:30-9pm
Morgan's Wonderland
5223 David Edwards Drive
Artists who created special sculptures add to the ambience of Morgan's Wonderland, the world's first ultra-accessible family fun park designed especially for individuals with special needs. This event showcases artist Doug Roper's 25-foot-tall Taking Flight cast-bronze butterfly sculpture and other creations - kinetic sculptures by Jim LaPaso and handmade bronze sculptures of children by Randolph Rose. www.morganswonderland.com
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The San Antonio Neighborhood Film Project Screening
March 26, 6pm
San Antonio Museum of Art
200 W. Jones Ave.
The Office of Cultural Affairs and the San Antonio Film Commission will announce the winners of The San Antonio Neighborhood Film Project during a screening event. The event will include a reception, followed by a film screening of 15 short films and awards presentation. The Project began as a way to celebrate three new online neighborhood discovery tours; the Westside Murals y Más tour, the Eastside Echoes of the Eastside tour, and the Downtown North River tour. The film competition was open to student, amateur and professional filmmakers to submit films that capture the flavor and authenticity of each neighborhood profiled in the tour. www.sahearts.com
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6th Annual Dignowity Hill Pushcart Derby
March 27
Dignowity Hill Park
Cruz Ortiz, creative mastermind behind the event, hopes his public art intervention will continue to strengthen the eastside community and show other San Antonians that this part of the city is a dynamic and safe place to live and play. Pushcart teams will compete in several areas including: speed, audience favorite and creativity in design. FREE CAM Event, www.contemporaryartmonth.com
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CAM Perennial Party & CAMMY Awards
March 27, 7 - 10:30pm
Chrispark
111 Camp Street
Contemporary Art Month comes to a close with the annual closing party, now christened the CAM Perennial Party! For the event, Kelly O'Connor has curated an exhibition from the Linda Pace Foundation's collection, featuring rarely-seen work by an international group of contemporary artists, including several San Antonio artists. The event also includes a CAMMY Awards presentation, a performance by Buttercup, and food and drink. CAM Event www.contemporaryartmonth.com
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On IAIR microCinema
March 31, 7pm
Bijou at Crossroads
4522 Fredericksburg Road
View contemporary film and video shorts inspired by New Works: 10.1. (March 18-May 16 at Artpace) 2010 Shorts will focus on themes of gender identity. Films featured are: Flour/ Breath Piece, Vito Acconci, Black and White Tapes, Paul McCarthy, Image of Image - Seeing, Saburo MURAOKA, Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI, and Keiji UEMATSU, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll, Joan Jonas, Animus 2, Mako Idemitsu, Pinchneck, Bruce Nauman, I Am the Light, Ante Bozanich, and The Recognition Construction, Morihiro WADA. CAM Event, www.artpace.org
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 What's up in SA
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If you have news or announcements, let us know! Email Linsey at linsey.whitehead@sanantonio.gov.
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March Artist of the Month
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 The March Artist of the Month is Cruz Ortiz.
Cruz talks about his life, being an artist in San Antonio and his upcoming projects in conjunction with Contemporary Art Month in March.
Watch is video profile here.
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What's on in SA
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 SA ArtsBeat - March 2010Contemporary Art Month has moved to March! In this episode Sebastian interviews artist Jason Jay Stevens and Blue Star Contemporary Art Center Executive Director Bill Fitzgibbons about the events for the month, and what we can expect from CAM 2010. Sebastian also visits the Witte to talk to Marise McDermott programming at the museum, including its CAM exhibitions for March. The show ends with details from Paula Owen about Luminaria 2010. |
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Arts News
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TEXAS
Arts groups rally to oppose changes in city arts funding guideliness
Austin American Statesman (3/23/10)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
"Representatives from several dozen arts groups gathered Tuesday to strategize how to challenge changes in the city's arts funding guidelines that could leave many cultural organizations ineligible for municipal monies."
NATIONAL
NEA chairman visits Chelsea, praises community's use of arts to boost economy
AnnArbor.com (3/22/10)
Roger LeLievre
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman stopped in Chelsea Monday, telling business, community and arts leaders that the example they are setting in making the arts an area economic engine "is something I can take back to Washington and shine the spotlight on."
INTERNATIONAL
2012 Olympic festival to be at centre of cultural celebration around games
Guardian (3/17/10)
Mark Brown
"'Once-in-a-lifetime' 12-week event to be run by key players from UK arts scene"
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