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May 21 - June 20
San Pedro Playhouse
Ballet de Monterrey
May 22
Municipal Auditorium
Fiesta de Vernao
May 22 - 29
Guadalupe Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park
June 2 - 5
SA Botanical Garden
Ellen Phelan
June 9 - Sept 5
McNay Art Museum
Concert Under the Stars
June 10
SA Botanical Garden
Feathered Fossils
June 12 - Sept 6
Witte Museum
Lizz Wright
June 12
Carver Community
Cultural Center
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More San Antonio arts and culture events at sahearts.com!
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 Tejano Conjunto Festival
May 13 - 15
Rosedale Park
303 Dartmouth
The 29th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival Concert features over 20 live bands by Conjunto music pioneers and emerging artists, plus, food and beverage booths, accordion raffle, student recital and more. Highlights of the festival include star-studded performances by Conjunto Music Hall of Famers Flaco Jimenez, Eva Ybarra, and numerous other musical acts, as well as accordion and bajo sexto workshops. www.guadalupeculturalarts.org
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 Slasher
May 13 - 30
Trinity Theater-Ruth Taylor Theater Bldg.
Trinity University, One Trinity Place
Slasher follows Sheena, a young waitress in Austin caught between two worlds. But when she meets Marc, a washed up director who casts her as the "last girl" in his low-budget slasher flick Bloodbath, she sees the opportunity to escape her demeaning job and suffocating family. www.atticrep.org
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 On the Road
May 13 - September 5
Artpace
445 N Main
More than looking at the idea of the road trip from a nostalgic point of view, On the Road explores the idea of the road trip as a rite of passage, a journey towards liberation and emancipation on the way to a destination that is largely unknown but that holds the promise of freedom and self-discovery. The exhibition opens with a reception and walk-thru May 13, 6-8:30pm. Also opening May 15, San Antonio artist Ken Little's WindowWorks exhibit. FREE www.artpace.org
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 An Evening of Renaissance Vocal Music
May 14, 7pm
Coates Chapel, Southwest School of Art & Craft
300 Augusta Street
The Copperleaf Quintet, is the newest project by Benissimo! Music Productions, a Texas non-profit organization promoting musical excellence and integrity in vocal performance. This is the group's premier concert, An Evening of Renaissance Vocal Music. A reception will be held at 5:30pm before the performance. www.copperleafquintet.org
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 Trabajo Rústico: Fantasies in Cement
Symposium: May 15
Exhibition: May 6 - 30
Southwest School of Art & Craft
300 Augusta
In celebration of Historic Preservation Month, this exhibition presents a rich history of trabajo rústico artists and their works, including digital video interviews with Patsy Pitman Light, Carlos Cortés, and landscape architect, Kim Wolf; large-scale photographic reproductions of site-specific public projects; archival materials and maps; and actual examples of finished Trabajo Rústico pieces. On May 15, there will be a free morning symposium exploring these distinctive sculptures, followed by a reservation-required afternoon bus tour of Trabajo Rústico works by Dionicio Rodríguez, and Maximo and Carlos Cortés, including a visit to Cortés' studio, and ending with a demonstration by Carlos Cortés. www.saconservation.org or www.swschool.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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May Artist of the Month
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 In honor of Dance Month in San Antonio, the May Artist of the Month is The City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Dance Program, and its founder, Berta Almaguer.
This year, the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation department
celebrates 75 years of dance, and honors dance program founder Berta
Almaguer. The Parks and Recreation Department proudly boasts the
longest running municipal dance program in the country.
Read more about the Parks and Recreation Dance Program and Dance Month, visit www.sahearts.com
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What's on in SA
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 San Antonio ArtsBeat - May
This episode is all about Dance Month! We talk to Belinda Menchaca at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, dancers with the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Dance Program and Erica Wilson-Perkins at the new Palo Alto College Performing Arts Center.
Watch it online now!
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Arts News
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AT&T Foundation $780,000 gift for music education
San Antonio Express News (05/11/10)
Jack Fishman
"This morning, at the Edgewood Fine Arts Academy, the San Antonio Symphony and the AT&T Foundation celebrated a three-year gift for the AT&T Music Scholars Program with a press conference and concert for more than 1,000 middle school children.
NATIONAL
Rehabbing Camden's Waterfront South with art
Kevin Riordan (05/11/10)
Philladelphia Inquirer
"There's lots more to talk about: the cluster of arts and cultural organizations slowly emerging around Broadway and Ferry Avenue in the city's down-but-not-out Waterfront South neighborhood."
INTERNATIONAL
New Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington heralded as fresh start
Washington Post (05/11/10)
Dan Zak
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