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Your cultural resource | Essentials
June 24
Guadalupe Gallery
Generaciones
June 26 & 27
Carver Community
Cultural Center
Latin Jazz Concert
June 27
McNay Art Museum
Josiah Youth
Media Festival
July 8 - 10
URBAN-15 Studios
Summer Literary
Festival
July 9 - 25
Gemini Ink
Cactus Pear
Music Festival
July 8 - 17
All School Exhibition
July 15 - Sept 12
Southwest School
of Art & Craft
2 to Watch
July 22
Artpace
The Music Man
July 23 - Aug 22
San Pedro Playhouse
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More San Antonio arts and culture events at sahearts.com!
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 Art on the Hill Anniversary Celebration
June 11, 6pm
Tobin Hill Arts Alliance
527 E Dewey Place
The Tobin Hill Arts Alliance celebrates its first anniversary of the Art on the Hill art walk. The June Art Walk includes galleries and art studios featuring more than 40 of San Antonio's contemporary artists, with live music at each venue. The opening reception features Triangle-musical entertainment by Josh Glenn, live drawing demonstration by Raul Castellanos, refreshments provided by Tycoon Flats, and a showcase of new installations of garden sculptures at various venues along the walk. FREE www.tobinarts.com
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 Texas Folklife Festival
June 11 - 13
Institute of Texan Cultures
801 E. Durango Blvd.
More than 40 different cultural groups in Texas are represented at the festival, and each year, more than 250 participants come together to celebrate their culture and heritage. Located on the grounds of the Institute of Texan Cultures on the UTSA HemisFair Park Campus, the annual three-day event showcases the Lone Star State's diversity and rich heritage through a wide variety of ethnic food, music, dance, arts, and crafts. www.texasfolklifefestival.org
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 Las Mujeres de Aztlan
June 11 - 30
Centro Cultural Aztlan
1800 Fredericksburg Rd.
Las Mujeres de Aztlan exhibit features works created by women artists who have participated and supported Centro Cultural Aztlan for the past 30 years. Curators: Malena Gonzalez-Cid and Ruth Guajardo. The exhibition opens with a reception June 11, 6-9pm. FREE www.centroculturalaztlan.com
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 Lizz Wright
June 12, 8pm
Carver Community Cultural Center
226 N. Hackberry
Singer/songwriter Lizz Wright's expressive, powerful and chillingly emotional voice blends soul, jazz and gospel influences into a beautifully serene collection of mature, personal, and sometimes spiritual, songs that have earned her critical acclaim as one of the top vocalists of her generation. www.thecarver.org
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 The New Mel Brooks Musical:
Young Frankenstein
Through June 13
Majestic Theatre
208 E. Houston Street
A re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks' classic comedy masterpiece, the story follows bright young Dr. Frankenstein as he attempts to complete his grandfather's masterwork and bring a corpse to life. Together with his oddly shaped and endearing helper Igor, his lab assistant Inga, and in spite of his incredibly self-involved madcap fiancé Elizabeth, Frankenstein succeeds in creating a monster, but not without scary and quite often hilarious complications. www.majesticempire.com
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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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June Artist of the Month
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 The June Artist of the Month is Roberto Prestigiacomo.
Roberto Prestigiacomo is a theatre-maker whose creative work includes directing, playwriting, developing community-based theatre through improvisation, storytelling techniques, and the creation of original performances (TransPerformance). Roberto teaches at Trinity University and is the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of AtticRep, a professional theatre company in residence at Trinity University. AtticRep will open its final production of its fourth season on June 9, with a double bill of two one act plays: The Reason of the Insane written and directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo and .us. created by AtticRep Theatre Ensemble and directed by Rachel Joseph.
Read more about Roberto, and watch his video interview online!
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What's on in SA
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 San Antonio ArtsBeat - June
For the June episode, SAArtsBeat visits the Guadalupe Gallery on San Antonio's West Side. Sebastian sits down with Patty Ortiz, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Executive Director and members of the Más Rudas Collective; Ruth Buentello, Kristin Gamez and Mari Hernandez; and guest artist curator Cruz Ortiz. The group discusses the recent exhibition at the gallery, Más Rudas Collective: Operation Canis Familiaris.
Watch it online now!
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Arts News
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Dallas Museum of Art Announces 2010 Awards to Artists Grants
(6/09/2010)
Peter Simek
"The Dallas Museum of Art has announced 16 recipients of the 2010 Awards to Artists. The program consists of two awards, the Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund, which gives financial grants to young artists from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, or Colorado between the ages of 15 and 25 years, and the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, open to Texas artists over 30."
NATIONAL
Picking the Next Picasso, 'Project Runway' Style
New York Times (6/08/2010)
Ginia Bellafante
"The series (beginning on Wednesday on Bravo) submits practitioners of fine art to the gladiator competitions of lowbrow culture, giving painters and sculptors and photographers a shot at the celebrity now enjoyed by so many service professionals and idle wives in Orange County."
INTERNATIONAL
Arts nil, World Cup billions...
The Art Newspaper (6/07/2010)
Marisa Mazria Katz
"As South Africa gears up for the games, government funding for arts initiatives dries up"
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