By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor If you are a poet who loves the visual arts, you may be interested in entering the second annual Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, a city-wide “grass-roots” project coordinated by San Antonio poetry champions Jim LaVilla-Havelin and Linda Simone in honor of National Poetry Minth, which is in April.  Though the term “ekphrastic” is still unknown to a …

Lots of wonderful music is coming our way in the next few days. To begin with, The San Antonio Chamber Choir, will present Threshold as part of the CARITAS Series founded earlier this year by Mary Ann Winden, with the support of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word Congregation. The program will feature two new works: “tse go la” by …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Writer Rachelle Neuman likes to play Mahjong with her friends, so it’s not surprising that the game she loves has also inspired her new play, “One Crack-Two Bam” that will premiere this weekend at the Cellar Theater of the San Padro Playhouse. Actually, it’s not quite accurate to refer to her play as “new.”  “This play …

There’s a bit of good news from the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony (MOSAS). They will soon have an opportunity to play together but not under the auspices of the San Antonio Symphony. Scheduled for March 3 & 4, the concerts will take place at the First Baptist Church of San Antonio, which has a Fine Arts Series program. …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Music can be understood by all, and so can dance and even the visual arts, but poetry is a language art. If you don’t understand the language that a poem is written in, the poem cannot speak to you. Or maybe it can? A unique poetry-and-performance evening that will take place at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts …

By SUSAN YERKES, Contributing Writer While taking a walk along San Antonio’s famous River Walk, you may be startled by a wild, rocky grotto on the Museum Reach of the promenade. It’s a magic place, with a trickling waterfall and a huge spirit face looming in the rock. Rest on a handsome wooden bench in the shade and wonder what …

You would think that arts organization would have lots of special events planned for Valentine’s Day weekend but that is not the case. Valentine’s “special events” are all about dining-and-wining, and, maybe some cheek-to-cheek dancing. One promising concert, Il Divo, smartly scheduled for Valentine’s Day at the Tobin Center, had to be postponed due to “a scheduling conflict.” So, if …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor For arts-minded San Antonians, the names Kellen McIntyre and Bihl Haus Arts are so firmly interlinked that it’s hard to imagine one without the other. But they will be unlinked in a mere couple of months. As hard as it is to believe, McIntyre and her husband, Eric Lane, will be leaving San Antonio in May, …

By JANIS TURK, Contributing Writer “I see color everywhere,” says painter, designer, and Master Colourist Sam Ehrlich of Keepers Interiors of Seguin, “I experience color in everything: sounds, tastes, smells, sights. All color has meaning, and all meaning has color.” Standing in his art studio at the back of Keepers, the home décor store Ehrlich and his wife Amber own …

There is exciting news on the music front! One of the world’s best classical guitarists, Sharon Isbin, is coming to the Alamo City to perform Sunday at the San Antonio Chamber Music Society concert at Temple Bethel. A multiple GRAMMY winner, Isbin was also named the 2020 Musical America Worldwide Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist to be so …