This weekend is going to be a mightily busy one! First, there’s Fiesta, which, although not an arts event/festival has arts-related components. Our favorite is Fiesta Arts Fair at the Southwest School of Arts. It’s a juried art show featuring the work of 110 artists from across the U.S. A range of art styles are always represented, including paintings, prints, …
By SUSAN YERKES, Contributing Writer Fiesta San Antonio starts this week. Are you ready? Get out your sunscreen and your flip-flops, and a big summer hat – preferably with lots of bling attached. Get ready to party like it’s… well… like it’s 2019 –the last year we had a full Fiesta. “We’re back!” declared Retired Army Colonel Jon Fristoe, the …
As part of National Poetry Months, a group of San Antonio poets joined forces for the second year in a row to organize an ekphrastic poetry contest for both youth and adults. For those who are not familiar with the term, “ekphrastic poetry” is poetry inspired by other works of art, in this case visual arts works, selected for the …
Two significant exhibits have just opened in town: the 92nd Juried Artists Exhibition at the San Antonio Arts League and Museum, and “Mars Needs More Women” at the Centro Cultural Aztlan. Like every year, SAALM issued an open call to artists to submit works for the Artists Juried Exhibition, but this year the museum broadened its reach by inviting artists …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor San Antonio is home to people of many cultures and backgrounds and some of those folks will come together this weekend to dance, learn from each other and have fun at the 64th San Antonio Folk Dance Festival – and the entire community is invited to join them. After having to cancel the 2020 fest due …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Houston native, Emily Ballew Neff, still remembers her first visit to San Antonio about 30 years ago. On that occasion she visited the exhibition Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, presented by the San Antonio Museum of Art. “That exhibition was such a knockout, and it was a very important experience for me,” said Neff in a …
We are all witnessing the tragic war in central Europe, so it’s not surprising that San Antonio artists and arts organization want to express their concern and support for the suffering people of Ukraine. A large group of well-known San Antonio poets will gather Saturday afternoon in Main Plaza, to read poems “in solidarity with Ukraine.” Organized by Natalia Trevino …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Tamara Adira was 29 when she happened to see a flamenco performance at the Red Room Club in New Orleans. It was love at first site. She knew right away that she wanted to learn more about this thunderous dance. And she did. Adira is today a leading flamenco dancer/choreographer and producer in San Antonio, and …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Back in 2014, the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony, known as MOSAS, created an independent nonprofit that stayed dormant for a number of years. But it has now been revived to help MOSAS to return to music making. Named MOSAS Performance Fund, the organization is a 501c3 nonprofit whose mission is to present professional symphony …
As you know, the performing arts have been hit hard by the pandemic, but the good news is that things are slowly but surely returning to a normal. The latest proof of this welcome development is a new announcement from the Public Theater of San Antonio about resuming the previously promoted season. Only one show, “A Bronx Tale – The …
