Let’s start with theater news! Several openings are scheduled on San Antonio stages in the next few days. The Public Theater of San Antonio is opening “The Pajama Game,” a musical created a while back, in 1954. The original creative team included directors Jerome Robbins and George Abbott – who was also one of the writers – and choreographer Bob …
By STEPHANIE SCHWARTZ, contributor Esmeralda Hernandez tells the story of how four generations of women pass on dreams and knowledge. Her film, “Dream Carriers,” is set on the West Side, where Hernandez spent much of her youth. “It’s a short love letter and poem style film, dedicated to San Antonio,” she says. Hernandez ties her story of change and transition …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor As we told you last week, the On & Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tours will continue this upcoming weekend: Saturday, April 1 and Sunday April 2. Most, but not all studios, will reopen again from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For other information, consult the article from last Monday. To get a map of studios, homes …
Let’s start with a dance & music event that’s bound to be fun and educational, too: The San Antonio Folklife and Dance Festival. Virtually every culture in the world has a folk music and dance tradition, and a good number of those traditions will be part of the fest, which started as the International Folk Dance Festival years ago. We …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor San Antonio College English professor, Mono Riojas Aguilar, wrote the play, “Chato’s Bridge” ten years ago and had a successful one-night show at the McAllister Auditorium. This play is now receiving a new production at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center this weekend. “It started as a short story,” recalled Aguilar during a recent interview. “Most of …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor ON & Off Fred Studio Tour is Coming up Bihl Haus Arts is in a neighborhood where many artists live and work, and that is probably what inspired founder and former director Kellen McIntyre to start the On & Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour fifteen years ago. It’s an opportunity for the public to visit the …
There’s a lot going on the visual art scene right now. We are happy to report that Artpace has just opened one of the strongest exhibits we have seen in a while. It is actually three separate exhibits by the Spring 2023 International Artist-in-Residence participants: – Yuliya Lanina based in Austin; Reynier Levya Novo, from Cuba but living in Houston, …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor It all started with the babies! As a working photographer, specializing in portraits, Susan Riley met a lot of mothers who brought their young kids to be photographed. But she went a little further by embellishing the photos with a little hand-coloring of the cheeks and lips. “Then I discovered that if I made them into …
About a year ago, we told you about the Caritas Concerts, founded by Mary Ann Winden in 2021. A long-time San Antonio organist, choir director, and “friend of the Chapel of the Incarnate Word,” Winden wanted to highlight the power of organ and choral music, both artistically and spiritually. What’s more, the chapel happens to have a Schoenstein organ, produced …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor March is Women’s History Month and the McNay Art Museum has appropriately decided to honor women artists with an exhibit whose title says a great deal: Womanish, Audacious, Courageous, Willful Art, featuring 80 artists. Drawn entirely from the museum’s own collection, the exhibit will undoubtedly come as a surprise to many viewers. So, enjoy the surprise! …
