As promised, ARTS ALIVE SAN ANTINIO, will publish the winning entries in the NPM San Antonio Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, in installments. Here’s the first one. Of the four artworks selected by San Antonio Museums as inspiration for the poets, most contestants chose to respond to the piece the McNay Art Museum picked, “Sarah # 9” by Heidi McFall. Below are …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor April is National Poetry Month and in San Antonio it starts with a blast – a blast of poetry. It’s called “Slam the Town” and it invites everyone to email, text or mail a poem to all his/her friends on April 1. It can be an original written by the sender or simply a favorite poem. …
It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by, but it’s time again for the Briscoe Museum’s Night of the Artists exhibition and auction. Like so many other events, it’s a hybrid of in-person and online components, making it more accessible to Western art lovers all over the U.S. and beyond. The main celebration takes place March 27, with …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Like so many other events, the San Antonio Book Festival is going online this year but it promises to showcase a terrific author lineup, which includes local and national literary luminaries. “We are having more writers in this festival than ever before,” said the fest’s literary director Clay Smith who has been associated with the event …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The full title of the current exhibit at the McNay Art Museum is Limitless: Five Women Reshape Contemporary Art, which promises a lot, delivers quite a bit, and is also fun. The show features the work – installations – by five contemporary female artists: Martine Gutierrez, Leticia Huckaby, Yayoi Kusama, Sandy Skoglund and Jenni Steinkamp. It …
You have heard it said many times: “Laughter is the Best Medicine,” so here is info about funny events to enjoy this weekend and get your mind off the inaccessible vaccine lists and the like. Comic storyteller Jim Breuer will bring his Freedom of Laughter Tour to the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Friday, March 19. You probably remember …
by JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor To mark the publication of its 50th issue, VOICES DE LA LUNA, the only independent literary magazine in Bexar County and the region, is throwing a big party for literary folks to gather, celebrate and hopefully replenish the coffers of the eponymous nonprofit organization. As in previous couple of years, the event is also an opportunity …
by JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor — Cautiously, more and more performing arts organizations are returning to live, in-person performances this spring and that’s wonderful news for performing arts lovers and the entire community. No video can have the impact of a live theatrical performance where audiences and performers share the experience in the same space, just yards away from each other. …
For many, many years, folk dance practitioners and their audiences have been gathering in San Antonio in March to watch folk dance ensembles and dance themselves during the San Antonio Folk Dance Festival. Dancing groups from San Antonio, New Orleans, Houston and other cities performed folkloric dances of many cultures, from European traditions, to Near Eastern and Asian. But not …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor — Like so many arts organization, the Carver Community Cultural Center, one of San Antonio’s most prominent performing arts presenters, had to cancel most of its 2020 shows, with the hope of rescheduling them for the spring of 2021. But faced with continuing concerns about COVID-19, the center’s management opted for another wave of cancellations. “It …
