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 …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor URBAN-15 has a number of programs and events in different disciplines. How would you describe the organization and its activities?We have three disciplines that we espouse: music, movement (dance, etc.) and media. Actually, we have one more that we do not talk about that much, and that’s design – costuming and sets. All of us are …
March is Contemporary Art Month with many artists and art venues participating in a range of events. To kick-off the celebration of contemporary art Friday, Blue Star Contemporary will present An Original Drive, a multidisciplinary performance by Xavier Gilmore with collaborators Anthony Francis, Kellen Stanley, Nick Long, Edwin Stephens, and San Antonio poet laureate, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. “Through sound, scent …
By SUZI CASTELLAW, Contributor Max Stalling has this great song about the end of a passionate romance between a cowboy and his fiery mistress. To cool off and gather his thoughts, he jumps into a “pila.” For those unfamiliar with the term, a pila is a large cement reservoir built next to a windmill that holds water pumped from the …
By RUDY ARISPE, Contributor In early March 2020, Elizabeth Jordan, general manager of the Nowwhere Bookshop in Alamo Heights, and the store’s owner, author Jenny Lawson, were making last minute preparations for their grand opening slated for that April. The space, located in the former El Paso Imports at 5154 Broadway, had just undergone a complete buildup to transform it …
Agarita Chamber Players will record a Spanish-themed program at the Spanish Governor’s Palace tonight, to be streamed virtually on the organization’s website, www.agarita.org at 7:30 p.m. Produced in partnership with San Antonio’s World Heritage Organization, the concert will highlight the history of the old residence with music from Spain, including Casarrubios, Montsalbatge, Leoz and Boccherini, who was born in Italy …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor — The recent arctic cold and power blackouts brought to us an ever more immediate and painful experience of isolation than the pandemic originally created last year. “It was worse than COVID,” said Patti Ruiz-Healy, the co-director of the Ruiz Healy Art gallery in Olmos Park. “Before, you could at least connect with people in some …
