News Roundup, March 6, 2026
NEWS ROUNDUP, March 6, 2026
Let’s start with music!
The Turtle Island Quartet is inviting music lovers to celebrate the centennial of two legendary jazz icons – Miles Davis and John Coltrane – with a special concert. From the quartet’s early days, it has drawn inspiration from these “timeless artists” and to honor their 100th birthdays, the quartet will present “a groundbreaking evening of music.” Led by David Balakrishnan, the quartet will perform it’s GRAMMY awards-winning interpretations of Davis and Coltrane’s masterpieces, alongside works that both honor and explore these icons’ legacies. (March 6 at 8 p.m. at the Carver Community Cultural Center, 226 N. Hackberry; tickets are $48.30; for more info call 210-2072234)
The Agarita chamber music group will be joined by internationally known guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas for a concert at the Tobin Center (March 22 at 3 p.m.)
You are invited to hear Katherine Calcamuggio Donner, the award-winning American jazz and pop standards singer in a concert that includes music from classical 17th century Italian arias to 20th century American jazz and pop standards. She will be accompanied by pianist Gabriel Evens. Their performances are made possible by gifts from the Piatigorsky Foundation. The event is supported by the New Braunfels Chamber Music. (For more info, contact them at 830-660-2335 or nbcm135@gmail.com)
The acclaimed 8-men a cappella ensemble, Cantus, will perform a program that spans multiple cultural lineages: African American, Filipino, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Indian, Haitian and more.
(March 8 at 7p.m. Russel Hill Rogers Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral, 115 Main Plaza; free)
San Antonio Botanical Garden “Otherwild” Experience is a “captivating large-scale immersive art experience that will transform the San Antonio Botanical Garden this spring into a vibrant world where wonder takes root and the sky comes alive. Debuting March 7, the exhibition features colorful visionary installations by artist Patrick Shearn and his renowned studio, Poetic Kinetics. (On view March 7 to July 7, 2026. The exhibit is included with standard admission. San Antonio Botanical Garden is at 555 Funston Place, 78209; (admission $3-$22)
The 16th Annual Mujeres de Aztlan: Mujeres de Fuerza/Women of Strength Exhibition at Centro Cultural Aztlan opened March 6 to celebrate International Women’s Month. The listof
participating artists is long including Lyn Belisle, Kim Bishop, Leigh Ann Lester, Ethel Shipton, Barbara Felix, Norma Jean Moore, Anita Valencia and many others. (Centro Cultural Aztlan, 1800 Fredericksburg Rd., Ste 103, 78201; For more info call 210-432-1896; centroaztlan@global.net)
March is Contemporary Art Month and many galleries and other spaces in town will have new exhibit. The Contemporary at Blue Star will be premiering two exhibitions: Roman Franc’s “Groups Collective” and the “Mini Art Museum” honoring Mary Cantu.
The Guadalupe cultural Arts Center is now accepting submissions for the Teatro Salon Table Reading Series. This opportunity is open to both established and emerging writers across Texas to develop unproduced plays that reflect the Latinx, Chicano and Tejano experience. Selected scripts will receive a public table-reading with actors, a director and community feedback; deadline March 31 at 4 p.m. The scripts can be in English, Spanish or bilingual. Mailing address”
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 723 S. Barzos, TX 78207.
Ekphrastic Poetry Contest: National Poetry Month is almost here, and five local museums have each selected one artwork from their collections to inspire community poets to create a poem inspired by that art piece. Choose one piece and write a poem in response. Winning poems will be featured online in April for National Poetry Month.
If you wish to join Gemini Ink’s LitMinds Book Club, the book to read right now is “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. To discuss the book, meet March 11 at 6:30 p.m. at Gemini Ink; for more info go to info@geminiink.org.
Hill Country Poets Monthly Open Mic. You can join the The Hill Country Poets Poetry Mic; every 2nd Thursday, 6-8 p.m. Food available from Richter Boerne, meeting at Boerne Book Shop;
more info by calling 210-771-8078 or emailing to kcjanwaemail@gmail.com.
  ———————————————————————————————————-