Since last week’s NEWS ROUNDUP was dislodged from its regular spot due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we are offering this abbreviated version, covering upcoming arts events and developments. Let’s begin with the laughs! Funny guy, Jaston Williams – he of the “Greater Tuna” fame – will bring the new version of his solo show, “Blood and Holly” to the Tobin …
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The movies that helped create the cowboy legend seldom showed black men as cowboys. And yet, they were there in substantial numbers working along their white counterparts. Their story and contribution are now told in the exhibit Black Cowboys: An American Story, currently on view at the Witte Museum. It’s a small but well documented and …
Theater stages are alive with music, dance and even new plays! That’s great news and we can’t wait to tell you about it. The Public Theater of San Antonio is opening its original, made-in-San-Antonio holiday show called Season’s Greetings from San Antonio, a musical revue of holiday songs performed by the fictional Dotz a Capella male quartet during their televised …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Last year was hard for everyone and that included the students and faculty at UTSA. Classes were put on hold, meeting cancelled, and individuals found themselves isolated and uncertain about the course of their studies. To help students and themselves, a group of faculty members launched a new project to create connections between people and help …
by JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor When the Public Theater of San Antonio announced its 2021-22 season, the December slot was reserved for “Forever Plaid – Plaid Tidings,” a popular holiday concoction of close harmonies and smooth moves, to be performed by a quartet of men who have been asked to return to earth from their lives in heaven “because they were …
The biggie this weekend is the Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, which will once again light up the November darkness with light displays, music, dance, poetry, theater and art installations. The fest will officially open at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and continue all the way to midnight. It is a bit unclear how many artists will be participating, as numbers cited range …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor She grew up with flamenco-artists parents, studied and performed flamenco dance herself, and designed flamenco costumes. Now, San Antonio designer Lisa Perello, would like to dress all her customers in flamenco-inspired fashions. She will be showing her new creations Thursday at the Farbrictopia Warehouse, which is next door to her shop/studio on W. Laurel St., downtown. …
Lots of new exhibits are opening or have just opened across the city. The McNay Art Museum isfeaturing 100 works by the California artist Wayne Thiebaud who is 100 years old. The career-spanning exhibit shows a wide range of artistic interests and subject matter, that also reflect the art trends of a century. Not to be missed! (To learn more …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor You don’t hear that much about it, but San Antonio does have a pretty lively flamenco community of both dancers and musicians, who are joining forces this weekend to present the 12th annual WeFlamenco Festival at multiple locations across the city. It’s a “grass roots” effort spearheaded by Carmens de la Calle CafĂ© and several other …
