Emvergeoning

Host:	Historic Sunset Station
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, June 20, 2009
Time:	8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:	Historic Sunset Station
Street:	1174 E. Commerce
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Phone:	2102229481
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6/20 Peekaboo Theory, 8PM
Raleigh Maroon, 9PM
You’re Done For, 10PM

Congratulations to Slick Dickens and Sally Theives, winners of 6/06 and 6/13 shows! They will be competing on 6/27 against 6/20 winners.
Summer Sounds at Sunset, the first annual summer music series supporting local music, is hosted by Historic Sunset Station.

Musicians will compete starting June 6 for a $2,500 cash prize and a full production headlining concert at Sunset Station’s Lonestar Pavilion on August 28, complete with full star treatment, a green room and VIP catering service.

Three Texas artists/bands will perform every Saturday night on the Plaza Stage, beginning June 6. Audience votes will help determine which artist will move forward to the next round. Winners will be announced on the Sunset Station website the Monday after the performance.

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Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, June 20, 2009
Time:	12:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:	Market Square
Street:	101 S. Santa Rosa
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Raza en la Plaza

Buttercup, always interactive, poetic, and grooving –begins their monthly summer-time appearance at the Plaza on Saturday, June 27 at 8 p.m. Upcoming Buttercup dates include July 18 & August 22.

All events are free and open to the public and take place at Main Plaza in the heart of downtown San Antonio adjacent to San Fernando Cathedral and the Riverwalk.
Chairs, pets [on leashes], and dancing shoes are welcome; coolers are not.  Food and beverages (beer, wine, and nonalcoholic) are available for purchase onsite.

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is a FREE one-day event that offers San Antonian’s and their families a place to come together and have fun. The event takes place on the last Saturday of each month, from Noon to 6 pm.

The Houston Street Fair & Market’s mission is “To encourage visitation of downtown to our local citizens and those in the surrounding areas, and to provide a venue for local artisans and entertainers.”

Mayor Hardberger’s vision for the Houston Street Fair & Market is to provide an outlet for San Antonian’s to promote their products and businesses, as well as give residents and visitors alike a reason to come downtown monthly.

Each month the Houston Street Fair has a different theme with special activities and guests.

In addition, every month the fair features hand-made arts and crafts by local artisans and there are many great food and drinks to enjoy.

Live, local entertainers will perform throughout the day so bring your lawn chair and enjoy the day’s activities.

Don’t forget to visit the City of San Antonio’s “Pets in the Park” pet adoption area and add a new member to your family.

PARK FREE on event day beginning at noon until 6pm in the city’s St. Mary’s Street Parking Garage located at 400 N. St. Mary’s at Travis Street.

Events begin every last Saturday of the month, unless otherwise noted.

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On Saturday, June 27th, the PuroSlam Team is having
> > a fund-raiser to help us get to the National Poetry Slam in August.  We will
> > be competing against 80-plus other teams from all over the United States in
> > West Palm Beach, FL, and we need your help in getting there!  Join us for a
> > fun-filled night of food,drink, and amazing performances by some of the
> > city’s most cutting-edge poets–THE 2009 SAN ANTONIO PUROSLAM TEAM!!!  The
> > event is FREE and open to the public.  Bring whatever you want to drink.
> > This is a laid-back, back-yard event at the amazing home of Donato Arredondo
> > and Lisa De La Luz, and for those of you who have attended some of our other
> > events, you know it will be an extravaganza of poetic delight!  DONATIONS TO
> > THE SLAM TEAM’S TRIP TO FLORIDA WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!  Donato &
> > Lisa just moved in to a cool new house, and we’re helping to break it in!
> > Please come and support your local poetry scene, and please forward this
> > message to anyone you think might be interested in the event!  EVERYONE
> > WELCOMED!!!
> >
> > Place: CASA DE LA LUZ, 1918 RIALTO WAY. SAN ANTONIO, TX 78230.
> >
> > Date/Time:  Saturday, June 27th, 8:00 P.M. – 2:00 A.M.

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Benito Huerta: Shock & Awe (Exhibit)

Venue: The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery (Main Campus)

Artist(s): Benito Huerta, Arlington

Reception(s): Thursday, Jul 9, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Runs through: Friday, Aug 14

Bismarck Studios Art Opening: Billy L. Keen

Opening Reception For Billy L. Keen at Bismarck Studios

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Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Thursday, July 9, 2009
Time:	6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location:	Bismarck Studios
Street:	930 Proton Suite 202
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Phone:	2103147747
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Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman.

Brooklyn’s Stars Like Fleas (featuring SA-town homeboy Ryan Sawyer on drums and lead beard) play a PopRally event at MOMA on June 8, 2009 – shot and edited by Austin Rhodes.

[hattips to albert flores & cosmo inserra for the first and ryan sawyer for the second.]

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FryingPanFire posts images of street art from Tehran, made by pro-Mousavi activists (h/t Andrew Sullivan). This creature holds a green sign, like many of the protesters:

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An apparently forged Sex Pistols flyer fools Christie’s authenticators and ignites controversy amongst internet rock’n'roll/design geeks.

As part of an ongoing project archiving San Antonio music flyers on my Facebook page, I have been frequenting the website Gigposters.com to comb through its San Antonio-related contributions. Early last week, I came across a singular new addition – the flyer pictured above, purporting to be from the Sex Pistols notorious Randy’s Rodeo concert in San Antonio on January 8, 1978. (Headline from the next day’s Express-News: “Pistols Win S.A. Shootout.”) The third date on the Sex Pistols short-lived American tour, it has gone down in punk rock lore as the concert at which Sid Vicious, after being repeatedly hit in the face with airborne full cans of beer, retaliated against the offending audience member’s head (and possibly innocent bystanders as well) using his bass guitar.

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Camp Artpace: June 15 – 19, 2009
Open to children between the ages of 6 and 12

Camp Artpace is maximizing creativity! Former International Artist-in-Residence Katie Pell offers a week of play and art. Using past and present Artpace exhibitions as inspiration, your young artist (or young artists) will create new masterpieces and discover new ideas. A student exhibition and parent reception will be held on the last day of camp to celebrate the week’s creative explorations. $295 tuition includes all materials and snacks. Students bring a sack lunch. To register or inquire about camp scholarships, contact Kendra Curry at or .

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Grand Re-Opening of The ***** Collective

Kevin Rayhons New Works 2009

Host:	Kevin Rayhons
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Friday, July 3, 2009
Time:	6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:	104-A Building B, Blue Star (upstairs)
Street:	blue star
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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2103852484

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Join us for a fresh contemporary art month show at the grand re-opening of The February Collective – now with Kevin Rayhons curating.
To start us off for contemporary art month, Kevin Rayhons will be showing us some of his new japanese-inspired works exploring the visionary phenomenon of pattern and motion in our world around us.

Gallery will be open:

Friday, July 3 – 6-9pm

Early viewings will be available Thursday, July 2 by appointment only

to find the Gallery go up the exterior staircase near Jump-Start Theater and it will be the first door on the left as you go in.

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As I was walking my bike down the road to get a flat fixed, Daniel Saldaña stopped to offer me a ride to the shop in his pickup. I was doubly lucky: Saldaña had his new art tricycle in the truck and let me snap a few shots before delivering it. (See this post for more on Saldaña’s art bikes).

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Network:	Global

Start Time:	Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 2:00pm
End Time:	Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 9:00pm
Location:	Instituto Cultural de Mexico en San Antonio
Street:	600 Hemisfair Park
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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Phone:

2102270123

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Meditation Workshop

Tuesday, June 16, 6 to 7:30 pm

Beretta Hops House. Free.

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Sketching in SAMA’s Galleries

Tuesday, June 16, 6 to 8 pm

Facilitated by Regis Shepherd. Free.

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Open to 9 and free after 4

Lecture: Tom Slick: Visionary!

Thursday, June 18, 6:30 pm, Chiego Lecture Hall
Peer inside the brilliant, creative mind of a man who created five scientific research foundations, developed new species of cattle and grasses, discovered major oil fields, loved several beautiful women, searched for the Yeti, wrote two books on world peace, and assembled an extraordinary modern art collection – all before he died at age 46. Author Catherine Nixon Cooke shares highlights and historic photographs from her biography about her uncle Tom Slick (Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter; Paraview Press, 2005).

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“INVISIBLE THREADS” – in celebration of SAY Sí’s 15th anniversary a curated exhibit of alumni student’s current artwork and digital films. Featuring the work of David Cordero and Gabriel Garcia First Friday Exhibit | Friday June 5, 6-9 PM * Alumni Film Showcase Screening | Friday June 19, 7-9 PM

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For my latest post on Glasstire, I took on a series by local artist and Emvergeoning contributor Aaron Forland. These pieces help us understand the differences between “street art” and “public art”:

Like a street artist, he uses spray paint on an existing surface, and doesn’t ask permission. But more like a public artist, he takes his time and carefully works over composition and placement (Forland removes these electrical covers, takes them home, methodically paints them, and then replaces them). Some of these pieces are months in the making. He also takes a painterly approach, and the series is much more reminiscent of a series of paintings than a group of tags.

I dealt with similar issues in a review for Art Lies a little while back (in this one I focussed more on street art vs gallery art, which would be an apt way to discuss Forland’s work as well). You can read it here.

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I’ve been digging around a bit for details about tommorrow’s Artist Foundation fundraiser, the ArtBall (aka aLadaDadaGala). I managed to get ahold of a list of artists in the auction, although I don’t know how complete it is:

Anne Wallace, Ansen Seale, Ben Mata, Bettie Ward, Charlie Morris, Chris Sauter, Cruz Ortiz, Diana Kersey, Ed Saavedra, Enrique Martinez, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Gary Sweeney, Hills Snyder, Jeremiah Teutsch, Jerry Cabrera, Jessica Halonen, Jim Keller, Joey Fauerso, John Mata, Kelly O’Connor, Ken Little, Kristy Perez, Leigh Anne Lester, Loretta Rey, Louis Vega Trevino, Mark Hogensen, Marlys Dietrick, McKay Otto, Michele Monseau, Peter Zubiate, Richie Budd, Susan Budge, Susan Strauss, Thomas Cummins, Trish Simonite, Dan Borris, Scott Lifshutz

I’ve also heard that there will be a reading from a Dada play (Pere Ubu Ubu Roi??), and a performance by the Saint Lorraine Dance Company.

Two artists in the auction have posted images of their ArtBall pieces on Facebook: Michele Monseau and our own Justin Parr. I also hear that a bicycle custom-painted by Alex Rubio, and a library of signed books by San Antonio authors will be auctioned. I’ll update this post as I hear more…

Justin Parr

Michele Monseau

UPDATE: Here’s Hills Snyder’s contribution to the auction:

Hills Snyder

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The Current pours out refreshing vodka cocktails on a hot summer night. This year’s event will feature local artists to tie in with our Arts Issue on June 24. You’ll find food samplings by local restaurants such as Le Cake, Pacific Moon, Guillermo’s Deli, Sushi Zushi, Tycoon Flats, Whole Foods and many more. Entertainment for the evening includes local art, DJ Donnie D spinnin’ hot tunes and live music brought to you by The Gatsby. It’s a party atmosphere for all of you vodka lovers.
The Current would like to especially thank this year’s sponsors Kremlin Nightclub & Gabriel’s Liquor.

• Tickets: $30 each @ www.ticketweb.com (link provided below) or Current’s office at
  915 Dallas St. available through Thursday, June 25 (entry at 7:00pm)
• VIP Experience: $50 each. Only available at the Current’s office. Limited to the first 100 tickets.

• Includes early entry at 6:00pm, priority entry if you come late plus parking on the grounds of the Southwest School of Art & Craft

• Accept all major credit cards. Order your tickets by phone through the Current at weekdays from 9am-5pm.
• 21 and Up
• Sponsorship opportunities available

www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=1674884

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Contemporary Art Month just posted their calendar on the website. Lots to sift through.

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Uh oh. San Antonio’s newest museum’s website has been hacked, , and with only days to go before the acclaimed Phantom Sightings show closes:

Of the 7 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 7 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-06-09, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-06-09.

We see website security breaches all the time, so this doesn’t necessarily reflect poorly on the Alameda’s web team, but I hope they’re working overtime to get it fixed.

UPDATE: As long as we’re on the topic of museum websites, I just went to the McNay’s site and found:

UPDATE II: It’s June 11th, and it looks like our museum websites are safe & accessible. Alameda purged their malware and McNay fixed their scripting bugs. Whew.

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Network:	Global

Start Time:	Friday, June 12, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:	Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8:00pm
Location:	Jump-Start Theater
Street:	108 Blue Star
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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June 12-13, 19-20
Friday and Saturday shows at 8:00pm

There will be post show discussions on both
Saturdays: June 12 & 19, 2009.

Jump-Start Performance Co., 108 Blue Star, located in the Blue Star Arts Complex at the corner of S. Alamo and Probandt.

The Alamo City only gets bigger and stranger in the near future. Take a sneak peek at our city as it stands in the year 2068. In The Case of The Neon Twins, we follow Detective Franco as he wades through a multimedia, future-noir production unlike anything we’ve ever seen. It’s his most troublesome case yet- a beautiful stranger with a missing sister, a vixen with an ugly secret, a mysterious & meddling über-corporation and missing pieces of his memory. Can he crack this before time runs out?

Comic-book styling meets fierce stage performance in this new full-length play. Written by Billy Munoz & Daniel Jackson, featuring Monessa Esquivel, S.T.Shimi, and Joel Settles. Directed by Dave Robb.

This production is a part of the Electric Performance Lab, a project in it’s fourth year, funded by the City of San Antonio & the Kronkosky Foundation. It features original company productions that are in various stages of development. All audiences are invited to fill out surveys to assist with the further development of Electric Performance Lab shows.

$16 general admission, $12 students, military & seniors.
Groups of ten or more are $10 per person.
Jump-Start members receive a 50% discount on tickets.

*20 Student Rush tickets will be available each night. Student Rush Tickets are $5, and are available 5 minutes before each show. Cash Only. Limit 2 tickets per Student I.D.

Please call or visit www.jump-start.org to purchase and print your tickets from the comfort of your own home!

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Host:	ONE9ZERO6
Type:	–
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, June 13, 2009
Time:	7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:	ONE9ZERO6 ART GALLERY
Street:	1906 S Flores
City/Town:	San Antonio, TX
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