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San Antonio s ‘The Last Parade’ mural honors indigenous cultures, underground artists click to enlarge San Antonio Heron / Ben Olivo “The Last Parade” is on display on the side of the Kress building.
“The Last Parade” by muralist Rudy Herrera is the latest downtown public art project to be completed as part of Centro San Antonio’s “Art Everywhere” initiative. Standing 70 feet wide and roughly 100 feet tall, Herrera portrays integral aspects of his life in vibrant colors, honoring his wife, son and his heritage in the abstract work on the side of the Kress building on East Houston Street. Symbolism flows through the eclectic colors chosen by Herrera. The mural portrays a Native American woman, her heart as a guiding light, riding a blue deer, w
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The nationally recognized San Antonio Book Festival is hosting its ninth edition April 9 -11, with only the best bibliophile content brought to you online, after a COVID-19 cancellation last spring. The festivities feature around 200 authors, with a wide array of literary options and events for every palate. From conversations with YA authors, Latinx poetry dialogues and nationally best selling novelists here are just some of the highlights. For Mango Street Mujeres
The San Antonio Book Festival returns, virtually, this Friday. Here are some of the can t-miss sessions.
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San Antonio treasure, House on Mango Street author and award-winning writer Sandra Cisneros, who has long had involvement with the festival, will debut a new event called Sandra Cisnero’s Presents, where she’ll introduce four of her favorite writers to festival audiences. The authors include Diana Marie Delgado, author of poetry collection
Monday, April 5, 2021 Write off your other weekend plans, because the San Antonio Book Festival is back in a big way Posted By Kelly Merka Nelson on Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 3:11 PM click to enlarge Courtesy of San Antonio Book Festival From left: Frank Andre Guridy, Isabell Allende and Trung Le Nguyen
After its sudden cancellation in 2020, San Antonio’s mega-celebration of the written word is back with a stacked deck of nearly 200 authors.
This year’s event will take place solely online, with a veritable cornucopia of book discussions and even a live science demonstration, free for all to attend, barring four ticketed events that come with a mailed copy of the guest author’s books.
“Keep Calm Et Macar-On” seemed like such a simple, fun sentiment when artist Kathy Sosa painted it in five pastel colors on the side of the downtown building that houses French bakery, La Boulangerie, as part of the Art Everywhere initiative. After photos of it began to blanket social media feeds and attract locals to visit the bakery and linger below the mural in the parking lot, Centro San Antonio’s Andi Rodriguez knew they were onto something. The organization’s vice president of cultural placemaking, Rodriguez had recently launched the Art Everywhere initiative meant to bring more public art to downtown. “There was a joyous response,” she says. So despite the pandemic and social unrest of the year, “we decided to push forward with the arts.” By the close of last year, 10 projects had been installed throughout downtown from “SA is Amor” by Martha Martinez Flores to a poem written on the street around Travis Park by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson to a student mura