SAN ANTONIO – One of the city’s most storied downtown landmarks will be the focus of a National Hispanic Heritage Month event highlighting both its history and what could come next.<\/p>\n
The Bexar County Heritage Center is presenting \u201cThe Historic Alameda: Its Past and Its Future,\u201d a symposium centered on the Alameda Theater. The downtown theater has been closed for 36 years, but it remains the largest Latino-oriented performing arts venue in the United States, according to the Bexar County Heritage Center.<\/p>\n
Originally opening in 1949, the 1,100-seat Alameda became a staple of San Antonio culture, hosting Mexican performers including Grammy Award winner Vicente Fern\u00e1ndez and Golden Age icon actress and singer Mar\u00eda F\u00e9lix.<\/p>\n
Three speakers are scheduled to discuss the theater\u2019s significance: Pete Cortez, chief executive officer of La Familia Cortez Restaurants; Sarah Gould, an executive director for the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute; and Hector Salda\u00f1a, curator of the Texas Music Collection for The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. Former San Antonio Express-News metro columnist and current co-host of the Buena Vista Project podcast Elaine Ayala will moderate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis partnership means so much to our community. It gives us a chance to come together to rediscover our roots, honor the stories that shaped us and ensure they continue to flourish for generations. The Alameda has such a profound impact on Bexar County, and we want everyone to understand and feel the importance of its legacy,\u201d said Mari Tamez, Bexar County heritage manager.<\/p>\n
The symposium will be held at the historic Bexar County Courthouse in the Double-Height Courtroom, 100 Dolorosa St., from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – One of the city’s most storied downtown landmarks will be the focus of a National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-444934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}