Vincent Valdez receives MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant<\/a><\/p>\nThe lineup includes live music by Los\u00a0Texmaniacs, Marcy Grace and Yung Bambi; a headphone opera created by Nathan Felix; performance art by Cirque Aria and Seme Jatib; and large art installations and digital projections.<\/p>\n
Sites within the festival’s footprint will be activated, including the San Pedro Springs Culture Park, La Zona, the Irma and\u00a0Emilio Nicolas Media Center at TPR,\u00a0and the Centro de Artes Gallery in Market Square. The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures will open its doors, too, and admission will be free.<\/p>\n
In addition, Urban-15 is teaming up with laser artist Tim Walsh for a performance during which he will project digital images onto the face of the Alameda Theatre while company members dance.<\/p>\n
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Fashion will be in the mix as well, thanks to the fact that Goodwill of San Antonio’s sponsorship this year. The downtown Goodwill store is in the area where the festival will take place.<\/p>\n
Besides the art parade,\u00a0Agosto Cuellar is pulling together a fashion show. The San Antonio designer has made a name for himself internationally for his emphasis on sustainable fashion. Cuellar also is community engagement manager for Goodwill San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Between 15 and 20 models will participate, all wearing ensembles inspired by performers who appeared at the Alameda, which opened in 1949 as a Spanish-language theater. A restoration project is ongoing.<\/p>\n
All of the elements for those looks will come from Goodwill stores.\u00a0Cuellar is hoping that parade participants will scour those same stores for their outfits.<\/p>\n
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\u201cGo check out our stores, make sure you look crazy and zany and fun because that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This is the 18th edition of\u00a0Luminaria. The nighttime arts festival launched in 2008 at the behest of then-Mayor Phil Hardberger, who wanted to spotlight the city’s artists. It has been staged downtown off and on throughout its history, though this is the first time it will be in this part of downtown.<\/p>\n
About 95 percent of the artists featured this year are based in San Antonio, said Yadhira Lozano, the festival’s director.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis year\u2019s\u00a0Luminaria has really grown with our collaborators, who are contributing to the effort,\u201d said Lozano, who has led Luminaria since the end of 2020. \u201cThese are difficult times. There are a lot of events that are having trouble with the fundraising, with the budgets. And so I do want to announce that the past few years, we have been recognized by the highest arts office in this country, the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n
“It is \u00a0sponsoring us yet again because of the work that we\u2019re producing. And so I think that is a star in our cap that we can really be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luminaria, the annual celebration of San Antonio’s art and artists, takes place Nov. 14. Billy Calzada\/Staff Photographer Luminaria…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-474836","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\/474836","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=474836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}