The free, family-friendly festival is set for Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the museum and its River Walk campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Light the World Giving Machines returning to San Antonio’s Pearl for the holidays<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kerrville collects 306 pounds of prescription drugs for safe destruction at take-back event<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The event celebrates Native American heritage and living cultural traditions with live performances, drum circles, demonstrations, hands-on crafts and storytelling. Dona Kika’s food truck will also be on-site, with food available for purchase. Admission to the festival and museum are free. Registration for the festival is available online.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The festival opens with a blessing and drum circle, followed by performances from United San Antonio Pow Wow with Enemy Horse Drumming. Visitors can also learn about Native American traditions and participate with the dancers.<\/p>\n In the afternoon, the Hithla Dance Troupe will share the songs and stomp dancing of Southeastern Native American cultures. The group includes members representing Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole and Creek communities.<\/p>\n Featured artists include Din\u00e9\/Navajo jewelry maker Shane Hendren; flute and jewelry maker Tim Blueflint Ramel, an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa; Southern Cheyenne ledger artist George Curtis Levi; Caddo pottery artist Chase Kahwinhut Earles; and Hopi\/Navajo katsina carver Kevin Horace Quannie.<\/p>\n Indigenous storytellers Joyous Windrider and Rosie Torres will share stories through a program that concludes along the San Antonio River. Tejano re-enactor Charles Lara will portray a Texas Delaware blanket trader from the 1820s through the 1850s.\u00a0<\/p>\n \nFree museum admission includes special exhibitions <\/p>\n Beyond the festival activities, visitors can explore the Briscoe’s exhibitions at no cost.<\/p>\n Among them is “Tejano Legacy: Another American Origin Story,”\u00a0<\/a>which explores nearly 400 years of Tejano history, culture and identity, including the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the region and their interactions with Tejano communities.<\/p>\n Visitors can also see “Selena Forever \/ Siempre Selena,”<\/a> featuring large-scale photographs of Selena Quintanilla-P\u00e9rez by John Dyer, and “Kathy Sosa Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico,”<\/a> an exhibition highlighting women’s roles in shaping the region through paintings, mixed-media works and sculptures.<\/p>\n The museum’s new Valerie Urschel Guenther Four Pillars Gallery features “Beyond the Frontier: Four Pillars of Western Art.” The 14-minute cinematic experience combines 85 works of art with animations, images, music and narration to explore four themes: wildlife and the land, Native people of the Americas, Tejanos and Spanish heritage, and cowboys and the American frontier.<\/p>\n The Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival is held annually and is named for the Payaya people’s word for what is now known as the San Antonio River.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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