4.08.2011

Today in Arts & Culture

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Host Organization: Allegro Stage Co. and Northwest Vista College
Date: Friday, April 8
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Palmetto Center for the Arts, Northwest Vista College

The classic musical based on the beloved comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz returns to the original 1967 Off Broadway version and takes the audience back to a time when Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang were at the center of popular culture.
For more information: (210) 486-4527 or allegrostage.com

Art Collaboration
Host Organization: La Casa Rosa Art Studio
Date: Friday, April 8
Time: 6 p.m.- 10 p.m.
Venue: La Casa Rosa Art Studio 527 E Dewey Place, San Antonio, TX

"Art Collaboration" is an exhibit where over 9 accomplished sculptors, mixed media artists and painters creatively interact and share their individual vision. Each artists will bring out the best in each other to reconfigure the world of visual arts into a dynamic collaboration as they form unique works of original art. Participating artists include Raul Castellanos, Hebron Chism, Enrique Gutierrez, James Wyatt Hendricks,. Luis Lopez, Cindy Palmer, Ray Palmer, Marty Ruona and Troy Waddell.
For more information: luislopezartist.com

The Avant-Guardians
Host Organization: High Wire Art Gallery
Date: Friday, April 8
Time: 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Venue: High Wire Art Gallery 326 West Josephine Street, San Antonio, Texas 78212
The exhibition features artists Rebecca Coffey, Dora Orejel, Maria Ines de Leon, and Up. Local artist Rebecca Coffey will be displaying realistic portraits with fantasy themes, drawn on wood. Dora Orejel, also a local artist, will feature work enveloped in romantic themes. Up, an artist of multiple media, will be showing his cement and mixed media sculptures, as well as his two-dimensional drawings that incorporate digital alterations. Maria Ines de Leon will be showing her current work with oil on canvas.
For more information: highwirearts.com

Exibition Opening- La Feria - Folk Art from Regional Fairs in Latin America
Host Organization: San Antonio Museum of Art
Date: Friday, April 8
Venue: San Antonio Museum of Art 200 W Jones Avenue, San Antonio, Texas 78215

Regional fairs have been popular for centuries throughout Latin America. They occur in and around regional market towns and are staged throughout the whole calendar year. Many have grown out of smaller, religious-based, festivals or national holidays. Over the decades, they have individually established reputations for unique features and goods. These two or three day fairs are sources of entertainment and excitement. The exhibit runs through August 2011.
For more information: (210) 978-8100 or samuseum.org

Dixie Swim Club
Host Organization: The Point Theatre
Date: Friday, April 8
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: The Point Theatre Free from husbands, kids and jobs, the five women meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks every summer to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The play focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. The play runs through April 16.
For more information and reservations: (830) 367-5121 or hcaf.com

All In The Timing
Host Organization: Cameo Theatre
Date: Friday, April 8
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Cameo Theatre 1123 E. Commerce, San Antonio, TX All In The Timing is a critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies that combine wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. This clever series of six one-act plays by David Ives delivers an delightful evening of theatre for the absurd and the clever. The play runs through April 17.
For more information and tickets: (210) 212-5454 or cameocenter.com

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