Luminaria 2016

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Arts Education.org | IDEA Carver Academy | International Relations Office KRTU | SA Current | Office of East Point | PublicArtist.org B-Cycle | Earn-a-bike | San Antonio Council for International Visitors | VIA Metropolitan Transit •“SET” Video by Cheryl Dongeon with musical accompaniment by Joe Reyes and Paul Fauerso Experience the arts inSanAntoniowith Luminaria! Experience the arts between artists, audiences, and theworld. Weand hostingsmallerspecialevents andworkshops. areaculturalconnector committed toeducation, interactionatthenightfestival encouragingpublic/artist laboratory. We festivalandasamulti-arts are asalarge-scalearts Luminaria works showcase. arts selects projectsofthehighestcaliberforcontemporary Committee Luminaria, Advisory footprint. For thisandevery adistinguishedArtistic Many withustoprovide thefestival othereastsideinstitutionshavearts. partnered Center, ofAfrican-Americantheatreandcultural adeeplyrespectedcornerstone CommunityCultural isthe Carver partner The Luminaria2016anchorartistic museums, halls. orconcert facetoface, toencountercutting-edgework liberatedfromgalleries,opportunity depthoftradition,Luminaria draws fromthisextraordinary while providing an and Indigenous, making us auniquelyTexan city. pre-colonial influences, andSanAntonians’rootsareEuropean, Mexican, African, a UNESCOWorld Heritagesite;ourarchitectureevolved fromSpanish baroqueand asaplacewhereculturesmeet.Ourcenturies-oldmissionsarenow a longhistory forourfriendliness,San Antonioisworld-renowned warmth, andcelebrations, with tolight. festivalbringsnew art Since 2008, arts theLuminariacontemporary ABOUT LUMINARIA LuminariaSA.org THE EAST SIDE OF S.A. The eastside of San Antonio, Marvelous Mel and the Mighty Cesmo, is not degrees on a GPS. even my brother DJ’d a while. It’s where a community stands for pride ~Take pride in the Eastside~ and will stand for nothing less. It’s a culture, a way of life Snap, Register, Observer, Reflections … with hearts opened wide. all newspapers, like the Informer. The Zulus, the Frats and the Soros too, It’s like following the Golden Rule 2009 “Nolan and Pine”, •Jacinto Guevara only ten times amplified. tried to make cold times a little warmer. Yes, you can say, “It’s the pride.” Reverend Claude Black, Joe Webb It’s the pride … and even Hattie Briscoe. When you finally break it on down, it’s the pride.” And who remembers Melvin the Mack, Lyric by The Isley Brothers, “It’s the Pride.” back in the days of the disco. Davis/Scott YMCA ~Take pride in the Eastside~ and Pittman-Sullivan Park. It’s a community where, when red and blue gangs The Midtown, Eastwood Country Club are trying their best to grieve us, and Tucker’s is still a landmark. Our churches created a track meet St Paul Square, Healy Murphy and and called it, “Ganging Up for Jesus.” and Bob’s Smokehouse Barbeque. It’s like Han Lee’s Grocery Beacon’s, Mr. and Mrs. G’s giving credit to single mothers. and The Barbara-Jordan-Center too. And Sonny Mitchell’s store front And who can forget, had something for all the brothers. It’s like watching Sam win district on the third Monday, of each new year down at Alamo Stadium. the sun shouts … over the Hays-Bridge arch. Or the Tech Buffaloes winning state “Show your pride Eastside and stick out your chest like some movie at the Palladium. 30,000 at the MLK March.” And over at The Carver ~Take pride in the Eastside~ there is music, theatre and dance. And playwright Sterling Houston Now…during four days in November always took a political stance. there comes a festival of the arts. Luminaria is the celebration ~Take pride in the Eastside~ that will shine on our Eastside hearts. And youngsters please learn the lesson Welcoming the community from the old-head community. to share in amazement, knowledge and fun. Neighbors should help neighbors, Roving artists, painters and poetry live the Eastside unity. like JB said, “It’s on The One!” Like elder men outside H-E-B, So let us celebrate, this Eastside Luminaria laughing at each story “signified.” as San Antonio comes along for the ride. But would drive grandma AND her groceries home, We shine the light of The Luminaria when she didn’t have a ride. as we “Take pride in the … East-side.” And what about the iconic, “K-A-P-E … 14-80 on your radio dial?” DaRell Pittman, 2016 3 LuminariaSA.org

Arlene Mejorado LUMINARIA 2016 FEATURED ARTISTS: “My Mother’s Passport”, 2016 Acts of Kindness private events and top level training dance performances to take place San Antonio, Texas for students of all ages. Founder at those sites during Luminaria. Acts of Kindness (AOK) is a praise Julia Langenberg of Aerial Horizon dance troupe that has been was a core member of Blue Lapis Arlene Mejorado performing together since 2007. Light, and has over 10 years of San Antonio, Texas In conjunction with dancing, they national experience. Arlene Mejorado is a photographer, perform plays and skits, read poetry, documentarian, and multimedia sing, and present instrumental Annele Spector and Kitty Williams artist originally from Los Angeles, selections. Programs are performed San Antonio, Texas now based in San Antonio. Growing by talented volunteers, and have “Classics Lounge and The Griot up with a transnational, diasporical, taken place at houses of worship, Grille” - A storytelling soul kitchen and multi-ethnic experience, she nursing homes, hospitals, and at the in the heart of The Eastside. When came to understand her existence annual Praisefest as part of Fiesta. a neighborhood newcomer comes through the local punk scene, Latin Under the direction of Veronica L. in looking for a job, she gets a American regional music, and hip Berry-Jones the joy of dance brings lot more than she bargained for... hop social and cultural spaces. Her togetherness and healing. And none of it is on the menu! photographic research interests are Kitty Williams plays the Griot, and diasporic communities in the U.S., through storytelling, music and racial experiences in society, race & video, she weaves her musings gender identities, queer identities, on neighborhoods and people that and hybrid cultural formations. can never be forgotten. Written and Arte y Pasión •Aerial Horizons performed by Annele Spector and San Antonio, Texas Kitty Williams. Arte y Pasión Luminaria, a ARCOS performance directed by Tamara Austin, Texas Adira, is an interdisciplinary series ARCOS is a multimedia dance of vignettes that sets to motion, company with a mission to music, and color the spectacle of human action and interaction at discover adventurous new forms the Crossroads of San Antonio. The of contemporary performance. Its performances juxtapose flamenco Luminaria original work, Spheres, with modern dance, guitar with is a site-specific transmedia Aerial Horizons violin, and music with visual art. San Antonio, Texas performance installation featuring Aerial Horizon, LLC is San two major elements: a series of ArtX Non-Profits Antonio’s only professional aerial 360-degree videos which can be Houston, Texas performance company and school, accessed by scanning installed ArtX NonProfits presents the offering aerial and ground act signage with a smartphone at five GlowOrama performers, fire dancers entertainment for corporate and different sites, and live pop-up and light spinners dancing around 5 LuminariaSA.org

a fire-breathing art car, creating Brett Elmendorf (r26D) a joyful visual spectacle in a San Antonio, Texas choreographed performance that Elmendorf, is a Technical Designer will delight all audiences. This is the who believes in applying the power second Luminaria for ArtX, who also of design to transform technology. performed in 2011. His past work includes an “electric chair” sculpture which used primitive Ballet San Antonio Integrated Circuits to animate San Antonio, Texas incandescent light bulbs, which in Ballet San Antonio, a professional turn mirrored addiction’s effects on ballet company, shares the the brain. His Luminaria project, splendor of dance through diverse Eastside Light Rail Experiment artistic performances and outreach v1.1:Abstract Representation of programs that reflect, promote Realtime Rail Kinetics Through a and enrich the cultural heritage Closed Photoionization Process, is a of our South Texas community. data-driven light sculpture sensors will Choreographer and Artistic Director detect current train activity, which will Willy Shives, formerly of the Joffrey be computer-generated into patterns Ballet in Chicago, will lead the of light projected directly onto the company in this special Luminaria Hays Street Bridge. This data made performance. “Elements” visibly tangible draws attention to is inspired by San Antonio’s issues of inadequate transportation unpredictable weather. Our post- on San Antonio’s Eastside. card perfect skies melt with time into a fiery sunset. As night falls, a light rain becomes wild and heavy. Alas, we find tranquility under the Autumn Moon. •Calico Club

Brandon Cunningham San Antonio, Texas Cunningham is an individualistic neo-folk-rock singer/songwriter with a strongly individualistic, contemplative style. He writes about love, hope, God, and struggle, the tensions that lie between love and loss, chance and meaning, and brokenness and redemption. In 2014, his second Calico Club album Give Out garnered national San Antonio, Texas praise from critics and bloggers. After The Calico Club Videoscape is an Ballet San Antonio venturing to Chicago, Cunningham interactive installation which combines photo by Alexander Devora returned to his native Texas in 2015. audience participation with cinematic LuminariaSA.org

special effects. Videoscape makes to emotionally open and re-sensitize mass, symbolizing that all virtue is green screens and chromakey the audience. In its entirety, Alma connected, and that hope is universal. technology available to the Luminaria Desnuda (Nude Soul) evokes human A mandala pattern emerges called participants, as well as an arsenal relations and emotions through The Flower of Life, which is symbolic of of children’s toys, science kits, water stylized physical interaction, whether the universe in its entirety. bottles, gift wrap and other everyday a soft caress, or an aggressive items. The audience volunteers approach. This is Cuervo Etéreo’s fist Diana Kersey use these improvisational tools to performance in San Antonio. and Kambri Hernandez experiment with their own their likeness San Antonio, Texas in front of the camera with special Daniel Eime Create. Collapse. Create. is a effects. Collaborators Daecos Tijerina Caldas da Rainha, Portugal performance work inspired by the and Kimberly Cardenas have been part Daniel Eime is a muralist and stencil perseverance, struggles, successes of San Antonio’s underground elcetornic master whose world-acclaimed street and beauty of loved ones who live scene since 2014. art appears in galleries and public with mental health disorders. The spaces in his native Portugal, as well performance involves working glowing as in Paris, Rome, Sydney, Moscow, clay and water illuminated by UV Zurich, and numerous cities in France, lighting on a pottery kick wheel until Italy, and Spain. His Luminaria mural, it becomes precariously thin, out of a legacy contribution to the City of San balance, and ultimately collapses.

•Cuerpo Etéreo Antonio and its people, marks Kersey and Hernandez will then his debut major commission in the remove the clay from the wheel, United States. prepare the same clay in order to repeat the process throughout the David Hale four-hour performance. To create a Chicago, Illinois vessel, work it until it collapses, and Hale is an artist and writer currently then to persevere by creating it again residing in Chicago, IL. His art and mirrors the daily struggle of mental writing uses current and burgeoning illness. The performance will end technologies to experiment with form, with a beautiful vessel, representing space, movement, and placement. all that is learned and endured during He is a graduate of the Our Lady of the process. the Lake University Master of Arts Cuerpo Etéreo Monterrey, Mexico program where he specialized in Diego Bernal & Ernest Gonzalez The Cuerpo Etéreo Dance Company literature, creative writing, and social San Antonio, Texas was founded in 1997 in Monterrey, justice. Hale is also a graduate of Bernal is the Texas State Nuevo León, México under the the English program at University Representative for District 123, and a artistic direction of avant grade of Texas at San Antonio where he former San Antonio City Councilperson. choreographers Jaime Sierra and received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He’s also a DJ whose experimental, Brisa Escobedo, who employ a His work, Engine of Virtue: Stage 2 instrumental releases have been contemporary vision and aesthetic for is an animation that takes text from acclaimed in underground hip-hop beat- their works of modern dance. Their the Lord’s Prayer and The Diary of maker circles. Diego performed at the Diana Kersey Luminaria project is composed of four Anne Frank. The words are visible inaugural Luminaria Festival in 2008 and Kambri Hernandez pieces which together are intended in the piece, but then blur into one and returns with his collaborator. Create. Collapse.9 Create. LuminariaSA.org

Dixon’s Violin on drums as well as Josh Huskin Phillip Luna, aka “PH-72,” calls himself Future Sailor Detroit, Michigan on lead guitar, the trio adds the “a former visual and musical artist The world’s premier visionary violinist, necessary elements to highlight the from the western hemisphere of your Dixon blends his classical training with sister duo’s soaring harmonies and planet with “extensive experience in soulful improvisation skills and the classic song writing. histrionics, empathy, disassociation, command of a wide range of digital synthesizers, drums and bass.” technology. Dixon improvises on a Garrett T. Capps and Phillip Luna Garrett T. Capps, aka “GAR-87” is a 5-string electric violin with a looper to San Antonio, Texas create an all-live one-man symphony. GARPH-8772 is an electronic “former musical artist & domestic Currently touring the U.S. and beyond, immersive experience which utilizes byproduct from the western he has mesmerized crowds from live and prerecorded audio and 3d hemisphere with “extensive Burning Man to TEDx, as well as via video to create a sensory overload experience in impulsivity, solipsism, radio and TV. This year marks Dixon’s for spectators. and rock n’ roll.” return to Luminaria.

Fishermen San Antonio, Texas Fishermen is a American indie rock soul sextet who, for their Luminaria performance, lead the audience on an operatic and filmic journey inspired by the concept of civil war — not just the American Civil War, but other episodes of violence and civil

unrest, whether deadly and historic, Capps and Phillip Luna • Garrett T. or satirical and symbolic.

Future Sailor San Antonio, Texas Future Sailor is a sister fronted indie rock band from San Antonio, TX. Led by Stephanie Huskin, with her classically trained voice and melodious piano playing, and Diane McVey, with her subtle yet enriching acoustic guitar work, the band seamlessly blends melancholic tones with dulcet vocal harmonies, achieving a mystifying yet dark and heavy sound that blends elements of pop, jazz, and indie rock. Backed by rhythm section, Jonathan Valderrama on bass and Gabe Castillo 11 LuminariaSA.org

in ritual theater, non-traditional Shakespeare, and solo work. •Vocab Eric Bosse – Writer, director, filmmaker and videographer whose films have screened in festivals nationwide.

Iker Muro Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Muro is a Spanish muralist whose commission by Luminaria will Gemini Ink become a legacy gift to San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas Renowned for his exuberant, semi- Page to Stage, presented by Gemini abstracted explosions of strong color Ink explores how different artists with pop elements, his influences translate work on the page into include Mucha’s art nouveau, Dali’s performance before an audience. surrealism, Moebius’ comics, and Live performances by different types Hanna & Barbera cartoons. His of literary artists, from poets to Luminaria mural, Neon Drive, will performance artists to playwrights, focus on refracted light, exploring intersect with a meditation or what Iker calls “the power of the “backstage look” at the process light shining on plants, nature and each uses to develop and prepare us,” and will light up the underpass for performing his or her work. The over Nolan Street. featured artists collaborate with a video artist to produce a unique and Joan Frederick experimental video. San Antonio, Texas A San Antonio artist, bon vivant, Collaborating artists include: and local cultural events supporter, Ben Tremillo is a poet, playwright Frederick will be participating in and short story writer. He is the her second Luminaria as an official Communications & Special Events entrant. For 2016, she extends the Manager for Gemini Ink, San Antonio’s idea of the minimalist aluminum Literary Arts Center. boxes by Donald Judd at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson – producing similarly- shaped sculptures A poet, singer, and hip hop artist, in large cube form, but lit from within Sanderson has been known on stage with light that progressively shifts as “Vocab.” through the colors of the rainbow. Laurie Dietrich – The sensory-rich result is an engaging San Antonio-based writer, director, and experience rooted in art history, but Iker Muro theater/performance artist specializing changing with each moment. 13Canary Islands, Spain LuminariaSA.org

Joe Reyes and Paul Fauerso San Antonio neighborhood in and LH Projects, and The New York Kaldric Down with Film Artists surrounding the Luminaria footprint. Experimental Glass workshop. He San Antonio, Texas has been teaching ceramic art at SET, organized by artists Joey Kara Salinas Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Fauerso and Liz Rodda, is a video San Antonio, Texas since 1994. He is best known for the exhibition that combines silent films Artist and educator Salinas works on eclectic nature of his work with and with live musical performances by cross-disciplinary art, with a passion about clay. Joe Ryeses and Paul Fauerso. This for material re-use. Most recently, she 30-minute event will feature original collaborated with San Antonio re-use compositions and performances art nonprofit Spare Parts on a music

by musicians Paul Fauerso and Joe sculpture for the DoSeum. Tentsallation, •Los Dos Reyes, and include silent video works her Luminaria project, will grow from by Cheryl Donegan, Celeste Fichter, the historic Hays Street Bridge in Duncan Ganley, Tatiana Istomina, a “pseudo-skin” of tent materials. Susan Jacobs, Maura Jasper, Liz The illuminated tent-like forms, each Rodda, Luz Maria Sánchez, Barron different in color and brightness, will Sherer, Joey Fauerso, and Michael suggest a cloud of lanterns against San Velliquette. Experimental in nature, Antonio’s night sky. the project considers the ways in Kerfuffle which artists work in anticipation of San Antonio, Texas an unknown auditory response and, in Kerfuffle is an art collective that turn, how musicians and performers formed to provoke a change in the reply to a divergent range of imagery. way that people view art. Members Kaldric Dow Kat Berrospe, Layla Lustri and Alberto San Antonio, Texas Salazar plan to do this at Luminaria Dow is a contemporary realistic by installing a pop-up gallery that portrait painter. His artistic process mobilizes art, and everything that began as a child during frequent normally surrounds it, by bringing their excursions to Houston’s Museum gallery straight to the people. The of Art, where he encountered art collective’s intentions include raising by African-Americans. Recently, he questions about the legitimacy of the Los Dos “realized how crucial witnessing conventional gallery space as well as portraits of African- Americans in such creating an intimate space El Paso, Texas a prestigious institute was,” and how in which viewers unify in confusion Los Dos is the moniker of El Paso- he could do the same to represent and surprise. based husband and wife duo Ramon his culture. His art is characterized and Christian Cardenas. They combine by vibrant skin tones, intense Louis Katz their individual styles to create street lighting, contrasting shapes, and bold Corpus Christi, Texas art installations and gallery work, in compositions. For Luminaria, he will Louis Katz is the son of a math order to conduct a dialogue between exhibit eight portraits displayed on teacher and harpsichord making the city and its people. Their mural easels, which honor women and men pharmacist. He has been a resident lluminados is inspired by the Border born and/or raised in the Eastside artist at The Archie Bray Foundation, and the15 people who live there. LuminariaSA.org

Margaret Craig recently completed their third album San Antonio, Texas with Grammy Award winning producer Craig will be exhibiting The Albatross, Adrian Quesada. Cervantes is

part of her ongoing, thought-provoking faculty in the Mexican American •Rattletree installation sculpture series, Great Studies program at the University Trash Reef, incorporating live of Texas at San Antonio where he •Pbblic Space East performance. Craig says of the project, researches and teaches such topics •Mexican Step Grandfather “my premise is that with all the trash as transculturation and shared humans have dumped in the ocean, spaces, Black and Chicana/o nature will use this abundant resource musicology, hip-hop studies, and of plastic to evolve new life forms. It is performance pedagogy. a little incongruous, creating beautiful creatures out of trash, but it gives viewers a way to contemplate the ecological issues.” Craig earned her M.A. and MFA from the University of

Wisconsin-Madison. She is Professor •Public Space East and Chair of Printmaking at the Southwest School of Art.

Martinez Street Women’s Center with Sarah Brooke Lyons San Antonio, Texas Using photography and the iconography of a “Luminaria”, their work addresses San Antonio’s Public Space East struggles with socioeconomic San Antonio, Texas disparities including gentrification, Public Space East mobilizes local rising obesity, inaccessible healthcare, creative capital to deliver projects that addiction, and homelessness. promote design equity, build common ground, and boost the civic and Mexican Step Grandfather environmental health of San Antonio’s San Antonio, Texas Eastside community. Beginning with Mexican Step Grandfather, Marco an alignment of purpose between Cervantes, is an activist, musician, neighbors seeking to make a lasting poet, educator, and scholar living impact on their community, P.S. Rattletree music, Rattletree’s music appeals to in San Antonio. In his music he East matured into a team of design Austin, Texas people of all ages and backgrounds. combines live instrumentation with professionals, planners, and community Voted Austin’s Best World Music Band For Luminaria 2016, Joel Laviolette intellectual lyricism and covers such leaders focused on the success of the 2015-16, Rattletree has appeared on and Rattletree will premiere new topics as Texas education, border Eastside’s most prominent civic space, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and is often called music integrated with dynamic video politics, and institutional racsim. He the twin Lockwood and Dignowity Parks. “Blue Man Group meets Electronica,” projection mapping, taking audience is also a member of the AfroChicano A preview of this extensive and uplifting Infusing ancient forces with the members on a journey exploring the hip hop collective Third Root who have project will be staged in the park areas. intensity of modern electronic dance music of Zimbabwe’s Shona tribe. LuminariaSA.org

Ray Santisteban the exploration of games and art. digital instruments will include a San Antonio, Texas He loves incorporating gamelike string quartet, a theremin, digital Santisteban is an award-winning elements into more traditional drums, and analog keys. Each of documentary filmmaker who exhibits genres and media, to expand the the four chairs will be colored and a triptych of holographic prints idea of what video games can lit to represent the four sacred •Ray Santisteban •Ray depicting The Zoot Suit, a style do. For Luminaria 2016, Stemm elements: water, fire, earth, and •Sarah Brooke Lyons •Sarah Brooke of dress featuring flamboyantly has orchestrated a multi-media, air. FOUR will act as a microcosm oversized trousers and jackets live-action, game-like performance for the unpredictable entropic and which were worn in clubs and dance combining live actors and video harmonious movements of the halls where swing music blurred projection. The beauty of bodies Earth, while creating an opportunity color lines and foreshadowed Rock in motion, imbued with hyper-stylized for the audience participants n’ Roll. The three couples represent visual effects, will open an entirely to have a hands on experience how music and dance and other new augmented performance in creating and performing cultural expressions can, at times space which combines the digital experimentalist sound production. cross societies color lines, both in with the actual. the past and present. San Antonio New Media Collective San Antonio, Texas The idea for this project is The San Antonio New Media a variation on the subject Collective, a team of six artists of Santisteban’s upcoming •Saakred from UTSA; Jason Eric Martinez documentary, Time of the Phoenix, Gonzales, Eden Collins, Zach the First Rainbow Coalition, a Slough, John Dalton Atkins, Martín project which explores how the Rodrígues, Mark McCoin; will mount Black Panthers, Young Lords and an exhibition of kinetic human- Young Patriots, formed the original powered sculptures built specifically Rainbow Coalition in 1960’s for Luminaria 2016. By employing Chicago, uniting across ethic lines a tricycle or quadricycle frame to work toward shared goals. system; dramatic illumination, and sound elements, each pedal-driven A graduate of New York Univeristy’s sculpture highlights the aesthetic film and TV production program, and conceptual framework of each Santisteban is the recipient of a artist combining art, athleticism, New York Foundation for the Arts ingenuity, and eccentricity. Media Fellowship, a Rockefeller Film Traveling in the six pedal-driven Working internationally, she has and Video Fellowship, and of the vehicular sculpture will rove the documented daily life in villages and 2015 Tobin Grand Prize for Artistic Saakred Luminaria footprint allowing favelas in Brazil, Burkina Faso, West Excellence from the San Antonio San Antonio, Texas viewers to engage with each Africa, and Haiti. Meditative Light Artist Foundation. Multimedia artist and musician vehicular sculpture. Sculpture employs many elements, Saakred builds upon their including shifting, glowing light Rick Stemm 2013 Luminaria installation, Sarah Brooke Lyons and paper copies of four mantras San Antonio, Texas Alumbramiento, with FOUR, in which San Antonio, Texas from ancient religious traditions. Stemm is a game designer and three participants create music In 2013, Lyons created the 1005 The work’s intention is to create a performance artist who believes with the artist by using a SunVox Faces exhibition to showcase the peaceful space to heal internal and that San Antonio can be a hub of analog synth programmer. The diversity of San Antonio residents. external19 conflict. LuminariaSA.org

Sutton Oaks Academy Poetry Champion of San Antonio. The Proximity of Being with Gary Schwartz Anthony “The Poet” Flores is the Rehearsal Image San Antonio, Texas co-founder of Fresh Ink Under-21 and North Bend, Washington Youth Poetry Slam, and performance Sutton Oaks Apartments youth collective The University Of The will collaborate with Academy Spoken Word.

•Anamika Award (TM) Nominated Filmmaker Gary Schwartz to create Staying in Motion, a series of stop-motion The Proximity of Being animations that will provide an San Antonio, Texas

•Sujata Venkateswar and Greg Hinojosa •Sujata Venkateswar intermodal perspective of the Sutton This collaborative installation Oaks Apartments youths’ lives. The explores relationships in states animations will create an abstracted of solitude and connectedness. sense of space in a merging of soul Improvisational movements of two and technology. people are captured on video and the footage is looped, cycling through The Hays Bridge Poets their intimacy, together and alone. San Antonio, Texas Film, 3D Projection mapping, and Hays Street Poets, four celebrated animated gesture drawings voices of San Antonio, weave an illustrate the yin and yang of the evening of illumination with the human experience. spoken word. Collaborating artists: Coordinated by Octavio Quintanilla Barbara Felix, Visual Artist: Artistic Christopher “Rooster” Martinez is concept, creative direction, stop- a graduate student at OLLU’s MA/ motion animated illustration. MFA program in Creative Writing, the Sujata Venkateswar She founded Raaga Archana, a monthly 2014 Grand Slam Champion of San Amber Ortega-Perez, director of and Greg Hinojosa program at the Hindu Temple of San Antonio, and co-founder of the Blah Spareworks Dance: Choreography San Antonio, Texas Antonio that promotes local as well as Poetry Spot. and performance. Anamika, a musical collaboration out of area Indian musicians. She also James A. Borrego, filmmaker/owner between Greg Hinojosa and Sujata Dionysus Don Mathis can be found produced and performed in Bollywood of San Antonio Cine Studio: Lighting, Venkateswar, traces the life of an at the writers’ group at Gemini Ink, Extravaganza for Luminaria 2012. videography and editing. immigrant (Anamika) from India to Sun Poet’s Society, the Blah Blah Hinojosa is a writer and theater her life in the United States. The Blah, and the Alamo Area Poets of John Ward, owner of Laser artist named one of the most music draws from traditional Indian Texas. He has been published in Ninja Productions: Lighting and influential people in San Antonio and popular American music, while many anthologies, periodicals, and construction concept, laser by the Express News, and Best the choreography explores the has performed on television and in and lighting special effects, Theatre Director in San Antonio by fusion of Indian dance with Latino, national radio broadcasts. V-ray tracer animation, and the San Antonio Current. A winner African American and popular dance installation production. of numerous ATAC Awards for his Darrell Pittman (aka Da Green forms. theater work, Hinojosa currently Lantern), a UT graduate, SA public Charles Perez, choreographer at Venkateswar is a well-known Indian serves as the Creative Consultant school teacher until 2013, he was Spareworks Dance: Co-choreography classical music vocalist and teacher. for the Magik Children’s Theatre. crowned the PuroSlam Grand Slam and performance. 21 LuminariaSA.org

incorporate space for actor/poet/ activist Borrego to perform on, and an al fresco studio space for painter Guevara. The roving BikeSpace will travel the Luminaria footprint throughout the night festival

•The Renaissance Guild for paintings to be made and performances to be seen in the moment.

Versimilitude The Renaissance Guild San Antonio, Texas San Antonio, Texas Art collaborators Dakota and The Divas of Eastwood - The Zachary Applebaum and Felicia Concert is an original musical review Salazar are an experimental rock co-produced by The Renaissance band and masters of the liquid Guild and The Carver Community light show, a form made popular Cultural Center, is a musical tribute during the psychedelic 60s and to the Chitlin’ Circuit’s Eastwood which involves the mixing of oil, Country Club, Keyhole Club water, alcohol, and colored dye in and Carver Community Cultural glass plates to create an animated Center, where San Antonio’s black and vibrant visual projection. community flouted segregation laws Luminaria audience members will to enjoy artists like Etta James and have the opportunity to create and Louis Armstrong. For the Luminaria manipulate liquid light projections performance, The Little Carver for Verisimilitude’s performance. recreates these legendary venues The artists will create a white with a live band and dance floor, environment, allowing the audience and the cast will perform songs and to transform their experience onto scenes from Divas, as well as new the stage. songs from its upcoming production, Step It Up. Wuxi Gallery for Painting and Calligraphy The Three Artistas Traveling from San Antonio’s Sister San Antonio, Texas City, Wuxi, the artists Mr. Chen Collaborating under the name “The Hao, Mr. Ge Qiang, and Ms. Geng Three Artistas,” Oscar Alvarado, Minxia will be exhibiting works of Jesse Borrego and Jacinto Guevara paintings or calligraphy. The Wuxi are melding genres to provide a Vanke Art Gallery, located just unique mobile art experience. Built west of Shanghai, is a downtown The Three Artistas by Alvarado in 2015, BikeSpace artist collective and gallery for Oscar Alvarado, Jesse is a six-wheeled, multi-purpose painters, calligraphists and two- Borrego, Jacinto Guevara people-powered vehicle which will dimensional23 artists LuminariaSA.org

MURAL ARTISTS Arlene Mejorado | Daniel Eime | Iker Muro | Los Dos HAYS STREET BRIDGE Aerial Horizon | ARCOS | Brett Elmendorf (r26D) Calico Club | David Hale | Diego Bernal and Ernest Gonzalez | Joan Frederick Kara Salinas | Margaret ELLA AUSTIN Contemporary Arts Festival Craig | The Hays Bridge Poets COMMUNITY CENTER November 9-12, 2016 DIGNOWITY & LOCKWOOD PARKS San Antonio, Texas Acts of Kindness | ARCOS | Fishermen | Future Sailor | Joan Frederick | Kaldric Dow | Kerfuffle Louis Katz | Martinez Street Women’s Center with Burleson St Wednesday, November 9 | 6 - 8 PM Sarah Brooke Lyons | Mexican Step Grandfather | HAYS STREET BRIDGE Mural Unveilings on Cherry and Nolan Streets Free Public Space East | Rattletree | Rick Stemm Thursday, November 10 | 8 - 11 PM Sutton Oaks with Gary Schwartz | The Proximity of Being Project | Verisimiltude Mural Hays St Multi-Arts festival at Hays Street Bridge Free CARVER COMMUNITY CULTURAL HEALY MURPHY LOCKWOOD PARK Friday, November 11 | 8 PM - Midnight CENTER CENTER & IDEA CARVER ACADEMY Multi-Arts festival at Dignowity & Lockwood Parks, Carver Community Cultural Mural Burnet St Center, IDEA Carver Academy Free Annele Spector and Kitty Williams | ARCOS Arte y Pasión | ArtX Non-Profits | Ballet San Antonio Saturday, November 12 Brandon Cunningham | Cuerpo Etéreo Nolan St Underpass Artists Brunch - 11 AM David Hale | Diana Kersey and Kambri Hernandez N Mesquite St N Hackberry N Cherry St N Cherry Enjoy a special morning with featured Luminaria Artists Brunch topics include Dixon’s Violin | Garrett T. Capps and Phillip Luna East Side Stories, Art & Technology, and Multi-Arts Collaborations. $35 Gemini Ink | Joe Reyes and Paul Fauerso Dawson St Workshops - 12 PM - 4 PM Margaret Craig | Ray Santisteban | Renaissance DIGNOWITY PARK Sign up for hands on workshops with featured Luminaria artists in Guild | Sarah Brooke Lyons | Saakred | Sujata contemporary dance, photography & wheatpaste, hand built ceramics, African Venkateswar and Greg Hinojosa marimba, Martial arts, and storytelling. $10 - $20 ROVING ARTISTS E Houston St Community Arts Events - 12 PM - 4 PM San Antonio New Media Art Collective | The Three Artistas The Alamo Explore the downtown east neighborhood open studios and open houses. (Oscar Alvarado, Jesse Borrego and Jacinto Guevera) Maps available at Lockwood Park with programming on stage by the Dignowity Alamo Plaza CARVER COMMUNITY Neighborhood Association. Free HEALY MURPHY CENTER CULTURAL CENTER Mr. Chen Hao, Mr. Ge Qiang, Ms Geng Minxia from The Closing Party - 8 PM - 10 PM Healy Murphy Community Center Wuxi Gallery for Painting and Calligraphy, China Center St Celebrate the 2016 Luminaria Festival withFishermen and special guest ARTISTIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE Spot Barnett. $55 David Alcantar, Angela Covo, Danielle King, Dr. Joseph E Commerce St Lopez, Jeanette Muñiz, Octavillo Quintanilla Executive Director IDEA CARVER Kathy Armstrong ACADEMY Board of Directors Stuart Allen, Susanne Cooper, Gisela Girard, Phil Hardberger, Cari Hill, Jane Lewis, Paul Martin, Felix N. Padron, Debbie Racca-Sittre, Eric Rodriguez, Liz Tullis After the Civil War, land was subdivided into smaller more affordable parcels attracting an increasing Black population THIS PLACE who created a community here, including Dignowity Hill By Claudia Guerra Ella Austin, who moved her orphanage to It has been said that San Antonio’s a two-story building on Burnet Street in Eastside is one of the least 1900. The arrival of the Southern Pacific understood parts of town; that its Railroad in 1877 significantly changed history is forgotten, lost, or erased. the neighborhood’s built environment, Fortunately, the story of a place is including the addition of the Hays written in its landscape, in its people, Street Bridge in 1910 as a viaduct for and in its culture. A hill, for instance, is pedestrians and vehicular traffic to cross more than a mere lump of land. Here the tracks. on the heights east of the Alamo, a hill Dr. Dignowity’s house was demolished served as a vantage point for Native and the property became Dignowity Park Americans who had a settlement near in 1926. The neighborhood consisted the hill’s base; a hill was once part of primarily of small Folk Victorian style an eight league Spanish land grant; houses and Craftsman Bungalows by a hill is where Santa Anna stopped the 1930s. In 1929, a permanent on his 1836 march into San Antonio; two story brown brick building was a hill is where a Czechoslovakian erected to serve as the “Colored Library immigrant named Dignowity built Auditorium.” An unsegregated place, his home in 1854 spurring the the auditorium brought great African development of a the city’s wealthiest American entertainers such at Fats suburb. Later, farmlands surrounding Waller, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and near Dignowity Hill, were and Sarah Vaughn to the Eastside subdivided and working class citizens, community. Religious speakers such including freed slaves, built small as Bishop R. E. Jones also appeared homes in the community creating on stage as did the poet Langston a vibrant African-American cultural Hughes. By 1939, the library was known center that contains the highest as the George Washington Carver concentration of San Antonio’s most Branch. Saved from demolition in 1973, historic African-American churches, the facility was renamed the George schools and cultural institutions. Washington Carver Community Cultural At the end of the nineteenth century, Center and continues to serve as a Dignowity Hill’s high elevation, views, cultural destination. proximity to downtown, and large size With its many institutions, its deep lots attracted wealthy citizens who could history, its ongoing cultural legacy, afford to construct expensive water and most importantly, the people who collecting systems because the city had make this a community, San Antonio’s no public water system in the 1860s Eastside remains a vital part of the city’s during the area’s development era. cultural heritage.