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43 events found.

Show events in all categories from 11/20/2008 to 11/20/2008

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Real. Fun. Farm

Entertainment - Activities, Entertainment - Events

07/04/2006 - 12/01/2008 at San Antonio Zoo

Venue Name: San Antonio Zoo

Real. Fun.Farm - petting Zoo.
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Tejas Rodeo Company

Entertainment - Events, Entertainment - Sports, Entertainment - Activities

03/01/2008 - 11/22/2008 at Tejas Rodeo Company

Venue Name: Tejas Rodeo Company

An authentic Texas rodeo comes to life every Saturday night at Tejas Rodeo Company in Bulverde, just a short, scenic drive from San Antonio.
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The Next Stage

Performing Arts - Comedy, Entertainment - Activities, Performing Arts - Theatre

04/12/2008 - 02/28/2009 at The Overtime Theater

Venue Name: The Overtime Theater

The Next Stage is the cutting edge of Improvisational Comedy! You call the shots, we make the funny!
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Mexico at the Museo

Cultural Centers - Museums

06/25/2008 - 01/06/2009 at Museo Alameda

Venue Name: Museo Alameda

A unique and wide-ranging collection of three exhibitions of Mexican and Mexican-American art from the 16th century to modern times.
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Art in the Garden

Visual Arts - 3D

07/10/2008 - 12/29/2008 at San Antonio Botanical Garden

Venue Name: San Antonio Botanical Garden

Contemporary artists James Surls and Susan Budge will be featured in this summer’s Art in the Garden exhibit at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.
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Art for History’s Sake

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries

08/16/2008 - 11/30/2008 at Witte Museum

Venue Name: Witte Museum

This exhibit showcases several different works of Texas art that depicts Texas’ history.
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Terrific Treehouses Exhibit

Entertainment - Events

08/30/2008 - 12/07/2008 at San Antonio Botanical Garden

Venue Name: San Antonio Botanical Garden

Through a judged competition, local design teams will create and build treehouses at the Garden. The exhibit opens Saturday, August 30 with a three-day celebration packed with family activities. Terrific Treehouses will be on display through December 7. Free with admission to the Garden.
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McNay Art Museum Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Exhibition

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries

09/03/2008 - 01/04/2009 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

On view from Wednesday, September 3, 2008 through January 4, 2009, The Nightmare Before Christmas exhibition explores Burton’s revolutionary use of stop-motion animation technique, a painstaking process dating back to the origins of cinema in the 1890s, requiring each frame to be exposed one at a time, as objects were moved.
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McNay Art Museum “Judith Godwin: Early Abstractions” Exhibition

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries

09/03/2008 - 01/04/2009 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

This fall the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio looks afresh to that heady moment in history when Abstract Expressionism was still a movement in the making and not yet a chapter in textbooks. The occasion is the exhibition of 28 paintings created between 1950 and the mid-1960s by one of the nation’s pioneer abstract expressionist painters, the New York-based Judith Godwin.
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Tri-County Farmers Market

Entertainment - Shopping/Markets, Cultural Centers - Historical Sites, Cultural Centers - Heritage Areas

09/05/2008 - 12/26/2008 at Main Plaza - San Antonio, Texas

Venue Name: Main Plaza - San Antonio, Texas

Support your local Farmers Market by coming back week after week and making purchases.
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Finding the Beauty Within from Without

Visual Arts - 2D, Visual Arts - Installation, Cultural Centers - Other

09/13/2008 - 01/05/2009 at Julia Laura Yates Semmes Library

Venue Name: Julia Laura Yates Semmes Library

Artist Patrice Villastrigo will present Finding the Beauty Within from Without, an exhibit of photographs taken during her travels.
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Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries

09/19/2008 - 01/11/2009 at Witte Museum

Venue Name: Witte Museum

Art gallery featuring works by Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist, and his father and sister Robert and Eleanor
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La Cultura Trasciende Fronteras: A Personal Portrait of Tejanos and Mexicanos

Visual Arts - Photography

09/20/2008 - 01/25/2009 at Witte Museum

Venue Name: Witte Museum

Photographs depict and celebrate Mexican culture and heritage.
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George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective Exhibition

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Installation, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual

10/01/2008 - 01/11/2009 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

This fall the new galleries and sculpture garden of the Stieren Center for Exhibitions showcase a revelatory exhibition of the kinetic sculptures of George Rickey, the noted American artist who died six years ago at the age of 95.
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SA Children’s Museum opens H-E-B Kids’ Market

Cultural Centers - Museums

10/04/2008 - 10/04/2009 at San Antonio Children’s Museum

Venue Name: San Antonio Children’s Museum

It’s the grand opening of the H-E-B Kids’ Market and Cafe at the San Antonio Children’s Museum.
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Fashions in Art: 1870s to 1920s

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries

10/11/2008 - 02/15/2009 at Witte Museum

Venue Name: Witte Museum

Examine fashions from the turn-of-the-century through art at the Witte Museum.
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SAVA ’Admiration’ National Juried Exhibition

Visual Arts - 2D, Visual Arts - 3D

10/18/2008 - 11/21/2008 at SAVA Exhibition Gallery

Venue Name: SAVA Exhibition Gallery

A national juried art exhibit, includes 69 pieces of work from across the US, both contemporary and traditional.
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McNay Art Museum Workshop Series: Conscious Movement in Rickey’s Sculpture & Tai Chi Chuan

Entertainment - Activities, Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Installation

10/18/2008 - 11/22/2008 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

Horacio Lopez, Director, BodyMind Centered Therapies and Tai Chi Chuan instructor, facilitates a somatic understanding of the kinetic energy of Rickey’s art through Tai Chi Chuan.
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McNay Art Museum “Sculpture in 2-D Prints and Drawings by Sculptors in the McNay Collection” Exhibition

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual

10/22/2008 - 02/18/2009 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

Take a journey through the mind of artists in the McNay Art Museum’s “Sculpture in 2-D” exhibition beginning October 22, 2008 through February 15, 2009. The exhibition showcases the McNay’s graphics collection featuring two-dimensional works of art on paper by modern and contemporary artists famous for working with three dimensions.
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ARTMATTERS 13: Joseph Marioni Liquid Light Exhibition

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual

10/22/2008 - 01/18/2009 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

Organized by the McNay, this exhibition features the lush, nearly monochromatic, light-filled paintings of New York-based artist Joseph Marioni, drawn primarily from the artist’s personal collection and installed according to his designs. The presentation of “Joseph Marioni Liquid Light” is part of the ARTMATTERS series and begins October 22, 2008 through January 18, 2009.
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McNay Art Museum “Prints Gone Wild John James Audubon” Exhibition

Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - Galleries, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual

10/22/2008 - 01/18/2009 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

Explore the “wild side” of the McNay this fall with the exhibition “Prints Gone Wild John James Audubon” beginning October 22, 2008 through January 18, 2009. Primarily hand-colored lithographs, the prints of the exhibition comprise a dazzling visual encyclopedia of some of America’s native flora and fauna with incredible detail and dazzling draftsmanship.
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El Grande de Coca-Cola

Performing Arts - Theatre

10/24/2008 - 11/23/2008 at San Pedro Playhouse

Venue Name: San Pedro Playhouse

Ridiculously wonderful and a laugh-a-minute! Pepe Hernandez has convinced everyone in his village that he is bringing a top-notch cabaret show to town, but when that falls through, he must depend on his own wildly untalented family members to do the show.
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Travis Townsend: Anxious Accumulations

Visual Arts - 2D, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual, Cultural Centers - Museums

10/30/2008 - 01/11/2009 at Southwest School of Art & Craft - Russell Hill Rogers Gallery

Venue Name: Southwest School of Art & Craft - Russell Hill Rogers Gallery

Travis Townsend: Anxious Accumulations
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Holly Hanessian: The Poetry of Space

Cultural Centers - Art/Visual, Cultural Centers - Museums, Visual Arts - 2D

10/30/2008 - 01/11/2009 at Southwest School of Art & Craft - Russell Hill Rogers Gallery

Venue Name: Southwest School of Art & Craft - Russell Hill Rogers Gallery

Hanessian, from Florida, creates a ceramic installation of words and books to reflect upon notions of fate, luck, and chance.
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Art For Giving

Cultural Centers - Museums, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual, Visual Arts - 2D

10/30/2008 - 01/03/2009 at Southwest School of Art & Craft

Venue Name: Southwest School of Art & Craft

During the holiday season, the Gallery Shop expands to offer a wider selection of one-of-a-kind artwork for the creative shopper. Gallery Shop & Ursuline Hall Gallery, Ursuline Campus.
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Tzompantli

Cultural Centers - Museums, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual, Visual Arts - 2D

10/30/2008 - 01/11/2009 at Southwest School of Art & Craft

Venue Name: Southwest School of Art & Craft

Mexican artist revisited the Pre-Columbian topics.
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Every Voice Counts

Visual Arts - 2D

11/04/2008 - 11/28/2008 at Fiber Art Space

Venue Name: Fiber Art Space

Fiber artists across the nation express their thoughts about our political environment. Vote and then come see art! Opening Reception is on Election Day, Tuesday November 4, from 6:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. The exhibition will last until November, 28.
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Musical Bridges

Music - Classical, Cultural Centers - Historical Sites, Music - Other

11/05/2008 - 05/10/2009 at McAllister Auditorium

Venue Name: McAllister Auditorium

Musical Bridges Around the World is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to creating unforgettable classical music experiences for San Antonio residents and tourists, regardless of age or socio-economic status by providing concerts in a variety of venues and offering a wide range of performance formats.
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Senior Capstone Exhibit

Cultural Centers - Art/Visual

11/06/2008 - 12/14/2008 at An Arte Gallery

Venue Name: An Arte Gallery

Senior Capstone Exhibit will be held at Semmes Art Gallery.
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Marcy McChesney/New Paintings

Visual Arts - 2D, Visual Arts - Installation, Visual Arts - Galleries

11/06/2008 - 11/30/2008 at Blue Star Art Complex, Bldg. B

Venue Name: Blue Star Art Complex, Bldg. B

Stella Haus Art Space is happy to present: ”Marcy McChesney/New Paintings”. Marcy McChesney was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Upon completion of her primary education, she moved to California where she lived for over ten years, showing her paintings in coffee houses and galleries from San Diego to San Francisco.
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Bismarck Studios presents: Cathy Cunningham Little, Roxi McCloskey Morris, Susan Oaks, Tony Villejo

Visual Arts - Galleries, Visual Arts - 2D

11/06/2008 - 11/29/2008 at Bismarck Studios

Venue Name: Bismarck Studios

In the spirit of coming together, on Thursday, November 6th, we present some of San Antonio’s finest professional artists each representing a different medium and style.
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8th annual Dia de los Muertos Community altar and group exhibit

Visual Arts - Galleries, Entertainment - Events, Music - Rock/Pop

11/07/2008 - 11/30/2008 at El Sol Studios

Venue Name: El Sol Studios

8th annual Dia de los Muertos Community altar and group exhibit
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Julie Ledet-Fremin: New Work

Visual Arts - Photography

11/08/2008 - 12/04/2008 at Xochitl Contemporary Art

Venue Name: Xochitl Contemporary Art

Digitally captured sculptural tableaux.
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Don’t Dress for Dinner

Performing Arts - Theatre, Performing Arts - Comedy, Entertainment - Events

11/08/2008 - 11/30/2008 at Cameo Theatre

Venue Name: Cameo Theatre

Bernard and Jacqueline are a well-to-do couple at their Hill Country converted barn in Wimberley. Unbeknownst to each other, they are each having an affair - Bernard with model Suzanne, and Jacqueline with Bernard’s best friend Robert. The whole situation explodes into frantic slapstick one weekend when all the guilty parties and a few interlopers convene for dinner.
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Opening reception

Visual Arts - Galleries, Cultural Centers - Museums, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual

11/13/2008 - 01/09/2009 at INSTITUTO CULTURAL DE MEXICO

Venue Name: INSTITUTO CULTURAL DE MEXICO

The Instituto Cultural de Mexico presents 59 art works of the artist from Oxaca Alvaro Santiago (talavera, engraving, painting, drawing, art object, and book illustration). In the work of Alvaro Santiago imagination confronts the audience with his present reality, causes one to internalize the act of seeing: visible reality is a gleam on the whole vastness of this world. In constructing a dual world that can only be observed through the beholder. Alvaro Santiago’s work creates a unique sensation: we behold the truth of what we are.
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Tribute to the Mexican artist Alberto Mijangos

Visual Arts - Galleries, Cultural Centers - Art/Visual, Cultural Centers - Museums

11/13/2008 - 01/09/2009 at INSTITUTO CULTURAL DE MEXICO

Venue Name: INSTITUTO CULTURAL DE MEXICO

The Instituto Cultural de México in San Antonio, Texas, in collaboration with Salon Mijangos, make tribute to the Mexican artist Alberto Mijangos (1925-2007), the first Director of the Instituto Cultural de México in San Antonio (1959-1973), presenting 20 of his works of art in mixed media. His paintings are abstracts that dealt with social and spiritual issues.
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Master of Line: John W Winkler

Visual Arts - Galleries

11/15/2008 - 01/15/2009 at StoneMetal Press Gallery

Venue Name: StoneMetal Press Gallery

Opening Reception December 4 6-9
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Light the Way at the University of Incarnate Word

Entertainment - Events

11/17/2008 - 01/06/2009 at University of the Incarnate Word

Venue Name: University of the Incarnate Word

A million twinkling lights will illuminate the night sky at the University of Incarnate Word to celebrate the holiday season in style.This walking or driving experience has been going on for more than two decades and is truly a San Antonio-style holiday event.
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BB King

Music - Jazz

11/20/2008 - 11/20/2008 at Majestic Theatre

Venue Name: Majestic Theatre

Live in concert!
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Afternoon With the Onderdonks

Cultural Centers - Museums

11/20/2008 - 11/20/2008 at Witte Museum

Venue Name: Witte Museum

Join the Witte Museum in the exhibit to view and sketch the Texas landscape as presented by Julian Onderdonk. Then head out to the museum grounds to paint in the Impressionist style.
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Get Reel Film: The Trap

Visual Arts - Film/Video, Cultural Centers - Museums

11/20/2008 - 11/20/2008 at McNay Art Museum

Venue Name: McNay Art Museum

The McNay Contemporary Collector’s Forum features recently released, critically acclaimed independent and foreign films.
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2008 NCTE Annual Convention

Entertainment - Events

11/20/2008 - 11/23/2008 at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

Venue Name: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

Join thousands of K-12 teachers, college faculty, administrators, and other educational professionals, as they gather to hear award-winning speakers, attend idea-packed sessions, share best practices, and test the latest teaching materials at the 98th NCTE Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas!
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Historias y Recuerdos

Performing Arts - Dance, Performing Arts - Theatre, Cultural Centers - Other

11/20/2008 - 11/23/2008 at Guadalupe Theatre

Venue Name: Guadalupe Theatre

Innovative Dance Project by the Guadalupe Dance Company
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Show events in all categories from 11/20/2008 to 11/20/2008

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Featured Events

in November & December


A Night In Old Vienna
12/31/2008 - 12/31/2008

Venue:
Majestic Theatre

Categories:
Music - Other


Song and Dance Ensemble of West Africa
11/23/2008 - 11/23/2008

Venue:
Jo Long Theatre of the Performing Arts at the Carver Community Cultural Center

Categories:
Performing Arts - Dance, Music - Other, Cultural Centers - Other


Spurs vs. Sacramento
12/22/2008 - 12/22/2008

Venue:
AT&T Center

Categories:
Entertainment - Sports