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The 14th Annual Gemini Ink Summer Literary Festival Gets Underway

noemail@thefundsa.org — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:00:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lucinda Vela-Wick Communications Director 210-734-9673 The 14th Annual Gemini Ink Summer Literary Festival Gets Underway Connections: Coming Together, July 8-24 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 27, 2011 --- July 8 - 24 marks this year's Gemini Ink Summer Literary Festival. Whether you are a seasoned or aspiring writer, the Festival offers diverse instruction and inspiration to both adult and child. With its theme, Connections: Coming Together, the festival highlights how different genres of the literary arts, including fiction, poetry and memoir link to the human experience. Writing classes, FREE readings and performances, a community forum, and Young Writers Camp come together for an exciting literary summer for the community. Award-winning writers of national and international renown will be among the featured faculty including Lucy...

Front Burner: Sup on Soup

noemail@thefundsa.org — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Fro nt Burner: Sup on Soup ART Soup

By Edmund Tijerina - San Antonio Express-News

Luminaria 2010 Call for artists

noemail@thefundsa.org — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

San Antonio Announces
3rd Annual LUMINARIA: Arts Night in San Antonio
March 13, 2010

SAN ANTONIO—The award-winning Luminaria: Arts Night in San Antonio will take place 6 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, March 13, 2010 with performance stages, streetscape art, light installations and galleries. The celebration will be in downtown San Antonio on Alamo St. between Market and Durango, including the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, HemisFair Park and La Villita. The 3rd annual, FREE and open to the public celebration of San Antonio’s artists, musicians, performers and cultural organizations is the only one of its kind in the entire state of Texas and was inspired by similar celebrations in Chicago, Paris, Rome and Madrid.

Luminaria 2010 is being co-chaired by Paula Owen, artist and President of the Southwest School of Art & Craft; and George Cisneros, artist and co-founder of Urban 15. An artist-driven celebration, Luminaria is a collaboration of several hundred artists and more than 40 non-profit organizations coming together to magnify every major discipline in the arts including dance, theater, creative writing, music, visual arts, new media and interdisciplinary projects. Already, Luminaria has attracted more than 100,000 participants in both 2008 and 2009 and has received national and international acclaim. Luminaria 2009 received a Pinnacle Award from the International Downtown Association and is being recognized during the 55th IDA Annual Conference in Milwaukee.

Artists and non-profit organizations are encouraged to submit an application for participation in Luminaria 2010. The application form will be available for download at www.luminariasa.org by September 20, 2009. The deadline for submitting proposals is 5 p.m. CST on October 31, 2009.
For more information the general public should call 210.207.6960 or visit www.luminariasa.org. *Note: all media inquiries should be sent to shannonstandley@wittemuseum.org or 210.357.1876.

theFUND feeling recession bite

noemail@thefundsa.org — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT

As the arts calendar in San Antonio resumes full speed this fall, pressure is mounting on the Bexar County Arts and Cultural Fund, better known simply as theFund. Area arts organizations in general have seen donations shrink during the economic recession. Those seeking new sources of donations have difficulties doing so. TheFund itself is closed to organizations it doesn't already support. Only 4 years old, theFund has supported 28 arts groups since its start, a large commitment compared to similar arts fundraising organizations around the country. TheFund operates similar to the United Way. More than 60 employers wishing to support the arts set up payroll deductions for employee voluntary donations. TheFund participates in the United Way's various combined campaigns. Direct individual, corporate and foundation gifts also are sought. To date, theFund has distributed more than $465,000 to the 28 arts organizations since it began collecting donations in late 2005. Overhead expenses...

theFUND: San Antonio's United Arts Fund enters into new territory as 2009 Campaign kicks off in cyberspace

noemail@thefundsa.org — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Always seeking different ways to reach new supporters, theFund: San Antonio’s United Arts Fund is taking its 2009 campaign into cyberspace. theFund is using Social Media to capture the attention of San Antonio’s business community and communicate directly to business owners and employees through Facebook. It’s a great new way to reach out directly to potential donors, said Rod Rubbo, president of theFund. Social media is an affordable way to reach a diverse audience, especially when there are limited dollars for traditional advertising; more importantly, it’s a great way to engage like-minded individuals in conversation about San Antonio’s art and cultural industry. This new approach to grassroots outreach reflects the changing economic climate. Instead of spending dollars on large advertisement campaigns, non-profits are now turning to current supporters to spread the word through online connections. Updates posted to theFund’s Group reflect this push for supporters to carry...