the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center en San Antonio

Deep in the heart of the west side of San Antonio rests an organization solely dedicated to the community, in fact it is “the largest community-based, multi-disciplinary organization in the United States.” In case you didn’t know, I am talking about the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center located at 1300 Guadalupe St.

If you haven’t made it out to an event hosted by the Guadalupe, you sure are missing out. This year The Guadalupe is hosting their 33^rd annual Cine Festival starting next month February 3^rd-6^th and their 29^th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival this May. These are just a couple of the community involved projects that the Guadalupe hosts though. This Friday if you swing by the Guadalupe Theater at 7:30 PM you can catch a play reading by Amalia Ortiz who “has appeared on three of Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX.” And did I mention it’s free!? Sounds pretty sweet to me, what do you think?

Also, if you’re interested in exploring your cultural and artistic side the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center offers classes for both youth and adults in Dance, Literature, Media Arts, Theater Arts, Visual Arts, and Xicano Music. Like I said, this is just a few of the ways that Guadalupe gets involved with the community, if you’re interested in more information take a look at their website at www.guadalupeculturalarts.org. I hope to run into you at one of their events!