From Cine el Rey The Wall documentary will screen on July 17th at el Cine el Rey Theatre in McAllen (Cine El Rey, 311 South 17th St., McAllen, TX 78501) and July 18th at Guadalupe Theatre in San Antonio. Both showtimes at 8:00PM. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

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From Virginia Gause A group of young adults who recently graduated from high school will be having a summer festival called “Sparks of Art”. This event will be the last chance for these young adults to showcase their art before heading off to college in the fall where they plan to pursue careers in similar [...]

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From Facebook Exclusive 4th of July Event! Art Expressions Holiday Party, July 4, 2009 from 9 pm till 2 am DRINK SPECIALS ! PATRIOTIC DISHES ! LIVE READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ! MUSIC BY ELIAS MONTEMAYOR and HOMER ! Art Expressions 301 N. Main Suite 2, McAllen, TX For more information call 956-686-8161 [...]

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From Virginia Gause STC Library Art Gallery at the Nursing & Allied Health Campus, 1101 E. Vermont Ave., McAllen, TX 78503 proudly presents “Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books” from June 18 to September 4, 2009. “Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books” is an exhibit featuring a hundred and five hand-made mini artist books. Free and Open [...]

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From Virginia Gause South Texas Ceramic Showdown: Beyond the Vessel (Schedule) UTPA Friday, June 12, 2009 9:00am – 12:00pm Clay Demonstrations at UTPA – free and open to the public 12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30pm – 4:30pm Clay Demonstrations at UTPA 6:00pm – 8:00pm South Texas Ceramic Showdown Opening, UTPA’s Visitors Center 9:00pm – [...]

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From Henry Serrato On May 2, ten teams started the cycle of making a five minute film in just 24 hours! Eight teams completed scriptwriting, directing, acting, editing, etc. within that time. At a drawing before the teams started, the required elements were picked at random. For this particular race the required character was a [...]

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From Cinesol Director Marcel Rodriguez is looking for young actors for a variety of roles in his action/drama, “The Borderlanders”.

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Money for your next film project Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund workshop, sponsored by the Austin Film Society, will meet  Saturday, May 16th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm at the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, 1200 Ash Ave, McAllen, TX 78541.

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Free education! Free digitization! LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas – The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) brings its new statewide traveling educational program, the Texas Film Round-Up, to the Cine El Ray in McAllen on Friday, May 15th from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., the Historic Brownsville Museum in Brownsville on Saturday, May [...]

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A report Somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty people showed up Monday, April 27, at the Galeria 409 to hear Betsy Price, consultant Ken Mills and David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio outline burgeoning plans for a new organization, Voices from the Valley, aimed at bringing more public and community radio to the Rio [...]

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from Virginia Gause I would like to announce that the McAllen Arts Council Grants for 2009 are now being accepted. These grants are for up to $1,000 and need to be completed and turned in by 12 noon on Friday, May 1, 2009. We use McAllen Arts Council Grants to help us achieve our five [...]

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From Virginia Gause Conceptualizing In/Justice: Images/Voices of Resistance MAY 1st, 2009 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, POETRY & MUSIC Submissions due APRIL 1st, 2009 The UTPA Department of Criminal Justice is sponsoring an event to promote social justice and peace. The goal of this conference/exhibition is to engage the students, the community and the faculty in [...]

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From Virginia Gause AUDITIONS FOR LAST SPRING MAINSTAGE PLAY AT UTPA University Theatre Productions, at the University of Texas Pan American, has just scheduled auditions for comedy PLAZA SUITE, Monday and Tuesday, March 9th and 10th in the Jeffer’s Theatre, of the Communication Arts & Science Building. (corner of University Drive & Sugar Road) Auditions [...]

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From Virginia Gause March 31 – April 3, 2009 McAllen Chamber of Commerce 1200 Ash McAllen, TX 78501 The McAllen Arts Council invites you to participate in the 1st Annual McAllen Arts Council Fine Art Exhibition to be held from March 31 through April 3, 2009. This exhibition will be juried by representatives of the [...]

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From Virginia Gause The Women’s Studies Committee at South Texas College will be hosting its third annual Human Trafficking Conference April 1-3 at the Pecan Campus in McAllen. The conference will include presentations by guest speakers and art exhibits on both sides of the Texas/Mexico border, and will focus on the political, social and economic [...]

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from Virginia Gause The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across [...]

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from Esther García The South Texas College Library is excited to host its own MONOPOLY® game tournament. Get the chance to build a fortune, take risks, and make acquisitions. MONOPOLY ® offers the vicarious thrill of getting rich quick! To download the PDF version of the Registration form go to http://library.southtexascollege.edu/forms/monopoly.pdf E-mail it to egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu. [...]

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an announcement via Virginia Gause March 14, 2009 will bring our Annual Nde Daa Exhibition Pow Wow. NDE DAA means The People Spring Pow Wow. A long time ago when I was a small boy, my Apache family would gather together in the early part of spring and celebrate the coming of spring by meeting [...]

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An announcement from Virginia Gause Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts is opening its 38th International Art Show on March 6 and then chartering a Bus to McAllen to attend the Art Walk. Big things in the planning for Brownsville Museum of Fine Art under the direction of its new director Barry Horn. Recently Will Everett [...]

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a reminder Sunday, February 22nd, at 2 PM, a dramatic reading of Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) by Michael Murphy will be presented at the Cine El Rey. The production is sponsored by the Protecting God’s Children Committee of Call To Action- RGV, with the support of a generous donation from donors who prefer to remain [...]

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An announcement The Junior League of McAllen presents “Reach for the Stars,” it’s 6th annual Children’s Arts and Literacy Festival February 28, 2009 from noon to 5 pm at the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen. Activities will include many arts and crafts including live music, storytelling, a magic show, face painting and [...]

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from Virginia Gause Dr. Lisbeth Haas, OAH Distinguished Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz will present the 2009 Davidson History Lecture Wednesday 25 February 7pm at the UTPA Ballroom.  Her topic is “Crossing Borders: Indigenous Histories of Spanish and Mexican California.”

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from Virginia Gause Of course, it’s fiction. Lehrer has added a new introduction to this edition of his first novel.

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A reminder UTPA’s writing workshops for the general public begin this weekend, so it is time to register if you intend to go. The first set of workshops, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 7, 9 a.m.-noon and Saturday, Feb. 21, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m., allow students to choose enrollment in either poetry or memoir writing. [...]

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