Lupe Ruiz-Flores@Dia de los Ninos Celebration

Author Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Join us for Día de los Niños Celebration
Reading/Signing of The Battle of the Snow Cones
Barnes & Noble Bookfair, La Cantera, 210-558-2078
Saturday, April 30, 2011 – 12:30 p.m.
Performance by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Dance Academy

Conjunto Festival Call for Submissions

From Juan Tejeda:

Camaradas: the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's landmark 30th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2011 will be held from May 10-15 at the Guadalupe Theatre and Rosedale Park. We are currently looking for literature on conjunto music for possible publication in this year's Tejano Conjunto Festival magazine. If you know of any writers who may have written about conjunto music, poems, short stories, scholarly articles, interviews with conjunto artists, your favorite conjunto recuerdos, etc., please have them send it to me as an attachment to juantejeda@sbcglobal.net Deadline for submission is March 2.

32nd CineFestival Call for Entries

For Immediate Release
Contact: Lorraine Pulido
210-410-6699

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Announces 32nd CineFestival Call for Entries

Dec. 4, 2009 (San Antonio, Texas) – CineFestival en San Antonio, the nation’s oldest Latino film festival, is seeking films for its 32nd anniversary celebration, which will take place from February 4-7, 2010 at the historic Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas.

CineFestival is seeking the best Latino features, shorts, documentaries, animation, experimental films and youth works for its 32nd annual festival.

The CineFestival call for entries deadline is Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, and there’s no application fee.The four-day event, which kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, will feature screenings, workshops, panel discussions, networking opportunities, gala celebrations and musical performances. Innovative uses of new technology will also be highlighted through competitions, demonstrations of new cameras and software, and the involvement of youth filmmakers from video programs throughout San Antonio.

CineFestival will also feature the prestigious Premio Mesquite audience award and juried awards for Best Feature, Best Short, Best Documentary, and Emerging Artist.

CineFestival is ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS postmarked thru December 18th. For information on how to submit a film or to download the Call for Entries, visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org . For more information, contact Manuel Solis at manuels@guadalupeculturalarts.org.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1980 to preserve, promote and develop the arts and culture of the Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples for all ages and backgrounds through public and educational programming in six disciplines: dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and music. For more information, visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org or call 210-271-3151.