Photos: Elite Crowd Joins Musical, Theatrical Acts to Celebrate Mayor’s Ball During DreamWeek / mySA
San Antonio’s iconic Empire Theatre played host to musical, theatrical and cultural performance artists for the DreamWeek Mayor’s Ball on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. The ball was the finale event of the 2018
Our DreamWeek / DreamVoice event is right around the corner! Get your tickets now for this special ONE NIGHT ONLY event! This is a MUST SEE performance! Where Did We Sit on the Bus? Saturday, January 20, 2018 at 9:00 p.m. Russell Hill Rogers Theater By Brian Quijada Directed by Chay Yew Where Did We Sit on the Bus? is an electric one-man show pulsing with Latin rhythms, rap, hip-hop, spoken word, and live looping. During a third grade lesson on the Civil Rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latino boy raises his hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” and his teacher can’t answer the question. This thrilling autobiographical production examines what it means to be Latino through the eyes of a child, turned teenager, turned adult. Brian Quijada, a native Chicagoan, and the son of Salvadorean parents, tries to figure out where he fits in. He grew up in a contrasting melting pot watching Michael Jackson’s moves on TV while the smell of pupusas filled the air, and at school, he mingled with friends from different cultural and racial backgrounds. With nonstop laughter, “Where Did We Sit on the Bus?” attempts to answer the question, “Where do I fit in as a Latino millennial growing up in America? Tickets and show info: https://goo.gl/VuXuUM General tickets- $25 Student tickets- $20
Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Tai Abrams with DreamWeek stopped by News 4 San Antonio’s Evening Break to share what you can expect.
You can use the promotional code — DWSA — to get an individual table seat for just $125
With thousands of people streaming into Pittman-Sullivan Park on Monday, an irresistible drumbeat rose above the crowd.
It was an impromptu concert of two African drummers celebrating the inclusiveness of MLK Day in San Antonio.
Nearby, another man has made inclusiveness a centerpiece of the city.
Shokare Nakpodia is the founder of DreamWeek, a January conference of speakers, artists, and educators who gather to promote big ideas like tolerance.
An official DreamWeek event, this free film screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with students who have traveled the world with Summer of Service, a local organization that looks to “educate San Antonio youth through community service (service-learning) and travel abroad.”
The documentary itself, released in 2008, follows adventurers-turned-documentarians Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell as they “retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back.” Through the course of the breathtaking and deeply empathetic 90-minute film, which fuses shots from their journey with quotations from Polo’s own descriptions of his, the two learn a great deal about themselves and discover that travel can serve as a kind of antidote to xenophobia and bigotry.
