Free downtown festival Luminaria puts art and performance in the limelight Saturday

The annual event showcases visual art installations as well as live music, dance and theater performances.

By Dean Zach on Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 2:35 pm

Jaime Monzon

Luminaria showcases a variety of art installations and performances at each year's festival.

Once again, the Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival will bathe multiple downtown locations in the warm glow of creativity.

The annual free festival, now marking its 15th anniversary, celebrates art in all of its wide-ranging forms: from sculptures and video installations to music, film, dance and even live theater and poetry readings.

Among this year's highlights are a performance by the AM Project, a digital art and music program for San Antonio youth, and an installation by acclaimed Mexico-born artist Verónica Castillo Salas, who will present her living sculpture A Tree of Life: The History of Mother Earth.

Performances, exhibitions and large structural installations by scores of artists will be scattered throughout locations across Hemisfair and the Henry B. González Convention Center, transforming the center city into an open house for the arts.

For updates and a selection of featured artists, check out Luminaria on Instagram at @luminariasa.

Free, 6 p.m.-midnight Saturday, Oct. 21, Hemisfair, 434 S. Alamo St., Henry B. González Convention Center, 900 E. Market St., luminariasa.org.

Subscribe to SA Current newsletters.

Follow us: Apple News | Google News | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter| Or sign up for our RSS Feed

Tags:

KEEP SA CURRENT!

Since 1986, the SA Current has served as the free, independent voice of San Antonio, and we want to keep it that way.

Becoming an SA Current Supporter for as little as $5 a month allows us to continue offering readers access to our coverage of local news, food, nightlife, events, and culture with no paywalls.

Join today to keep San Antonio Current.

Scroll to read more Things to Do articles