1300 Chihuahua St | San Antonio, TX 78207 | Phone: (210) 226-7466 | Fax: (210) 226-7466 | consafos@sananto.org
El Placazo
Mural Program
Mural Tours
Huevos Ranceros Gala
Corazon Y Familia Mural 5k Run/Walk
Dia de Los Muertos
Cassiano Homes Family Foto Project
Donors/How To Support San Anto
Photolog
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About San Anto Cultural Arts
San Anto Cultural Arts (SACA) is a 9 year-old, community-based, cultural arts organization located 2 blocks from the Alazan-Apache Housing Projects. SACA currently operates 3 programs - El Placazo Community Newspaper, Community Mural Program, and the Video Oral History & Documentary Program. In addition, SACA organizes various community events and services. Some of these include: Dia De Los Muertos Community Altar and Procession; Huevos Rancheros Breakfast Gala and Silent Art Auction; Corazon y Familia Mural 5K Run/Walk; Watchales - neighborhood outdoor movie nights; scholarship / financial aid workshops; safe sex / substance abuse dialogue forums; guest speaker round-table discussions; Educational / Cultural Tourist Neighborhood Mural Tours; mural consulting service; Muralist-In-Residence-Project; Teen Mentor Initiative; Por Nuestros Ojos - Cassiano Homes Familia Photo Exhibit.
SACA prides itself as a technical and spiritual learning space that promotes and encourages organic and cultural self-expression. SACA, was established in August of 1993 by a small group of community residents as a project of Inner City Development, Inc. Originally called Inner City Cultural Arts, the organization changed its name when it incorporated in February of 1997 and received 501(c)3 tax status in July of that same year. On July 16th, 1994, the first issue of El Placazo was introduced and our first mural, Educacion, was blessed and dedicated.
SACA is in the middle of a cluster of barrios known as La Tripa, El Con, and Ghost Town. The communities makeup is approximately 97% Mexican-American. Participants are children, teens and adults from our community. We are located in an area of San Antonio where the drop-out rate is as high as 60%, the teen pregnancy rate is the one of the highest in the country, and heroin addiction and prostitution is rampant.
Still, the Westside of San Antonio is an artistic and cultural Mecca. Driving down any alley or street, you will find incredible front yard nichos (altars) which have been created by residents of this community for generations. The Westside is the home and urban birthplace of Conjunto music. On any Saturday night, at the legendary Conjunto nightspot, Lerma’s, you can dance the Taquachito to the accordion sounds of Santiago Jimenez Jr. Feel free to contact us to get information on how to get involved with any of our programs or community initiatives.
San Anto Cultural Arts
1300 Chihuahua St.
San Antonio, TX 78207
Phone - 210-226-7466
Fax - 210-226-8354
Contact the staff of San Anto -
El Placazo Newspaper Program / Cristina Ordoñez – cordonez@sananto.org / 210-831-7101
Community Mural / Public Art Program / Gerardo Quetzatl Garcia - 210-557-9847
Executive Director / Manuel Castillo - mcastillo@sananto.org / 210-452-5921
Site Design by Steve Peralta - nacent_2004@yahoo.com.
Home Page design by Rio Design - www.riodesign.com
Copyright 2004 San Anto Cultural Arts, Inc.
The following poem was written by Nephtali Deleon for the San Anto mural "Una Mesa Para la Gente". Nephtali read the poem at the blessing of the mural on February 26th, 2000 at the corner Zarzamora and Salinas, where the mural is located. Learn more about this mural in the Mural Program section of this site.
Una Mesa Para Todos
They say that the ghosts of people walk the streets of Zarzamora.
Es la llorona loca? Se escucha de boca en boca...
Whatever it is, they meet on the corner of Salinas. Where it crosses
Zarzamora. By a car wash called “Una Mesa para Todos”
Los brujos de los pinceles, Cruz and LIsa Vera Cruz y otros 8 artistas locos
bewitched all the cinder blocks
Like an open book, they painted prototipos de la raza - students nurses, fighter Emma Tenayuca, Lydia Mendoza - well known “la alondra de la frontera”, Zapatistas del Sur en Chiapas, la single expecting parent madre pura, pura madre...!
It’s hard to raise a child in West San Anto - South, East, anywhere but the North side where they got better sidewalks and thicker walls for drive-by’s!
Batos locos can do more than graffiti walls, they can paint a Chicano art mural. Inspired rucas beautify a car wash stall. Everybody ready to rock n roll
Nombre, y luego que sale el diablo en Camaroncito! He was a’ready to dance and joody boog...! That too they painted on the wall - pictograph history of San Anto, of La Raza meeting in their casa. Bato loco sitting down with Jesus Christ. It ain’t no lie - i saw it with my own eyes!
I have seen the glory of La Raza having a taza de poetry, cultura y arte. Creating masterpieces in the barrio walls, giant canvas de la gente pobre. Where you turn cobre into gold - and gold into the dreams of La Raza. Todos juntos having ice cream on the corner of Zarzamora and Salinas. En Una Mesa Para Todos in the local barrio esquina! San Anto Cultural Arts!