DEPARTMENT: Center City Development and Operations Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Jacks, Interim
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: 1
SUBJECT:
Alameda Theater Briefing
SUMMARY:
The City of San Antonio and Bexar County have worked with Texas Public Radio (TPR) and La Familia Cortez on a concept that would relocate TPR's Headquarters to the back stage of the Alameda Theater and restore and reopen the historic Theater as a multi-media live performing arts and film center featuring the American Latino-Multicultural Story.
City staff will provide a briefing to City Council on the proposed project and next steps.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
For the past 2 years, the City of San Antonio and Bexar County have worked with Texas Public Radio (TPR) and La Familia Cortez on a concept that would relocate TPR's Headquarters to the newly constructed back stage of the Alameda Theater and restore and reopen the Theater as a multi-media live performing arts and film center featuring the American Latino-Multicultural Story. The City, County, and La Familia Cortez retained Michael Kaiser with the DeVos Institute of Arts Management to perform an assessment of the concept and make a recommendation.
Michael Kaiser oversees the DeVos Institute's training and consulting programs, both in the United States and around the world. Mr. Kaiser was President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., from January 2001 through August 2014. During his tenure, he expanded the educational and artistic programming for the United States' center for the performing arts, oversaw a major renovation effort of most of the Center's theaters, and led the nation in arts management training. In 2001, Mr. Kaiser created the Kennedy Center Arts Management Institute, renamed the DeVos Institute of Arts Management in May 2010.
Based on his interviews and an assessment of San Antonio's arts and culture venues, Mr. Kaiser recommended a revised concept that provides an op...
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