México 2010 San Antonio

Gemini Ink is proud to join the City of San Antonio in celebrating the bicentennial of Mexico’s 1810 Independence and the centennial of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution.

Gallery Talk with Bill Fisher and Private Screening of the Film, Sombrero
Please join Gemini Ink and the Instituto Cultural de México for a special evening in honor of Josefina Niggli, a writer born in Northern Mexico in 1910 but who had deep San Antonio ties. We begin at 6pm in the upstairs exhibition space with a gallery talk by Gemini Ink board member Bill Fisher and co-curator of Josefina Niggli: Halfway Child, a FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA 2010 signature exhibit. The exhibit contains original photography by Niggli, as well as texts and ephemera from her writings. At 6:45pm a viewing of the film Sombrero, the 1953 MGM musical that was based on Niggli’s novel, Mexican Village. This rarely shown movie stars Ricardo Montalbán, Cyd Charisse, Vittorio Gassman, and Pier Angeli.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 27, 6pm
WHERE: Instituto Cultural de México, 600 Hemisfair Plaza Way, San Antonio, TX
MORE: The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, contact (210) 227-0123.

Avant-Garde Art and Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner’s Journals of the Roaring Twenties
Book presentation featuring Susannah Glusker, editor and daughter of Anita Brenner.
WHERE: Auditorium of the Instituto Cultural de México, 600 Hemisfair Plaza, San Antonio TX 78205
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 18, 6pm
MORE: Free and open to the public

Dramatic Readers Theater:
Entre Nosotros/Among Ourselves: South Texas and the Mexican Revolution of 1910
Rarely accessible primary and secondary sources, along with seminal texts such as San Antonio historian Anita Brenner’s The Wind That Swept Mexico, will dramatically enlarge our understanding of how we — South Texans and Mexicans engaging our porous and violent border — helped make the revolutionary history that shaped modern Mexico. Music of the period will support the actors. This production complements the Witte Museum’s exhibition: 1910: A Revolution Across Borders on view Sept. 16, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011