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On Nov 18, 2023 Austin held their 30th Annual Powwow at the Travis County Expo Center inviting more than 80 tribes from North and South America. Honoring traditions of the past and sharing them with the public, each and every person was invited. With traditional dance, singers, and drummer contest attendees also enjoyed real Native American foods.
As 2024 rolls in, for most this is a time to celebrate the new year. For the Silva family, it’s a reminder of their last moments spent with 11-year old Amethyst Sistine Silva. Dec 31, 2022, started out like any other day. Father Robert Silva and Amethyst decided to spend the day together. “Me and her spent that day together, it was daddy daughter day. We went to Joe’s Crab Shack. She ordered her favorite plate – big ol’ plate of crab,” said Robert. As the family settled, midnight rolled around, Robert, mother Melinda and Amethyst decide to capture the…
Tony Colunga, owner of NASA, formerly known as Studio B, threw a last hurrah to announce his departure from owner status. Colunga passes the torch to his protégé and former DMC student, Joshua Miguel De Leon, who majored in Sound Recording Technology. “I met Josh playing a show on the sidewalk downtown. He was playing bass with The Blind Owls covering a Led Zeppelin song … They were rocking out! They messaged me on MySpace about playing at our venue,” Colunga said. Colunga’s plan for Studio B was to not only keep it low-key but also to book ‘strange original…
Fall would not be complete without “A Music Mystery,” written and directed by DMC faculty member Raphael Rada partnering with pianist Michael Steele. The show will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in Wolfe Recital Hall, 101 Baldwin Blvd. Admission is free. Rada has been teaching at Del Mar the past 15 years. “Singer’s Theatre is one of the music groups in the Music Department and we present a show at the end of the semester. The students sing selections from operas, operettas and musicals,” Rada said. Pianist Steele had his start at Del Mar as a rehearsal accompanist for…
In observance of Indigenous People’s Day, on Oct. 8 Indigenous People’s of the Coastal Bend (IPCB) celebrated an event with the reading of the Corpus Christi’s proclamation, speaking on a current federal lawsuit against Enbridge Oil Export Terminal, and lastly a dance from the Mexican Indigenous danzantes, the Spanish word meaning dancer, from the group Kalpulli Ehekatl Papalotzin. To start off the event, co- founder of IPCB, Love Sanchez, read off the City of Corpus Christi proclamation dedicating the second Monday of October as Indigenous People’s Day. “We honor the Karankawa, Lipan/Apache … any extinct tribes and other tribes that…
Wild Wolf Halloween store celebrated it’s one-year anniversary on Sept 17. With live entertainment and an onsite food truck, spectators joined in the fun, some wearing their favorite horror character costume. To help bring the Halloween vibes to the Wild Wolf event, some horror movie fans came dressed as movie characters such as “Killer Clowns from Outer Space,” “Trick ‘r Treat” and “Terrifier.” CSL Plasma employee Jay Joel Gonzales dressed up as Terrifier, even carrying the infamous trash bag and a prop – a bloody saw. “I love dressing up and going to comic cons. I have seen all the…
Wild Wolf shop owner Anthony Rivas hosted a Summer-ween event for horror lovers who celebrate Halloween all year-round on Aug. 19. “We believe Corpus needs more events. There isn’t much to do here,” Rivas said. “We started a trial event in September of last year for our Grand Opening to let people know our location. This year we’re trying to bring more of the community with local horror vendors kind of like the Farmers Market but for horror fans.” With the amount of positive feedback from last year, Rivas decided to stretch out the event before Halloween in October. “We…
Former Del Mar student Kiya Vance performed in the first ever Rooftop Concert on Aug. 17 at the Art Museum of South Texas during their monthly Weird Corpus Papercut Zine Fest. The festival, hosted by Ema Rodriguez, creator of Weird Corpus, was sponsored by Kleberg Bank. “Weird Corpus is a mini event compared to our Papercut Zine Fest,” Rodriguez said. “I chose Weird Corpus because the things I desired to see or events I wanted to create, the response I always got was, that sounds ‘weird.’ I wanted to throw Zine Fest, again people thought that was ‘weird.’ So, I…
Event helps students reduce stress as semester nears end With final exams coming up, the Counseling Center found a way to alleviate some of the stress in the lives of DMC students. The Go Team Therapy dogs of Corpus Christi provided qualified therapy dogs free of charge for students and staff at Heritage Campus on April 20, as well as the previous day at Windward Campus. The event offered free anxiety screenings and various relaxation strategies such as aromatherapy, offering students Playdough smothered in any choice of essential oils. Pet Therapy at DMC first started in 2016 and has continued…
DMC libraries and the Mexican American Studies Program celebrated National Poetry Month with an extended invitation to San Antonio poet and author Alex Z. Salinas at Wolfe Recital Hall on April 13. Salinas has written two full-length books of poetry, “Warbles” (2019) and “Dreamt or the Lingering Phantoms of Equinox” (2020), a collection of stories in “City Lights from the Upside Down” (2021) and two books of poetry called “Trash Poems” (July 2023) and “Hispanic Sonnets” (fall 2023) that are to be released later this year. DMC Reference Librarian Alan Berecka introduced Salinas. “We met during the pandemic through an…
