BSPA - Links to Our Community & the Performing Arts

Following are some links we thought you might enjoy or
find useful. If you know of an interesting website that
should be on this list, let us know!

Events

UTB/TSC's Patron of the Arts - BSPA partner, UTB/TSC's Patron of the Arts, consistently provides a wide range of cultural offerings by visiting artists, faculty and students of the University of Texas/Texas Southmost College Fine Arts Department.

CINESOL Latino Film Festival - A highly respected non-profit organization, based in the Rio Grande Valley, dedicated to promoting Hispanic film and film makers. We welcome CINESOL, BSPA's newest partner!

Festival de Otoño - Our good friends from Matamoros, right across the river from Brownsville, in their "Autumn Festival", a 10-14 day cultural production featuring top acts from Mexico and the world performing from Opera to Jazz. DON'T MISS IT!

Charro Days - Brownsville's largest festival, established in 1938 and still going strong!

The UTB/TSC A&E Season at Jacob Brown Auditorium - Our venue in Brownsville, owned and operated by UTB/TSC Arts & Entertainment.

Camille Lightner Playhouse - Brownsville's playhouse theater at the newly renovated Dean Porter Park.

The Texas Jazz Festival - The oldest Jazz Festival in the USA and they're in Corpus Christi!

TicketMaster - Want a ticket?

Pollstar - Find out who's playing anytime, anywhere in the USA!

Festival Finder - Does just what it says it does.

Local Links

Map of Brownsville - Here's where we are!.

History of Brownsville - A good synopsis by The Handbook of Texas ONLINE!

City of Brownsville - Our City's official website.

Brownsville Convention & Visitors Bureau - Good site for those wishing to visit us.

Brownsville Chamber of Commerce - The Chamber's website with lots of good info.

Brownsville Economic Development Council - Links to schools, government and economic development.

The University of Texas Brownsville/Texas Southmost College - Our awesome, fast growing university!

Matamoros.com - A good website with lots of information on our neighbor across the river, the City of Matamoros.

Brownsville Weather - NOA's weather page for Brownsville.

Audubon's Sabal Palm Sanctuary - Our own little nature preserve.

Gladys Porter Zoo - Brownsville's pride, one of the finest zoos in the world!

Brownsville Reads - An award winning non-profit promoting research-based reading instruction in Brownsville schools founded by good friend and super-volunteer, Norma Garza!

South Padre Island Online - A great website with all the SPI info you'll need. SPI is currently recovering from the effects of a tragic accident that destroyed a portion of its causeway to the mainland.

Music & Dance

Sabor Vallero - The #1 Salsa Dance company is South Texas

KMBH-KHID Classic 88 FM - Public Radio for the Rio Grande Valley!

The Metropolitan Opera - The ultimate Opera website.

Afro-Cuba Web - For those of you with rhythm.

Flamenco World - For those of you with a gypsy soul.

JazzBuffalo.com - A great Latin Jazz website hosted by BSPA friend, Luis Moreno of McAllen, Texas. Check out his review on the 1st Annual Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival, his tribute to Tito Puente and the paper he wrote at our request: "A Brief History of Latin Jazz".

Andros on Ballet - A website dedicated to the history and the art of classical ballet.

Alegria - A good source of information on the many regional dances of Mexico - Folklórico!

Publications

Rio Sun Magazine - Reliable information on events in the online version of "The Valley's Entertainment Magazine", published by the Valley Morning Star and edited by our good friend Bruce Lee Smith.

Mesquite Review - An excellent, bi-monthly cultural publication, published by the RGV's very own renaissance man, the multi-talented Noe Hinojosa, Jr.

The Brownsville Herald - Read all about it!

Organizations

National Trust for Historic Preservation - The organization that cares about our history.

National Endowment for the Arts - Our nation's arts organization.

Texas Commission on the Arts - The State of Texas' agency that supports the arts.

UTB/TSC's Fine Arts Department - A listing with Brownsville's finest in Fine Arts.

Colegio Nacional de México - Links to the Performing Arts in Mexico.

Playhouse Square Center (Cleveland OH) - The organization credited for rescuing downtown Cleveland through theater renovations and BSPA's performing arts consultant for the Capitol Theatre Renovation Project.

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Last Updated: January 26, 2010