Texas A&M University-San Antonio is proud to present the San Antonio premiere of Mariachi Girl
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Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Main Campus - Auditorium One University Way San Antonio, Texas 78224Refund Policy
Description
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
is proud to present the San Antonio premiere of
Mariachi Girl
on Thursday, October 8, 2015
This event is part of the Inauguration Celebration of
Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson Second President of
Texas A&M-San Antonio
There will be a 7 p.m. performance that will be open to the public. Tickets will sell from $10.
About the play:
Ten-year-old Carmencita dreams of being a mariachi singer and one day joining in performance with her father. However, her father clings to a long-held family tradition of male-only mariachis. When Carmencita's teacher offers her a book about a female mariachi, everything changes for "Cita" as she sees a possibility of her dream becoming a reality. Can she celebrate her own heritage and expand her father's view of the world? Mariachi Girl is an uplifting bilingual family drama about reaching for your dreams and is filled with vibrant original mariachi music.
About the writer:
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce is an artist, scholar and teacher. She currently serves as assistant professor of theatre education at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance. Prior to her current appointment, she taught at Emerson College and California State University, Fresno. Schroeder-Arce received her MFA in drama and theatre for youth from the University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor's degree and teaching credentials from Emerson College. She taught high-school theatre in Texas for six years and served as artistic and education director of TEATRO Humanidad in Austin for several years. Schroeder-Arce's bilingual plays have been presented to children and families in theatres throughout the United States. Her plays Señora Tortuga, Legend of the Poinsettia and Sangre de un Ángel are also published by Dramatic Publishing.
Composer:
Hector Martinez Morales
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Texas A&M University-San Antonio is the first upper-division institution of higher education located in the historically underserved South San Antonio. On May 27, 2009, Gov. Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 629 that created Texas A&M-San Antonio as a stand-alone university. The university, then known as Texas A&M University-Kingsville System Center-San Antonio, was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in January 2000. From fall 2008 to fall 2013, enrollment at Texas A&M University-San Antonio has grown 216%.
Today, Texas A&M-San Antonio provides affordable higher education opportunities to students from over 30 counties in the surrounding South Texas region, and has graduated over 5,000 students who are career-ready in a variety of in-demand fields such as education, business, information technology and cyber security, criminology and biology.
Currently serving nearly 4,500 students, the student body is 66% female and 67% Hispanic, and approximately 74% of students are the first in their family to attend college. Texas A&M-San Antonio prepares and empowers students to be innovative and contributing members of a global society.