For more information
about our events,
call us at 210-486-4527
Auditorium Manager
Daniel Mitchell
210-486-4762
Office: PCA-101
Fine and Performing Arts at Vista
Spring 2025 Calendar of Events
January 21 - March 14, 2025
Palmetto Center for the Arts Gallery
Curated by Esteban Delgado
ARTIST TALK
Thursday, February 27, 11am-12pm
PCA Gallery
Presented by NVC Fine Art
TUFTING WORKSHOP
Exploring the Theme of Home through Collaborative Art
Friday, February 28
Session 1: 9am-12pm // Session 2: 1pm-4pm
Location: PCA 125
Limited spots, RSVP in AlamoExperience
Immerse yourself in the art of tufting as you explore the concept of “home” through abstract designs. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of tufting as a creative medium, including how to use tufting machines safely and effectively. With guidance, you'll reflect on what home means to you and translate your ideas into a unique design. By the end of the workshop, we’ll join our individual pieces to create a collaborative artwork that reflects our shared visions. Participants can choose between two available sessions, 9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm and all supplies will be provided.
Supported by Student Activity Fee
Presented by NVC Fine Art
Location: Palmetto Center for the Arts
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Free Admission
The NVC Fine & Performing Arts Department presents Cosmic Art Night! Materials and studios glow under ultraviolet lights creating a surreal, dreamy vibe while you explore the arts of ceramics, drawing, printmaking and dance. Professors and students will demonstrate the potter’s wheel and screen printing techniques on paper. Bring your own t-shirt to silkscreen.
All additional materials provided.
Everyone is welcome: students, faculty, staff, and families!
All ages! No experience necessary!
NVC Dance Guest Artist
Versa-Style Street Dance
Founded in 2005 by Los Angeles natives and co-artistic directors Jackie Lopez aka Miss Funk and Leigh Foaad aka Breeze-lee, Versa-Style Street Dance Company was created to promote, empower and celebrate the artistry of Hip Hop and street dance culture. Named “Los Angeles’ Best Dance Troupe for Hip Hop Empowerment” by LA Weekly, Versa-Style is recognized for its electrifying performances and inspiring engagement activities for schools and local communities. Consisting of committed, highly skilled street dance artists and educators representative of the diversity and beautiful complexity of Los Angeles, Versa-Style Street Dance Company harnesses the exhilarating energy of street dance onto the concert stage for an unforgettable evening of dance.
MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Thursday, March 6 from 11AM-12:15PM in Dance Studio PCA-108
Supported by the Student Activity Fee
Dance@VISTA
Presented by NVC Dance
Performances by the NVC Repertory Dance Ensemble & Dance Choreographer in Residence.
Date: Saturday, May 10
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
THINK YOU CAN DANCE? YOU CAN!
Learn about Vista's student-based dance company:
NVC Repertory Dance Ensemble
Presented by NVC Drama & Directed by Michelle Pietri
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Dates and Time:
-February 27, 28, March 1 at 7:30pm
-Sunday, March 2 matinee at 2:00pm
-March 6, 7, 8 at 7:30pm
Free Admission!
Presented by NVC Drama
Location: Black Box Theatre
Dates: April 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12
Time: 7:30pm
Free Admission
Jack Stone Award for New Music
Presented by NVC Music
MASTERCLASS
Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 3:30pm
Location: PCA Recital Hall
JACK STONE AWARD for NEW MUSIC CONCERT
Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Admission: Free
The Jack Stone Award for New Music is a national competition open solely to community college students exploring music composition. While many calls for scores by student composers exist, few opportunities are available specifically for community college students. Because the musical background and training of community college student composers differs from that of composition students at four-year institutions and conservatories, there is a need for career building opportunities that will enable them to achieve creative success and gain national recognition.
Original student compositions will be performed by Lux Musicae Chamber Ensemble.
NVC Chamber Singers
& Instrumental Ensembles
Presented by NVC Music
Directed by Dr. Minkyung Lee &
Dr. Sunbeam Choi
Date: Monday, April 21
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Location: Palmetto Theatre
NVC Music launched the first Chamber Singers group in the Spring of 2019 and had to convert their inaugural performance virtually due to COVID-19. Given the challenges endured in the past years, we're excited to introduce NVC Chamber Singers this semester. Dr. Minkyung Lee is thrilled to share outstanding choral repertoires with advanced singers to prepare and execute the Texas Two-Year College Choral Association Region V All-State Choir Auditions. The program offers a diverse repertoire, including The Boiling Hot Spring, Serenade, and the Extinguished Stars from Arensky's Three Quartets, Opus 57, sung in Russian. NVC Chamber Singers will explore a wide range of multiple languages of repertoire with different genres of music in a vibrant cross-cultural celebration. TaReKiTa by Reena Esmail, Gloria from "Missa Criolla" by Ariel Ramirez, Wide Open Spaces by Sarah Quartel, and Way Over in Beulah Lan' with this exciting arrangement of the traditional spiritual will be included in the program.
NVC MUSIC FACULTY RECITAL
Presented by NVC Music
Date: Tuesday, April 22
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Admission: Free
NVC Concert Choir & Solo Performances
Presented by NVC Music
Directed by Dr. Minkyung Lee
Date: Wednesday, April 23
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Admission: Free
Vista Jazz Ensemble
Presented by NVC Music
Directed by Dr. Aaron Prado
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Palmetto Theatre
Admission: Free
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The Palmetto Center for the Arts opened in 2009 as a product of community leadership, vision and unwavering determination to bring fine and performing arts to the Northwest area of San Antonio. The arts complex offers the finest facility and programs to those who join us in celebrating the arts.
The fine and performing arts programs at Northwest Vista College engage students and enrich their skills needed to give life to creative impulses—on stage, in the studio, and in the concert hall. Our emerging artists interact and learn from community professionals and visiting artists from across the country and abroad.
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We believe that the arts have always been and always will be a meaningful force in human life. Northwest Vista College is dedicated to making the arts a living presence within our neighboring communities. Art lovers who support the development of artists help to enrich the human experience.
Our goal is to cultivate the imagination and technical skills of artists who will reinvigorate existing works and create new masterpieces that will grip the heart and thrill the mind. We welcome the diversity that sustains our community and empowers our voice through art and artistry.
For more information
about our events,
call us at 210-486-4527
Auditorium Manager
Daniel Mitchell
210-486-4762
Office: PCA-101