Black History events continue through February

Music, movies and money management instruction are all part of this year's Black History Month celebration, along with the 21st annual African-American Read-In and a Dating Game. All of these events, sponsored by the Black History Month Committee, will be on campus, and are free to students.

The first of these will be a performance at 11 a.m.–1 p.m. today by the Regency Jazz Band in the round in Loftin Student Center.

The Regency Jazz Band is the lead band for the annual Holiday Saxaphone at the Guadalupe Theater and participates in the yearly Jazz'SAlive Festival.

At 9:25 a.m –10:40 a.m. Tuesday in Room 120 of the visual arts center, visual art Professor Marlene Hoover will screen and discuss the documentary film "The Quilts of Gee's Bend."

After the Civil War, in Gee's Bend, a rural community in Alabama, a small community of African-American women began making quilts to tell their stories.

The quilts have been exhibited in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and other fine art venues.

For more information, call Aaron Tavitas at 486-0134 or e-mail mtavitas@alamo.edu.

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the San Antonio Symphony String Quartet will have a concert in the auditorium of Palmetto Center for the Arts at Northwest Vista College.

This concert is an outgrowth of the Residency Program, a collaboration of St. Philip's College and the San Antonio Symphony.

The concert is free and open to the public.