KSYM broadcasts live from Luminaria on Saturday

For the second time, the college radio station KSYM 90.1 FM will be participating and sharing a stage at Luminaria with KSTX Texas Public Radio 89.1 FM and Trinity University's KRTU 91.1 FM.

KSYM will be broadcasting live starting at 7 p.m. Saturday at Stage 2 on the east side of Alamo Street next to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

KSYM will be presenting local bands such as The Heroine, Mojoe, ASTEX, and Mitch Webb and the Swindles.

Luminaria is San Antonio's annual celebration of art and artists along Alamo Street between Market Street and Durango Street. Luminaria, scheduled for 6 p.m. to midnight, is free to the public.

Musical performances, dance from ballet to tango, Korean to Indian, spoken word and poetry, Shakespeare, author readings and film will fill eight stages from inside the convention center across to Maverick Plaza and back to HemisFair Plaza.

Entertainment also includes illuminated buildings and a variety of artist booths.

In 2009, 185,000 people attended the festival.

Among performers affiliated with this college and its sister colleges are this college's English Professor Sharon Argo, Northwest Vista's F-Pack theater troupe and the Palo Alto Ballet Folklorico.

Other participants include the Magik Theater, Renaissance Guild, Urban 15, Guadalupe Teen Arts Puentes Project and the San Pedro Playhouse Broadway Headliners.

A series of short films will screen in the Frida Kahlo Gallery of the Instituto Cultural de Mexico in HemisFair Plaza.

For more information on Stage 2, call KSYM at 486-1371 or log into www.luminariasa.org for more information on the schedule for each stage and a map of the grounds.

Robert Medina Jr.