Free is a favorite four-letter word around here and this weekend the AT&T Performing Arts Center is making a great first impression for one and all with free activities. Since you always need examples, here goes:
This afternoon at 4, a jazz concert featuring David Sanbornwill take place in Sammons Park. We’re not telling you to leave work early, but if there is an errand that needs running. . . well. Suggestion: bring a chair and perhaps a sweater. We always want you prepared.
On Sunday everything from family-friendly activities, venue tours, and indoor and outdoor “spotlight performances” by the the finest dancers, musicians, and theatricals types will take place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. You just might catch a performance by Aaron Kurz, ACME Swing Company, Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico, Arts District Chorale, Ballet Center of Fort Worth, Ballet Ensemble of Texas, Bloom – Dallas Black Dance Academy Jr. Performing Ensemble, Chamberlain School of Performing Arts, Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas, Dallas Ballet Center, Dallas Black Dance Academy Ensemble, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas Black Dance Theatre II, Dance Industry Performing Arts Center, Dallas Uptown Youth Orchestra, Fine Arts Chamber Players, Flame Foundation, Gocha & Shorena Center of Dance, Kitty Carter’s Dance Factory, Maguire Academy of Irish Dance, Mistura String Quartet, Revelation Dance Studio, Rhythm Junkies, Richmond Punch Jazz Quartet, Texas Ballet Theater, Texas Ballet Theater School Dallas Academy, Texas Ballet Theater School Fort Worth Academy, Turtle Creek Chorale, and Tuzer Ballet.
And what would a celebration be without Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts? So, expect to experience the African Dance Ensemble, LunaSol Folklorico Dance Company, Rhythm and Blues Band, African Dance Ensemble and Drums, Mimes Troupe, Austin Goodwin & Ida Saki Dance Duet, Repertory Dance Company I, Repertory Dance Company II, and Bailey Mason-Harpist.
The evening will finish off with a fireworks display launched from the rooftop of the Wyly and Winspear. Watch out below!