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¡VIVA! - A Live Telethon Supporting the Arts & Artists in San Antonio!

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This 2nd arts fundraiser will feature live interviews and performances from local celebs, pre-recorded videos of special performances, appearances from artists, dancers, filmmakers, plus surprise co-hosts, games, viewer polls, and a whole lot more!

This 6-hour telethon airs live from the Carlos and Malú Alvarez Theater, inside the Irma & Emilio Nicolas Media Center, at the new Texas Public Radio headquarters, and the program will be streaming on multiple Facebook channels, YouTube, TPR.org, as well as our partners’ websites. Proceeds raised during this livestream event will go to help fund the new Working Artist Fund, in partnership with Luminaria.

Luminaria: Arts in San Antonio & Texas Public Radio will narrow it down to our Top 10 favorite videos from all submissions, and then let the viewers decide on the top 3 - live during the telethon. The three lucky winners will be listed as part of the Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival lineup and will be part of a new virtual feature of the festival, TPR’s Nightstream.

TPR's Nightstream at Luminaria:
This year, as part of the Luminaria partnership, ¡Viva! will feature a friendly competition with our submissions, with winners being picked LIVE at midnight, as a conclusion to our telethon! Luminaria & Texas Public Radio will narrow it down to our Top 10 favorite video’s from the submissions, and then let the viewers decide on the top 3 live during the telethon.

The three lucky winners will be listed as part of the Luminaria lineup and will be part of a new virtual feature of the festival, TPR’s Nightstream. Similar to TPR’s monthly Daystream program, Nightstream will feature pre-recorded performances which are taped live inside the Malù and Carlos Alvarez Theater at TPR, and played back on video screens throughout Luminaria on November 3rd, at Hemisfair!

The three winning artists will each receive a full day inside the Malù & Carlos Alvarez Theater to have their performance professionally recorded with state of the art multi-camera and audio production.

To enter, simply submit your video to ¡Viva! today!

For sponsorship information or questions about this program, please email viva@tpr.org.

About the Working Artist Fund of Luminaria: In the spirit of the Corona Arts Relief program, the Luminaria Artist Foundation is launching the Working Artist Fund to address the impact of COVID-19, the recent winter storm, and other on-going economic hardships on individual artists in Bexar County. The fund will offer support toward a sustainable livelihood for area artists through your generous year-round donations.