Second Saturday on a Thursday

Tomorrow night is looking to be almost as jam-packed with art events as the First Thursday CAM opening ceremonies. The South Flores Arts District galleries, with the lone exception of Lone Star Studios, have moved their Second Saturday events to Thursday in order to avoid conflicting with Luminaria. FL!GHT is hosting a group show of heavy-hitters including Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Chuck Ramirez, Alejandro Diaz, and Andy Benavides. Down the hall in the One9Zero6 Gallery, Jesse Amado will have a solo show, while the SMART Art Project Space hosts Courtney Reid. Add in a couple of performances by Symphony musicians, and you have a hot bed of activity centered around 1906 S Flores.

But that's just the beginning. Lily's Cookies hosts The Cookie Jar Show, featuring four of San Antonio's best contemporary ceramic artists (Diana Kersey, Ryan Takaba, Wesley Harvey, and Dennis Smith), while a few blocks up McCullough Galeria Ortiz shows The Gallery 12, and just a bit further up the street Parchman-Stremmel opens the Gary Sweeney-curated romp, The Big Top. Nearby at Trinity University's Attic Theater, AtticRep holds the Forum Theatre Project on Love and Marriage.

And those are just my personal highlights. Check out the full Thursday run-down here (tip: you can see details for all of a single day's events by clicking the date number on the Calendar page).