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2025-26 Info Packet

Check out everything our program has to offer. We'd love to meet with your CTE team and administrators to show you just how easy it is to implement Alamo Arts Academy into your school.

FEB 26-28, 2025

The Alamo Arts Academy's "48 to Create" competition gives middle school and high school students the chance to complete a multimedia challenge in 48 hours. This hurried style of production is meant to be fun while challenging students' critical thinking and communication skills. Through this unique event, they will gain valuable hands-on experience working as a team to problem solve, all while creatively exploring the skills they're learning in their Alamo Arts Academy courses.

THE CHALLENGE
Create a 3-min short film and accompanying poster design using photography in 48 hours.

THE SKILLS
Team projects utilize skills in all four of our Alamo Arts Academy subjects: Film Production, Digital Photography, Audio Engineering & Graphic Design.

Check out last year's recap video to see what it's all about!

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

SPONSOR & Donate

• General Event Sponsor

  Click the button below to message our Community Outreach Coordinator, Patricio Calvo to learn more about our sponsorship opportunities. We'll send you our Sponsorship Guide to learn the perks of being an official event sponsor!

• Meal Sponsors
  We provide breakfast and lunch for all participating students, and we need meal sponsors and/or in-kind donors to help! Dates needed: November 9th & 10th

• Swag
  We are also accepting swag giveaways to reward our students. Examples include gift cards, tickets, gear, apparel, and multimedia equipment. Click below to message us and we'll get you more details on how this works.
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

VOLUNTEER

• Individual & Corporate Groups

  Help us create an amazing event at San Antonio College. Sign up individually or in groups to help us with set up/tear down, meal prep, safety and logistics, and the awards ceremony. Click the volunteer button below for shift dates and times.

• Industry Professionals

  Be one of our team multimedia mentors! We're looking for filmmakers, photographers, graphic designers, and audio engineers to help our teams accomplish their project. Click the volunteer button below for shift dates and times.

In partnership with:

Patricio Calvo
Community Outreach Coordinator
patricio@alamoartsacademy.org

Sarah Patterson
Program Manager
sarah@alamoartsacademy.org

BEXARFEST PRODUCTION

Students will get the unique opportunity to work on the production of the BexarFest Awards Night event at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. This includes taking part in graphic design, photography, and Audio/Video production for the actual event itself. Students will work alongside industry professionals and event staff and get to experience the excitement of being backstage!

Alamo Arts Academy's Team Challenge is a group competition to show off students' skills and compete with other students across their city. It's a perfect competition for EVERY student enrolled in the program to participate.

Teachers will divide their classes into production teams and create a project around a creative prompt. They'll be tasked with putting together a complete video, photo, audio, and graphic design project over the course of 2 months.

After the submission deadline, our panel of judges will select the best middle school and high school project, and winners will receive a pizza party and special swag.

SEE WHAT OUR STUDENTS ARE WORKING ON!