Spotlight Sunday

The week's Grand Opening celebrations of the AT&T Performing Arts Center culminate with a district-wide "open house" festival. Free and open to the public, the day will include family-friendly activities, venue tours, and indoor and outdoor "spotlight" performances by the Center's resident companies and national, regional and local talent spanning dance, music, opera and theater. It will also feature free admission to exhibitions at Arts District museums and other venues, giving access to special programming they created just for this occasion.

Highlights of the day include:

AT THE AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
• Tours of the Winspear and the Wyly
• Nationally acclaimed flutist Nestor Torres
• Multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Ellis Hall
• Mass Ensemble creates giant sculptural instruments as their performance backdrop
• Anti-Gravity's champion athletes and urban dancers deliver Cirque-like acrobatic performance art
• Ballet, ballroom, hip-hop, jazz and modern dance
• Culturally diverse performances including lion dance, African drum and dance, flamenco and folklorico
• Gospel, chorale and youth chorus groups
• Fireworks show at 7:45 p.m.

AT OTHER DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT VENUES
• 11 am–6 pm – Free admission to exhibitions and special programing at Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Center for Architecture, Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center
• 2 pm – Free Always Imagine performance by Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts students including performance on John Lennon’s piano loaned by the Goss-Michael Foundation. In the Montgomery Arts Theatre
• 2:30 pm – Free Beethoven’s 9th Symphony performance by Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap Van Zweden. In the Meyerson. Reservations required at www.attpac.org/tickets
• 6 pm – Free concert at Cathedral Guadalupe by 40-voice choir Gloriæ Dei Cantores, including Gregorian Chant, Tchaikovsky and other performances
• Art installation on view at Art Wall of Catholic Foundation Plaza