LineUp Announced For Mermaid Week Festival In San Marcos

San Marcos TX — In an effort to highlight the city’s heritage, focus on river stewardship and proclivity for the arts, The Mermaid Society of San Marcos TX has created Mermaid Week SMTX using the symbol of the mermaid.

The mermaid is a unique to San Marcos and the river having been a focus of the Aquarena roadside attraction in San Marcos and its underwater dioramas and theatricals.

Fast forward to 2016 and the mermaid symbol has been recast as a community connector and river protector.

Throughout the Mermaid Festival Week, events and happenings are geared to bringing together all of San Marcos, and educating the community about their part in the sustainability in this cities unique waterway and future; the course for that future being set now.

Along with many family-oriented events during the week, there will be a celebration of Aquarena Springs’ Aquamaids of the past who entertained thousands of visitors each year with their underwater performances. Some of the other highlights are listed here:

• September 10 – Kickoff with MERtini Shakedown Contest / sponsor Dripping Springs Vodka
• September 11 – Community Lecture with Professor Katie Kapurch, Ph.D. of TXST
• September 12 – Mermaid Mix-N-Mingle Artist Social at Patio Dolcetto SMTX
• September 13 – Mermaid Show – river-inspired works at Dahlia Woods Gallery
• September 14 – Art Advocates SMTX host a panel discussion on arts districting
• September 15 – 3rd Thursday Gallery Night – a downtown SMTX celebration of the arts
• September 16 – The Mermaid Society Ball at the Meadows Center at Texas State
• September 17 – SMTX Mermaid Parade through Downtown San Marcos TX
• September 17 – The Mermaid Splash – free outdoor eco-culture-arts festival at the river

For more information about these events, please go to www.mermaidsocietysmtx.com or contact July Moreno at 512-825-2819 or email at info@mermaidsocietysmtx.com 

ABOUT MERMAID SOCIETY SMTX: Mermaid Society SMTX is a grassroots community organization committed to strengthening connectivity among like-spirited community partners to work creatively and collaboratively towards a shared vision in support of the arts, river stewardship, historic preservation and a local living economy. Mermaid Society of SMTX publicly launched its movement to focus on the mermaid as a protector and a connector; symbol for all of San Marcos and for its river and as a way to mark San Marcos TX as an art-centric, environmentally-conscious and progressive city. Mermaid Society of SMTX is represented by every facet of the community: cultural, governmental, environmental, educational, historical, developmental; now and in the future.