Looking for Brick at Blue Star? You are in the right place. Welcome to the next chapter, 108 Blue Star. Same building, new ventures.
108 Blue Star is run by two people. Nadine Fonseca builds the program and the partnerships. Tennasyn Moody builds the systems that carry it beyond the room. Each owns her side of it; neither stays in it. They reopened this building together, and between them they cover the whole arc of each event, experience, and memory made within.
The building had been dark since February 2026.
By then it had already lived several lives: industrial beginnings as Pittsburgh Plate Glass, then the years when Jump-Start Performance Co. made it a home for experimental theatre and performance, then a long run as Brick at Blue Star. When that ended, one of the most recognizable addresses in the Blue Star Arts Complex sat vacant; an empty room, full of potential, and nothing happening in it.
They did not go looking for a building. Blue Star's ownership came to them and asked them to bring this one back.
What they saw was a working arts venue. The public program would give the room its reason to exist, and private events would earn the money that keeps it standing. They opened it as 108 Blue Star on September 1, 2026.
That model was a choice, and it shows up everywhere. Co-presenting terms share risk with artists instead of charging them rent. Pricing is published rather than quoted on request. The calendar gets built, not filled. The website, the ticketing path and the photo archive were all made by the same two people who run the room.
It is a lot easier to describe a dormant building than to reopen one. This one is open.
Nadine is a placemaking and public programming strategist. She works at the intersection of placemaking, public programming, event strategy, partnerships and implementation. Her job is to turn places and ideas into programs people actually want to take part in, and that the organizations behind them can realistically run, sustain and grow.
Through NMF Consulting she advises municipalities, nonprofits, cultural organizations, developers, venues and private-sector partners: destination programming, large-scale public events and festivals, venue strategy, brand and community partnerships, sponsorship and revenue, guest experience, event operations and audience intelligence. Recent work spans major civic events and festivals, downtown programming, cultural initiatives and venue development.
She has worked in San Antonio events for years: on downtown programming with Centro San Antonio, including Guayabera Fest; on Fiesta de los Reyes, the ten-day Market Square celebration that is among the largest events of Fiesta; and on events for the Rey Feo Consejo Educational Foundation, whose scholarship work has sent more than a million dollars to local students. The relationships behind the programming at 108 Blue Star were built over years of that work.
What interests her most is the space between strategy and execution. Not just developing the idea, but building the partnerships, systems, operational plans and teams that make it work in the real world. She treats a project as an ecosystem rather than an event, with all the people, operations, culture and economics that implies.
Her practice is grounded in organizational strategy, change management, stakeholder engagement and anti-bias work. She is also the founder of Mighty Kind, an educational multimedia company, and the author of two picture books with Shadow Mountain, Only a Trenza Away: A Tale of Trust & Strength (2023) and If You Ever Need a Friend: An Alebrije Story (2024). TIME named her a Latino Leader: Driver of Tomorrow.
At 108 Blue Star she leads programming and partnerships: who plays, who cooks, who presents, and the terms that make it worth their while.
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Tennasyn turns vision into impact with marketing insight, strategy and implementation. At the heart of her work is connection.
She has a deep background in digital marketing, SEO and customer journey research, and blends strategy, creativity and data-driven decision-making to drive measurable growth. Her strengths run through marketing strategy, analytics, customer experience management, business development and project management. She optimizes campaigns, solves complex problems and finds the opportunities that make something last.
Through Veratusk she brings that to 108 Blue Star. She handles what has to be true before a door opens and long after it closes: the site you are reading, the listings that carry a show out to the rest of the internet, the booking and ticketing paths, the photo archive and the credits attached to it. It is unglamorous work, and it is what lets a small room reach a much larger audience.
She has also worked alongside Nadine on several of those San Antonio events in supporting roles.
She would put it more plainly. The best outcomes come from genuine relationships and a real understanding of what moves people. A venue's audience is a group of people deciding whether a Tuesday night is worth leaving the house for, not a number on a dashboard.
Nadine and Tennasyn have worked together for years, on ventures well beyond this one and for clients across the country. 108 Blue Star is not the first thing they have built together, and it shows in how little of it has to be explained between them.
On paper the split is clean. One practice works on program, partnerships and the shape of a season; the other on systems, audience and the record. 108 Blue Star is where they meet, and it appears in both their work because they built it together.
In practice the line moves. Whoever is free writes the listing. Whoever is in the building takes the delivery. Each of them owns her side of the work and knows enough of the other's to carry it when a week demands it, which in a venue run by two people is most weeks.
A chef dinner, a market or a run of performances is planned, priced, staffed, listed, sold, photographed and archived by the same two people. Nothing falls into the gap between the event and the digital presence, because there is no gap.
Art that exists only in the room reaches the people who were already in the room. The harder work is everything else: the listing that travels, the archive that outlives the night, the artist page still working for someone six months later, the photograph still credited to the person who took it.
That is why the venue and this website were built by the same hands.
