Teletexile Ritual Arts Ensemble

The goal of this campaign is to develop a cross current between music and wellness by developing new works and events for the broader public, such as community reiki and sound meditations.  We are raising money to pay our artists for the upcoming Jump-Start Performance as well as future performances of this work and the creation of new work.

Photos by Chris Castillo

The Teletextile Ritual Arts Ensemble weaves together a tapestry of music, movement, reiki and other healing rituals to create mixture of performance and spiritual practice among its cast of rotating collaborators lead by Pamela Martinez.  As a genre-hopping performer and musician, Martinez has performed violin at Carnegie Hall with a Carnatic Indian music ensemble, sang in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore Theater and directs Whisperlodge, an immersive theater performance which The New York Times dubbed “an unusual mix of theater and therapy”.  During her extensive international touring, Martinez realized the need for healing, wellness and the divine as a necessary element of her work and thus began TRAE. Active collaborators include:

Pamela Martinez - Musician / Educator / Composer / Sound Healing / Reiki @teletextile www.teletextile.org

Mark Gurrola - Musician / Composer @markftgurrola https://thorvaldgurrola.weebly.com/

Olivia De Jesús - Vocalist / Music Educator @musicaentera www.musicaentera.com

Chris Castillo - Photographer / Artist / Musician www.thatchriscastillo.com

Meredith Shuman - Composer / [email redacted]

Jacob Bissell - Musician / Composer / Music Therapist

Chabreily Rivera - New Media Artist

Naysa Moreno - Arts & Music Advocate 

Nicole Russell - Composer / Vocalist


As a thank you for your support, donors names will be printed in the program for the upcoming performance, Teletextile: Connected, as well as the incentives listed below:


$20 - Mugwort Smudge Stick from Pamela's Garden (for first 20 - will mail them to you or you can pick them up at the upcoming show)
$50 - Invitation to Teletextile Donor's Sound Bath (for first 30)
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$100 - 30 Minute Music Lesson  (Voice, Piano, Trumpet, Guitar, or Harp)
$200 - Personal Reiki Session or Private/Group Sound Bath

Teletextile: Connected by Pamela Martinez is showing Fri. - Sat. Sept. 20-21, at 8pm and, Sun. Sept. 22, at 2 pm, at Jump-Start Theater, 710 Fredericksburg Rd., San Antonio, TX, 78201. Admission is at the audience members' discretion to Choose-What-You-Pay: $10, $15, or $20. Ticket sales fund future Jump-Start programming and can be purchased here: TBD

This first performance was made possible with generous gifts of rehearsal & performance space, admistrative & marketing support plus a stipend from Jump-Start Performance Co.'s INKubator project.