San Jose, California Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Performing arts === {{multiple image | direction = vertical | align = left | footer = [[San Jose Civic]] (top) and the [[San Jose Center for the Performing Arts|Center for the Performing Arts]] (bottom). | image1 = Downtown San Jose, California 3 2017-06-12.jpg| | image2 = San Jose Center for Performing Arts.jpg }} The city is home to many performing arts companies, including [[Opera San Jose]], [[Symphony Silicon Valley]], [[Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley]], [[sjDANCEco]], The San Jose Symphonic Choir, Children's Musical Theater of San Jose,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmtsj.org/content/about-cmt-san-jose |title=ABOUT CMT San Jose |publisher=Cmtsj.org |access-date=July 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530032014/http://cmtsj.org/content/about-cmt-san-jose |archive-date=May 30, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[San Jose Youth Symphony]], the [[San Jose Repertory Theatre]], City Lights Theatre Company, The Tabard Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, and the now-defunct [[American Musical Theatre of San Jose]] which was replaced by [[Broadway San Jose]] in partnership with [[Team San Jose]]. San Jose is also home to the [[San Jose Museum of Art]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sanjosemuseumofart.org |title=San Jose Museum of Art |publisher=San Jose Museum of Art |access-date=July 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928004102/http://www.sanjosemuseumofart.org/ |archive-date=September 28, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> one of the nation's premiere Modern Art museums. The [[SAP Center at San Jose]] is one of the most active venues for events in the world. According to [[Billboard Magazine]] and Pollstar, the arena sold the most tickets to non-sporting events of any venue in the United States, and third in the world after the [[Manchester Evening News Arena]] in [[Manchester]], England, and the [[Bell Centre]] in [[Montreal]], Canada, for the period from January 1{{spaced ndash}}September 30, 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/leigh_weimers/10045287.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp |date=October 29, 2004 |title=Who needs the Sharks? HP Pavilion thriving |first=Leigh |last=Weimers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309065548/http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/leigh_weimers/10045287.htm?template=contentModules%2Fprintstory.jsp |archive-date=March 9, 2005 |access-date=November 9, 2013 }}</ref> The annual [[Cinequest Film Festival]] in downtown has grown to over 60,000 attendees per year, becoming an important festival for independent films. The [[San Francisco Asian American Film Festival]] is an annual event, which is hosted in San Francisco, [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], and [[Downtown San Jose]]. Approximately 30 to 40 films are screened in San Jose each year at the Camera 12 Downtown Cinemas. The [[San Jose Jazz Festival]] is another of many events hosted throughout the year. The [[Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies]] houses the largest collection of [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] in the world, outside of Europe, and is the only institution of its kind in [[North America]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page