Jul 26 Friday
Attention all youth filmmakers, save the date! URBAN-15 and the Josiah Media Festival announce their call for entries for the 18th Josiah media Festival! Filmmakers must be 21 years old or younger, and submit their films between May 1st, 2024 and August 1st, 2024.
Entry Guidelines:
• Filmmakers must be 21 years old or younger• Films must not exceed 20 minutes• Filmmakers must complete all required forms and submit films in valid format, more information at URBAN15.org• Films will be entered into one of four categories: Narrative, Documentary, Animation or Experimental
The Josiah Media Festival will award cash prizes for the top three winners in each film category!
More information at URBAN15.org
Questions? Contact Events@urban15.org or josiahfestival@urban15.org
Call for entries begins: May 1st, 2024
Call for entries ends: August 1st, 2024
Experience the world-premiere of Huntopia: Bunnies, Birds, and Butterflies at the San Antonio Botanical Garden.
Created by famed artist, Hunt Slonem, this outdoor art exhibit creates a whimsical world filled with the iconic colorful bunnies, birds, and butterflies the artists has been painting for decades.
Slonem's signature animal muses will be giant-sized for plenty of photo-worthy moments for families and friends throughout the Garden’s 38 acres.
Exhibit Runs May 4 - Nov 3, 2024; Included with Admission
Opening June 14, venture where nature's beauty and resilience take center stage during the Briscoe's summer exhibition, Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four. Masterworks from the Riiksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art. This stunning exhibition captivates with the awe-inspiring beauty of nature and invites visitors to reflect on their own relationship with the natural world. The exhibition is included with museum admission.
Carl Rungius (Germany, 1869 – 1959), Old Baldface -detail, c. 1940. Oil on canvas. 30 x 40 inches. JKM Collection®, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Estate of Carl Rungius.
Discover what it takes to become a space explorer and an Earth defender!
Experience life as an astronaut through hands-on activities, see real NASA artifacts and learn how scientists are defending the planet from catastrophic asteroid impacts in Surviving Space: Astronauts & Asteroids.
The Carros y Cultura exhibit at the Bullock Museum includes multiple lowrider cars, bikes, and artifacts from San Antonio’s lowrider community and features prominently the work of San Antonio photographer Al Rendon.
Explore the characteristics that make a custom car a lowrider car in an interactive touchscreen mural. Meet the people who make lowriding a community through media pieces and interviews. Learn how together, car and driver maintain a legacy that has been nurtured across generations of lowriding families to build a phenomenon that has been imitated, adopted, and adapted around the world.
Put on your thinking caps for Live Virtual Trivia with San Antonio Public Library and test your knowledge over a wide variety of categories! Compete within your own household or online with friends. Don't wait, register today as space is limited!
***One registration per team is required at the link provided*** Registration closes Friday, July 26 at 2 PM. Library staff will email the instructions and the Zoom link separately before the program.
Based on the original Broadway production that ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, and the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR. is a fantastic adaptation of the story of transformation and tolerance. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR. features some of the most popular songs ever written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice.
The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
The Overtime Theater brings a new thrilling mystery with their latest production The Nevermind People by Michael D. Burger-Song. After a bus crash sweeps through Dr. Phillips’ emergency department, strange events start to take place around a coma patient, Laynerd, who mysteriously wakes up. Laynerd isn’t sure what the past holds, but the characters of Nevermind People can clearly see that something isn’t right.
Alamo Kiwanis Club presents Fiesta Noche del Rio Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the Arneson River Theatre in La Villita, 418 Villita St. on the San Antonio River Walk, from June 7 through August 3. Enjoy the Mariachis, Flamenco guitar, music, singing, dancing, bright costumes and a cool drink or snack as you help support children’s charities through your attendance. Net proceeds benefit local children's charities. It’s a fun show for the whole family and a San Antonio tradition since 1957. Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Seniors (60+)/Military, $8 Children (6-14, Under 6 is free). Tickets on-line and at HEB.