Community Calendar

Catch the Fun with River Rodeo!
A community-wide fishing challenge hosted by the San Antonio River Authority and San Antonio River Foundation in partnership with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Fin Addict Angler Foundation. The event invites anglers tolog their catches, compete on live leaderboards, win prizes, and support real fisheries science while enjoying outdoor river adventures.

How to Register: Log catches using MyCatch by Angler’s Atlas https://www.anglersatlas.com/event/888/2026-river-rodeo

River Rodeo combines outdoor recreation with citizen science by allowing anglers to log species, size, and general location data to support fisheries research and river management. Participants can track progress on live leaderboards, compete in multiple categories, and remain eligible for prizes and raffles throughout the challenge.

Visit our website for a full list of event rules.

The show opens March 22, 2026 through May 27, 2026, and presents creative pinhole portraits of San Antonio Artist immersed in their artform.

The opening exhibit of Eric O’Connell’s pinhole photography invites viewers into a living moment where time, movement, and memory converge. Through long exposures that compress minutes into a single frame, O’Connell reveals portraits that are both sharp and softly obscured, capturing not just a subject’s image but the interaction, motion, and atmosphere surrounding them.

Ghostly blurs, shifting shadows, and layered spaces create a sense of transparency and connection, allowing creativity, place, and presence to merge into one unified view. This exhibit asks audiences to slow down and consider the fleeting, often overlooked relationships between time, the artist, and the world they inhabit.

WHAT: A captivating large-scale immersive art experience, Otherwild, will transform the San Antonio Botanical Garden this spring into a vibrant world where wonder takes root and the sky comes alive.

Debuting Saturday, March 7, the exhibition features colorful visionary installations by artist Patrick Shearn and his internationally renowned studio, Poetic Kinetics, which is recognized for large-scale public art that inspires awe, movement, and creative exploration.

Otherwild invites visitors to step into a whimsical, nature-inspired environment where art and landscape merge. The installation will unfold into two distinct parts:

● Flora Borealis - a custom Skynet installation of ultra-lightweight, kinetic elements that float with the breeze, contrasting the SABG’s natural landscape

● Enchanted Trees - a sculptural grove of ten imaginary species, each with its own personality, crafted from reflective, movement-responsive materials that interact with sunlight and wind.

Otherwild is included with standard admission. To learn more and purchase tickets, please visit www.sabgtx.org

WHEN: March 7 - July 7, 2026

WHERE: San Antonio Botanical Garden
555 Funston Place
San Antonio, Texas 78209

Otherwild is included with standard admission. Daily admission to the San Antonio Botanical Garden is $18-22 adults; $16-20 military; $13-15 children aged 3-13; $3 Museums for All (with SNAP or WIC EBT card and valid ID).

🎣 Join the San Antonio River Authority for River Rodeo 2026 - Headwaters to Mission Reach! This fun fishing challenge on the river is a great opportunity for anglers of all experience levels to get outside, enjoy the water, and be part of something meaningful!

🌊 Participants will fish designated areas, log their catches, and compete across different categories while helping highlight and support our local waterways.

🌿 Get outside
🐟 Fish the river
📱 Log your catch
💧 Make an impact

👉 Learn more and sign up: https://bit.ly/SARiverRodeo2026

Artpace's Spring 2026 International Artist-in-Residence Exhibitions are on view now until July 19, 2026. Visit three new exhibitions at Artpace this season: Hydra by Violette Bule, Hauntology of Their Labor by Mel Chin, and trăng trắng | milk moon by Việt Lê.

📸 Discover. Capture. Share the Beauty of the River Basin.
From flowing creeks and rivers to native plants, wildlife, and outdoor adventures, the San Antonio River Basin is full of photo-worthy moments. Show us your unique perspective in the 9th Annual River Clicks Photo Contest!

🌟 This year’s Special Category highlights Student photographers, celebrating the creativity and unique perspectives of our community’s youth. With continued growth in student participation over the years, the San Antonio River Authority is proud to recognize and encourage young photographers through this featured category.

🌿 The San Antonio River Authority invites you to explore the natural beauty of the entire San Antonio River Basin and share your photos with us!

Photo Categories:
🌊 Creeks & Rivers
🦃 Animals (native wildlife)
🌿 Plants (native vegetation)
🐞 Insects & Pollinators
🏃‍➡️ Recreation
😸 Pets
🍁 Seasonal Variation
⭐ Special Category - Student Category (under 18)

Photos must be taken within Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, or Goliad County.
Winners will be announced prior to a reception at the Witte Museum in Fall 2026. More details will be given to all finalists.

📷 Limit: 1 photo per category.
👨‍👩‍👧 Student entries require parent/guardian consent and a waiver.
📅 The contest is open March 1st - May 31st
🔗 www.sariverauthority.org/photocontest/

An acoustic jam for musicians of all skill levels. Join us as we find camaraderie in music. 'UNPLUGGED' is our rock and blues jam. All acoustic and folk instruments are welcome. We’ll play classics and standards. If you have your chords down and can play in rhythm, then come give it a try. There is no pressure to perform until you’re ready. Listeners are welcome to join, too! Reach out if you have any questions. AGES 19+ ONLY

San Antonio based portrait artist, Andrea L. Jacobson’s, newest series, What Am I to You? A Surreal Exploration on Femininity in the Modern Era, marks a striking departure from her traditional realism. This provocative series marks a direct response to the regressive nature of women’s rights and the rise in accepted misogyny in leadership. Jacobson incisively captures the contemporary zeitgeist surrounding womanhood by subverting the traditional female figure and replacing it with inflatable dolls, an unsettling yet powerful symbol of the persistent reduction of women to sexualized objects. Symbols of modern sexuality, shifting costumes, and figures pressing against the picture plane evoke the tension between imposed roles and self-realization. The series examines the fragile line between power and dispossession, inviting audiences to question who defines womanhood and at what cost.

The closing reception is May 2, 2026, 5:00-7:00 at Casa Arte Del Sol. Located at 1512 E. Houston, San Antonio, TX 78202. Beverages and light refreshments available. Show dates are 4/11-5/2 with a closing reception on 5/2 from 4:00-7:00. Gallery hours: 11:00-6:00 W-Sat. Or by appointment. Get more information here https://www.worksbyalj.com/exhibition.

Join us on Saturday, May 2, at 5 PM for the premiere screening of the award-winning documentary "The Librarians" in San Antonio, by Kim A. Snyder.

Following the screening, we're hosting a panel discussion and a Q&A session.
Dr. Norma Cantú will be moderating this discussion with Suzette Baker, Lucy Podmore and Anel Flores!

Anel Flores (panelist): San Antonio author and artist, whose work explores topics currently under scrutiny.

Suzette Baker (panelist): The librarian from Llano County who was featured in the film after being fired for refusing to remove books.

Lucy Ibarra Podmore (panelist): a San Antonio Librarian who is Chair of the Texas Library Association Legislative Committee providing testimony in the Texas Legislature and sharing practical tips and tools to advocate for libraries.

Norma Cantú (moderator): the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University, is a scholar of the US-Mexico borderlands. She publishes poetry, fiction, and folklore.

The film offers a look into the front lines of librarians emerging as first responders in the fight for democracy and free speech.
In Texas only, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of a large-scale coordinated extremist movement fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.

Evening Schedule:
5:00 PM – Welcome Reception: Join us for light refreshments & snacks, and community conversation.
5:45 PM – Film Screening: Feature presentation of The Librarians (Runtime: 92 mins).
7:15 PM – Community Plática: A live panel discussion and Q&A immediately following the film.

Space is limited! Please register at this link https://bit.ly/TheLibrariansEspe

ELEMENTAL breaks down art into it's constituent parts, putting the chemical make-up, mineralogy, and chemistry at the forefront of design. We're looking for pieces that reflect the beautiful natural processes that shape our geology and ecosystem, and/or that focus on how humans impact those natural processes.

Group show featuring amazing local San Antonio artists:

- Charles Stiers
- Dani Becknell
- Iron Moose Co.
- Gavin Metal Smith
- Meechi Ceramics
- In Hot Water
- SmoGlass
- Brad Schaefer

List of artists is not fully complete and may change.