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Presented by the URBAN-15 Group, the Josiah Media Festival is one of few film festivals around the world dedicated to showcasing outstanding works by artists 21 years old and younger.

The 19th JMF will accept film submissions from May 1st – August 1st, 2025.

The festival presents a career-defining opportunity for young media artists to showcase their work around the world. The festival was founded in 2007 in honor of San Antonio filmmaker Josiah Miles Neundorf by his parents, Marcus and Nancy Neundorf, who collaborated with URBAN-15 to create this event.

Now in it’s 19th year, JMF not only streams globally, but has grown to screen films submitted from all around of the world.

Enter your film in three easy steps:

1) Download the Josiah Media Festival Guidelines & Entry Forms at urban15.org/josiah-media-festival/enter

2) Read through the Guidelines and fill out the Entry and Release Forms in full.

3) Send us your completed Entry and Release Forms along with a High-Definition copy of your film by mail to the Josiah Media Festival, 2500 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX, 78210 or by email to josiahfestival@urban15.org.

The San Antonio Public Library is calling for submissions for this year's Big Pride Zine! The theme is "On the Shoulders of Giants". We want written or visual works that express to a queer person the positive the impact they had on your life, whether it's a friend, historical figure, stranger, or story character. The deadline for submissions is June 30th. For more details including how to submit your work, go to guides.mysapl.org/zines.

The late artist and activist Michael Tracy is known for color-saturated paintings, assembled and cast sculptures and mixed-media objects that challenge conventional beauty while addressing issues of faith, ritual, immigration and the environment. In remarkable symmetry, the McNay Art Museum hosted Tracy’s first museum exhibition in 1971 and his works return in the last exhibition he was directly involved with before his recent death at age 80.

The exhibition surveys approximately two decades of his career, and many of the works — paintings, sculptures and mixed media abstract objects — have never been exhibited before. The presentation will feature large-scale paintings spanning floor to ceiling while an original soundscape commissioned from composer Omar Zubair will complete the environment.

'Michael Tracy: The Elegy of Distance' is organized for the McNay Art Museum by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs; and Christopher Rincón, President, Michael Tracy Foundation and Director, River Pierce Foundation.

Major funding is provided by the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions and Peter M. Holt. Additional support is provided by the Flora Crichton Visiting Artist Fund; Semmes Foundation, Inc.; Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992; Christopher C. Hill; Louis H. and Mary Patricia Stumberg Foundation; and Sara Paschall Dodd-Denton.

'Sport and Spectator' provides a common space for the art lover and sports fanatic. In this banner exhibition, contemporary artists transform sports gear and equipment into works of art. Artworks predominantly include sculptures made from common sports objects, including basketballs, footballs, helmets and jerseys that celebrate and critique sports culture, masculinity and materiality.

'Sport and Spectator' features works by Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp, Jeffrey Gibson, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Sophie Inard, Brian Jungen, Justin Korver, Betsy Odom, Esmaa Mohamoud, Hank Willis Thomas and Tyrrell Winston. Numerous exhibitions in the past have been dedicated to sports culture but this is the first dedicated to sports equipment and the artistic alchemy that changes the everyday into the extraordinary.

Through images and stories, this exhibition provides a historical overview of U.S. Latino participation in World War II. Images of Valor incorporates archival photographs with contemporary photographs of men and women of the WWII generation by photojournalist Valentino Mauricio. The exhibition focuses on individual stories that reveal larger themes such as citizenship and civil rights and includes excerpts from oral history interviews with the featured Latino veterans.

Images of Valor will be on display Thursday, April 24, 2025, to Thursday, June 5, 2025, at MACRI's Visitor Center, located at 2123 Buena Vista Street, San Antonio, Texas 78207.

The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 10 AM - NOON and 1 - 4 PM, or by appointment.

Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas in World War II is curated by the Voces Oral History Center at The University of Texas at Austin and presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

MACRI's programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, Bexar County, the Mellon Foundation, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Spurs Give, and individual donors like you! Gracias!

AARP San Antonio is sponsoring the San Antonio Older Adult Mayoral Candidates’ Forum to ensure that older adults, age 50-plus and their families, are well-represented and their concerns are prioritized by the next mayor. Join us to hear the two mayoral runoff hopefuls answer questions on issues important to older adults and their families. Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News Metro columnist will moderate the forum.

This event is free, but space is limited, so please register to reserve your seat and a free lunch at the forum.

This event will also be online.

AARP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and does not endorse candidates.

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Join San Antonio Woman in partnership with the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Fashion Show! Special thanks to our title sponsor, Baptist Health System. This event will be held at the newly redesigned Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio, serving as an unveiling of the hotel at their very first event. In addition to the runway show, guests will enjoy an evening of food, cocktails, live music, and more, all with a spectacular view from the ballroom balcony overlooking Houston Street!

As a celebration of triumph, each model walking in the show is a survivor of stroke or other severe heart health condition. This marks San Antonio Woman's inaugural sponsorship of the fashion show, which promises to be a spectacular celebration of heart health. Proceeds from the event will go toward supporting the AHA's mission, raising awareness about heart disease and stroke prevention in women.

Space is extremely limited: Secure your tickets early!

At this community conversation hear from San Antonio local restaurant owners whose businesses have spanned decades and are a part of the San Antonio restaurant landscape.

Featuring owners from Schilo's/Casa Rio, Los Barrios Family, La Familia Cortez and more! Moderated by TPR's Jerry Clayton

Great SA is presented in partnership with the City of San Antonio World Heritage Office, San Antonio City of Gastronomy and supported by H-E-B and Frost.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Malú and Carlos Alvarez Theater, 321 W Commerce St, San Antonio, TX 78205
Doors | 6:00 pm
Program | 7:00 pm

Presented by the URBAN-15 Group, the Josiah Media Festival is one of few film festivals around the world dedicated to showcasing outstanding works by artists 21 years old and younger.

The 19th JMF will accept film submissions from May 1st – August 1st, 2025.

The festival presents a career-defining opportunity for young media artists to showcase their work around the world. The festival was founded in 2007 in honor of San Antonio filmmaker Josiah Miles Neundorf by his parents, Marcus and Nancy Neundorf, who collaborated with URBAN-15 to create this event.

Now in it’s 19th year, JMF not only streams globally, but has grown to screen films submitted from all around of the world.

Enter your film in three easy steps:

1) Download the Josiah Media Festival Guidelines & Entry Forms at urban15.org/josiah-media-festival/enter

2) Read through the Guidelines and fill out the Entry and Release Forms in full.

3) Send us your completed Entry and Release Forms along with a High-Definition copy of your film by mail to the Josiah Media Festival, 2500 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX, 78210 or by email to josiahfestival@urban15.org.