Community Calendar

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!

The Collins Garden Book Club will discuss Rachel Hawkins' novel, The Heiress.

Camden and his wife, Jules, return to Ashby House, the place he escaped from after his mother’s death. While Cam wants nothing to do with the estate, Jules is the opposite.

Come and enjoy a traditional game of Lotería! with super-sized bingo cards and chips!

Token prizes will be awarded to each game winner.

Mental health is an important aspect of our day to day lives that influences how we think, feel, and behave. We will explore why we have these feelings and emotions, when we might start to consider seeking professional help, particularly as relates to kids and teens (though some of these may apply to parents and loved adults as well!). We will also talk about the different professional resources from which you might consider seeking assistance.

***Registration is required***

Join SA Report and TPR on Wednesday for two debates: District 1 and District 6.

5:30pm Doors
6:00pm Presentation

District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur faces a runoff challenge from business owner Patty Gibbons.

The race for District 6 will be between organizers Kelly Ann Gonzalez and Ric Galvan.

Free validated parking is available at the City Tower Garage. Select take a ticket, do not insert your credit card. Validation tickets will be distributed at TPR.

This session, as part of the Partnership for Public Service's FedSupport Webinars, will help participants learn about late career transition tools. The session will also address questions federal employees have sent in advance regarding this action and how it impacts them. Speakers include the Partnership for Public Service; Dr. Elisse Barnes, JD, PhD, founder, Of a Certain Vintage Workforce Education; and Jay Aronowitz, president and CEO, JDA Group, and former civilian chief human capital officer, U.S. Army.