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.

Emotions at Play with Pixar's Inside Out, the first interactive exhibit based on the award-winning Disney and Pixar film, helps visitors - young and old - understand the important role emotions, memory and imagination play in our everyday lives. Focusing on the five core emotions featured in the film - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear - hands-on and digital experiences in the exhibit offer opportunities to explore some of the ways we express our emotions - and recognize emotions in others, too.

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!

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Join the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance and Robert Mace, the Executive Director and Chief Water Policy Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University as we discuss the future of water in the hill country.

Texas is growing like wildfire with a 73-percent increase in population expected by 2070. Although much of this growth will be in urban areas, the urban halos—the counties that surround urban areas—will see transformational growth. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Hill Country, an environmentally sensitive area with numerous headwater streams, a regionally stressed aquifer, and the catchment for the Edwards Aquifer.

Join photographer Karine Aigner as she walks you through the trials and tribulations of investing in your photographic passion—not just “getting published.” Join us for a deep dive into conservation storytelling, and what it takes to fall in love and be saved, by cats, and birds.

Karine's work has graced the pages of National Geographic Magazine, the New York Times, Audubon Magazine, the Washington Post, WWF Magazine, The Nature Conservancy and numerous other esteemed publications. Aigner invites us to pause, reflect, and reevaluate our relationship with the planet we live on; her lens is not just a window into nature—it's a call to action to pay attention to what we have to lose.

In person and zoom event.
If you plan to attend the meeting in person at Alamo Colleges District, 2222 N. Alamo Street, San Antonio, TX 78215 at 6:00 PM, please sign up https://bexaraudubon.org/3174-2/?sheet_id=207RE

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Step into the mystical and the hilarious with Tarot Card Comedy — where fate meets funny! Each Wednesday night, comedians draw random Tarot cards live on stage and give us the inside story on the symbolism, chaos, and cosmic drama of the cards. From The Fool’s foolishness to The Tower’s total collapse, no archetype is safe!

Expect a night of unscripted stand-up, audience participation, and more than a few questionable predictions. Whether you're a mystic, skeptic, or somewhere in retrograde, Tarot Card Comedy will have you laughing like your destiny depends on it!