Community Calendar

📸 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/

Proyecto Broadsides brings together the work of diverse poets with San Antonio visual artists to create unique broadsides that present poetry to audiences in an unusual form. Six of the participating poets will be reading their work at the Latino Collection & Resource Center event space, located inside Central Library on May 9, 2026. All five of the visual artists will have original work on display for a month-long exhibit. Additionally, nine broadsides, designed by Ruben Ramirez and Marilyn Garcia, will be on display and available for purchase.

Poets:

Natalia Treviño

ire’ne lara silva

Octavio Quintanilla

Gume Laurel III

Rooster Martinez

Bianca V. Gonzalez Perez

Visual Artists:

Liliana Wilson

Celeste De Luna

Hector Garza

Octavio Quintanilla

Mauro Murillo

Mauro de la Tierra

Prepare for the summer in your garden through use of water conservation approaches including the use of wicking tanks. You’ll learn how to build these easy to install raised beds that include a mini-aquifer feature to keep your plants watered all summer long while reducing water waste. This workshop provides a hands-on opportunity as we install “wickers” in our Mistletoe garden – fun for the entire family!

Please RSVP for this workshop!

Join world-renowned National Geographic Explorer and photographer Thomas Peschak for a stunning visual journey through the Amazon River Basin.

In Amazon: Andes to the Atlantic, Peschak shares breathtaking images and stories from his 396-day expedition tracing the Amazon from the glaciers of the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, he documented remote ecosystems, rare wildlife, and little-seen underwater worlds that reveal the Amazon’s extraordinary biodiversity.

A former marine biologist turned photographer, Peschak has spent more than two decades documenting wildlife and conservation stories for National Geographic magazine, earning 18 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards and seven World Press Photo Awards. His Amazon project—part of the National Geographic Society and Rolex Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition—made him only the second photographer in the magazine’s 136-year history to photograph an entire issue.

Through powerful photography and firsthand stories, this presentation offers a rare look at one of the most vital ecosystems on Earth.

Step up to the mic with the San Antonio Public Library and spit some rhymes for an evening of poetry. Whether you're slinging stanzas or just snapping along in the audience, this two-round poetry slam promises powerful performances and prizes for the top 3 poets.

Poets - Register and see guidelines through the events calendar at mysapl.org
Audience - No need to register, just come and enjoy!

Join us for our Second Saturday|San Antonio - Mother’s Day Market! Happening Saturday, May 9 from 6-10PM, at Main Plaza in front of the San Fernando Cathedral.
-Featuring Performances by: Las Abuelitas de Oro and Music on Magnolia
-Mother’s Day gift shopping from San Antonio’s best pop-up shops
-San Antonio|The Saga Cathedral Light Show at 9 & 9:30 PM
-Family & Pet Friendly
-Free to Attend

Parking at City Tower is just $10/all day and street meters are FREE after 6 pm.

Interested in being a vendor? Apply at salocalmarket.com

Main Plaza Conservancy is proud to partner with SA Local Market each month to present an evening of shopping, dining, and entertainment in the Heart of the City. Meet local makers, discover unique finds, enjoy live music, food trucks, and of course, the SAGA.

May 9 – Las Abuelitas de Oro & Music on Magnolia
June 13 - Music on Magnolia
July 11 - Paleta Giveaway for first 50 Guests!

Retrace: Resurfaced Drawings
Works by Cristina Muñiz

San Antonio, TX : Saturday May 9, 2026, 7-10pm. Enzminger Studio is pleased to present Retrace: Resurfaced Drawings: Works by Cristina Muñiz. Retrace: Resurfaced Drawings marks Cristina Muñiz’s return to exhibiting in San Antonio after a significant hiatus. Presented at 1906 S Flores (upstairs), the exhibition brings together new and earlier works grounded in Muñiz’s long-standing practice of drawing as accumulation, an ongoing process of layering marks, revisiting motifs, and building visual language through repetition.

The drawings in Retrace: Resurfaced Drawings focus on recurring patterns, figurative elements, and symbolic forms that reappear and shift across time. This accumulation functions as visual research, where each mark becomes part of an evolving archive of memory, gesture, and re-interpretation. The work reflects a sustained inquiry into how images persist, transform, and resurface through lived experience.

Muñiz’s practice is deeply informed by her Mexican American roots, Spanish language, and queer identity. Her studio work is shaped by storytelling, familial relationships, particularly her relationship with her father, and the ways queer culture disrupts and reconfigures social and cultural expectations. Additional themes include land, home ownership, and the structures that shape the distribution of generational wealth within families.

Muñiz holds a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including her first museum exhibition in 2018. She has participated in residencies such as the Charlotte Street Studio Residency (2015–16) and has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, with works held in collections including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been featured in White Hot Magazine, Potential Spaces, Kansas City Pitch, KC Studio Magazine, and San Antonio Express-News. She has also served as a visiting artist at institutions including the University of Central Missouri, Johnson County College, and Contemporary at Blue Star. Muñiz is currently based in San Antonio, Texas, where she serves as Visual Arts Director at SaySí.

This event is free and open to the public.

Exhibition Events

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9 | 7:00–10:00 PM

Studio Hours
Saturday, May 16 | 2:00–6:00 PM

Closing Reception
Saturday, May 23 | 6:00–9:00 PM

Additional hours available by appointment. Please email annenzminger@gmail to arrange a time.
Location:

1906 S Flores St (upstairs), San Antonio, TX

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.

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).