Community Calendar

It’s a party in the USA! 🇺🇸🎆🎉

Mark your calendars for the Helotes Independence Day Celebration! 🎉💙🗽

📅 Friday, July 3 | 🕕 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM
📍 Helotes Festival Grounds (12210 Leslie Road)
🎉 FREE Community Event!

Join us for an unforgettable night of patriotic fun at the Helotes Independence Day Celebration! Enjoy live music, local vendors, and a spectacular fireworks show at approximately 9:15 PM. Bring your family, your friends, and your lawn chairs; this is a party you won’t want to miss!

🎶 Live Entertainment Includes:
• Justin Gallegos
• Helotes Area Community Band

🛍️ Over 70 Vendors | 🍔 Delicious Food & Drinks | 🎆 Dazzling Firework Show

🪑 What to Bring:
• Lawn chairs and picnic blankets to relax and enjoy the show.

🚫 What to Leave at Home:
• Outside food, drinks, and coolers (we’ve got plenty of vendors!)
• Pets are not permitted inside the event area, except for service animals.

We’re accepting applications for the following booth types on a first-come, first-served basis:

• Tent Space
• Permanent Booth (Open Sides)
• Permanent Booth (Closed Sides)
• Food Truck Space

📆 Registration Deadline:
Friday, June 19, at 4:00 PM — or earlier if booth spaces fill up.
🔗 Event information: https://helotes-tx.gov/.../2026-helotes-independence-day.../

Join us in Johnson City for a full weekend of classic small-town Fourth of July celebrations. This Texas Hill Country community shines with patriotic fun, family-friendly activities, local flavor, and hometown charm. From a festive parade and fireworks show to live music, a foam party, shopping, dining, and more, this is the perfect Independence Day weekend getaway for families, friends, and visitors of all ages.
Event Highlights
• Hometown Fourth of July parade through downtown Johnson City
• Fireworks show lighting up the Hill Country sky after dark
• Family-friendly foam party to cool off in the summer heat
• Live music and street dance with plenty of small-town spirit
• Vendor market featuring patriotic goods, artisan finds, and local makers
• Fun activities for kids and families, plus food, drinks, shopping, and special offerings from local businesses

Celebrate the 4th of July with us in Floresville! Join us for fun, food, and entertainment. Fireworks 🎆 kids activities 🎇 live music 🎸🥁 🍗🍔🍕🍺 food and craft vendors, carnival, and more.

MAIN STAGE
4 p.m. Jay Martinez and The Boys
6 p.m. Vinny Tovar
8 p.m. Finding Friday
10 p.m. La Fiebre, the Pride of Pasadena

SECOND STAGE
5 p.m. Grupo Romero featuring Marco Martinez
7 p.m. Dezeo (Texas Dezire)
8:30 p.m. Bo Garza & Texas Dezire

INSIDE STAGE
4 p.m. Chuck Lieurance and the Rio Frio Boys
8 p.m. Replay

🎆 FIREWORKS SHOW STARTS AT 9:30 PM! 🎇

Bring your family, friends, and your lawn chairs. Celebrate America’s 250th birthday with us right here in Floresville!

Ranch Rodeo on July 3
Team Roping on July 4

FREE admission! More details, including vendor and sponsor info here: https://www.floresvilletx.gov/calendar-event/floresville-freedom-fest-2026/

Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday at an unforgettable Independence Day celebration at Mission County Park!

Join us on Saturday, July 4th, for this free event with an evening full of family fun, live entertainment, and patriotic celebration.

Starting at 5:30 PM, enjoy:
Live music
Food trucks
Bubble party fun
Carnival rides
Face painting
Inflatables
Balloon artists
Kids’ crafts
And more family-friendly activities!

End the night with an incredible Drone & Fireworks Show beginning at 9:15 PM.
📅 Saturday, July 4th
📍 Mission County Park I – 6030 Padre Dr, San Antonio, TX 78214
🕠 Festivities Begin at 5:30 PM
🎆 Drone & Fireworks Show at 9:15 PM
🎟️ FREE Admission See less

Celebrate San Antonio and Texas filmmakers, Latinx voices and powerful storytelling right here in San Antonio. Join us for the 47th CineFestival, happening July 9-12 at the Carver Community Cultural Center, located at 226 North Hackberry, San Antonio, Texas, 78202.

The 47th CineFestival San Antonio returns with powerful stories, bold voices, and a vibrant celebration of Chicanx, Latinx, and Latin American cinema. Presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, the nation’s longest-running Latino film festival brings filmmakers and audiences together for four days of screenings, conversations, and cultural connection.

Highlights:
Opening Night: MexicanAmerican — Tribeca Audience Award–winning documentary
Closing Night: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez — honoring a pioneer of Chicano storytelling
Music-driven films like Let the City Speak (featuring Quetzal)
Cultural deep dives including Los Tejanos: A 500-Year History
Soul and freestyle culture showcased in Soul Searchin’ and Who’s the Real Spanish Fly?
Dozens of short films, including a major spotlight on San Antonio filmmakers

Additional Info:
Over 50% of screenings are free and open to the public
All-Access Passes: $40
Individual tickets available
For questions, please contact Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center at 210-271-3151 opt 4 or ext. 250.

Celebrate San Antonio and Texas filmmakers, Latinx voices and powerful storytelling right here in San Antonio. Join us for the 47th CineFestival, happening July 9-12 at the Carver Community Cultural Center, located at 226 North Hackberry, San Antonio, Texas, 78202.

The 47th CineFestival San Antonio returns with powerful stories, bold voices, and a vibrant celebration of Chicanx, Latinx, and Latin American cinema. Presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, the nation’s longest-running Latino film festival brings filmmakers and audiences together for four days of screenings, conversations, and cultural connection.

Highlights:
Opening Night: MexicanAmerican — Tribeca Audience Award–winning documentary
Closing Night: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez — honoring a pioneer of Chicano storytelling
Music-driven films like Let the City Speak (featuring Quetzal)
Cultural deep dives including Los Tejanos: A 500-Year History
Soul and freestyle culture showcased in Soul Searchin’ and Who’s the Real Spanish Fly?
Dozens of short films, including a major spotlight on San Antonio filmmakers

Additional Info:
Over 50% of screenings are free and open to the public
All-Access Passes: $40
Individual tickets available
For questions, please contact Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center at 210-271-3151 opt 4 or ext. 250.

An evening of elegance, reflection, and transcendence—where music invites us not only to listen, but to move, to feel, and to step beyond the ordinary:

Henri Vieuxtemps — Élégie, Op. 30
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major, K. 449
Olivier Messiaen — Quartet for the End of Time

The season opens in Blanco with a program that traces a journey from intimacy to the infinite. Vieuxtemps’ Élégie offers a deeply personal opening—lyrical, searching, and suffused with quiet longing. Mozart’s radiant concerto, heard here in its chamber form, brings clarity, grace, and a sense of poised conversation among equals.

After intermission, the atmosphere transforms. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, composed in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, transcends its origins to create a sound world of astonishing stillness, color, and spiritual intensity. Time seems to dissolve; what remains is something luminous, eternal.

In this opening night, “Invitation to the Dance” becomes something larger: an invitation to cross a threshold—into the season, into new sound worlds, and into the boundless horizon beyond.

Celebrate San Antonio and Texas filmmakers, Latinx voices and powerful storytelling right here in San Antonio. Join us for the 47th CineFestival, happening July 9-12 at the Carver Community Cultural Center, located at 226 North Hackberry, San Antonio, Texas, 78202.

The 47th CineFestival San Antonio returns with powerful stories, bold voices, and a vibrant celebration of Chicanx, Latinx, and Latin American cinema. Presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, the nation’s longest-running Latino film festival brings filmmakers and audiences together for four days of screenings, conversations, and cultural connection.

Highlights:
Opening Night: MexicanAmerican — Tribeca Audience Award–winning documentary
Closing Night: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez — honoring a pioneer of Chicano storytelling
Music-driven films like Let the City Speak (featuring Quetzal)
Cultural deep dives including Los Tejanos: A 500-Year History
Soul and freestyle culture showcased in Soul Searchin’ and Who’s the Real Spanish Fly?
Dozens of short films, including a major spotlight on San Antonio filmmakers

Additional Info:
Over 50% of screenings are free and open to the public
All-Access Passes: $40
Individual tickets available
For questions, please contact Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center at 210-271-3151 opt 4 or ext. 250.

A program of renewal and fresh beginnings:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major, K. 449
Aram Khachaturian — Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Ernest Bloch — Piano Quintet No. 1

Mozart’s luminous concerto—presented here in its intimate chamber form—marks a new chapter in his creative life. Khachaturian’s vibrant trio blends folk influence with rhythmic vitality, full of color and energy. Bloch’s powerful quintet, written in the aftermath of World War I, wrestles with turmoil while reaching toward renewal. Together, these works trace a path from clarity and invention through intensity to hard-won rebirth.

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!