Community Calendar

Brendan Gibbons will discuss River Aid San Antonio’s (RASA’s) efforts to raise an army of volunteer stewards to help keep the San Antonio River and its tributaries clean and thriving. RASA hosts multiple watershed cleanup events per month where volunteers remove thousands of pounds of litter from streams. Since the group’s founding, RASA volunteers have removed more than 600,000 pounds of waste from the San Antonio River and its tributaries. RASA has also accepted the leadership baton for Basura Bash, the largest single-day trash cleanup event in Texas, an event that drew 2,130 volunteers in 2025, its 30th year. Gibbons will also discuss RASA’s small but growing network of water quality monitoring sites via Texas Stream Team, which trains citizen scientists to conduct monthly water quality monitoring of local waterways. Gibbons will also detail RASA’s partnership with GEAA on a water quality retrofit on HOA property at Lorence Creek, which helps improve the quality of stormwater flowing into the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone.

The San Antonio Book Festival, in partnership with Alamo Colleges District, Texas Public Radio, and the San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum, proudly presents author CHERYL W. THOMPSON with her new book, Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen.

Author signing to follow with book sales provided by Nowhere Bookshop. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is recommended so that we may gauge attendance. Walk-ins are welcomed.

6:00PM Doors Open
6:30PM Presentation
7:30PM Book sales and signing

LibraryPalooza is a festival where middle and high school students can meet seven popular Young Adult authors who write for teens. Books to be autographed can be brought from home or purchased at the event from the Nowhere Bookshop pop-up store.
This year's featured authors are:

• L.M. Elliott
• Huda Fahmy
• Chloe Gong
• E. Lockhart
• Amber McBride
• Scott Reintgen
• Samantha van Leer

This event is free and open to the public, and no advanced registration is required.

Join award-winning motorsport historian Elizabeth Blackstock for a fascinating look at the ways women were barred from competing in races — and how those women fought back.

Looking for a fun and inclusive space to talk about books that explore LGBTQ+ and BIPOC experiences--and more? Join us for lively discussion and optional written reflection (even if you haven't read the book!).

Join us for second annual Hill Country Literary Festival! We will have a full day of author panels, workshops, local authors, food trucks, live demos, character meet & greets, and so much more!

We are excited to share that Nowhere Bookshop will be the onsite bookseller for our event!

Adam Grant, world-renowned organizational psychologist, will headline Trinity University’s 2026 Flora Cameron Lecture. Grant will present his lecture “Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know” on Wednesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Laurie Auditorium. Tickets are required for the free, open-to-the-public lecture.

For more information on this free event and how to register for tickets, visit gotu.us/cameron

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. In the year of this milestone, we are called to reflect: What does the United States semiquincentennial mean to Mexican Americans? How have Mexican Americans shaped this country, and what do we want to see for our communities in the future?

Join us for the fourth in our series of special America 250 MACRI Talks, Independence Lost: Another Side of the American Revolution, featuring Dr. Kathleen DuVal, historian of early America. Learn about other perspectives on the American Revolution, including those of Indigenous and Spanish communities living in what would become the United States.

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Central Time
This is a virtual event. The event will livestream via Facebook at https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI and YouTube at https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI

RSVP to receive the link to watch!

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About our guest
Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, and the U.S. history textbook Give Me Liberty! She is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DuVal is a Guggenheim Fellow and has won the Bancroft Prize and the Cundill History Prize. She has written for The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

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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!

As always, views and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of the MACRI, its staff, board, or funders.

Looking for a fun and inclusive space to talk about books that explore LGBTQ+ and BIPOC experiences--and more? Join us for lively discussion and optional written reflection (even if you haven't read the book!).

The City of San Antonio World Heritage Office and Department of Arts & Culture present the 12th Annual Viva Poesía: Palabras, Música, y Cultura at Mission Marquee Plaza on Saturday, April 11, 2026, from 6 to10 p.m.

Viva Poesia is San Antonio’s official kickoff to National Poetry Month. Join us for a stellar lineup of literary and musical artists, workshops, art, and more.

Additional highlights include a FREE tree adoption* courtesy of San Antonio Parks and Recreation, plus local vendors, food, and drinks will be available for purchase.

*While supplies last.

Visit MissionMarquee.com for more information.