Community Calendar

Help Our Local Kids Succeed This School Year! Every donation provides backpacks and supplies to kids in need. Every child deserves to start the year confident and prepared. Help us reach our goal of 800 backpacks for local students.
📍 Drop off supplies at 1954 E. Houston St.
🖥️ Or donate online: habctx.org/donate
**Donate Drop Off now until July 25, 2025!
❤️ Every pencil, backpack, and notebook helps a child in need.

San Antonio's Parks & Recreation swimming preseason has begun! Beginning May 24th, 6 city pools will be open weekends (and Memorial Day) from 1 p.m. - 7 p.m. Pools are free and open to the public. Appropriate swimwear is required and children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

See the list of preseason pools below:

-Dellview (500 Basswood Dr.)
-Fairchild (1214 E Crockett St.)
-Kingsborough (350 Felps Blvd.)
-Lady Bird Johnson (10700 Nacogdoches Rd.)
-Westwood Village (7627 W Military Dr.)
-Woodlawn Lake (221 Alexander Ave.)

For more pools information, including frequently asked questions, visit - https://www.sa.gov/Directory/Departments/Parks/Programs-Classes/Swimming-Aquatics.

Dragons Love Tacos is a fun-filled production adapted from the New York Times Best Selling book. A sizzling story full of fiery fun for the entire family!

June 21 – August 3, 2025

By Ernie Nolan.
Based on the book by Adam Rubin and illustrated by Daniel Salmieri.
Produced by special arrangement with Plays for Young Audiences.

This production is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.

You know what dragons really love? Tacos, of course! They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. While a boy and his dog are watching TV, they unexpectedly learn the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of what kinds of tacos to serve dragons. Unfortunately, when the boy throws his new dragon friends a spicy salsa taco party, red-hot trouble ensues!

Discover the dietary delights and dilemmas of dragons in this fun-filled production, adapted from the New York Times best-selling book Dragons Love Tacos. It’s a sizzling story full of fiery fun for your entire family!

Join us for an Opening Night pre-show Party in the Park, in partnership with Hemisfair, on Saturday, June 21st, starting at 5 PM! Enjoy music by DJ Mayhem, tacos, aguas frescas, and dragon crafts!

RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 3 +

ESTIMATED RUN TIME: Approximately 60 minutes

The Yvonne Cosgrove Artist Series invites you to attend a free sacred music concert at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1602 Thousand Oaks, in San Antonio. Dr. Catherine Nix, Soprano, will be performing works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Arnold Cooke, and Libby Larsen in a program entitled, "Rejoice!" Mark your calendar for Saturday, July 12 at 2 p.m. in St. Mark's sanctuary. Guest instrumentalists include: Joshua Frilling, Piano; Dr. Sarah Wildey-Richmond, Bassoon; Dr. Oswaldo Zappata Correa, Trumpet; Daniel Flores, Clarinet; and Paige De La O, Flute. The concert will last about an hour, and it is free and open to everyone. For more information, contact Dr. Nix at jandcnix@gmail.com.

Join us for an informative overview of Home Health, Hospice, and End-of-Life Doulas. Understand their roles, when to seek help, and how they assist individuals and families at various life stages.

This month's lab will focus on using the cut-up method to create unique zines by taking premade text from books and reassembling them into new narratives and thoughts. The method (or technique) first introduced through the Dadaist Art Movement and then later used by William S. Burroughs (and company) in the works of The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Nova Express. We invite you to this lab to explore and see where random juxtaposition of text might reveal something more.

"You see life is a cut up." -William S. Burroughs, Interviewed by John Walters for "Walters Week"

A zine (pronounced ZEEN) is an independently published magazine or booklet. Using provided supplies, folks can create their own artistic mini books to express themselves and tell their own stories.

Participants are welcome to donate a copy of their zine to be included in our SAPL Zine Collection which is available for public use at Central Library and showcases materials written by, about, and for our community

Sometimes a quiet gesture says the most. It’s the Thought That Counts explores the idea that intention—whether in composition, character, or artistic form—can carry deep meaning. Each piece on this program reflects a composer’s thoughtful voice: through reflection, resilience, subtlety, or wry humor. From bluesy introspection to understated elegance, from daring invention to quiet rebellion, these works invite us to listen closely—not for grandiosity, but for depth.

All concerts are FREE. We do request that all those attending REGISTER THEIR ATTENDANCE through our website.

www.cpmf.us

William Grant Still (1895–1978)

Blues from Lennox Avenue

William Grant Still (1895–1978)

Quit Dat Fool’nish

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

Nocturne

Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979)

Sonata for Viola and Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29

Join us every Saturday (through July 26th) for our Young Adult Gaming Club to hang out and mingle with other fellow gamers! We will have board and card games, as well as Wii U and Xbox 360 games. You are welcome to bring your gaming system, board, or card games. Ages 18+

Lone Star Gallery presents When Here Was There by Andrea Willems

Texas based painter, Andrea Willems, conveys personal narratives with themes around loss, place, and memory through landscape, still life, and abstraction. Through vibrant colors, thin veil like layers of paint, and material, their work highlights the fleeting and the temporary. Willems earned a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and is a New York Studio alumni. Received the 2023 Dennis Diderot grant and 2025-2026 Contemporary at Blue Star Berlin Residency Program/Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program recipient.
Their work is a part of the Galerie Diderot collection in Orquevaux, France, the Department of Arts & Culture, San Antonio, Texas, as well as private collections across Australia, New York, and California.

Show Statement for When Here Was There :
“Home” can be a place, a shelter, a dwelling.It can just as easily be a person or a thing, a feeling of safety, of care.The arms of a loved one, friends, a pet. Home can be food, a smell. Homes can be lost, found, built, sold, destroyed, changed. Homes can be real or imagined. Homes can be welcoming or not.Exploring popular ideas of home as a symbol of comfort, belonging, family, community, and permanency.
“When Here Was There” is a sorting of nostalgia, of memories, of ideals, and daydreams relating to notions of home and where we find ourselves.

The Opening Reception is Saturday, July 12th, 2025 from 6-9pm as part of the Second Saturday Artwalk in the Lone Star Art District. 107 Lone Star Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78204. The exhibition is up through July and the gallery is open by appointment. Call Bill FitzGibbons at 210-723-3048 to view outside of the reception times.

Dock Space Gallery presents Mind Over Matter by Nathan Scott

Nathan Scott is an emerging San Antonio based artist studying at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. Born and raised in San Antonio by an art teacher and an architect, he has been surrounded by the principles of art his whole life. His art radiates patience, perseverance, and dedication. Nathan’s work is not only pen and ink drawings; but figure drawings, prints, and pieces made from thousands of dice. Playing with perspective, both visually and physically to create a 2.5D perspective. He creates with the belief that anyone with the materials around you can create great artwork.

Mind Over Matter is about the process of creating and how challenging it can be. Nathan states that, “I have a difficult relationship with my work, it’s in between a passion and a profession. It is challenging to express my mental flow in any other way than through art.Every piece is a part of me, all of my thoughts and ideas that I cannot express physically.Most of my work takes weeks or months to finish, but when it comes time to put the final touches on it makes every late night worth it.”

Opening Reception is July 12th, 2025 from 6-9pm as part of the Second Saturday
Artwalk in the Lone Star Art District. 107 Lone Star Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78204.
The exhibition is up through July and the gallery is open by appointment.
Call Bill FitzGibbons at 210-723-3048 to view outside of the reception times.