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/

Calling all children ages 8-12 years old!
Come create, play games, and have fun with other tweens! Please ask for a sensory tool backpack if needed.

Children ages 8-12 years old.

Join us on the afternoon of April 30th for the Great Book Giveaway at Brennan High School and Holmes High School from 5:30–7:30 PM. This free community event is open to everyone and offers a wide selection of books for all grade levels, including K–3, 3–5, middle school, and high school.

Come build your home library and help students find books they’ll love—no cost, just great books for readers of all ages

Devjoy Dev, PhD, will discuss how sleep and the gut are interconnected through the gut–brain axis, and how modulating the gut’s neural signals can influence sleep-related brain circuits. He will also highlight his team’s work using neural engineering approaches, including the development of smart ingestible devices and targeted therapeutics, to interface with this complex gut–brain system.

In addition, he will explore how human physiology is affected by extreme environments such as space, with impacts on circadian rhythms, cardiovascular health, bone density, and the vestibular system.

*About The Speaker*

Devjoy Dev, PhD is a biomedical engineer and recent NYU PhD graduate specializing in neuroengineering, sleep biology, and space health. His research focuses on using gut–brain neuromodulation to regulate sleep and studying how microgravity affects circadian rhythms.

He has conducted research at Harvard Medical School, earned a master’s from Imperial College London, and is also an advocate for global science collaboration, an award-winning hackathon participant, and a former international stage magician.

General admission tickets are $15 and an upgraded ticket for $50 provides access to the Meet & Greet Reception with the panelists. All proceeds benefit the Mind Science Foundation and TPR.

Symphony of the Hills presents “A Time to Soar,” featuring celestial selections from Holst and Strauss.
Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Prelude)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich – Concerto for bass trombone, strings, timpani, and cymbals
-3rd Movement
-Rod Leonard, bass trombone
Holst – The Planets
-With Women’s Choir

The UT San Antonio Russian Program and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures welcomes you to a screening of Mr. Nobody Against Vladimir Putin, the 2026 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature. This riveting first-person exposé of Russia's wartime student indoctrination program is told through the eyes of a small-town primary school teacher who dared to challenge the program and expose the truth.

Pavel “Pasha” Talankin is a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha’s role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he struggles with guilt and a sense of powerlessness, leading him to become an international whistleblower. As the school’s videographer, Pasha documents intimate and revealing footage of Putin’s regime, capturing the rise of militarized children’s groups, repressive laws, fervent nationalism, and the recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war. When he learns his own life may be at risk, Pasha is forced to plan a dangerous escape from Russia.

Directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Talankin, this uniquely collaborative film is as captivating and joyful as it is eye-opening and sobering. Mr. Nobody Against Putin showcases rare footage that reveals the profound impact of Putin’s regime on the lives of everyday Russians, particularly its children.

Language: In Russian with English subtitles.

Runtime: 90 minutes with introduction by Andrew Chapman, Director of UT San Antonio Russian Program.

Location: McKinney Humanities Building 2.01.12 - Academic Classroom - Lecture Hall

This event is co-sponsored by the UT San Antonio Honors College and funded through a grant from UT San Antonio Libraries.

This event is open to the public.

URBAN-15’s Mega Corazon Poetry Marathon premieres at urban15.org/live-stream on Thursday, April 16 at 7pm CST. The 2026 marathon will feature 19 poets, each reading six poems in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary and in observance of the First Amendment of the Constitution. The winner of the Mega Corazón Poetry Marathon will be determined by an online voting process at urban15.org. The poet with the most votes received will be awarded the $500 “Gregg Barrios Precious Words Prize.” Previous winners of this award include Amalia Ortiz, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, and Jessica Tilton.

The Mega Corazón Poetry Marathon was conceptualized in 2014 by URBAN-15 in collaboration with Inaugural San Antonio Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla during a production of Tafolla’s “San Antonio, Mi Pueblo.” The participating poets of that production became the backbone of the now yearly Mega Corazón. This online tour-de-force highlights the works of some of Texas’ best performance poets, ranging from local legends such as Anthony “The Poet” and Jessica Tilton, all the way to state-wide recognized voices from the likes of Octavio Quintanilla and Eddie Vega.
Mega Corazón will be formatted as a playlist of individual poems in an extended 24-hour loop, featuring 19 poets and over 100 poems. URBAN-15 anticipates a global viewership of over 2,000 individuals around the globe, helping to propel Mega Corazón’s mission to provide free and easy access to local poetic voices for poetry lovers worldwide.

The 2026 Mega Corazón Poets Are:
Amalia Ortiz, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, Anthony “The Poet” Flores, Carmen Tafolla, Don Mathis, Eddie Vega, Eduardo Garza, Frances Treviño Santos, Jennifer Yañez-Alaniz, Jessica Tilton “Tiltonica”, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, John Phillip Santos, Johnny Rivers “Space Dragon”, Marisol Cortez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natalia Treviño, Octavio Quintanilla, Rohn Bayes, Tomas Roque

The Shops at La Cantera is launching weekly FREE Sunset Yoga sessions in partnership with AFTRGLOW YOGA, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, April 30 through Thursday, May 28, at Center Court, to support mental health awareness month and mental wellness.

Benefits of Yoga for Mental Health

Yoga supports mental well-being by combining physical postures, breathing exercises and meditation. Regular practice can reduce anxiety and depression, improve mood and enhance cognitive function such as memory, attention and learning.

AFTRGLOW YOGA is a San Antonio-based wellness brand rooted in intentional movement, community, and connection. Co-founded by Georgie El Shiekh and Jeremy Reay, it was created to offer accessible, yoga experiences that help people slow down, reconnect with themselves, and feel fully present. All are welcome for a beginner-friendly flow set in an open-air setting designed to help participants slow down, with intentional movement and a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.

Follow The Shops at La Cantera on Facebook: TheShopsAtLaCantera and Instagram @theshopsatlacantera. The Shops at La Cantera is located at 15900 La Cantera Parkway. For more information on Sunset Yoga and other offerings, visit www.theshopsatlacantera.com or call (210) 582.6255.
WHEN: Thursdays beginning April 30 through May 28
7 to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Shops at La Cantera – Center Court
15900 La Cantera Parkway, San Antonio, TX 78256

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.

The show opens March 22, 2026 through May 27, 2026, and presents creative pinhole portraits of San Antonio Artist immersed in their artform.

The opening exhibit of Eric O’Connell’s pinhole photography invites viewers into a living moment where time, movement, and memory converge. Through long exposures that compress minutes into a single frame, O’Connell reveals portraits that are both sharp and softly obscured, capturing not just a subject’s image but the interaction, motion, and atmosphere surrounding them.

Ghostly blurs, shifting shadows, and layered spaces create a sense of transparency and connection, allowing creativity, place, and presence to merge into one unified view. This exhibit asks audiences to slow down and consider the fleeting, often overlooked relationships between time, the artist, and the world they inhabit.