Community Calendar

Continue the First Friday at Blue Star experience by curving around the SA River to the newly relocated Blue Moon Mexican Restaurant (formerly Burgerteca!)
Enjoy music by a guest DJ, participate in a community mural painting sponsored by Masa Collective, and purchase some great artworks & products by amazing local artists, creatives, & makers!

Free parking in the garage (past the restaurant to the left)

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

Un Grito Gallery is excited to present "Accumulation of Becoming”, a solo exhibition of new works by Angela Weddle. This show will open Thursday, April 30th, and Friday, May 1st, 2026, from 7-10 pm with a closing reception held on May 21st, 2026.
Statement: This body of work explores selfhood, grief, and transformation through layered self-portraiture that merges drawing and photography. Through dense mark-making, repetition, and the accumulation of imagery, the work reconstructs memory as both environment and experience. Personal symbolism and fragments of the external world collapse into the figure, blurring boundaries between internal states and physical space, where identity is not fixed but continuously built, disrupted, and re-formed.
Bio: Angela N. Weddle is a multidisciplinary autistic and disabled visual artist based in San Antonio, Texas, working in pen and ink, mixed media drawing, water media, and digital art. Weddle’s work explores perception, identity, disability, relationships, and place, both natural and urban—through intricate line, symbolism, and layering. Her drawings and sketchbooks are central to her practice and nonlinear thinking. Weddle seeks to create a sensory immersive experience with her art from a range of diverse influences including autism, cerebral palsy, synesthetic aspects of music, especially jazz, light, sound, rhythm, daily life, landscapes, and perceptual and psychological experiences.

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.

🌊 On your marks, get set, paddle! The San Antonio River Authority and the San Antonio River Foundation invite you to join the first of the 2026 Race the River paddling series!

🛶 Test your skills along the Mission Reach Paddling Trail as you navigate 5 miles (Amateur) or 7 miles (Pro) of one of the most scenic and technically challenging stretches of the San Antonio River. Paddle alongside competitors from across Texas and push your limits in this exciting season opener.

🏆 All finishers will receive a commemorative patch, and we’ll celebrate your achievement with a post-race gathering and an awards ceremony for top competitors.

🎟️ Do you have what it takes? Sign-up today at: www.sariverauthority.org/race-the-river/

Come join us for our Academic Showcase in May! This event provides current and prospective students the opportunity to preview some of the academic programs offered at Northeast Lakeview College (NLC). Learn more about academic programs, campus life, enrollment process, and workforce programs.

Location: Paluxy Hall, Bluebonnet RM.
1201 Kitty Hawk Rd. Universal City, Tx 78148

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.

The annual event takes place on Saturday, May 2nd from 9am – 3pm in the H-E-B Student Union Ballroom at UT San Antonio Main Campus. This event remains FREE to the public!

As always, Viva Science SA is a yearly showcase of all the incredible science in our very own community with interactive activities designed to engage all ages.

For questions, please contact Marcus Webster at websterm@uthscsa.edu.

It's that time to do some good ole Spring Cleaning! Out with the OLD, in with the NEW come shop homeowners & small businesses too!

We will once again be at Monte Viejo Park for our Annual Community Wide Yard Sale & Vendor Market where shoppers can come find something old and something new! Many homeowners from the 78223 area will be out selling their items alongside small business vendors as well! This is a RAIN OR SHINE event so we will be happening regardless of weather =)

If you are interested in becoming a vendor, a seller, or to be added to our Vendor Email list, contact us at MonteViejoEventServices@gmail.com.

REMINDER: I am the only coordinator for this market I don't use PayPal/Venmo to collect and ONLY use the above email address ONLY. DO NOT trust anyone else claiming to be with my organization & always feel free to email me to confirm!!

Event Sponsored by:

Community First Health Plans | Cane’s | Black Bear Diner | McAlister’s | Renewal by Anderson | RBFCU | Texas State Rep Elizabeth Campos | District 3 Phyllis Viagran | ALPA Insurance | Monte Viejo Community Association | Woodbridge at Monte Viejo | Old Head Basketball | Carlos's Cat Cottages | VCO Design Studio | Jordie-bun Creations

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).