Community Calendar

Rather than conventional display walls, The Fine ART of Dining features sculptural and visual artworks arranged as full-scale table installations, complete with centerpieces, place settings, serving pieces, utensils, and more. Works from artists across Texas—ceramicists, fiber artists, painters, and sculptors—come together in a whimsical, elegant, and sometimes provocative exploration of what it means to gather and share a meal.

Getting ready for a new school year can be stressful for both parents and kids. To help ease the transition, Family Service is proud to host its 12th Annual Back to School Drive!

This initiative gives our San Antonio community a chance to come together and support local students by providing essential school supplies—helping families start the school year with confidence and excitement.

How You Can Help:

- Donate school supplies
- Host a supply drive at your workplace
- Volunteer to assemble school supply packages for students

To get involved or learn more, please contact Debora Perez in Development at
📧 dperez@family-service.org
📞 210-232-5338

Ensuring that our children are school-ready really takes a village of organizations. Together, we can make a difference!

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.

Future Quinceañeras are invited to the hotel’s first-ever Quinceañera Expo on Sunday, July 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. This exciting event offers a wonderful opportunity for young ladies and their parents to meet local vendors and gather inspiration for planning an unforgettable celebration. Attendees will also have the chance to enter a grand giveaway, designed to make the Quinceañera’s day more special. Guests can RSVP to the FREE event via Eventbrite. Vendors at the expo include:

Live music and LED robots by @djponce
Photography and Videography by @jerssonlunaphotographystudio
Photobooth fun by @mbpphotobooth
A Cotton Candy cart by @tatsyswirlcompany
Spa Beauty Lounge by The Spa Plaza San Antonio
Custom cowboy/cowgirl hats by @WildWoodHats
Real horse photo ops by @eventostamezsatx
Monogrammed coffee by @hermescoffeeco_

This year’s summer film series celebrates 60 years of Spaghetti Westerns.

Join us at the Briscoe to see Sergio Leone’s “The Man with No Name” Trilogy on the Big Screen.

A short presentation begins at 1:30 p.m., followed immediately by the screening. Each movie is included in general museum admission, with complimentary beer courtesy of Ranger Creek Brewery, water, soda and movie snacks.

Pre-registration with an online museum admission ticket purchase is encouraged to save your seat.

Museum members enjoy the series for free as part of their Briscoe membership.

📅 Sunday, July 20 | 1:30 – 4:30 PM

🎟️ Included with Museum Admission | FREE for Members

🍿Movie Snacks & Complimentary Beer Provided

Unleash your creativity and immerse yourself in the enchanting experience of painting in a dark room! We'll supply everything you need to bring your imaginative visions to life. Join us for a fun-filled artistic adventure!

Gemini Ink, URBAN-15, and University of Houston/Unsung Masters announce a book launch event of “Rosemary Catacalos: On the Life and Work of an American Master”.

This celebration will include readings by contributors to the book – including Naomi Shiab Nye, ire’ne Lara Silva, and Jim LaVilla-Havelin. Refreshments and books for purchase will be available.

The seventeenth volume in the Unsung Masters Series, this book brings together a brilliant selection of poems by Rosemary Catacalos, alongside essays, memoirs, appreciations and more by scholars, friends and admirers of the poet. Catacalos, who died in 2022, was the first Latinx Poet Laureate of Texas. Introduction by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Contributors include Michael Anania, Anel I. Flores, Carmen Tafolla, ire’ne Lara Silva, Reginald Gibbons, Arthur Sze, Anis Shivani, Maha Ahmed, Cary Clack, Betsy Schultz, Bett Butler, Joël Dilley, Graciela Sanchez, Mike Greenberg, and Jim LaVilla-Havelin.

About Rosemary Catacalos:
• Born in 1944 – passed in 2022
• 1986-1989: director of the Literature Program at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center – expanded the Annual Texas Small Press Book Fair into the San Antonio Inter-American Book Fair
• 2003-2012: Executive Director, Gemini Ink, Literary Arts Center
• 2013: Named the first Latina Poet Laureate for the State of Texas

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

Please note: this class may run longer than usual.

Join Carol in creating a beautiful quilled sea scene in this 10th in the series quilling class.

Note: This workshop requires some prior experience with quilling and is best for intermediate level quillers.

All supplies will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring any Quilling tools they have.

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Attendees may bring non messy snacks and drinks in sealable containers. Please note that photographs will be taken throughout this workshop. These may be used by Spare Parts for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media or in any third party publication. Please contact us at workshops@spsatx.org immediately if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted.

This workshop is eligible for NEISD Teacher's Choice continuing Education Hours. To obtain a certificate please ask a team member for one during the workshop.

Tickets must be purchased online at least 12 hours before the workshop. No walk-ins. Space is limited. Tickets are non refundable so please plan accordingly before purchasing. Please have email confirmation / ticket readily available upon arrival. Children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

As we approach the final concert of this season’s festival, The Final Countdown draws together a tapestry of musical voices—nostalgic, fiery, sacred, and celebratory. This program moves across eras and continents, opening with refined elegance and closing with the passionate pulse of popular tradition. Strings and winds, piano and bayan intertwine in a genre-crossing journey that bids farewell not with solemnity, but with soul. A light reception will follow.

Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)

Trio

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)

Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), arr. Andrei Golsky

Gypsy Invention | Based on Two-Part Inventions

Efrem Podgaits (b. 1949)

Ave Maria, Op. 195

Angél Villoldo (1861–1919)

El Choclo

Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)

Ave Maria

Carlos Gardel (1890–1935)

Por una cabeza

Jacob Gade (1879–1963)

Jalousie (“Tango Tzigane”)

Ukrainian Traditional

Rozpryahayte, khloptsi, koni (“Unharness the Horses, Lads”)