Community Calendar

Scenic Texas invites you to take part in our annual For the Love of Texas Scenic Bike Ride fundraiser, a meaningful event that celebrates the natural beauty, enduring heritage, and vibrant communities of our great state.

For more than four decades, Scenic Texas has remained committed to honoring, protecting, and preserving the visual character of Texas through education, outreach, and community partnerships. Your participation helps support scenic conservation and enhancement initiatives that keep Texas beautiful—preserving scenic landscapes, streetscapes, and public spaces for residents and visitors alike.

Ride with us to celebrate Texas, strengthen our communities, and make a lasting impact on the places that make our state uniquely scenic. Every mile you ride helps sustain a legacy of preservation, pride, and natural beauty for generations to come.

Join Green Spaces Alliance and partners to learn about the importance of establishing habitat for pollinators. You will also get to help plant a demonstration garden of native pollinator plants around the outdoor classroom and create pollinator puddling stations around the preserve. We’ll also have nature and art activities, and face painting!

This is a family-friendly, festival-style event with activities for all ages.

The Low Vision Expo brings together the latest technology, services and support for individuals living with blindness or low vision.

Spend the day exploring innovative solutions, meeting specialists and connecting with organizations dedicated to helping people live independently and fully.

Whether you are experiencing vision loss or supporting someone who is, this free event is designed for you!

Schedule:

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Visit with vendors in EXPO Hall

9:45 a.m. -10:15 a.m. Emotional & Mental Health Impacts of Vision Loss, presented by Deborah Herrera, BSN, MRC, RN, LPC Associate

11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.: Advanced Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Understanding wet AMD, Geographic Atrophy & Today's treatment Options, presented by Dr. Christa Soekamto, Retina Consultants of Texas

Learn to build your own and get your writing to your audience ASAP. In this one day workshop you will learn how to use Substack, a popular online writing platform, to find your audience and amplify your voice. If you are looking to develop a marketing strategy for your long-term writing goals, this class is for you.

DATE:
Saturday, May 2, 10am-1pm CT via Zoom

COST:
Nonmember: $75; Member: $65; Student: $53
*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

REGISTER: https://geminiink.org/events/launch-your-substack/

Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen is a creative nonfiction writer based in San Francisco Bay. She writes about assimilation, belonging, and power. Her work has been supported by Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, Macondo, and many more. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in New Rivers Press as the winner of the American Fiction Award. She writes humorist pieces in “Thursday Letters with Jen” via Substack.

The San Antonio Art League + Museum will open its 96th Annual Juried Art Exhibition on Sunday, April 12, 2026, with a public reception and awards ceremony from 3–5 PM. The exhibition remains on view through June 12, 2026.

Selected from more than 500 submissions from across Texas, this year’s exhibition reflects the breadth and vitality of contemporary practice. More than $14,000 in awards will be presented at the opening reception.

Museum Hours: 10 am–3 pm Tue–Sat. Admission is FREE.

Artpace's Spring 2026 International Artist-in-Residence Exhibitions are on view now until July 19, 2026. Visit three new exhibitions at Artpace this season: Hydra by Violette Bule, Hauntology of Their Labor by Mel Chin, and trăng trắng | milk moon by Việt Lê.

Join us every Saturday morning for Story Hour where are very own Ms Leslie will read to your little ones, followed by a craft activity.

Ages 3-8. Parents must stay with kiddos during Story Hour.

Join us every Saturday morning for Story Hour where our very own Ms Leslie will read to your little ones, followed by a craft activity.

Ages 3-8. Parents must stay with kiddos during Story Hour.

Spring is in full bloom at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center! Join this laid-back walk as Mitchell Lake staff showcases some of our native wildflowers and how their blooms support the biodiversity of this region. Walk amongst our native plant gardens and grassland restoration area to learn ways to incorporate some of these beneficial plants in your space. Then help us make native seedballs that we’ll use to support our grassland restoration – and take some home to grown your own patch of wildflowers!

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!