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.

Join us for a paws-itively zen evening filled with stretches, snuggles, and seriously cute puppies. It’s the ulti-mutt way to de-stress! Claim your spot and sign up below!

Wednesday, July 16th
6:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.
Confluence Park
310 W Mitchell St. 78204

URBAN-15 seeks talented drummers with experience from high school, college, or any musical group for the 2025-2026 season of performances. These performances include a wide variety events, including Dia de Los Muertos, Luminaria, and International Festivals. Interested drummers are invited to call (210) 736-1500 or email events@urban15.org, and to join URBAN-15’s drum ensemble during open rehearsals Thursdays at 7pm at 2500 S. Presa. This Open Call is FREE to join, and open to all members of the community regardless of age, race, or gender identity.

Drummers enrolled into the Open Call will practice the ensemble’s various performance styles and genres, including Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and experimental rhythms. Final selections to join the URBAN-15 Percussion Ensemble will take place at the end of the Open Call period during a formal tryout. Those selected to join will be expected to participate in the majority of the season’s performances as well as perform in gear such as illuminated costumes, helmets, and masks alongside URBAN-15’s Dance Ensemble. URBAN-15’s ensembles are close knit groups, and may lead to professional connections within or outside the musical sphere. Ensemble members are also asked to volunteer for miscellaneous duties such as parking assistance, kitchen aid, guest ushering, and more.

Step into the mystical and the hilarious with Tarot Card Comedy — where fate meets funny! Each Wednesday night, comedians draw random Tarot cards live on stage and give us the inside story on the symbolism, chaos, and cosmic drama of the cards. From The Fool’s foolishness to The Tower’s total collapse, no archetype is safe!

Expect a night of unscripted stand-up, audience participation, and more than a few questionable predictions. Whether you're a mystic, skeptic, or somewhere in retrograde, Tarot Card Comedy will have you laughing like your destiny depends on it!

Presented by the URBAN-15 Group, the Josiah Media Festival is one of few film festivals around the world dedicated to showcasing outstanding works by artists 21 years old and younger.

The 19th JMF will accept film submissions from May 1st – August 1st, 2025.

The festival presents a career-defining opportunity for young media artists to showcase their work around the world. The festival was founded in 2007 in honor of San Antonio filmmaker Josiah Miles Neundorf by his parents, Marcus and Nancy Neundorf, who collaborated with URBAN-15 to create this event.

Now in it’s 19th year, JMF not only streams globally, but has grown to screen films submitted from all around of the world.

Enter your film in three easy steps:

1) Download the Josiah Media Festival Guidelines & Entry Forms at urban15.org/josiah-media-festival/enter

2) Read through the Guidelines and fill out the Entry and Release Forms in full.

3) Send us your completed Entry and Release Forms along with a High-Definition copy of your film by mail to the Josiah Media Festival, 2500 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX, 78210 or by email to josiahfestival@urban15.org.

SAMSAT’s seven weeks of T.J. Natarajan STEM summer camps begin June 9th, with schedules offered through August 1st. Full and half-day options are available on a variety of topics for kids grades 3rd through 12th. Weekly schedules, subject matter, link to registration, and how to become a camp sponsor is online at SAMSAT.org.

Emotions at Play with Pixar's Inside Out, the first interactive exhibit based on the award-winning Disney and Pixar film, helps visitors - young and old - understand the important role emotions, memory and imagination play in our everyday lives. Focusing on the five core emotions featured in the film - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear - hands-on and digital experiences in the exhibit offer opportunities to explore some of the ways we express our emotions - and recognize emotions in others, too.

This event promises to be both powerful and transformative, featuring a series of dynamic training sessions led by nationally renowned speaker and consultant Mark Wynn, alongside an exceptional team of educators, all addressing critical issues such as domestic violence, abusive behavior, and other forms of coercive control. In addition, we will invite local youth to participate in a 3-day paid, special session on healthy relationships, presented by SAEDA (Students Against Emotional Abuse and Dating Aggression). This event, known as the “Know More, NOMAS, No More Domestic Violence. Community Training to End Systemic Violence,” will offer multiple approaches to engage participants, including youth-centered discussions, domestic violence training, and a mental health awareness campaign. These activities will run concurrently with the NOMAS 50th Golden Anniversary. As the host city, we are committed to equipping young people and the broader community with the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to foster respectful, non-violent relationships and inspire lasting change.

Please register for the general community registration here: https://bit.ly/4kFYWOT

If you are a high schooler, please register for the youth portion here: https://bit.ly/4kmrzQt

Irrationally Speaking highlights two art forms—collage and assemblage—as artistic techniques and conceptual approaches. With the simple act of placing two or more distinct images or objects together (sometimes jarringly so) artists can create a complex whole to address a multiplicity of meanings. Combined wood fragments, cut-and-pasted paper, seamless digital and photo-based prints comprised of disparate pictures, bronze sculptures created from discarded shoes, and contrasting clothing articles put together —these are some of the ways that contemporary artists harness a myriad of materials and methods to craft the art in this presentation.

Irrationally Speaking will be on view 9.21.24 - 8.31.25

Entry to Ruby City is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended but not required.

Ruby City proudly presents Synthesis & Subversion Redux, an exhibition celebrating the legacy of Frances Jean Colpitt and the evolving conversation around Latinx art. This new exhibition revisits Colpitt’s groundbreaking 1996 show, Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, and its influence on contemporary art practices today.
In 1996, Colpitt brought together a group of San Antonio-based artists—Jesse Amado, David Padilla Cabrera, Alejandro Diaz, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Ana de Portela, and Chuck Ramirez—who explored identity, abstraction, and the everyday through conceptual approaches. The exhibition challenged norms and sparked critical debate, becoming a pivotal moment in San Antonio’s art history.

Now, nearly 30 years later, Redux builds on Colpitt’s vision while reflecting the profound changes in the art world since then. Curated by two Latinas in leadership roles at major institutions, Ruby City Director, Elyse A. Gonzales, and Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum, Mia Lopez, Redux showcases the work of five contemporary artists: Juan Carlos Escobedo, Jenelle Esparza, Bárbara Miñarro, Angeles Salinas, and José Villalobos. These artists bring fresh perspectives to themes of identity, memory, and culture, often through craft-informed practices that incorporate textiles, personal history, and connections to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The exhibition will be on view from February 15, 2024 through September 28, 2025 at Studio, located inside Chris Park (111 Camp Street).