Community Calendar

Shop local goods, supporting farmers, ranchers, growers and artisans at The Shops at La Cantera, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, May 9. Sprout’N About Farmers Market offers items for sale including fresh produce, artisan goods and handmade finds. Shoppers are encouraged to bring reusable bags to support low waste. Enjoy live music by Jake Gardner from The Roughstock. The event also features a full petting zoo.

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 Sprout’N About Farmers Market and other offerings, visit www.theshopsatlacantera.com or call (210) 582.6255.

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, May 9

WHERE: The Shops at La Cantera – Main Street
15900 La Cantera Parkway, San Antonio, TX 78256

Join us for our bi-annual indoor Maker's Market featuring locally handmade goods, perfect for Mother's Day! There will be food, drinks, and amazing artwork. Along with local artists and vendors, our gallery will be full with art from a group show featuring local artists. Come shop a diverse selection of ceramicists, woodworkers, digital fabricators, printmakers, and more!

5/9, 12-8pm

Check out our website and Instagram for more information.

📸 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/

Proyecto Broadsides brings together the work of diverse poets with San Antonio visual artists to create unique broadsides that present poetry to audiences in an unusual form. Six of the participating poets will be reading their work at the Latino Collection & Resource Center event space, located inside Central Library on May 9, 2026. All five of the visual artists will have original work on display for a month-long exhibit. Additionally, nine broadsides, designed by Ruben Ramirez and Marilyn Garcia, will be on display and available for purchase.

Poets:

Natalia Treviño

ire’ne lara silva

Octavio Quintanilla

Gume Laurel III

Rooster Martinez

Bianca V. Gonzalez Perez

Visual Artists:

Liliana Wilson

Celeste De Luna

Hector Garza

Octavio Quintanilla

Mauro Murillo

Mauro de la Tierra

Prepare for the summer in your garden through use of water conservation approaches including the use of wicking tanks. You’ll learn how to build these easy to install raised beds that include a mini-aquifer feature to keep your plants watered all summer long while reducing water waste. This workshop provides a hands-on opportunity as we install “wickers” in our Mistletoe garden – fun for the entire family!

Please RSVP for this workshop!

Join world-renowned National Geographic Explorer and photographer Thomas Peschak for a stunning visual journey through the Amazon River Basin.

In Amazon: Andes to the Atlantic, Peschak shares breathtaking images and stories from his 396-day expedition tracing the Amazon from the glaciers of the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, he documented remote ecosystems, rare wildlife, and little-seen underwater worlds that reveal the Amazon’s extraordinary biodiversity.

A former marine biologist turned photographer, Peschak has spent more than two decades documenting wildlife and conservation stories for National Geographic magazine, earning 18 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards and seven World Press Photo Awards. His Amazon project—part of the National Geographic Society and Rolex Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition—made him only the second photographer in the magazine’s 136-year history to photograph an entire issue.

Through powerful photography and firsthand stories, this presentation offers a rare look at one of the most vital ecosystems on Earth.

Step up to the mic with the San Antonio Public Library and spit some rhymes for an evening of poetry. Whether you're slinging stanzas or just snapping along in the audience, this two-round poetry slam promises powerful performances and prizes for the top 3 poets.

Poets - Register and see guidelines through the events calendar at mysapl.org
Audience - No need to register, just come and enjoy!

Fredericksburg Food & Wine Restaurant Series showcases the vibrant dining culture of the Texas Hill Country through curated menus, chef collaborations, and special culinary events hosted throughout Fredericksburg.

All week long, an exciting lineup of Fredericksburg’s favorite restaurants will be joining in with exclusive prix-fixe menus, special dining discounts, pop-up offerings, and additional events you will not find any other time of year.

May 6, 2026, 6:00pm to May 9, 2026, 7:00pm Timezone: Central Time (US & Canada)

Join us for our Second Saturday|San Antonio - Mother’s Day Market! Happening Saturday, May 9 from 6-10PM, at Main Plaza in front of the San Fernando Cathedral.
-Featuring Performances by: Las Abuelitas de Oro and Music on Magnolia
-Mother’s Day gift shopping from San Antonio’s best pop-up shops
-San Antonio|The Saga Cathedral Light Show at 9 & 9:30 PM
-Family & Pet Friendly
-Free to Attend

Parking at City Tower is just $10/all day and street meters are FREE after 6 pm.

Interested in being a vendor? Apply at salocalmarket.com

This body of work traces my long, evolving relationship with Buttercup, a band that has, over the years, become inseparable from the cultural texture of San Antonio. Over the years, I've returned again and again to their shows-not simply to document, but to witness how music inhabits a space, how it transforms a room, and how it binds a community, however brietly, into something shared and electric.
These photographs are not about spectacle alone.
They are about accumulation: of moments, of gestures, of light caught mid-motion, of faces suspended between concentration and abandon. Buttercup's performances carry an immediacy that resists repetition, yet in revisiting them over time, patterns emerge-recurring postures, familiar tensions, the quiet rituals before and after sound.
The camera becomes a way of listening, of translating rhythm into image. These images resist the polish often associated with music photography.
Instead, they lean into the blur, the shadow, the in-between moments: a glance exchanged mid-song, the collapse of posture after a crescendo, the quiet recalibration before the next note.
I am less interested in spectacle than in presence-in the fragile, electric space where something real is happening and might disappear at any second.
This exhibit is, ultimately, an archive of impermanence.
Live music exists in time, then vanishes.
What remains are fragments-light caught on skin, motion dissolved into grain, the echo of a song held in a still frame. Through these images, I hope to honor the ephemeral nature of performance while acknowledging the deeper continuity it creates:
a community, a memory, a rhythm that persists long after the last note fades.

Exhibition Opening: May 9, 2026 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
(Live music by Buttercup at 7:30pm)
Magical Realism Studio
107 Lone Star Blvd. (107-B)