Community Calendar

🎉 SAVE THE DATE! The 2026 Mission Reach Flotilla Fiesta will be Sunday, April 19th!

🌊 Celebrate Fiesta on the river at this FREE, family-friendly outdoor festival! Join us for a day of FREE kayaking, live music, performances, and fun activities along the beautiful San Antonio River!

💃 Bring the whole family and celebrate nature, culture, and community during our official Fiesta event!

🎖️ This is also the ONLY place you can get our 2026 Fiesta Medal!

📅 Sunday, April 19, 2026
🕒 11 AM - 3 PM
📍 Acequia Park, 8500 Mission Pkwy, San Antonio, TX, 78223
🔗 Learn more at https://www.sariverauthority.org/fiesta-flotilla/

Experience Broadway musical entertainment in San Antonio like never before: walk into the Little Shop of Horrors presented by UT San Antonio's brand-new Dramatic Arts Program!

Experience Broadway musical entertainment in San Antonio like never before: walk into the Little Shop of Horrors presented by UT San Antonio's brand-new Dramatic Arts Program!

Join us for ’80s Music Bingo, a nostalgic and interactive program featuring popular hits from the 1980s. Participants will listen to short clips of classic songs and mark matching titles or artists on their bingo cards. This engaging activity offers a fun way to enjoy music, socialize, and celebrate a memorable decade.

📸 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/

The Helotes Area Community Band presents it's spring concert, a showcase of music and talent from this 60 + volunteer member symphonic band. This is a wonderful family-friendly event, great for all ages. The event is free admission and there is plenty of free parking as well. Featured music by Bach, local composer Charles Booker, Leroy Anderson, John Philip Sousa, Gershwin and more! Clarinets, flutes, oboes, french horns, trumpets, tubas, trombones, saxophones, drums, percussion and more!

Come on out and support your local Helotes Area musicians!

Experience Broadway musical entertainment in San Antonio like never before: walk into the Little Shop of Horrors presented by UT San Antonio's brand-new Dramatic Arts Program!

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.

🔎 Discover the San Antonio River! Uncover hidden gems of art, nature, and engineering while completing missions in Bexar, Wilson, Karnes, and Goliad Counties!

📅 April 17 – 26th
📲 Download GooseChase & Join with Code: CLPF9G
🏆 Prizes for Top Finishers!

How to Play:
1️⃣ Download the GooseChase app
2️⃣ Join with code: CLPF9G
3️⃣ Explore the River & tributaries, snap pics, check in via GPS, and win prizes!

🚶‍♂️ Join solo or with a team—just get outside and start exploring!
🔗 https://www.goosechase.com/download

Opening Reception for Eric O'Connell's Pinhole Photography Exhibit is on March 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM.

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.