Community Calendar

📸 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/

Please read the listing for the Dragonfly carefully as it's structured slightly different than our normal classes!

Using ceiling fan blades and wooden table legs, participants will create a unique Dragonfly art piece perfect for Spring! On Thursday afternoon, join Maggi in a paint and embellish session - participants will have time to paint/embellish their ceiling fan blades to create their art piece.

Pieces will be left at the Center to allow for proper dry time. They will be assembled off-site for each participant and available for pick-up at the Center the following week.

This is the painting/embellishment session - all materials provided but participants are welcome to bring any paint or embellishments they'd like to use.

For any questions, please inquire in the shop or email workshops@spsatx.org

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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.

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.

Calling all children ages 8-12 years old!
Come create, play games, and have fun with other tweens! Please ask for a sensory tool backpack if needed.

Children ages 8-12 years old.

La Semana Alegre returns to Hemisfair’s Civic Park for a 3rd year! The two-day Fiesta® San Antonio event features multiple stages, food, beverages, and a vendor market – all benefiting Hemisfair, a nonprofit urban parks district!

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!

Trinity University’s Department of Human Communication and Theatre closes its 60th theatrical season with NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN, created and presented by Stieren Guest Artists Rude Mechs as part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series. Performances run April 23, 24, 25 at 8:00pm and April 26 at 2:00pm, in the Stieren Theater of the Ruth Taylor Theater Building. Admission is free, and seats are limited. Reservations are available at https://tumountain.eventbrite.com.

NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN is a mellow meditation on change, permanence and our place in the natural world. It is a presentation of the life cycle of mountains and the processes by which they are born and eventually laid to rest, an invocation of tectonic force and geologic time. Using string, cardboard and magnets, NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN invites us to watch the collective effort of making and unmaking a series of interlocking mountain ranges. We watch minutes, or perhaps centuries, unfold, as mountains rise and fall, clouds dance, birds alight and depart, and a moon delicately hangs overhead. NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN features music and sound created using earth’s most prominent natural frequency, The Schumann Resonance, and is underscored by a poetic recitation—or perhaps a spiritual incantation.

Created by Rude Mechs
Writing: Kirk Lynn
Original Music and Sound Design: Peter Stopschinski
Direction: Thomas Graves & Shawn Sides

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

🌿 Join the San Antonio River Authority in the 2026 City Nature Challenge April 24th - 27th!

🙌 The City Nature Challenge, a global effort to find and document biodiversity in our area. It’s an opportunity to appreciate the plants and wildlife found in our region and help the River Authority gather valuable data about our waterways!

🌊 Using the FREE iNaturalist app, participants from across the San Antonio Metro Area - A 12 County Region - contribute observations and identifications that support conservation.

📍 Participating Counties: Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Gillespie, Goliad, Guadalupe, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, and Wilson!

🔗 Visit https://cnc-sa.org/ for more info on how to join the project and download the iNaturalist app!
🔎 Join the project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2026-san-antonio-metro-area

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.