Community Calendar

Pollinator BioBlitz participants observe and identify pollinators. This virtual event is open to all ages and abilities interested in finding pollinators and nectar-producing plants, taking photos, and sharing with friends! Share observations by posting a photo or video to Instagram, iNaturalist, or the Facebook event page. Pollinator observation challenges and informative links will be emailed to all registered participants regularly to add to the fun.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is a Texan by Nature Conservation Partner.

Be a part of the action at one of the industry's top Writers Conferences & Film Festivals: volunteer for Austin Film Festival 2025!

--Earn Festival badges through volunteer hours
--Connect with fellow creatives in the Austin film community
--Get behind-the-scenes access and experience the magic of storytelling from some of the best of the industry

Whether you're a filmmaker, writer, or just a fan of great stories -- this is your chance to get involved!

Sign up now!

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at San Antonio Parks & Recreation community centers with activities highlighting culturally significant arts forms across the Hispanic diaspora. These forms include talavera pottery, papel picado, and handmade maracas. 

⭐️ Week 1: Talavera Pottery - September 22 - 26

⭐️ Week 2: Papel Picado - September 29 - October 3

⭐️ Week 3: DIY Maracas - October 6 - 10

Drop in anytime during the center's operating hours on the days below to create your own art piece. 

Berta Almaguer, Friday
Copernicus, Monday
Cuellar, Thursday
Dawson, Thursday
Garrett, Thursday
Garza, Wednesday
Hamilton, Friday
Harlandale, Thursday
Melendrez, Friday
Miller's Pond, Tuesday
Normoyle, Monday
Palm Heights, Tuesday
Quintero, Wednesday 
Ramirez, Wednesday
Robinette, Wednesday
San Juan, Wednesday
Ward, Tuesday
Woodard, Tuesday
Yates, Monday

Each year, SAJF distributes grants to nonprofits in the San Antonio region for specific projects that will benefit economically, emotionally and/or physically disadvantaged individuals. In 2024-2025, we distributed $75,000 to 14 nonprofits in our community! We are pleased to announce that we will again be accepting applications for grants. Grant applications may be submitted by organizations recognized as tax exempt under internal revenue code 501(c)3 seeking funding of $20,000 or less. Now is the time to get started! Grant applications are due by November 1, 2025! Grant application and guidelines are available on the SAJF website at www.sajuniorforum.org. Questions? Email the VP Grants at grants@sajuniorforum.org

Join us for a special 4-hour Puppetry & Storytelling Workshop with guest artist Mobi Warren at Phil Hardberger Park - Natural Area! This special one-time workshop will be led by Mobi Warren, an eco-puppeteer, community naturalist, and poet.

Mobi shares her puppets with our monthly storytelling-in-nature program and leads our park's annual Poetry Walk. She serves on the Eco-puppetry Committee of the National Capital Puppetry Guild. She is co-founder of Stone in the Stream, a regional collective of poets and artists dedicated to environmental conservation.

This workshop is intended for Adults only. Educators, Artists, and Storytellers encouraged! Registration is required. For questions, please email the PHP Education Coordinator at: david.jimenez@sanantonio.gov

Join us at our Colonnade Financial Center to recycle your electronics. We invite you to dispose of small appliances, printers, computers, laptops, VCRs, miscellaneous wires, metal items and anything with a plug. Services will be provided by The Junkluggers. CRT or old-style TVs are not accepted. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

Explore MACRI’s new traveling exhibit, CISNEROS V. CORPUS CHRISTI ISD: THE LONG FIGHT TO END SCHOOL SEGREGATION.

In 1968, José Cisneros and twenty-five other Mexican American parents sued Corpus Christi Independent School District for illegally segregating Mexican American students into poorly maintained and under-resourced schools separate from Anglo schools. The court found that the school district was intentionally segregating students and ordered Corpus Christi ISD to integrate its schools. This landmark decision for Mexican American civil rights extended the same protections of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) to Mexican American students, nearly a quarter of a century later.

Learn about the history of Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD (1970), the people behind the case, and how it fits into larger legal struggles to improve Mexican American access to public education.

The exhibit will be on display from Saturday, September 27 to Wednesday, November 26, 2025.

The exhibit gallery will be open Monday through Friday, 10 AM—NOON and 1 - 4 PM, or by appointment.

MACRI's programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, Bexar County, the Mellon Foundation, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Spurs Give, and individual donors like you! Gracias!

Join us for this beginner-level ESL course is designed for adult learners whose first language is not English. The course focuses on developing foundational skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing to help students communicate effectively in everyday situations.

*There will be no class on July 25th

Únase a nosotros en este curso de inglés como segundo idioma (ESL) para principiantes, diseñado para estudiantes adultos cuya primera lengua no es el inglés. El curso se centra en el desarrollo de habilidades fundamentales de comprensión auditiva, expresión oral, lectura y escritura para ayudar a los estudiantes a comunicarse eficazmente en situaciones cotidianas.

*No habrá clase el viernes 25 de julio.

The San Antonio Art League + Museum (SAAL+M) proudly announces acclaimed fiber artist Susie Monday as its 2025 Artist of the Year, honoring her visionary work and lifelong contributions to the arts. This prestigious award, established in 1946, celebrates excellence across all artistic disciplines and this year shines a much-deserved spotlight on the expressive power of fiber art.
Selected by a distinguished panel of national and international jurors, Monday’s recognition marks a milestone for both the artist and the regional fiber arts community. Her work—rich with color, symbolism, and cultural storytelling—has captivated audiences and elevated textile collage and surface design to new artistic heights.

NOTE: SAAL+M is open Tue-Sat, 10 am to 3 pm.

Drawn primarily from the McNay’s outstanding collection of works on paper, this exhibition highlights the extraordinary creativity in 19th-century France, a time when we also rarely consider that printed images were subject to censorship laws—particularly between 1820 and 1880. In fact, some of this creativity was strategy to subvert and work around existing laws. The exhibition features critical images by Honoré Daumier and Édouard Manet in the context of prints made by their peers and later artists. The latter group includes Pablo Picasso, José Clemente Orozco, José Guadalupe Posada, who were inspired by how artists such as Manet and Daumier dealt with government censorship and used caricature to make protest art. In addition, more recent works by activist Guerrilla Girls and Donald Moffett add a contemporary lens to the presentation.

"Do Not Meddle With It!!: Print Censorship in 19th Century Paris" is organized for the McNay Art Museum by Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings.

Support is provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.