Community Calendar

🌿 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 Chromosome 18 Registry & Research Society is proud to present the Annual 5K Starfish Dash Run/Walk & Health Fair for the 9th year! This FREE, official Fiesta event brings our San Antonio community together for a morning of family-friendly fun at the UT San Antonio campus to support our special-needs kids and families.

Join us on Saturday, April 25th, 2026 at 8:00am for activities for the whole family including music, face painting, cosplayers, health, wellness testing, and much more!

Join us for a day filled with opportunities for getting your City Nature Challenge Observations in! There is nature all around us, even in our cities! Bring your smartphone and help us participate in the City Nature Challenge Community Science Event and document the species here at Mitchell Lake.

Join us for this is a two-part event:

Part 1: Families with upper elementary age children and adults should arrive by 7:50 am to register for an 8 am sharp Entomology Talk covering types of insects, morphology, and the critical role of insects as pollinators.

Part 2: Families with younger children should arrive and sign-in by 8:55 to join the earlier group as it moves from the classroom to the savanna by 9:10.

Our objective is to learn about insects, identify some of the more common species found in our local area, and learn the role of insects in the environment.

This is a two-part event:

Part 1: Families with upper elementary age children and adults should arrive by 7:50 am to register for an 8 am sharp Entomology Talk covering types of insects, morphology, and the critical role of insects as pollinators.

Part 2: Families with younger children should arrive and sign-in by 8:55 to join the earlier group as it moves from the classroom to the savanna by 9:10.

Our objective is to learn about insects, identify some of the more common species found in our local area, and learn the role of insects in the environment.

Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy is a Texan by Nature conservation partner.

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.

Join San Antonio Parks & Recreation to learn more about wildlife in our community! Visit tables hosted by the Natural Areas Education Team for engaging activities about the amazing plants and animals that make San Antonio Home!

This free event is open to all ages!

WHAT: A captivating large-scale immersive art experience, Otherwild, will transform the San Antonio Botanical Garden this spring into a vibrant world where wonder takes root and the sky comes alive.

Debuting Saturday, March 7, the exhibition features colorful visionary installations by artist Patrick Shearn and his internationally renowned studio, Poetic Kinetics, which is recognized for large-scale public art that inspires awe, movement, and creative exploration.

Otherwild invites visitors to step into a whimsical, nature-inspired environment where art and landscape merge. The installation will unfold into two distinct parts:

● Flora Borealis - a custom Skynet installation of ultra-lightweight, kinetic elements that float with the breeze, contrasting the SABG’s natural landscape

● Enchanted Trees - a sculptural grove of ten imaginary species, each with its own personality, crafted from reflective, movement-responsive materials that interact with sunlight and wind.

Otherwild is included with standard admission. To learn more and purchase tickets, please visit www.sabgtx.org

WHEN: March 7 - July 7, 2026

WHERE: San Antonio Botanical Garden
555 Funston Place
San Antonio, Texas 78209

Otherwild is included with standard admission. Daily admission to the San Antonio Botanical Garden is $18-22 adults; $16-20 military; $13-15 children aged 3-13; $3 Museums for All (with SNAP or WIC EBT card and valid ID).

As the Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) celebrates 30 years of stewardship on June 28th, we invite residents, students, businesses, and organizations from Atascosa, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Medina, and Uvalde counties to help us look to the future by showcasing how you're managing the drought. Whether you're collecting rainwater, composting, using drip irrigation, or embracing native plants—we want to see it!

Winning photos will be featured in the 2027 EAA Calendar, celebrating innovation, resilience, and the community’s shared commitment to protecting the aquifer.

Edwards Aquifer Authority is a Texan by Nature conservation partner.

🎣 Join the San Antonio River Authority for River Rodeo 2026 - Headwaters to Mission Reach! This fun fishing challenge on the river is a great opportunity for anglers of all experience levels to get outside, enjoy the water, and be part of something meaningful!

🌊 Participants will fish designated areas, log their catches, and compete across different categories while helping highlight and support our local waterways.

🌿 Get outside
🐟 Fish the river
📱 Log your catch
💧 Make an impact

👉 Learn more and sign up: https://bit.ly/SARiverRodeo2026