Seize this opportunity to present your passion to an audience or witness art for the first time at Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival. Conceived to stimulate artistic and economic development, Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival brings artists from multiple mediums to showcase their work throughout San Antonio. The arts festival covers three days of free and ticketed events for patrons to see new and innovative art in person.
Take part in a dynamic experience as you learn about stars, planets, black holes, and distant galaxies at the Planetarium - The Scobee Education Center at San Antonio College. Every Friday night, the planetarium opens to the public, so they get a chance to stargaze and see digitally-created images of stars, planets, and galaxies fill the night sky. Housed atop the iconic blue Charles E. Cheever, Jr. Star Tower, the Scalan Observatory houses a 10-inch refractor telescope and features a 360-degree rotating dome and panel that opens 90 degrees, enabling stargazing in any direction.
Get your hiking gear and get ready to experience the great outdoors like never before at Friedrich Wilderness Park, featuring over 600 acres of undeveloped hill-country terrain and over 10 miles of paved and unpaved trails waiting for your exploration. Join an experienced tour guide who will help you pick the best trail for your group of family and friends and allow you to spend the day observing wildlife, such as the endangered Black-capped Vireo bird, the Golden–Cheeked Warbler, the vegetation, and so much more.