San Antonio Events

Annual Events

Address: 16641 La Cantera Pkwy, San Antonio, TX 78256-2401 Category: Sports Event - Golf Dates: May 11 - May 17, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

La Cantera Golf Club hosts one of the most established professional golf tournaments. The event, the third-oldest PGA Tour tournament, originated in 1922. A great source of charitable giving, the competition manages to attract an impressive roster of players and to draw the attention of large audiences from around the...

Address: 801 S Bowie, Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX 78205 Category: Fair / Festival - Cultural Dates: June 12 - June 14, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

Texas is a crossroads for culture and ethnicity, and the Texas Folklife Festival annually celebrates the area's diversity. You might expect Mexican and Native American cultures to dominate the festival, but surprisingly, a broad representation is present: China, India, Lebanon, Norway, Scotland, Turkey, Ireland,...

Address: 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204 Category: Fair / Festival - Art Dates: July 1, 2009 - March 2010 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

Discover a masterpiece at the nation's only month-long arts festival. Local artists hawk their wares alongside members of the international contemporary art scene. Events spill over from traditional gallery and museum spaces into neighborhood venues and studios. Now over 20 years old, CAM (as locals refer to it) draws...

Address: 178 Landa Parks Dr, New Braunfels, TX 78130 Category: Fair / Festival - Cultural Dates: October 30 - November 8, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

This family event celebrates German culture, Texas-style, with more than 60 entertainers, sporting events, historical exhibits and a food-filled marketplace. The event starts the last Friday of October and runs through the first week of November.

Address: San Antonio, TX 78205 | Category: Fair / Festival - Food / Drink Dates: November 10 - November 15, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

If fast food and the same old Tex-Mex are your idea of Texas's finest edible offerings, then this festival will open your eyes – and tastebuds. Chefs and vintners from Texas to as far south as Argentina descend on San Antonio for six days to wine and dine attendees. Your palate will be tempted by a range of cuisines,...

Address: River Walk, San Antonio, TX Category: Fair / Festival - Holiday / Seasonal Dates: November 27, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

You might be exhausted by the many day-after-Thanksgiving sales, but make an effort to stay up for this bright, beautiful ceremony in which more than 122,000 lights are simultaneously set ablaze. As a run-up to the Christmas season, decorated floats cruise down the San Antonio River, which reflects the sparkles...

Address: 3201 E Houston, San Antonio, TX 78219 Category: Fair / Festival - Other Dates: February 4 - February 21, 2010 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

The Calf Scramble and Mutton Bustin' are two events in the Stock Show & Rodeo's jam-packed schedule, which stretches over two weeks. It's more than just cowboys, ten-gallon hats, and bucking broncos; an extensive, Southern-flavored lineup of live music and a Western art show complement the livestock and rodeo action....

Address: Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, TX Category: Fair / Festival - History Dates: March 6 - March 7, 2010 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

The dust subsided long ago, but memory of the valiant stand taken by a stalwart group of Texans against the invading Mexican army in 1836 is celebrated with pride every March. Over the course of the weekend, reenactments encourage observers to take a fresh look at both the Texan and Mexican sides of the battle. Period...