Event Calendar

Project Bloom presents the 11th Annual Monarch Butterfly & Pollinator Festival, a free, family-friendly gathering centered on pollinators. The festival includes hands-on nature education and activities, offering an opportunity to learn more about monarch butterflies and pollinators in a park setting. Admission is free and the event is open to all ages. Check the official event page for current details and registration information.

The purpose of Child Health Day is to help raise an awareness and a commitment to teaching children and parents the benefits of good health. This event is annually celebrated on the first Monday of October. The day was proclaimed in 1928 by Calvin Coolidge to increase awareness of health issues facing the children in the U.S. including health issues, healthy eating, fitness, child's development, immunizations, preventing injuries, and more.

Celebrate the Witte Museum’s 100th birthday at Party of the Century, a family event featuring live music, activities, animal encounters, art, vendors and food. The gathering offers a full day of museum birthday festivities, with a range of experiences included in the event description. Everyone receives kids’ admission pricing, though the exact price was not published on the event page. Visit the official event website for current schedule and ticket information.

BOOtanica is the San Antonio Botanical Garden’s annual family-friendly Halloween event. Held at the Garden, this seasonal gathering offers a Halloween-themed outing as part of the venue’s community calendar. Admission to BOOtanica is included with Garden admission or membership; standard Garden admission pricing was not listed with the event. Visit the organizer’s website for current admission and event information.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several parts of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia and New Zealand.