We partner with the YMCA to provide on-campus afterschool care to our families. We were fortunate to secure a grant for the 22-23 and 23-24 school years that will allow us to provide after-school care for FREE for up to 75 families. 

Families who sign up for the free after-school option must commit to attending after-school care for at least 4 of the 5 days of the week for a minimum of one hour daily. We have notified families if they qualify for free after-school care.

How Do I Sign Up?

You can register for the YMCA after-school care program here.

If you have any questions or need assistance with registering, please give us a call at 210-924-2277 or email [email protected]

Below are the costs for families who do not qualify for free afterschool care or who would like to only send their children to afterschool care on Fridays:

1) $12/Friday ( for Friday Only option)

2) $85/Week for families who do not qualify for the free afterschool care.
 
3.) See the 2023-24 YMCA Flyer for a coupon code to receive a 25% discount!

Friday Electives

A unique opportunity for your child to discover new passions at a young age!

Children have no creative bounds and an infinite bank of questions.

Their creativity, curiosity, and imagination need to be celebrated and fostered in schools and we are so excited to be able to offer elective classes every Friday for our children as an avenue in which to do this.

Every semester, our students will get to choose an elective to explore new passions and areas of interest. The first semester of every year will feature electives that are teacher-created and derived from the passion areas of our incredibly creative and diverse staff. As we learn more about our student's interests and passions in our first semester, we will work to design electives for our second semester that more closely mirror our students' passions and interests.

Elective Options

• Animation: 2nd-4th Grade
• American Sign Language (ASL): Kinder-4th Grade
• Chess: 2nd-4th Grade
• Dance: Kinder-4th Grade
• Genius Hour: Kinder-1st Grade
• Kindness is Cool: Kinder-1st Grade
• Musical Theatre: 2nd-4th Grade
• Pandas who Cook: Kinder-4th Grade
• Puzzling Pandas: 2nd-4th Grade
• Rollerskating: Kinder-4th Grade
• Scratch Jr.: Kinder-1st Grade
• Student Council: 2nd-4th Grade
• Wizardly STEM and Fitness: 2nd-4th Grade
• Yearbook: 2nd-4th Grade

Click here to learn more

• Computer Skills Classes
• Free Wi-Fi
• Free Computer Use

If you're an adult looking to learn or improve your musical skills, Music on Magnolia is the perfect place for you. We offer programs for musicians of all ages and experience levels, and we love working with adults.

Whatever your goals, we're here to help you achieve them and have fun along the way. 

Classes are 30-60 minutes.

Ages 18+

Call for current class schedule and tuition.

Looking for a more traditional music lesson experience? The Classical Path might be for you.

If you'd like to focus on reading music, your next audition, or expanding your repertoire, we've got you covered. Our instructors are happy to work with you on your specific goals and tackle that next piece.

Classes are 30-60 minutes.

Ages 5+

Call for current class schedule and tuition.

Eurythmics is a form of music education that emphasizes the connection between music and movement. It involves using physical gestures and body movement to express and explore musical concepts like rhythm, melody, and harmony.

Eurythmics classes offer a valuable foundation for musical development by providing a holistic approach that combines movement, rhythm, and expression, preparing them for future instrument exploration.

Through engaging activities, children learn about dynamics, gaining an understanding of how to control and vary the volume, intensity, and expression of their musical performances. 

Classes are 30 minutes.

Ages 2-5 

Call for current class schedule and tuition.

Performance Path offers:

• Private lessons
• Band rehearsals
• Gigs
• Advanced Performance Path: more rehearsals, more gigs

Classes are 30-60 minutes.

Ages 5+

Call for current class schedule and tuition.

Becoming aware of life struggles, overcoming them, and expressing our creative selves through visual arts brings healing.

Discover Love Thru Art classes are offered to vulnerable youth and adults in schools, churches, shelters, group homes, community centers, hospitals, and senior facilities.

Call or email Irene Boone to find an appropriate class or to set up a new one.

It is the hope of Landa Gardens Conservancy that the entire community uses and enjoys Landa Gardens. The grounds include the Valero Pavilion, a concrete sculpture designed and created by nationally renowned artist Carlos Cortés. The pavilion can accommodate a concert, can be used as a stage for children’s theater, story hour or puppet show, even a wedding or birthday party. The Gardens include beautiful landscaping, walking paths, benches, playground improvements, more than 7,000 plants, and a community garden.

Click here for information on the community garden.

Click here for information on the playground.

Neighborhood choirs are CCSA’s tuition-free ensembles that engage underserved children with inspiring musical experiences. Students in this program receive the same curriculum and instruction as the comparable levels of the core ensembles and perform twice yearly in the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. Our current partner is the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Antonio.

Boys and girls ages 6-18.

Tuition: Free.

Contemplative Arts comprise a number of secular disciplines and activities, including flower arranging and photography, that integrate art and culture with everyday life. Each of these disciplines represents a genuine contemplative path; together they bring beauty, vividness, and wisdom to our lives and culture.

Shambhala Art is art that springs from clear perception and pure expression. To artist or non-artist, the creative process often seems mysterious and magical. How do we give a physical reality to some ephemeral inspiration or abstract truth? How do we create forms that communicate some essential nature beyond the limits of their container? The Shambhala Art Program’s purpose is to explore the creative process and the product we call art from the point of view of clear perception and pure expression. It is about the source of inspiration, how the creative process manifests and finally how what we create communicates that inspiration.

Click here for more on Shambhala Art.

The Galería Expresión is a spacious 2500/SF professional gallery and one of Centro Aztlan’s oldest and most visible programs. The community enjoys 6-8 yearly exhibits of varying genres and artists while encouraging those who are just beginning as they collaborate on various projects. These group shows give more than 350 visual artists a year the opportunity to undergo professional review by a large audience and an entree into art markets that otherwise would be closed to them.

Click here if you would like to submit a proposal.

Click here for the latest on our upcoming events and exhibits.

Click here if you are interested in becoming an intern.

New Volunteers always needed!

The quickest way to become a Cinefilo or Cine Studio member is to volunteer at an event or production.

No experience necessary!

Email us at [email protected] to become a member or volunteer.

The Palm Heights Community Center offers a wide variety of programming, including youth sports leagues, arts and crafts, table games, nutrition education, dance, music, and more.

Alcohol is prohibited. Amenities are first come, first serve with some exceptions.

Click here to view and register for classes at this location. (If there are no results for classes at this location, a list of classes, programs, and activities at alternate locations will be provided.)

Stress Management

This is a weekly 8-session course to provide information and skills for managing stress and anxiety. The focus will be on what we can control right now to help us feel better. During each group, we will learn and practice a new skill that you can use whenever you feel overwhelmed. Each group is accompanied by a handout that you can keep to practice the skills between sessions and to review the material covered in the group as needed well after the 8-session course.

Resources Group

Adjusting to a new culture can be extremely challenging because everything is different and new including the language, the laws, and the healthcare system. The resource group focuses on connecting you with practical information and resources to help you meet your basic needs. Some of the areas covered include legal referrals and medical referrals, referrals to English classes, resources for food, and providing information on other community resources and programs.

Art Class

The art class meets weekly for two hours. No prior experience is necessary and all skill levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. This class is led by Dr. Karin Montero, CST’s Medical Director who is also an artist. Dr. Montero provides instruction on different art techniques while also facilitating lively conversation that routinely includes a lot of laughter.

In preparation for the week, each group member will be texted a series of images in advance of the art group that you can then use to paint or draw as you practice new techniques during class and between classes. Art is another way to practice mindfulness and many people find it relaxing and healing – this class might serve as a testament to the saying that “sometimes laughter is the best medicine!”

Meditation Group

Meditation is an ancient wisdom tradition that over time has been incorporated in various forms by almost all major religions and spiritual traditions. CST’s weekly meditation group is welcoming of all religious and non-religious backgrounds and spiritual traditions. The objectives of this group are to promote a sense of safety and stability, facilitate healing and empowerment, enhance resilience and well-being, improve emotion regulation, and create community and social connection and support.

Meditation has been linked to improvements in sleep, attention, memory, emotion regulation, blood pressure, and chronic pain. It has also been shown to enhance well-being and compassion. Meditation is simple but not easy so we use the power of coming together in a group format to provide encouragement and support to one another as we establish a meditation practice that fits our daily lives.

Women’s Yoga Class

CST hosts a weekly yoga class that is open to all female-identified clients. Yoga is an ancient mindfulness practice with origins in northern India and a philosophy that emphasizes connecting the mind, body, and spirit. In this class we also place a special emphasis on practicing kindness and compassion towards ourselves by meeting ourselves where we are, befriending our bodies, and cultivating appreciation for what our bodies can do.

Yoga has been linked to health benefits such as improved sleep, increased strength and flexibility, and improvements in circulation, blood pressure, mental clarity, and well-being, among others. If you would like to learn more about this group, availability in the class, and to discuss options to get connected with the materials that you will need, please see your CST counselor or point of contact.

Survivors Support Group

This group aims to promote empowerment, resilience, and healing by leveraging the power of social support and the wisdom and experience that exists within the group. This group will provide information about common reactions to distressing life events, and discuss and share coping strategies and community resources.

Above all, this group seeks to provide a safe space for people to connect with other survivors who have also had to leave their country and face many challenges in adjusting to a new country and culture.

Click here for Group Event dates and times

Free

Offering Veterans opportunities for healing, wellness and community through engagement in the arts.

Every Veteran has the opportunity to experience the healing power of the arts.

Bihl Haus Arts (BHA), collaborating with Vet TRIIP, both located in San Antonio, Texas, has launched an innovative program offering professionally taught drawing and painting classes to veterans who are experiencing depression or are clinically or self-diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The mission of Forward, Arts! is to offer veterans opportunities for healing, wellness and community through engagement in the arts. 

The potential for healing that comes through hands-on, creative engagement with art-in this case, painting and drawing-is proven. While BHA’s pilot class is a pioneering endeavor in San Antonio, it emerged from national military initiatives in the arts and BHA’s nationally recognized arts program.

Developed in 2007, the Go! Arts program offers painting, drawing, craft, creative writing and yoga classes-along with special art and literary workshops and regular gallery exhibits and events-at Bihl Haus Arts and other locations in San Antonio. The aim of the program is to empower and inspire our "Goldens."

Must reside in either the Primrose at Monticello Park Senior Apartments or one of the locations below.

Click here to see the current class schedules at

• Bihl Haus;
• The Alicia Trevino Lopez and Doris Griffin Senior One-Stop Centers (co-operated by the Wellmed Charitable Foundation and the City of San Antonio Department of Human Services);
• the Elvira Cisneros Center by Wellmed;
• Merced Housing’s Casitas de Villa Corona and Casitas de Somerset;
• and these City-operated Senior Centers: West End, Kenwood, District 2, District 3 (NEW), Cortez, Distict 5, Normoyle, Bob Ross and District 10. 

Please call individual  sites for membership and age requirements. Access the interactive map here.

Please refer to the calendar for location-specific times and contact information.

Classes include art supplies provided FREE to qualified senior participants.

Need a way to relax? We have adult art classes.

Register online here.

Our Performing Arts program uses films, stage productions, and web series to advocate and educate the community on mental health awareness.

We also offer the following activities:

• Dance Classes
• Performing Troupe
• Performing Arts Academy and Camp
• Outreach through the arts
• Creative therapies such as art, music, and drama

Click here to learn more about Theater Arts.

Must register to attend. Click here to register.

Ramon V Quintero Community Center (formerly Southside Lions Community Center) offers a wide variety of programming, including youth sports leagues, arts and crafts, table games, nutrition education, dance, music. and more.

Alcohol is prohibited. Amenities are first come, first serve with some exceptions.

Click here to view and register for classes at this location. (If there are no results for classes at this location, a list of classes, programs, and activities at alternate locations will be provided.)

Click here for more information and volunteer registration.

The Feria is a community event that combines education (Sowing la Futura mini-workshops), healthcare (The People's Clinic), local commerce (pop-up market with local artisans), and community connection (through connection to community resources and special themed Feria events like Trans Day of Remembrance).

Phone of details of the next Feria de Resistencia.

The fairs are free and open to the public.

CAPS (Caps Art Promotes Smiles) provides uniquely decorated ball caps to chronically ill children and adults. Through this program, blankets are also distributed to patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Chronically ill children and adults in San Antonio area hospitals.

Free,

Free general admission for Alamo Colleges, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, Trinity University, and the University of the Incarnate Word students, faculty and staff with their school IDs or business cards through our Educational Institution partnership.

Must show proof of school affiliation.

Free.

Through Museums for All, those receiving food assistance (SNAP/WIC benefits) are eligible for free admission to The McNay.

Free. Must present proof of benefits.

Awaaz advocates work with multiple local agencies in San Antonio to better serve the unique needs of South Asian families affected by family violence. By providing culture-specific education, we aid in advocating for more comprehensive care for South Asians.

Our mission is to develop local artists and help them attain their goal in a Godly music industry.

Call 210-363-2169 for booking information.

Click here for more program information.

Our performance ensembles are the cornerstone of our organization. These choirs consist of boys and girls ages 9+ and provide a comprehensive and challenging curriculum of performance-based instruction that ranges from the basics of vocal technique to music literacy and history, all accomplished using a wide and balanced repertoire.

Ages 14-18.
An elite mixed-voice ensemble for experienced singers.

Tuition: $729.00
Register online.

Melendrez Community Center offers a wide variety of programming, including youth sports leagues, arts and crafts, table games, nutrition education, dance, music, and more.

Alcohol is prohibited; amenities are first come, first serve with some exceptions.

Click here to view and register for classes at this location. (If there are no results for classes at this location, a list of classes, programs, and activities at alternate locations will be provided.)

Beginner/Intermediate ensemble for singers generally in 6th-9th grades.

Our performance ensembles are the cornerstone of our organization. These choirs consist of boys and girls ages 9+ and provide a comprehensive and challenging curriculum of performance-based instruction that ranges from the basics of vocal technique to music literacy and history, all accomplished using a wide and balanced repertoire.

Ages 11-13.
Intermediate ensemble for youth with prior experience.

Start your child on the path to a lifetime of musical enjoyment and achievement. These early choral experiences create a rich and engaging environment for introducing music, singing, and rhythm to young singers. Our teachers have a passion for working with young children and the early voice. Through quality instruction, your child will develop as a musician, build confidence, and strengthen their social skills through singing and peer interaction.

Ages 7-8.
Advanced ensembles for young singers with some prior experience.

Tuition: $461 and $100 Registration fee
Register online.