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Luminaria

San Antonio, TX · Arts & Culture

When

November 14, 2026

Where

San Pedro Creek Culture Park & West Houston Street · San Antonio · TX

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A free, all-night contemporary arts festival that fills downtown streets around San Pedro Creek Culture Park with light installations, live music, film, and visual art. It draws tens of thousands and has run annually for close to two decades.

The history within reach

• Luminariasame spot

  A free, all-night contemporary arts festival that fills downtown streets around San Pedro Creek Culture Park with light installations, live music, film, and visual art.

• The Alameda, the largest Spanish-language theatre0.2 mi

  The largest theatre ever built in the United States for Spanish-language film and live variety, seating 2,500 under a tiled facade and a six-storey mural in glass.

• El Grito San Antonio (Fiestas Patrias)0.2 mi

  San Antonio's official Mexican Independence Day commemoration at Historic Market Square, hosted by the city's Diez y Seis de Septiembre Commission with the Mexican Consulate.

• The Spanish Governor's Palace0.2 mi

  Not a palace and not the governor's, it was the presidio captain's house, with the Habsburg arms over the door.

• The chili queens of Military Plaza0.3 mi

  Mexican American women sold chili con carne by lamplight from open-air stalls on the plaza for decades, taking the dish to the 1893 Chicago fair.