Ruby City & Trinity University KRTU’s partnership continues with a special installment of Music in the Park featuring Austin-based band NORI. Fronted by powerhouse vocalist Akina Adderley, granddaughter of jazz legend Nat Adderley, NORI blends jazz with soulful, genre-bending influences. Their lineup includes Erik Telford on trumpet, Nick Litterski on keys, Aaron Allen on upright bass, and Andy Beaudoin on drums.

Praised by Festival Peak as “a five-person gift from Austin, TX,” NORI’s latest album Walking Foot was named an Editor’s Choice Best Album of 2025 by Jazzwise Magazine and hailed by Paris Move as “an offering of vision, soul, and intellect, likely to be referenced and revered for years to come.”

For this special edition, Ruby City welcomes artist Diego Chavez, who will transform Ruby City’s Plaza with real-time creative-coding projections. His generative visuals will draw inspiration from Ruby City’s current exhibition Sensing Meaning: Abstract Painting and respond to sound, rhythm, and atmosphere, creating an immersive environment where music, movement, and abstract digital imagery converge.

Guests are invited to bring folding chairs or picnic blankets and enjoy an evening of live music and light-based art under the stars. Complimentary light bites from Fat Tummy Empanadas and drinks will be provided.

This event is free and open to all. Registration is not required.

Join us every third Sunday of the month for a restorative, hour-long meditation session led by seasoned practitioner Pamela Martinez.

December’s session will be held indoors at Ruby City and offer a variety of mindfulness techniques and begins with a gentle introduction, perfect for both first-time and experienced meditators alike.

Please dress comfortably and bring a mat or cushion for sitting.

Free and open to all. Registration is recommended but not required.

Objects hold powerful memories, capable of nurturing or distressing our hearts and minds. Join Art Activating Hope (AAH) at Ruby City and reconstruct personal objects to foster renewal.

Through the mindful process of stitching + healing, participants will recapture the past with intention, anchor themselves in the present moment of shared creation, and move forward while leaving space for new growth.

Discover how creativity can be a vital tool for healing, connection, and resilience.

This program encourages all skill levels to engage their individual creativity and spark dialogue through mindful making. All materials will be provided. Participation is free and registration is not required.

Ruby City is located at 150 Camp Street. Free parking is available along Camp Street and Ruby City’s parking lot at 1203 S. Flores Street.

Ruby City and MonteVideo present a special community screening of ASCO: Without Permission, at Arthouse at Blue Star. The new documentary by filmmaker Travis Gutiérrez Senger chronicles the groundbreaking Chicano art collective ASCO, whose conceptual and performative works in 1970s East Los Angeles boldly challenged exclusion from mainstream art institutions.

Following the screening, join us for a conversation with artist Kathy Vargas and scholar Dr. Ellen Riojas Clark, facilitated by Ruby City Director Elyse A. Gonzales, as they reflect on ASCO’s legacy, Chicanx art histories, and the continued impact of experimental art practices in Texas and beyond. 

Attendance is free but space is limited, registration is required. Reserve your spot today.

Arthouse at Blue Star is located at 134 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78210. Parking is available for free at the Blue Star Arts Complex.

Join us every third Sunday of the month for a restorative, hour-long meditation session led by seasoned practitioner Pamela Martinez. January’s session will be held indoors at Ruby City and offer a variety of mindfulness techniques and begins with a gentle introduction, perfect for both first-time and experienced meditators alike.

Please dress comfortably and bring a mat or cushion for sitting.

Free and open to all. Registration is recommended but not required.

Join Ruby City Director Elyse Gonzales and artist Joey Fauerso for a walkthrough and celebration of Bedroom Paintings, on view at Ruby City. 

San Antonio–based multidisciplinary artist Joey Fauerso explores the surreal, often restless state of insomnia in Bedroom Paintings (2024), a video-centered installation that transforms painting into a three-dimensional, performative experience. Drawing from her own sleepless nights, Fauerso reimagines domestic spaces as dynamic canvases, layering humor, anxiety, and art history into dreamlike visual narratives. 

Always free.

Ruby City is located at 150 Camp Street. Free parking is available along Camp Street, Ruby City’s parking lot at 1203 S. Flores Street, and the City of San Antonio’s One Stop parking lot at 1101 S Alamo Street.

To celebrate the dreaming life of our founder, Linda Pace, Ruby City will host its first quarterly dreamwork workshop with writer and creativity coach, Leigh Baldwin.

In each 90-minute session, participants discuss how and why to work with dreams, how to improve recall and recording of dream messages, and methods of interpreting dream symbols. Sessions will conclude by offering up dreams from our participants for group discussion and interpretation. All materials for workshop will be provided.

Free to attend, space is limited. Reserve your spot! 

Join us every third Sunday of the month for a restorative, hour-long meditation session led by seasoned practitioner Pamela Martinez.

February’s session will be held indoors at Ruby City and offer a variety of mindfulness techniques and begins with a gentle introduction, perfect for both first-time and experienced meditators alike.

Please dress comfortably and bring a mat or cushion for sitting.

Free and open to all. Registration is recommended but not required.