Paseo por El Westside

Join us at our 14th Annual Paseo por El Westside to celebrate, preserve, and honor the places, history and tangible and intangible cultura of San Antonio’s historic Westside.

The Paseo por El Westside will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at Rinconcito de Esperanza at 816 S. Colorado St., San Antonio TX 78207 from 9am to 3pm .

As part of National Historic Preservation Month, Paseo por El Westside offers Westside and San Antonio residents and visitors alike, walking tours of the historic westside, a neighborhood that has always been portrayed as the “bad side of town,” and shares the history through its architecture, culture, sacred spaces, and political struggles such as the struggle against the destruction of our casitas and the displacement of our gente.

Additionally, the Paseo por El Westside festival includes musical performances, Mexican children’s games and songs, historic films of the Westside, art vendors, workshops on kite and piñata making, identifying pan dulce by name, dichos and adivinanzas and the ever popular chile workshops y más!. This year, attendees will get a sneak peak of the Museo del Westside which is still under construction.

Paseo offers a variety of culturally-grounded learning experiences to root our families in our long history and traditions. Paseo presents our historic neighborhood through the lens of long-time residents, historians, cultural bearers, artists, musicians and all the engagement amongst the participants who attend this festival.

The event is FREE and open to the public.