It’s officially been one month since the announcement that A Night In Old San Antonio (NIOSA) will not take place during the 2027 Fiesta season. The host, San Antonio Conservation Society, held a special membership meeting on Friday, October 16, to provide more detail on why.
The organization has hosted the four-day festival, which raises millions of dollars to preserve and adaptively reuse the city’s historic structures, for the past 78 years. Until now, it had only been canceled in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hundreds of Alamo City residents expressed shock after the initial declaration, with many saying it felt as if the community were losing a beloved cultural tradition. Society president Betty Bueche explained during the noon meeting that financial losses, a change in space availability, and declining attendance were among the main reasons for calling it off…