{"id":437983,"date":"2026-09-16T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437983\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:54:08","slug":"niosa-cancelled-as-conservation-society-re-evaluates-future-of-fiesta-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437983\/","title":{"rendered":"NIOSA cancelled as Conservation Society re-evaluates future of Fiesta tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 One of San Antonio\u2019s best-known Fiesta traditions is officially being put on pause.<\/p>\n<p>The San Antonio Conservation Society announced Wednesday it is cancelling its annual A Night In Old San Antonio, better known as NIOSA, as the organization takes another look at the future of the longtime event.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/niosa-to-shrink-after-losing-villita-access-conservation-society-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIOSA &#8216;reset&#8217; planned as space loss pushes Conservation Society to reimagine event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Conservation Society announced in August it was reducing its staff. NIOSA sales averages more than $1 million annually<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNIOSA is a beloved tradition, and this decision was not made lightly,\u201d the Conservation Society said in its announcement. \u201cWe are taking this time to pause and re-evaluate how we can deliver the best possible experience for our organization, community, volunteers, and partners who have made this event possible year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows an announcement last month that the Conservation Society was preparing to \u201chit the reset button\u201d on NIOSA, its largest annual fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said NIOSA was facing several challenges, including rising costs, declining attendance and the loss of about 43% of its event space. The event will no longer have access to Villita Assembly Hall and Maverick Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>No timeline for NIOSA\u2019s return or details about what a reworked event could look like were announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 One of San Antonio\u2019s best-known Fiesta traditions is officially being put on pause. The San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-437983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}