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25 years of The Hapa Project

Explore hapa.me – 25 Years of The Hapa Project, Kip Fulbeck’s powerful portrait series on multiracial identity, now expanded at the Museum of Us with updated reflections from original participants.

Silent Movie Mondays at the Balboa Theatre

Relive the enchantment of the 1920s at Silent Movie Mondays at Balboa Theatre! Celebrate its centennial with classic silent films, brought to life by the rich melodies of the historic Wonder Morton theatre organ for a truly magical experience.

Story Concerts

Write Out Loud’s Story Concerts transform literature into a shared, live experience, featuring curated short stories, poetry, and music performed by professional actors around a central theme.

Cyanotype

Explore the luminous world of cyanotype at the Visions Museum of Textile Art, where four artists—bailey macabre, Shane Booth, Morgan Ford Willingham, and Patricia Gaddis—demonstrate diverse approaches to this historic […]

Aaron Kramer: Sense of Wonder

Oceanside Museum of Art presents Sense of Wonder, a playful and inventive exhibition by artist and maker Aaron Kramer. Featuring kinetic sculptures, automata, and drawing machines built from salvaged materials, […]

Maryam Bayat: Unrolling Paradise

The California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents Unrolling Paradise, an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Maryam Bayat that examines the Persian garden as a living design tradition carried through textiles, […]

The Seed Keeper / El Guardián de las Semillas

Inspired by Diane Wilson’s novel The Seed Keeper, this exhibition explores the concept of seeds as both a material presence and a powerful metaphor—an archive of memory, resilience, and future. […]

David Adey: Sacrificial Bodies

As the first comprehensive mid-career survey of San Diego artist , this exhibition traces more than 25 years of a creative practice defined by a persistent exploration of what it […]

Kim’s Convenience

Heart and humor take center stage in this award-winning comedy that inspired the hit Netflix series. Korean-born Mr. Kim runs a Toronto convenience store while raising his Canadian children with […]

Decoding DaVinci

Decoding DaVinci is an immersive theatrical adventure inspired by the pulse-pounding world of The Da Vinci Code and the bestselling thrillers of Dan Brown—a thrilling race against time where the […]

Amoxtlis

José Hugo Sánchez: Amoxtlis Amoxtlis—the Nahuatl word for “codices”—centers Sánchez’s large-scale printmaking practice, which draws from the visual language of Mesoamerican codices while engaging the cultural and political conditions of the U.S.–Mexico border. At the heart of the installation is Codex Tonalpohualli, a series of towering printed banners that reference the twenty day signs of […]

Ongoing

Silent Movie Mondays: Safety Last! (1923)

Silent Movie Mondays: Safety Last! (1923) Starring Harold Lloyd, organist Russ Peck Get your tickets now to experience the comic genius of silent film star Harold Lloyd in Safety Last!  […]