An Evening With the Bard: Maya Angelou

Bring a little bit of poetic inspiration home with this virtual viewing of An Evening With the Bard, a celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou that weaves together more than a dozen of her most iconic poems through acting, singing and dance. Fulfillment Theatre Company’s cast seamlessly unites these works in a show that’s great for […]

The Guardian Book Club with Margaret Atwood

For our February Book Club Atwood will revisit the first novel in her Maddaddam trilogy. A dystopian parable, Oryx and Crake (2003), was Atwood’s first return to the future since The Handmaid’s Tale, placing the reader in a world ravaged by a man-made plague. Atwood paints a stark warning about humanity’s impact on the natural […]

Love, Lust, and Libido: Aphrodisiacs in Medieval Europe

Add some spice to your Valentine’s day and unravel the mysteries of late medieval aphrodisiacs with food historian and author Ken Albala and Getty manuscripts curator Larisa Grollemond. Delve into the period cookbooks, artworks, and courtly feasting cultures of northern Europe to discover ingredients, recipes, and customs thought to arouse the libido, heighten pleasure, increase […]

THE FORUM: Money Making for Creatives with Shaun Cassidy

A candid conversation about how to make one’s art practice both marketable/profitable and maximize current resources in a post-COVID world. THE FORUM: Money Making for Creatives with Shaun Cassidy MON. February 22, 2021 12 P.M. – 1:30 P.M. FREE or $5.00 Suggested Donation Via ZOOM – Join fellow creatives for a powerful conversation with Business […]

San Diego Decameron Project

The San Diego Decameron Project is inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, written shortly after the Black Death hit Florence, Italy in 1348. In the book, ten young Florentines, seven women and three men, retreat into quarantine for two weeks in a hillside villa and pass the time by telling stories, one each per day, […]

The Veterans Art Project – Pop-Up Cafés

The Veterans Art Project (VETART) and Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) presents the first in a series of virtual Pop-Up Community Creative Arts Cafés, a curated and interactive live online event featuring Southern California artists who have served in the United States Armed Forces alongside presentations from art and music therapists who work within the […]

Open House San Diego

Image: Gloria Muriel with Alex Banach, Shaun Burner and Franceska Gamez OH! San Diego (Open House San Diego) is an annual, free to the public event celebrating architecture and the built environment. With a theme of Design + Community, this year’s event will highlight a diverse mix of seven neighborhoods including Barrio Logan, Chula Vista, […]

Artist Panel: How Art Provides a Conversation for Healing

Katie Ruiz. Back to the Source, Into the Ether, 2019. Oil on canvas Join the Latin American Art Council of The San Diego Museum of Art for a virtual panel discussion featuring creative experts of contemporary art to discuss, “How Art Provides a Conversation for Healing.” Under the climate of COVID-19, artists will not only […]

Reimagining Playability with David Israel Reynoso

David Israel Reynoso Photo Courtesy of The New Children’s Museum What if a children’s museum could be seen as one never-ending playable show? Artist-in-residence David Israel Reynoso joins Museum Director of Exhibitions Megan Dickerson to discuss alternative theatre, play in a post-COVID-19 world and plans for David’s immersive theatre installation, due to open at the […]

Creative Industry Roundtable – A Tribute to Larry Baza

Throughout the pandemic, Vanguard Culture has been hosting a series of creative industry roundtables with San Diego’s arts & culture community. This cross-pollination of creativity has already proved quite fruitful […]

San Diego Women’s Film Fest – Film series

Join the Women’s Museum of California as they present a virtual series of three powerful films directed by women. Stream the films at your pace in June, then join them […]

San Diego Arab Film Festival

The San Diego Arab Film Festival is back for 2021 with a hybrid festival: live, in-person feature film showings at the Museum of Photographic Arts combined with an online offering of short films.  Both the in-person and on-line  presentations begin on June 5. The Festival program showcases 6 feature films and 15 short films from […]