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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 for special live Q&A events with the filmmakers. The Women’s Film Festival San Diego strives to educate and inspire future generations about the experiences and […]

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 […]

Dancing with the Lost Generation: Jazz Age Parisian Dance

Join us for a trip to Jazz Age Paris! Historian Walter Nelson will present a review of social dancing in Paris during the era between the wars when it was a mecca and refuge for artists, unconventional thinkers, and dreamers from all over the world – the era when Paris brought Art Deco to the […]