MOTIONS & EMOTIONS

Over 15 Filipino American artists will be presented by The Thoughtful Beast and New Americans Museum in “Motions & Emotions: Filipino American Stories of Healing”. The event includes an art exhibit and three performances addressing Filipino American intergenerational trauma. Attendees of the event will experience an array of artistic mediums including painting, rap, dance and […]

THE BLACK IRIS PROJECT

Jeremy McQueen, in collaboration with San Diego Theatres presents The Black Iris Project. Photo by Matthew Murphy Broadway veteran & San Diego native Jeremy McQueen brings his Emmy® award-winning New York City–based ballet collaborative to San Diego for the west coast premiere of two original ballets: WILD and A Mother’s Rite. WILD – Inspired by Maurice […]

SDMA+ ROMANTIC ARTSTOPS WITH THE SAN DIEGO SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY

Actress Joy Yvonne Jones San Diego Shakespeare Society actors perform romantic pieces from Shakespeare’s works such as Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatrapaired with works of art from Modern Women, on view through November 7. Performances will be held at various stops throughout the Modern Women exhibition. Look for the meeting point sign inside […]

SD INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL

Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait The 33rd Annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival is back. As society evolves and adjusts, so does our Festival. In order to provide the most meaningful engagements with the films, we have separated the in-person experience from the virtual. Over 12 days at the Garfield Theatre, we will present 35 […]

SAN DIEGO BALLET: ROMEO ET JULIET

A rapturous evening devoted to young love and to those who remember its triumphs and tragedies. Artistic Director Javier Velasco’s re-staging of William Shakespeare’s masterpiece is a lush, yet intimate rumination that focuses on the inner desires of the most famous star-crossed lovers of all time. Truly poetry in motion! February 17-18, 2023 The Conrad […]

LIVE ARTS FEST 2023

Initiated in 2012, Live Arts Fest is a multi-night festival curated by Executive Artistic Director Terry Wilson that expands San Diego Dance Theater’s mission to celebrate and support multi-generational dance artists from around the world and close to home. The festival features dance from around the US and the world and is a celebration of […]

28TH ANNUAL WRITER’S SYMPOSIUM BY THE SEA

Using the theme “Writing That Celebrates,” the 28th annual Writer’s Symposium By The Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University will once again bring some of the world’s great writers to San Diego for in-depth discussion on stories that matter. In a first for the Symposium, all four writers are Pulitzer Prize winners. “Not only are […]

TOYING WITH DESIGN

The exhibition Toying with Design explores how play can inspire designers and architects to create toy-like, functional everyday objects. It plays on the theme of the 2022 Design Week, Design=Inspiration / Inspiración, encouraging viewers to consider what influences their work and how their work motivates others, giving rise to new ideas. This exhibition is co-curated […]

VIRTUAL WOMEN FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL

Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) for the fifth annual Women Filmmakers Festival. Celebrate Women’s History Month this March with free, online screenings and virtual conversations with filmmakers Alison O’Daniel and Vivienne Dick and the museum’s time-based media curator Saisha Grayson. Festival registrants will receive an email providing special access to watch featured films […]

SAN DIEGO ARAB FILM FESTIVAL

Memory Box film still   The San Diego Arab Festival aims to bring a fresh and insightful perspective about the Arab world. The SDAFF is a project of KARAMA, a local non-profit that promotes understanding of the issues of the Arab and Islamic world and of the Palestinian issue in particular.  In 2012, its inaugural […]

30TH SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL

Joaquin Cosio. Image: Narcos: Mexico. The San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF) was born thirty years ago to serve as a platform that champions underrepresented voices in film by challenging the reigning and ever-present stereotypes about the Latinx experience in cinema. For the past three decades SDLFF has given filmmakers the power to tell and share […]

BACH & BRAHMS

Featuring acclaimed soprano Tasha Koontz in her CAMARADA debut, Bach & Brahms will take audiences on a journey across 200 years of classical music with flute, strings, keyboard, and narration by Robert J. Hughes. Although Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms were born over 150 years apart, they share much more than similar first names. Brahms was a huge […]