La Jolla Playhouse’s Wow Festival: 59 ACRES
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This site-specific, immersive soundwalk takes audiences on a meditative urban odyssey around La Jolla Playhouse and UC San Diego, offering new ways to see and listen while in search of the extraordinary amidst the mundane.
Grab your headphones and comfy shoes for a site-specific, immersive soundwalk that takes you on an urban odyssey exploring the built environment and natural world around La Jolla Playhouse and UC San Diego. This poetic, meditative and innovative work from Los Angeles-based artist Marike Splint offers new ways of seeing and listening as it navigates you through the physical, cultural and geographical landscapes we inhabit, in search of the extraordinary amidst the mundane.
59 Acres can be enjoyed at any time during daylight hours. Bring your fully-charged phone and headphones.
Just Show Up Events: Enjoy this event at (almost) any time or between your other events! This event is open during the opening hours noted above. No RSVP needed.
La Jolla Playhouse’s celebrated annual WOW Festival is a four-day celebration of immersive, interactive and breathtaking experiences from local, national and international artists. Free for everyone to attend from April 4 – 7, WOW Festival is presented in partnership with UC San Diego and takes over locations all around the campus.
Visiting Hours:
Thu, April 4: 4-6:30 p.m.
Fri, April 5: 4-6:30 p.m.
Sat, April 6: 11 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Sun, April 7: 11a.m. - p.m.
La Jolla Playhouse
The La Jolla Playhouse, a Tony Award-winning professional nonprofit theatre, is located in the San Diego coastal suburb of La Jolla, California. Its mission is to advance theatre as an art form and as a vital social, moral and political platform by providing unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of today and tomorrow. With a youthful spirit and eclectic, artist-driven approach, the Playhouse cultivates a local and national following with an insatiable appetite for audacious and diverse work. The Playhouse has received more than 300 awards for theatre excellence, including the 1993 Tony Award as America's Outstanding Regional Theatre. La Jolla Playhouse is nationally acclaimed for its innovative productions of classics, new plays and musicals. Scores of Playhouse productions have moved to Broadway, garnering a total of 29 Tony Awards. Led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. The Playhouse also presents a wide range of education programs that enrich the community and serve the maximum number of children, students and adults. Box Office Hours When performances are taking place: Monday: noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday - Wednesday: noon to 7:30 p.m. Thursday - Saturday: noon to 8 p.m. Sunday: noon to 7 p.m. When the theatre is not in performance: Monday - Saturday: noon to 6 p.m. The main Box Office is located in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for La Jolla Playhouse. For performances, a box office is open at the theatre in which the performance is taking place and the main Box Office remains open to accommodate advance sales and subscriber exchanges.