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San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Latinx Theater, San Diego Art Prize, Performance Art And Math Rock
- Sept. 3
- By Julia Dixon Evans
In San Diego this weekend, you'll find new plays by emerging and acclaimed voices in Latinx theater, a couple of in-person visual art experiences, and an instrumental rock performance live streamed from an empty venue.
Elizabeth Salaam Turns Healing Into Writing Into A Performance Art Exhibition
- Sept. 2
- By Julia Dixon Evans
"Write or Die" is a live, interactive performance art exhibition at You Belong Here — with small group appointments or virtual viewing.
San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Books, Surf Rock, New Dance And Myth
- Aug. 27
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Our picks for art and culture this weekend include the San Diego Festival of Books, Puerto livestreaming from the Casbah stage, The Rosin Box's August Series and a tapestry by Carlos Castro Arias.
San Diego Artist Is Drawing Every Single Seinfeld Girlfriend
- Aug. 27
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Local illustrator Carolyn Ramos, former art director of San Diego CityBeat, is using the pandemic to create a poster for each girlfriend in the iconic pop culture show.
Beverly Pepper Sculptures Now On Display At UTC Shopping Mall
- Aug. 26
- By Julia Dixon Evans
A partnership between MCASD and the Westfield mall brings contemporary art to the public … and the outdoors.
San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Mary Corse, SummerFest, Border Murals And Disney At The Drive-In
- Aug. 20
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Find chamber music, fine contemporary art, a new cross-border mural project and "The Princess and the Frog" at the drive-in.
Claudia Cano To Discuss Art And The Latinx Workforce With MCASD
- Aug. 19
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Local artist asks "Who can be comfortable being served?" as her performance-based art takes on new meaning during the pandemic.
Local Art Conservators To Preserve Protest Art
- Aug. 18
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Balboa Art Conservation Center's new program, Preserve Community Art, will kick off with a project gathering and preserving social justice art, enlisting the help of youth.
San Diego Weekend Arts Events: A Beirut Benefit, Maneki Neko, '90s Nostalgia And California Impressionism
- Aug. 13
- By Julia Dixon Evans
A livestreamed concert by Natula, a finger puppet workshop, a new online exhibition of figurine sculptures at Thumbprint and OMA's virtual California road trip
Contemporary Sculpture Becomes Original Jazz At SDMA
- Aug. 13
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Dewain Valentine's 1978 "Circle, Blue-Violet" is transformed — using science — into a work of original avant-garde jazz by local trumpeter Steph Richards.
Local Illustrator Brings The Sweet And The Macabre To A New Children's Book
- Aug. 12
- By Julia Dixon Evans
San Diego artist and author Susie Ghahremani has a new picture book, "She Wanted To Be Haunted," which packs sinister treats for all ages.
Tune In To Tiki Oasis TV, The Virtual Weekender
- Aug. 12
- By Beth Accomando
Since Tiki Oasis can’t hold its in-person event, it’s hosting a full virtual weekender to help you escape quarantine.
San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Drive-In Style Chamber Music, Spark New Play Festival And Single-Use Plastics In Art
- Aug. 6
- By Julia Dixon Evans
This weekend, find spacey dance with the City Ballet of San Diego, Vivaldi in a parking lot with Mainly Mozart's new "Mozart at the Drive-In" series, a virtual encore of Roustabout's 2017 "Margin of Error" production, a radio play of Miranda Rose Hall's "Best Lesbian Erotica 1995" and CSUSM's "Re-use Project" at Hill Street Country Club.
San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Stories Inspired By Art, History, Music And For Healing
- July 30
- By Julia Dixon Evans
TwainFest kicks off a virtual festival, plus stories inspired by art at Lux Art Institute, youth actors present a classic, a poetry workshop with Gill Sotu and the Spreckels Organ Society continues their weekly webcasts.
A Not-So-Still Life: Cauleen Smith At SDMA
- July 30
- By Julia Dixon Evans
Contemporary artist Cauleen Smith responds to deception, time and the dark void in Juan Sánchez Cotán's still life work with a new video work at San Diego Museum of Art
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