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North County's premier foodie event! Enjoy incredible food, live DJs, and a vibrant marketplace at this summer celebration by the coast. With 70+ vendors in the heart of Downtown Oceanside, this summer celebration brings together incredible food, live DJs, and a curated marketplace of diverse makers and eco-friendly brands for a fun-filled day of eating, shopping, and entertainment by the coast. Indulge in an unparalleled selection of food and drinks, including BBQ, Bao, Sushi, Donuts, Nachos, Dumplings, Loaded Fries, Gyros, Tamales, Wings, Noodles, Cannolis, Cookies and so much more! Featuring a stellar lineup of local vendors offering the most eco-friendly food, products, and services in Southern California. Meet up with your favorite people to sample delicious eats, groove to the DJs and enjoy a day of sun, food and fun. A Way Home For Dogs and Desert Catopia will have adoptable dogs and cats and information about fostering and other volunteer opportunities. There is a free parking garage on Ditmar St and Civic Center Dr. Additionally, there is free street parking nearby. This is a rain or shine event. Viridian Productions: Website / Facebook / Instagram

Our Words Turn to Air Andie Ryan Round | Earth / House / Hold Opening: Saturday, November 7, 2026 On View: November 7 - 18, 2026, by appointment Location: Earth / House / Hold 340 16th Street, Studio 26 San Diego, CA Earth / House / Hold presents Our Words Turn to Air, a solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Andie Ryan Round. There are experiences that resist being held by language. Dust settles. Water evaporates. Breath leaves the body. Forms shift at the edges of perception before we have words for what has changed. Working primarily in pastel, Round explores dissolution and metamorphosis through processes of material transformation. Dust meets varnish and rubbing alcohol, creating surfaces that soften, disperse, and reform. Echoes of elemental forces such as wind, water, fire and earth move through paintings that are suspended between appearance and disappearance, gesture and atmosphere. Our Words Turn to Air invites sustained looking, where meaning emerges through material presence, perception, and time. About Earth / House / Hold Artist-Run Contemporary Gallery & Curatorial Platform Founded by painter Meghan Berkeley Augustine, Earth / House / Hold is an independent exhibition initiative dedicated to contemporary painting and art, material inquiry, and sustained encounters with artworks. Currently presenting exhibitions in artist studios and temporary spaces, the platform creates opportunities for thoughtful engagement with art through perception, atmosphere, and time. Website: www.earthhousehold.com earth_house_hold on Instagram

Join us at Mission Trails for a fun and festive holiday shopping event that benefits the park. Holiday Marketplace to Benefit Mission Trails Regional Park Shop local this holiday season at Mission Trails Regional Park! The annual Holiday Marketplace brings local makers and vendors together for a weekend of holiday shopping at the Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center. Visitors can find unique gifts, support local businesses, explore the Visitor Center and make a Mission Trails outing out of their holiday shopping. Best of all, 30% of each vendor’s gross sales goes directly to the Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation (MTRP Foundation), helping support and enhance Mission Trails Regional Park. 2026 HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE Dates: Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15, 2026 Time: 9 a.m.–3 p.m. both days Location: Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center One Father Junipero Serra Trail San Diego, CA 92119 The event is free. 2026 VENDORS This year’s Holiday Marketplace will feature local artists, makers, bakers and small businesses offering ceramics, jewelry, art, baked goods, home decor, paper goods, woodworking and more. Participating vendors include: Open Studio Sea to Summit Ceramics Chrysanthemum Art San Diego Sourdough Bakery Folk Project Two Hermanas Muxu Creations Jodie Talmadge Woodburned Art Juliana Tipton Design SAVAGE BEE-CHES Olly’s Baked Assortments (O.B.A.) Raíz Chocolate Out West Ceramics Ingrained West Woodworks Bradbury-Bennett Moonwinks Woodworking Tina Evangelou PARKING + SHUTTLE Parking at the Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center fills quickly, so Holiday Marketplace visitors are encouraged to use our satellite parking and free shuttle. Satellite parking will be available at the southernmost end of the Keil’s Food Store shopping center parking lot in San Carlos, near the intersection of Jackson Drive and Navajo Road. Please park between Ace Hardware and Primos Mexican Food and take the shuttle to the Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center. Please do not park directly in front of Keil’s Food Store or any of the other storefronts. Those spaces need to remain available for customers of the businesses in the shopping center. Mission Trails Regional Park on Facebook/Instagram

What happens when five artists bring their worlds into one house? Join us at Dear Tomorrow for an evening with the San Diego Artist Incubator, a City of San Diego initiative supporting artists as they develop their practices and share their work with the public. As the official partner venue for the program, we're opening the house to five artists working across painting, dance, sound, performance, and installation. Each artist will activate the space in their own way, bringing new energy to the rooms and inviting us to experience art beyond the traditional gallery setting. Explore the color expressionist paintings of Cathy Carey, the figurative painting and mixed media installations of Alexandra Carter, and the sound, media, and salvaged electronics of Joe Cantrell. Experience the movement and ensemble work of Miguel Galvan, alongside Miki Vale blend of hip hop, theatre, sound, performance, and writing. Together, their practices will transform Dear Tomorrow into a meeting place for different ways of making, moving, listening, and seeing. Come wander the house, encounter something unexpected, and spend an evening with the artists shaping San Diego's creative landscape. Presented in partnership with the City of San Diego's San Diego Artist Incubator program. Dear Tomorrow, on TikTok / Instagram

The pop superstar is showing art from his personal collection for the first time. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is packed with fans.

The proposed changes aim to allay schools’ apprehension about spending their arts money granted through an initiative voters passed in 2022.

The Escondido Downtown Business Association (EDBA) is proud to announce Gather on Grand – a new downtown Escondido tradition, inspired by the Escondido community, creativity and agricultural heritage. With a heavy focus on music this year, North County residents are invited to stroll Grand Avenue and discover handcrafted goods, listen and experience live music on multiple stages, plus partake in seasonal fall flavors, family activities and unique shopping. This year's festival will take place between Escondido Blvd. and Ivy Street in historic downtown Escondido. Live music stages will be located at Broadway and artists include: 10 a.m. – Virginia James 11 a.m. – Jonny Tarr 12 p.m. – Mohavisoul 1 p.m. – Calamity 2 p.m. – The Gravities 3 p.m. – Zavala Soul 4 p.m. – The Bastards Art in the Garden is a juried art show within Gather on Grand event, bringing many talented Southern California artists to Heritage Garden Park – on the northeast corner of Juniper Street and Grand Avenue – to show and sell their work. Festival goers can shop directly from the artists, hear about their inspiration and learn how their art is created. Guests can shop from hundreds of vendors, including unique hand-crafted gifts, imports, and delicious international cuisine. There are also many family-friendly interactive kids’ crafts, as well as a variety of free hands-on art activities and much more. For more information on the EDBA and festival, visit www.downtownescondido.com. Escondido Downtown Business Association on Facebook / Instagram

Join us for a special screening of "In the Heights" in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month as part of OTC at the Brooks' "Arts Unite" series. Created by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes, this acclaimed musical is set in New York's vibrant Washington Heights neighborhood, where a close-knit community dreams of a brighter future while celebrating family, culture, identity, and belonging through unforgettable music and dance. Rated PG-13. Through film and community gathering, "Arts Unite" celebrates underrepresented voices and the transformative power of the arts to foster connection, reflection, and unity. Students receive free admission when they present a valid Student ID at the Box Office.

Celebrate the sweetest time of the year with a family-friendly event in the heart of Clairemont Mesa. Fun for the whole family! The night will feature Christmas-themed arts and crafts, games, and coloring. Enjoy a hot cocoa bar and holiday treats. With fun giveaways, kids and parents alike will have a fun, festive time! Visit: https://www.thepottershousesandiego.com/

OPaf South 2, presented by Other Places and Harvest & Gather, will transform the campus of the California Center for the Arts, Escondido into a day-long meeting ground for artists and ideas. Participants 2026 BAB & Friends / Wild Geese / An Interval /Hag Stone Fountains / sspatz / Project PAINT: the Prison Arts Initiative / Until Silence Falls / Undercurrent Artist Collective / Karah Lain / Drawing Village Time / Home Was the Place I Longed for, Not Where I Lived / beauty in movement / Pin-Up Moms, Bella Pettengill / Utlitarian Mud / elegia incorporate / We the Gadflys / Fishing for a Sound, Aeolian Forms for San Diego’s Mission Bay A calendar of OPaf South–related events will be posted at opaf.info. Admission is free, with a suggested $5 donation to Other Places to sustain future programming. About Other Places Other Places is a Los Angeles–based 501(c)(3) arts organization founded in 2017 to challenge commercial and institutional models by supporting art exhibition practices outside the mainstream. Since 2018, Other Places has organized Other Places art fair (OPaf) – a public program which reimagines what an art fair can be and whom it can serve – in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, San Diego, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Kyoto. OPaf cultivates a global network of independent art project spaces and artist-run platforms worldwide. In 2025, Other Places launched STAR150 PRESS, an imprint that publishes artist books and printed materials that reflect the same values as our exhibitions and events: experimental, collaborative, and rooted in dialogue over market logic.