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A KPBS investigation last year found the Marine Corps funneled thousands of Marine recruits into the Oceanside-based credit union annually in order to process their paychecks. It also found the credit union relied on overdraft fees as a key source of revenue.

Noodles & Doodles with 2025 One Book, One San Diego Teen Author Thien Pham: Saturday, November 15 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. KPBS Community Engagement Center FREE, ALL AGES Please join KPBS and community partner, Little Fish Comic Book Studio, for a special in-person event with Thien Pham, author of our 2025 One Book, One San Diego teen selection, Family Style.A delicious Vietnamese lunch will be followed by a discussion and guided art lesson with Thien Pham and Founder of Little Fish Comic Book Studio, Alonso Nunez. REGISTER: https://obosdthienphamevent.eventbrite.com/

Join us for a special Art Break with Dawn Williams Boyd, a celebrated visual storyteller whose richly layered textile work, "Piscean Dancer," is featured in "Layered Narratives - Quilted Stories of Gender and Race at the 1876 Centennial." A working artist for over five decades as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, Boyd brings deep personal experience and fierce conviction to every piece she creates. In this talk, she’ll reflect on her creative journey, from discovering her calling in a high school biology lab to finding her voice through fabric, inspired in part by the legendary Faith Ringgold. Dawn Williams Boyd (b. 1952) Neptune, New Jersey. Boyd lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Her self-described narrative “cloth paintings” chronicle seminal moments in American history. Boyd’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY; Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, AL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Columbus Museum in Columbus, GA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. Boyd’s work has been exhibited at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC; Southwest Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA; Bulloch Hall, Roswell, GA; Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA; Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; The Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA; the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; and Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY. Boyd is represented by Fort Gansevoort, New York Mingei International Museum on Facebook / Instagram

Despite hundreds of residents voicing their opposition to a contract with ICE to share the use of a police firing range, the Escondido City Council declined to cancel the agreement during a five-hour meeting on Wednesday night.

The National Endowment for Arts had promised over $300,000 in grants to San Diego arts organizations. Now, those funds are on hold, leaving the future of many programs uncertain.

Free Teen Art is a free program for teens, who are interested in art-making as an enrichment activity that goes beyond making crafts. The aim of the program is to provide a space for youth to create art, share stories, collaborate, explore, and identify new ways to use art in their lives. The Athenaeum offers facilities, resources, guidance, instruction, and support. The open studio program includes a rotation of multidisciplinary art instructors offering workshops in their respective fields, as well as curricular activities that involve the use of the Athenaeum library resources as a starting point for projects. Activities include drawing, painting, research, and introduction to various media. Canada Kerwin has worked as a K–Grade 2 art volunteer since 2005, creating age-appropriate lessons that include introduction to art theory and artists’ biographies and tie-in to curricula as needed. Retired from the healthcare field, Canada also served in the US Navy. She applies her background experience to her ongoing art studies at Mira Costa College, focusing on the human form through life drawing and sculpture. She says, “Capturing the infinite expressions of the body through gesture and line is a very fascinating and gratifying practice.” Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

Join us at the historic Sunshine Brooks Theater (217 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA) for the first ever screening of "FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical." This documentary includes footage and interviews from the creation of the acclaimed musical– from conception of the show in 2016 to present, created in partnership with Broadway Records. "FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical" tells the true story of the 1961 activists who boldly challenged the legality and optics of the segregated Jim Crow south by riding buses in mixed racial groups. It features civil rights icons John Lewis and Diane Nash, famed newspaper editor John Seigenthaler, Robert Kennedy and and the courageous and diverse riders of the Civil Rights Movement. Oceanside Theatre Company on Facebook / Instagram

CINEMA IS POWER BY THE FILM DISPATCH Presents An Exclusive Evening Of Cinematic Art Featuring Roger Deakins, Milana Aernova, Joe Devito & Bárbara Perrín Rivema Saturday, November 8, 2025 Event Highlights – Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Calif. The Film Dispatch is proud to present a one-day immersive experience that bridges film, music, and dance. This special event will feature a moderated conversation with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, known for "1917," "Blade Runner 2049," and "The Shawshank Redemption." The day will also showcase a contemporary dance piece by Milana Aernova, live musical performance by Joe Devito, and a premiere of an original short film directed by Bárbara Perrín Rivema. Each performance highlights the fusion of art forms, providing attendees with a rare opportunity to engage with visionary artists across multiple disciplines. Roger Deakins will share insights into his acclaimed cinematography and the art of visual storytelling, drawing from decades of landmark films, and will offer an early release of his book "Reflections." Milana Aernova’s dance piece explores the intersection of movement, emotion, and visual design, while Joe Devito’s live music underscores the performances, creating an immersive sonic environment. Bárbara Perrín Rivema’s original short film completes the day, demonstrating innovative cinematic storytelling and artistic expression. Event Details: Date: Saturday, November 8 Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Doors Open: 3 p.m.| Event Ends: 7 p.m. Tickets are limited and early reservations are encouraged. For press inquiries please contact: The Film Dispatch – community@thefilmdispatch.com | 619-906-9200 Connect with The Film Dispatch on Instagram: @film.dispatch

Nonprofit art space The Hill Street Country Club, founded in 2012, has served as a hub for art, music and community. The gallery's final exhibit, Marisa DeLuca's "What Goes Up Must Come Down," is a study of Oceanside's lost or abandoned buildings — and the grief therein.

“'The Space Between': Texture Studies by Denja Harris explores the tension between control and surrender, seeking meaning in the space between what is and what is becoming. Through large-scale yarn paintings, soft sculptures, and video, I investigate how texture, form, color, and pattern evoke sensory and emotional responses. Each piece invites viewers to engage with the interplay of softness and structure and to find significance within the undefined spaces. This work mirrors our collective human experience, an ongoing navigation of uncertainty, patience, and becoming. In this way, absence holds as much weight as presence. This exhibition is about approaching the unknown with curiosity rather than resistance and using improvisation as both an initiation and a response. Layering and repetition are prominent throughout my work, reinforcing the cyclical nature of change and the unfolding process of becoming. 'The Space Between' is an invitation to pause, reflect, and consider how we hold space for the unknown and, in doing so, how we shape and are shaped by it in return.” –Denja Harris Oceanside Museum of Art on Facebook / Instagram