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  • The Matt Hall Jazz Orchestra (MHJO) is a modern jazz big band comprised of 17 top-call musicians from the Southern California region led by jazz trombonist Matt Hall. The band keeps a busy schedule performing everything from classic big band staples to modern repertoire, as well as original, arranged, and transcribed material by members of the Orchestra. Come on out to Charade Speakeasy in the back of The Balboa in Downtown San Diego…grab a burger, get a few beers, and have this amazingly swingin’ big band musically melt your face off! *EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH RESIDENCY* MHJO PERSONNEL: MATT HALL (Trombone / Director) SAXOPHONES CHARLIE ARBELAEZ (Alto Sax) NICK CALDWELL (Alto Sax) DICK McGUANE (Tenor Sax) CHAZ CABRERA (Tenor Sax) ED SPILLANE (Baritone Sax) TROMBONES JEANNE GEIGER (Lead) RYAN KUPSH DAVE SCOTT ED GOROZA (Bass) TRUMPETS BILLY EDWALL (Lead) PAUL SEAFORTH (Split Lead) GREG BECK EMANUEL HILL RHYTHM SECTION LOUIS VALENZUELA (Guitar) JOHN OPFERKUCH (Piano) DOUG WALKER (Bass) JOHNNY STEELE (Drums) VOCALS DAVE SCOTT [Note: Band Personnel Subject to Change due to Availability] TICKETS: $25 (Advance on Website or At Door)
  • "Shoot The People" is a documentary capturing photographer and activist Misan Harriman’s journey documenting global protest movements that drive social change. Renowned for his wide-ranging work — including powerful breakthrough images from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and capturing the Palestinian liberation movement on film — Harriman also made history as the first Black man to photograph a British Vogue cover. The film follows Harriman as he highlights the resilience of grassroots activists fighting for equality, civil rights, and social justice, the film showcases the intersectionality of these movements and their collective power. With historical context, interviews with activists, and explorations of digital activism, the documentary reveals how Harriman’s lens brings the world’s activism to light, inspiring viewers to recognize their own power in shaping a more just society. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram
  • Starring Academy Award-nominees Maria Bakalova and David Strathairn as father and daughter, O HORIZON is a big-hearted, high-concept crowdpleaser in the tradition of HER and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, with great supporting turns from Adam Pally, Paulina Porizkova, Maggie Grace and Avi Nash and music from the wonderful Aimee Mann. O HORIZON stars Bakalova as a young neuroscientist navigating an exhilarating new romance and a groundbreaking career discovery amidst the recent loss of her father (Strathairn). When an emerging technology suddenly allows her to speak with him again, it turns her life upside down. Emmy Award-winning director Madeleine Rotzler crafts a magical realist fable for our modern era that considers our relationships amid rapidly evolving technologies with warmth and humor. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram
  • After Wang Wei’s daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network, his only ally is Navin, a journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo finds themselves in an explosive martial-arts showdown against a relentless gang of thugs. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram
  • Attention podcast fans! Join KPBS for The Art of Protest, featuring live recordings of three signature podcasts Join us on Sunday July 12, 2026 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. to see KPBS Midday Edition, Port of Entry and The Finest in front of a live studio audience. Together, the three podcasts will explore the art of protest in our democracy as part of the America 250 commemoration, examining how people use advocacy, comedy, art and storytelling to spark conversation and create change. Hear from local civil rights leaders, comedian Lourdes Ayon and artist Koy Sun. After the recordings, stay for a reception where you can meet the guests and connect with the podcast teams. Ticket includes entrance to the live podcast recordings, parking and light bites. The first 50 people to register/purchase tickets will receive a free KPBS podcast T-shirt of their choice, available for pickup at the event.Come be part of the conversation and experience the energy of live podcasting!
  • On June 30, Sound Praxis presents an evening of electronic and electroacoustic music by Mike Nigro, Matthew D. Gantt, Ess Whiteley, and Jonathan Piper. This presentation is generously hosted by Brown Building in City Heights! **Mike Nigro** is an electronic musician and label operator based in Sydney, Australia (previously Brooklyn, NY and Newark, Delaware). His solo practice and collaborations draw inspiration from the minimalists, early synthesizer pioneers, and contemporary experimental underground. His work explores the spaces between musicality and noise; movement and stasis; synthetics and organics. **Matthew D. Gantt** is an artist, composer, and educator focused on sound in virtual spaces, generative systems facilitated by idiosyncratic technology, and digital production presets as sonic readymades. He worked as a studio assistant to electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, and has been an active participant in the international creative community, presenting or performing at spaces such as Pioneer Works, Issue Project Room, Roulette, Babycastles, SVA Visible Futures Lab, Panoply Performance Laboratory, EMPAC, the Wrong Biennale, and countless DIY venues across North America. **Ess Whiteley** is a composer, performer, sound, & intermedia artist. Their work combines electronics with acoustic instruments, multimedia, repurposed technological objects, and sonic artifacts to produce audible worlds that explore temporal elasticity, living memory, haunted presents, and strange posthuman mutations. Sometimes hyperreal and maximal, other times hypnotic and meditative, their work plays with perceptual ambiguity, reference, technological agency, and absurdity, generating entangled, synthetic-organic architectures that shift between moving states of entropy, periodicity, and stasis. **Jonathan Piper** is a San Diego-based tubist and technologist. His work as a tubist centers on the exploration of sonic and gestural possibilities found at the limits of both the instrument and the performing body. Supported by extended techniques and live electronic processing, he combines elements of drone, doom, noise, free jazz, and contemporary idioms. Jonathan performs as a soloist and in collaboration with musicians including Ryan Ebaugh, Michelle Lou, Stevie Richards, Nathan Hubbard, Nathan Berlinguette, Meghann Welsh, and Nick Lesley. He has presented work at Oracle Egg's BROILER Residency Series, Drone Not Drones, High Desert Soundings, Project [BLANK]'s Working Title, Sudden Somethings From Nothing, and Vernacular New Music. June 30, 2026 Brown Building @ 4133 Poplar Street Music at 7:30 p.m. $15 suggested (NOTAFLOF) Refreshments available All proceeds to the artists
  • The internationally acclaimed pianist Gabriela Montero returns to La Jolla Music Society with a richly expressive recital of Spanish and Spanish-inspired music. Her evocative program brings together beloved works by Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Liszt, and others, alongside rarely heard miniatures by the legendary Alicia de Larrocha, one of the defining pianists of the 20th century. La Jolla Music Society on Facebook / Instagram
  • Visiting Artist Shareout: Melanie Taing Join us on Saturday, July 11 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. at Revision La Mesa for an afternoon of storytelling, creativity, and community with visiting artist Melanie Taing (@olliepotstudios). Melanie's work explores personal and generational healing through clay, drawing on her Cambodian, Thai, and Chinese American heritage, tea culture, herbalism, and the belief that art and community can be powerful tools for connection and care. After developing chronic migraines and other disabling health conditions in 2022, Melanie found healing and resilience through Traditional Chinese Medicine, tea-making, and ceramics, with pottery becoming a space for creativity, reflection, and restoration. From 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., Melanie will share stories about her artistic practice, cultural heritage, disability journey, and the ways creativity, community, and care have shaped her work. From 2 p.m. – 4 p.m., participants are invited to create their own ceramic coasters inspired by Melanie's signature vinyl resist technique, which she uses throughout her work, including pieces from her Amrita collection and playful pop-culture-inspired ceramics. - Open to all - Drop-in, no RSVP required - Free to try, $10 to have your piece fired At Revision, our goal is to connect and center disabled artists through storytelling, community building, and creative practice. We're honored to welcome Melanie and celebrate the ways art can help us heal, connect, and imagine new possibilities together. Revision La Mesa, 8691 La Mesa Blvd Saturday, July 11 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. This program was made possible by funding from the Foundation for Developmental Disabilities (@foundationfordd), a a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) and their families in San Diego and Imperial Counties. Revision Creative Workspace on Facebook / Instagram
  • We’re excited to celebrate traditional craft with you next month — July 18 — as we join artists, institutions, and craftspeople who make up the heart of our craft community. Throughout July, each weekend will spotlight a different neighborhood with interactive craft programming and hands‑on fun. Happening at San Diego Craft Collective July 18 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Live artist demonstrations + community craft time All ages and all levels of curiosity are welcome. If you love craft, want to learn something new, or simply enjoy watching artists at work, come spend the morning with us. This event is presented in partnership with Handwork 2026 by the Craft in America and made possible through the generous support of Arts District Liberty Station.
  • Welcome to Emo Night Brooklyn, a late-night, DJ-driven dance party blasting the best emo and pop punk jams that raised us, ruined us, and somehow still define us. We’re taking over House of Blues San Diego in San Diego on 11 July 2026 for a night of screaming every word, moshing with strangers, and feeling absolutely everything. This is not a quiet night out. Expect wall-to-wall emo and pop punk anthems, deep cuts, and songs you still know by heart even if you pretend you’ve “moved on.” From the tracks that got you through your worst years to the ones that still hit a little too hard, Emo Night Brooklyn is all about losing your voice, finding your people, and reliving the music that made us who we are. And yeah sometimes special guests and your favorite artists even jump in to join the chaos. Come ready to scream, mosh, dance, cry in the corner (no judgment), and throw yourself into the pit with all your favorite people. Tell the DJs what you want to hear and we promise we listen better than your ex. It’s loud, it’s emotional, and it’s the kind of night that reminds you it was never just a phase. So get ready, San Diego. Lace up your boots, warm up your vocal cords, and meet us in the pit at House of Blues San Diego on 11 July 2026. Emo Night Brooklyn is calling — and yes, we need every soul. Emo Night Brooklyn on Facebook / Instagram
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