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Mountain Mike’s Pizza is celebrating its one-year anniversary at its Oceanside location (2251 S. El Camino Real) on Thursday, June 2nd from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. ! To kick off the celebration, Mountain Mike’s has partnered with the San Diego Blood Bank to host a blood drive from 12pm to 5pm. Throughout the entire event, Mountain Mike’s will have an interactive booth featuring popular carnival games, which will also fundraise for the local wrestling club. After 5pm, local brewers will take over the tap and local vendors will open pop-up booths to showcase and sell their products. Live music will also be playing at the event from 6pm to 9pm. Mountain Mike’s Pizza is eager to welcome local community members to the event!

Unurbanist Assembly 2022 - An even more intentional experience For the past two years, as a Juneteenth celebration, the Unurbanist Assembly hosted by Thrivance Group has created a 23-hour virtual community that focuses on what it would look like to center joy, healing, and atonement in urban planning and policymaking. This free event is back for its third installment on June 17, 2022, and this year’s theme is 'Decarceration and spatial reparation'. This year a select community of Unurbanist community members will join the Thrivance Group in Atlanta, GA for a series of in-person gatherings. This year's assembly will feature youth voices, guest teachers, artists, and culture bearers from across the globe. The event is hosted by Thrivance Group, a socially-responsible planning firm working in the interest of racialized people to bring transformative justice into public policy, urban planning, and community development. In alignment with this year's theme, the Thrivance Group will support one person recently released from the carceral system. This will cover the estimated cost of housing, groceries, and transportation costs for 12 months. Anyone who is interested in centering healing, and disrupting the harmful legacy of urban planning are invited to attend. If you are interested in attending, contributing to this initiative, or partnering with this event, please email sarah@thrivanceproject.com. Contributions: For those attendees who are able to financially support the Unurbanist Assembly 2022 programming, we encourage a contribution of $10 dollars or more. In alignment with this year's theme of "Decarceration and spatial separation", the Thrivance Group has made the commitment to support one person recently released from the carceral system with the contributions gathered. Our contribution goal is $30,000 to cover one year of expenses, including the estimated cost of housing, groceries, and transportation. We are also accepting contributions to provide honorariums to Unurbanist guest speakers, panelists, and artists The cost of an honorarium for one Unurbanist session is approximately $250

Manzanita Concerts presents Latin/Soul/World fusion songwriter Gaby Aparicio. Award winning singer/songwriter (most recently nominated for a San Diego Music Awards for Best World Music Album), Gaby Aparicio blends numerous cultural sounds together inspired from her coastal Uruguayan and Italian family roots. Honing her laid-back, sunny style in Orlando, FL, Aparicio headed to San Diego, CA in 2014. Since then, she has become a fixture in the live music scene, performing her signature fusion of Latin, world, pop, reggae, and soul.

Summer Solstice marks the beginning of the new season and is the longest day and shortest night of the year. What better way to celebrate the summer solstice than in nature with an outdoor writing retreat. As we have during both the Fall and Spring Equinoxes, we’ll gather in Liberty Station Park, take ourselves and our notebooks into the natural habitat of the Park to observe, interact with, and reflect on how nature responds to warmer days and longer daylight hours. We’ll also ask what effect these seasonal changes have on us, on our writing, on our personal relation to nature in all its summer wildness. Our retreat will begin in the still-bright light of day and conclude just as the sun sets on the first day of summer. Bring a friend and join us. More information and directions will be sent upon registration.

Join us at the Lightbox Theater on Monday, June 27 at 7 p.m. for our A Year in Ink, Volume 15 anthology reading! Please register at the link above to save your spot! Donation fee is $10. Thank you for your support of Writers, Ink!

Come join us on Saturday, June 18 for our Summer Ink Writing Retreat! We will meet at the San Luis Rey Mission in Oceanside, California from 9a.m. to 4p.m.. Cost is $150 to participate, but equity pricing options are also available for those who need them. Lunch and journals will be provided! Please Note: Equity pricing options are limited to three, so please select this option only if financial hardship exists. Thank you!

Herb Alpert & Lani Hall will perform live on Thursday, June 2 at 8 p.m. at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. On sale now at Humphreys Box Office and Ticketmaster.com. Box Office Hours: Wed / Fri / Sat: 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. & 3:30-6:30 p.m. Humphreys Concerts venue is located at 2241 Shelter Island Drive in San Diego. Restaurant Reservations: (619) 224-3577

It’s that time of year again! FINALLY we will gather, in person, in the beautiful, spacious upstairs section of Lestat’s Hillcrest. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. , you can write your heart out in a community of writers. At ten minutes to each hour, we will have an optional stretch/chat/nosh break. Prompts will be available all day for those who need them, or you may work on your creative project independently. As always it will be BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop…or notebook!) this year. As no outside food or drink is allowed, we encourage you to order lunch from Lestat’s (check out the menu here)! We will take your order and payment early so as to have lunch ready by noon. We will break 12-12:30 (but, as always, feel free to keep writing). We will have raffle items, including SDWI memberships, classes, merch, books and more, so bring your $! And if you would like to contribute to the raffle, please let us know.

Join the Blue Water Film Festival for their opening night reception, screening and filmmaker Q&A at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park! 6 p.m. - Doors Open, Cocktail Reception 7 p.m. - Screening of "Inside Antarctica: Machine Learning & Microplastics" by Nat Geo Explorer and Filmmaker Mike Libecki 7:15 p.m. - Q&A Discussion with Filmmaker Mike Libecki Moderated by Greg Reitman, BWFF Executive Director The 2022 Blue Water Film Festival (BWFF) presented by the Blue Water Institute, is set for its third year from June 2 - June 5. Held each year in celebration of United Nations World Oceans Day, BWFF will screen eighteen feature films, fifteen short films and two animated films--35 films in all, one world premiere; 12 int’l premiere and the remaining California premieres. BWFF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Learn more at bluewaterfilmfestival.org. Blue Water Film Festival is on Facebook + Instagram

Echoes of Africa celebrates classical and contemporary artistic traditions by African and African American artists. This two-part exhibition features African artifacts from San Diego Mesa College's World Cultures Art collection coupled with artworks produced by local contemporary artists. A dynamic group of artifacts will be exhibited, featuring objects that demonstrate the mastery of African artisans in metal, wood, ceramics, beadwork, and textiles. The Fine Arts gallery will highlight artworks by contemporary local artists in conversation with select African artifacts, echoing and responding to aspects of their materials, symbolism, and creative process. The exhibition pays tribute to the ongoing cultural and artistic influence of African art on African American artists and celebrates our connections to the spirit and history of African and African American culture. Curated by Dr. Denise Rogers and features work by Andrea Chung, Angie Jennings, Christopher Lloyd Tucker, Maxx Moses, and Jermaine Adeshola Williams. Gallery Hours: • Monday and Tuesday, 1 – 7 p.m. • Wednesday – Saturday, Noon – 5 p.m. • Closed on Sunday Opening Reception will take place on Jun. 4, 2022 promptly at 12:00 p.m. on the 1st floor courtyard with a special performance by the World Beat Center African Drum and Dance group. Following the performance, guests will be welcomed into the exhibit areas, both in the Popular library on the 1st floor as well as the Fine Arts Gallery on the 9th floor. Refreshments will be served.