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Project [BLANK]’s annual exhibition returns to close the season with a festival of innovative local art and music. This year’s WORKING TITLE fills the soaring gothic halls of St. Paul’s Cathedral with bold visual art, multimedia installations, performance art, and live experimental music from a diverse group of transborder artists. This year, WORKING TITLE centers on the theme of Sanctuary. What defines a sacred or protected space? What boundaries—physical, social, spiritual—are drawn to offer refuge to those under threat? We invite artists to submit works that engage with sanctuary as a personal experience, a collective practice, an architectural condition, or a political act of resistance. At its center is the world premiere of a major new work by San Diego composer Michelle Lou—a mind-melting composition for voices, tubas, pipe organ, and electronics—surrounded by three days of new works, installations, and thought-provoking performances from some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California. The exhibition is curated by sculptor Diana Benavídez and Artistic Director Leslie Ann Leytham, and artist submissions will be reviewed by a panel of artists: Alessandra Moctezuma, Alvaro Díaz, Cat Gunn, and Luisa Martínez. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

The majority seemed skeptical of the Trump administration's argument on birthright citizenship, appearing ready to rule in favor of upholding automatic citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil.

Get ready for a full-throttle dance party where human creativity and machine intelligence collide. Headlining the night is Deep World, a new live audiovisual/AI performance by VJ Übergeek, the long-running performance persona of artist Amy Alexander, joined by DJ monocromo. Picking up where Übergeek’s legendary CyberSpaceLand series (2000–2015) left off, Deep World blends club energy with theatrical spectacle, part live text improv, part VJ set, and part video game. As Übergeek converses with a custom-trained AI built on the words of writers and thinkers who have navigated crisis, the dialogue drives a pulsing, immersive cathartic rave. The party kicks off with high-energy, algorithmically generated sets by Joe Cantrell and Matty Terrones & Victor Castañeda, priming the dance floor with worlds of sound, light, and automation. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

Los legisladores aprobaron una auditoría de tres de los centros de fusión financiados con fondos federales del estado, citando preocupaciones sobre las libertades civiles y la privacidad.

Sound artist Marguerite Brown opens the evening with an exploration of the electric guitar as a celestial body, using planetary tuning forks, custom hardware, and extended performance techniques to reveal new resonances and cosmic frequencies. Her work invites listeners to consider sound as both vibration and matter, connecting the earthly and the astronomical. Following Brown, the bi-coastal quartet MOONS —Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, and Christine Tavolacci — presents a set of new compositions born from years of collaboration in experimental music. Their performances traverse chamber textures, electroacoustic landscapes, and subtle improvisations, creating music that is intimate, exploratory, and richly detailed. Together, Brown and MOONS offer an evening that bridges the cosmic and the deeply intimate. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Michael Ballard invites audiences into a surreal, participatory world where performance unfolds in response to those present. Through playful instructions, poetic imagery, and unpredictable transformations, Ballard blurs the line between witness and participant—offering a choice to step into the action or simply observe. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

Join us for the opening reception of “Cross Currents,” a contemporary group exhibition bringing together artists from across the globe. Curated by Thumbprint Gallery and presented in Distinction Gallery’s main exhibition space, the show features painting, drawing, and mixed media. Many participating artists will be in attendance for the opening.
Thumbprint Gallery has supported artists since 2009, and Distinction Gallery— rooted on Grand Avenue in Escondido for over 20 years—continues its commitment to bringing exceptional art to the community. The opening reception will feature live music, with drinks available for purchase from LastSpot (21+). This event is free and open to all ages. “Cross Currents” opens March 14, from 6–10 p.m. Distinction Gallery, 317 East Grand Ave, Escondido, CA 92025. Featured Artists: A.H. Romero, Alex Ayala, Andrew Jones, Brady Willmott, Brandon Hurley, Bree Manahan, Briana Hertzog, CJ Troxell, Candace McKay, Chad Berwald, Cleng Sumagaysay, Daniel Hicks, Elvin Armando, Evgola, Jenna Refuerzo, Jessica Yambao, John Sauer, Kate Kennedy, Lourans Mikhail, Matthew Steidley, Megan Tsai, Micah Mariah, Nonie Cruzado, Olivia Obrecht, Richard Salcido, Spenser Little, Tom Haubrick, Travis White. Image is by John Sauer “The Odyssey” Distinction Gallery on Facebook / Instagram

The Trump administration and its critics are waging a war of images on the National Mall like none before. The president's face stares down from federal buildings while statues and posters mock him below.

A West Coast Premiere A Hybrid Staged Reading - One Night Only "White Privilege" by Malaina Moore is a powerful and provocative theatrical examination of race, privilege, and systemic injustice in America. Structured as a series of intersecting vignettes, the play gives voice to both the ignorance that sustains oppression and the lived realities of those most harmed by it. Through satire, raw testimony, historical reckoning, and searing dialogue, "White Privilege" dismantles the myths of “colorblindness,” exposes the violence of cultural appropriation and gentrification, and confronts the generational trauma of anti-Black racism. By weaving together classroom dynamics, therapy sessions, media narratives, and direct address to the audience, Moore forces us to question not only what privilege is—but how it operates in daily life, institutions, and history. At once deeply personal and urgently political, "White Privilege" is a necessary work of theatre that challenges audiences to move beyond denial and toward accountability. Contains strong language, racial slurs, and themes of systemic racism, police violence, and trauma. OnWord Theatre acknowledges that we create on the unceded land of the Kumeyaay people, who have nurtured this region since time immemorial. We are honored to offer complimentary attendance to all First Nations people to ANY performance with proof of ID. Please contact info@OnWordTheatre.com to reserve tickets. OnWord Theatre: Website / Facebook / Instagram

Tuesday's ruling reinstates the immigration status of those who came via CBP One and whose status was terminated.