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Sign painter and content creator Koy Sun argues that choosing the slower path — whether through art, storytelling or supporting local businesses — can be a powerful way to challenge the status quo.

President Trump's board at the Kennedy Center is mounting a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the performing arts facility before a court-ordered deadline to remove it by Friday.

For one weekend only, San Diego mixed media artist Gabriela Domville opens her studio for her first ever sale. The collection includes small original works in fabric, thread, paper and paint, with studies, collage works, prints and studio pieces that have never been shown before. Her work is rooted in nature, memory and conservation, shaped by a path from Mexico City to Florence to an artist residency in Champagne, France. Every piece is one of a kind. Visitors can meet the artist, see the work up close, and take something home the same day. gabrieladomvilleart on Instagram

Join us for an afternoon of concert band music featuring Hindemith's Symphony in Bb and a world premiere suite from the movie, The Dark Crystal. Finest City Musicians Alliance on Facebook/Instagram

Opening Reception | 21st Annual SDSU Art Council Scholarship Exhibition Athenaeum Art Center 1955 Julian Avenue San Diego, CA 92113 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 5–8 p.m. May 16–July 3, 2026 CATHERINE AND ROBERT PALMER GALLERY 21st ANNUAL SDSU ART COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION The Athenaeum Art Center is excited to present the 21st Annual SDSU Art Council Scholarship Exhibition, featuring new work by five exceptional graduate and upper-division undergraduate students from the School of Art and Design at San Diego State University. Since 2002, the SDSU Art Council has recognized outstanding emerging artists with scholarships and the opportunity to exhibit their work at the Athenaeum, one of San Diego's most cherished cultural institutions. This year's five recipients gather under a quietly urgent shared theme: the body as a site of history, resistance, and reinvention. Whether mapping chronic pain onto the indifferent American medical system, excavating the layered textures of immigrant memory, or refusing the limits imposed by colonial and binary thinking, these artists use their diverse practices to insist on visibility—for their communities, their experiences, and themselves. Andrea Mendoza is a Mexican American painter and metalsmith whose oil paintings draw on the vibrant color traditions of Mexican art and her indigenous heritage. Working through a feminist lens, she reclaims narrative space for overlooked communities, presenting cultural identity with power and pride, and extending the canvas itself into wearable jewelry through metalsmithing. Tina Mardan, an Iranian American interdisciplinary artist, works across photography, painting, drawing, and installation to explore how memory, displacement, and the domestic environment shape a person's sense of belonging. Her layered compositions find the political embedded in the everyday. Todd Bradley is a San Diego–based mixed-media artist whose C7 Series confronts chronic pain, neurodivergence, and American cultural mythology head-on, using collaged medical imagery, book pages, X-rays, and embroidery thread to transform vulnerability into visual power. Ana Saad works in clay and fiber to investigate queerness, gender performance, and communal existence, distorting the natural world into something liminal and uncanny where trees and manufactured spikes carry the weight of growth, defense, and becoming. Isa Ybarra, a mixed-media painter and printmaker, channels Chicanx muralism, skate culture, and DIY activism into works that critique the racial, bodily, and gendered borders born of colonization, creating visibility for the queer Latinx community while challenging the systems that constrain it. Together, these five artists make the case that art is not merely aesthetic; it is an act of presence and of claiming space. The exhibition can be viewed in the Catherine and Robert Palmer Gallery at the Athenaeum Art Center (1955 Julian Avenue, San Diego, CA 92113) during open gallery hours, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and every second Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m., during the Barrio Art Crawl, and by appointment. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

"Vignettes: Stories from the Latina Experience" is an evening of original short plays that center the voices of Latina women, including U.S.-born Latinx artists, as they navigate life, identity, and belonging in the United States. Through intimate, deeply personal stories, these vignettes explore family relocation, cultural adjustment, generational ties, and the resilience it takes to carve out a sense of home. New Village Arts on Facebook / Instagram

The decision follows years of tax troubles in Spain for the Colombian superstar. Spanish tax authorities did not prove that the singer was a resident of Spain, the court said in its decision.

Fiesta de Reyes in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park will present Día de los Muertos – La Experiencia from September 1 through November 2, 2026. Beginning a month earlier this year, the free, family-friendly experience transforms the Fiesta de Reyes plaza with dozens of artful and interpretive displays, including Catrinas, decorated skulls and skeletons, traditional and contemporary altars and thousands of marigold-inspired details. New for 2026, an integrated lighting package will connect the installations throughout the plaza, adding depth, color and atmosphere after sunset and creating an entirely different way to experience the transformation in the evening. Guests may explore La Experiencia throughout its two-month run while enjoying the plaza’s dining, shopping and live entertainment. Additional entertainment and special-activity schedules will be posted as they are confirmed.

Join us for Pathway to Possibilities at Europa Village, an Autism Benefit Gala supporting the Autism Society of America, a leading organization dedicated to connecting the Autism community to the resources and opportunities they need to live fully. This event reflects our commitment to helping individuals with autism thrive, supporting students in our own community as they build confidence, job skills, and independence, while expanding that mission on a national level through our partnership. This elegant evening will bring together community leaders, philanthropists, advocates, and local businesses for a night of connection, impact, and possibility of celebrating the Autism community and the mission of the Autism Society of America. We are especially honored to have students from Chaparral High School’s Workability Program serving guests throughout the night — a powerful example of inclusion and community engagement in action. Your participation helps support advocacy, education, resources, and community programming that promote dignity, equity, and meaningful inclusion for individuals with autism. Autism Society of America on Facebook / Instagram

The case centers on whether local governments can hold giant energy companies accountable for the local harms of climate change, but it has repercussions beyond climate.