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International Make Music Day Comes to ARTS DISTRICT Join the worldwide celebration of music on June 21! Apt 4 Music is partnering up with Songbirds Music to present ARTS DISTRICT's very own International Make Music Day! It will be a day of music interaction, workshops, performers and bands! Family friendly, all ages, free and FUN! Make Music Day is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. Completely different from a typical music festival, Make Music is open to anyone who wants to take part. Every kind of musician — young and old, amateur and professional, of every musical persuasion — pours onto streets, parks, plazas, and porches to share their music with friends, neighbors, and strangers. All of it is free and open to the public. Kick off day-long festival activities with two free music and movement class demos led by the enthusiastic and admired teachers of Songbirds Music! Our two demos begin at 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Bring your little ones and join in on an environment where families can sing, dance, play, and learn through the power of music! Stick around after the demos to learn more about Songbirds Music programs and enjoy the rest of the events of the festival! This Make Music day event is part of the ARTS DISTRICT Collaborative Program, made possible by the NTC Foundation with generous support from Bank of Southern California and RiverRock Real Estate Group.

Dueling proposals from Democrats and Republicans in the California legislature aim to provide relief from soaring gas prices. Meanwhile, funding is on the way for mental health treatment for San Diego’s health care workers. Plus, we continue our series on how the pandemic has impacted San Diego’s arts scene.

As part of his project "The Currency," Damien Hirst released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could keep either the non-fungible token or the painting.

The KPBS Summer Music Series celebrates local music. Each week features performances and interviews with San Diego musicians representing a cross-section of the region's diverse music scene.

In the final installment of our series exploring two years of the pandemic's impact on the performing arts industry, we look at the live music scene and local music venues, with stories from a venue owner, security staff and a performer.

The Firm was the book that turned John Grisham into a writing superstar. Now three decades later, he's returned to the characters that made him, with his follow up book The Exchange.

Part rock show. Part comedy act. Part spectacle. US Air Guitar allows ordinary people to become ridiculous rock stars. Come watch Southern California's finest battle it out for a shot at the US Air Guitar National Title! Want to unleash your inner rock star? Sign up to compete! As the only official national competition recognized by the Air Guitar World Championships, US Air Guitar sends its national champions to compete for the world title in Oulu, Finland every year. Founded in 2003, US Air Guitar is the official air guitar association of the United States and is responsible for operating the US Air Guitar Championships, Regional and Finals competitions, All-Star showcases and online contests. US Air Guitar is devoted to taking our nation’s unofficial pastime out of the bedroom and putting it up on the world stage. US Air Guitar is an official member of the World Air Guitar Association. Entering its twenty-first year in the US and its twenty-sixth year worldwide, official national championships are held in countries around the globe and have included: the USA, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom, with new countries participating every year. The 2023 Air Guitar World Championships will take place this August 25th in Oulu, Finland. “It is for good reason that competitive air guitar is widely considered the purest form of human entertainment. By making the heart of the matter invisible—by objectifying nothing—air guitar derives its legitimacy not from some received expectation of cultural value, but rather from the mere presence of the people gathered to bear witness. The competitors, the judges, and the crowd are the only proof that this event even exists. And as a result, its meaning is purely subjective. Every air guitar is an empty vessel, resistant to banal interpretation. And thus, impossible to destroy.” –Kriston Rucker, co-commissioner, US Air Guitar Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Join the San Diego River Park Foundation this Earth Day weekend, April 21 - 23 to celebrate community, environmental stewardship, and connection to our namesake waterway with a FREE community mural opportunity in San Diego River's 52-acre hidden gem, Mission Valley Preserve. This multi-day event will be held along the San Diego River Bikeway in Cottonwood Grove, just west of the Sefton Park Baseball Fields. The mural will be led by San Diego River Park Foundation staff and volunteers, and the mural will be designed by local artist Helen T Kim. Activities include mural prepping, painting, and light gardening of the surrounding Cottonwood Grove area. We will also offer educational tours of the San Diego River at this time. We are looking for local artists, gardeners, volunteer leaders, families, friends, coworkers, clubs, classes, groups, and YOU help us celebrate the San Diego River with restoration of the Cottonwood Grove area and a new community mural! This event will be free but donations towards the San Diego River Park Foundation will be accepted. Come for a few hours or spend the entire day with us! San Diego River Park Foundation on Facebook/ Instagram

The Athenaeum invites you to a free open house the day following our "Talk of the Town" annual benefit celebration. There will be coffee and pastries upon opening at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. tour of the Athenaeum with Librarian Kathi Bower Peterson, a 2 p.m. artists’ books presentation by Carol Buckley in the Elliott North Reading Room, and a 3:30 p.m. concert with vocalist Elizabeth Marcano, accompanied on piano by Kathi Bower Peterson, performing popular 1920s songs from sheet music in the Athenaeum collection. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

What inspires an artist? There are countless possibilities to answer this question, all as individual as the artists themselves. But throughout the history of art one of the consistent inspirations is ‘travel’ - the location and surroundings in which the artists find themselves. As the summer months are generally a time for travel, in today’s docent-led talk we’ll join Timken artists in their travels around the world and examine works inspired by their journeys. So buckle-up and enjoy the ride! Add it to your calendar! Visit: https://www.timkenmuseum.org/calendar/event/virtual-talk-oh-the-places-ive-been-travel-paintings-from-the-timken/?back=month Timken Museum of Art is on Facebook + Instagram