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The 10 winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize honors emerging writers, with the hope of allowing them to concentrate full-time on their work.

For the July 4th weekend, a mini art tour of exhibitions by Javier Arreguin Villegas, Kim Sweeney, Andrew Alcasid, and the group show 'And We Will Sing In The Tall Grass Again'

Manzanita Concerts presents the Point Loma Singers, a select chamber choir from San Diego’s Point Loma Nazarene University. For almost fifty years it has maintained a busy performance schedule, appearing in San Diego, throughout California and the American southwest, and on a number of foreign tours. The choir performs a varied repertoire of sacred and secular classics, from masterworks by the world’s great composers to Broadway and contemporary music. Date | Sunday, April 10 at 4 p.m. Location | Mission Trails Church This event is free and open to the public. Free-will donations support the artists. For more information, please visit missiontrailschurch.com or call (619) 582-2033.

The La Jolla Playhouse's long-running educational theater production project, the Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour snuck in just under the wire in 2020, with February performances on the Playhouse stage for several shows, though the actual tour across local schools that spring didn't happen due to the pandemic. This year's project, including the performance and all educational and behind the scenes components, are virtual, and highly produced at that. The 2021 commission is "Pick Me Last" by Idris Goodwin (whose breakbeat play "Hype Man" was recently produced by San Diego REP). "Pick Me Last" is a delightful script — funny and compelling, and it unfolds in a smart and curious way from the very first line. The POP Tour program is designed for grades 3-6, but this play has a dreamy timelessness and agelessness. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS (featured in San Diego Weekend Arts Events, May 27, 2021). From the Playhouse: A playground. Two teams. Two captains. It’s the same thing every day at Chavonne’s elementary school – her best friend Wes is always picked last. So she hatches a plan to end the schoolyard cycle. Still, after a few imaginary visits from visionaries Sigmund Freud and Elon Musk, plus a little help from the new kid, Chavonne learns that the problem she’s trying to fix may not be the one that needs solving. Don’t miss this funny and touching story – infused with music and poetry – about standing up for your friends and learning to let them stand up for themselves. Now available to stream through December 31! Book here to stream. "Pick Me Last" is by playwright Idris Goodwin. This La Jolla Playhouse 2021 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour production is directed by Jacole Kitchen.

The concert, held every second Wednesday of the month, features past and present Metropolitan Opera Competition winners, active San Diego Opera performers and guest artists who have sung all over the world. Registration is required. Join us on Wednesday, April 13 from 7-8 p.m. featuring Nicolas Reveles, piano; Patrick Anderson, Bass-baritone; Alexis Alfaro, tenor; Diana Farrell, soprano; Karin Wilcox, mezzo. A suggested donation of $10-20 gores directly to the artists performing at Opera Wednesdays Visit OPERA Wednesdays on Facebook

The graphic novel, "we used to move through the city like doves in the wind" is about a couple separated by the COVID border closure. The Tijuana-based artist will open a solo exhibition at The Hill Street Country Club in early 2022.

Mauricio Muñoz and Andrew Roberts will open distinct solo exhibitions at Best Practice in Logan Heights, Muñoz with unsettling painted renderings of celebrity mugshots, and Roberts linking long-lost family tragedy and the arms industry.

Fed up with Mexico's non-interventionist policy after Russia invaded Ukraine, Héctor Rodríguez sends his Mexican American superhero to Mariupol in the latest issue of the series.

Though it feels like a mere sample of what's to come, the Memphis rapper's new EP presents her as a singular talent using her instrument as a megaphone for provocation and inspiration.

The artwork that once served as a memorial to the movement is being displayed in a new online exhibit at the Library of Congress. So far, 33 pieces are posted.