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8th Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival & Music Festival! Music Festival – Saturday, May 2, 2025 | 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. Get ready to dance the night away! Our Cinco de Mayo Music Festival will feature a variety of live bands, delicious food vendors, and a festive beer & margarita garden. Fun for everyone who loves music, dancing, and good vibes! Cinco de Mayo Festival – Sunday, May 3, 2025 | 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Join us for a full day of family fun! Enjoy live performances, traditional dancing, entertainment for all ages, plus craft and food vendors. Celebrate culture, community, and good times! Vendors Wanted! We’re seeking food, craft, and beverage vendors for both days! Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your business at one of the region’s most anticipated Cinco de Mayo events. Location: Grape Day Park, Escondido, CA All are welcome – family-friendly event! For vendor and volunteer inquiries & registration: Email: Angel Aguilar at USAMulticulturalorg@gmail.com Visit: usamulticultural.org/cincodemayo/

The longtime restaurant Villa Manila and pop-up tea cafe Thaiyo partnered to launch the market with a focus on pan-Asian culture.

Workshop: Drawing the Figure (Live Nude Model) Instructor: Carlos Castrejon Hours: 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Level: All (age 18+) Class Size: 12 Tuition: $200 Back By Popular Demand Drawing on years of teaching experience and technical mastery, Carlos Castrejon guides students in this fun and engaging live nude model workshop. Designed for all levels, this class explores both quick gesture sketches and longer, sustained poses to help you capture movement, mood, and form. You’ll strengthen your understanding of proportion, anatomy, and composition while experimenting with expressive mark-making and dynamic line work. Expect a relaxed, supportive studio atmosphere where curiosity is encouraged and progress happens naturally. Whether you're building foundational skills or refining your personal style, working from a live model will sharpen your observation skills and boost your confidence. Come ready to draw, explore, and enjoy the creative energy of the figure in motion! What to Expect - Live nude model - Short gesture studies and sustained long poses - One-on-one and group instruction - Work with a range of materials—including charcoal, colored pencil and conte—learning how each medium can be used to capture the figure. - Thoughtful group critique at the end of the 4-week workshop - Easels, tables and chairs included Goals - Develop a strong understanding of human proportion and anatomy - Improve gesture drawing skills to capture movement and energy - Build confidence drawing from direct observation - Practice short and long poses to strengthen both speed and sustained focus - Explore expressive mark-making and line quality - Enhance composition and spatial awareness - Train the eye to see value, form, and structure - Receive constructive feedback through group critique - Foster consistency and discipline in observational drawing Woodward Contemporary on Facebook / Instagram

On view Feb. 9 - March 5. Join us for the reception on Wednesday, February 11, 4 - 7 p.m. This powerful intergenerational exhibition of Chicana portraiture brings together artists from Los Angeles and San Diego to explore identity, memory, activism, and healing through the human figure. Blending contemporary realities with ancestral memory, these figurative works honor matriarchal lineages, personal narratives, and an enduring commitment to social justice. Originally curated Sybil Venegas for Avenue 50 Studio in Los Angeles, this exhibition includes artists from different generations—Baby Boomers, Gen X and Millennials. The expanded presentation in San Diego includes local artists Marianela de la Hoz, Katie Ruiz, and Ale Ruiz Tostado, presenting their work alongside their Angeleno counterparts. Intrinsically connected to Mexico and the border, cultural influences are evident in these artists’ paintings, which align with the legacy of Chicano art while also paying tribute to long-standing Latin American traditions of magical realism and folk art. Free parking on reception night, Parking Lot 1 off Marlesta entrance to campus. Park on STAFF spots. Regular Gallery Hours: M-Th 12 - 5 p.m. San Diego Mesa College Gallery on Facebook / Instagram

“Our senses don’t just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.” — Diane Ackerman, "A Natural History of the Senses" What if the world around you is even more extraordinary than you imagine? Join us for a fascinating evening with Diane Ackerman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of "A Natural History of the Senses," as she celebrates her captivating new book, "A Feast in Every Sense." With her signature blend of science, storytelling, and wonder, Diane invites us to explore the remarkable ways we experience and understand the world around us—and discover the extraordinary hidden within the everyday. This is more than an author talk! Arrive early for a fun, immersive experience inspired by the themes of Diane’s new book, designed to spark your curiosity and awaken your senses before the author presentation begins. Come curious. Leave inspired by this former Carlsbad City Reads author. And discover what happens when science and wonder come together. Registration This event is free and open to the public, with seating offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Please plan to arrive early to obtain your seating ticket as seating is expected to completely fill up. For questions about the event and seating, please contact the Carlsbad Public Library.

"3-Dimensions" art exhibition includes sculptures, carvings, reliefs, collage, assemblage, ceramic, three dimensional paintings, installations or any artwork that utilizes the dimension of depth. Visit: escondidoarts.org/

LOVE IN THE CLUB is the ultimate early 2000s throwback party, a night dedicated to the era of flip phones, iconic music videos, and unforgettable club anthems. From Usher to Missy Elliott to Akon, we’re spinning all the hip hop and R&B hits that defined the 2000s. Whether you were burning CDs or learning choreography from MTV, we’re bringing the chaos, glam, and iconic vibes of the Y2K era back to the dance floor. Love In The Club on Instagram

Over the last decade, reality TV mogul Andy Cohen has been spotted dancing at concerts for Dead & Company. But his ties to the Grateful Dead go much farther than that.

With days left to go in the 2026 fiscal year, lawmakers push the health department to spend the money Congress allocated to prevent teen pregnancy. An NPR exclusive.

An East of Eden adaptation, a reboot of A Different World, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson playing (possible) brothers ... Here's a sneak peek at what NPR critics will be watching in the next few months.