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On Friday, July 25, Songwriter Sanctuary will host a special edition performance of its monthly series in celebration of Disability Pride Month featuring artists with lived experiences and/or deep ties to the disability community, including Espi Love, The Bella Lunas, and Miranda Ramos with Dylan Razwick. The event is hosted by the legendary Jeff Berkley in partnership with Normal Heights United. (4650 Mansfield St. Suggested Donation $10. All ages. Doors 6:30 p.m., Music 7 p.m.) Disabled people are one of the largest, most diverse, and most excluded groups in our society. But the problem isn’t disability itself; it’s the ableism (both overt and unintentional) baked into our spaces and systems. Through story and song, we’ll explore how access, care, and inclusion can create a better world for all of us - because anyone can become disabled at any time, and increased access is a lifelong practice! Come celebrate the power and pride of this vibrant community! ASL Interpreters and reserve seating area for Deaf/Hard of Hearing folks will be provided. Please visit the accessibility section below for additional access needs and/or email mollyrose@nhunited.org by July 18. About the Artists Miranda Ramos: (accompanied by Dylan Razwick): Two-time 2024 Best of San Diego Winner in the categories of Best Country Musician & Singer/Songwriter and 2025 San Diego Music Award Nominee Miranda Ramos is a one of a kind artist who believes that a song isn't just sung, it must be performed. Drawing inspiration from her County and Rock roots, Miranda's songwriting is honest and relatable. She performs with her full band, as an acoustic duo or trio covering top 40 music and originals in the county genre with some pop, rock, and alternative hits thrown in (because why not?), and is the lead female vocalist in ALT2K San Diego's Premier Alt Rock Cover Band. The Bella Lunas: Kismet brought The Bella Lunas together in San Diego, California in 2022 and the vibrant trio immediately bonded over their love of music, creativity and American Sign Language. Rhea, a versatile singer-songwriter and ASL Interpreter, showcases her powerful, raw musical talent and exceptional vocals. Sheena, a CODA (Child of a Deaf Adult), brings her velvety vocals and passion for perfectly blended harmonies. Lily, a Deaf artist, wowed the other ladies with her unique ASL rhythmic renditions of visual music. Rhea and Sheena's voices and instruments blend together in angelic harmonies, weaving intricate patterns of sound that captivate audiences. Yet it is Lily, a Deaf artist and performer, who introduces a completely new dimension with American Sign Language. They are graceful together with the music as it creates a mesmerizing experience you can see, hear, and feel. Espi Love: Espi Love is a local poet who residing on traditional Kumeyaay land (San Diego, CA). They're also a vocalist, actress, model, and competitive dancer, and crochet artist. Espi believes in art as a form of not only creative expression but protest, resistance, whimsy in a world that tells us to leave our playfulness behind. Event Details Location: Normal Heights United Church - 4650 Mansfield St, San Diego, CA 92116. Thank you to our generous venue partner for sharing this beautiful space with the local music community! Time: Doors 6:30 p.m., Show 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. ish. Suggested Donation: $10, but please be generous in your support of these top tier talents whose creative work is their livelihood. 100% donations go to artists. No one turned away for lack of funds. All Ages: Bear in mind we do not censor our artists so please make sure to check out the lineup and make the best decision for your family. Parking: Street parking Food/Drink: Beverages for small purchase, thanks to our sponsors! Duck Foot Brewing Company. Guests are welcome to bring food into the venue (please eat and dispose of waste respectfully) Accessibility: ASL interpreters and reserved seating for Deaf/Hard of Hearing folks provided. Sensory station in foyer includes single use masks, ear plugs, and hand sanitizer. Venue runs two Corsi-Rosenthal box fan filters during the event. Please direct any additional venue accessibility requests to Molly mollyrose(at)nhunited(dot)org at least (5) business days prior to the event. Remaining 2025 Season Schedule *subject to change Aug. 29 - Claire King - Hailey Wetzel - Lexi Pulido Sept. 26 - Joe Summers - Grainne Hunt - Helena Holleran Oct. 24 - Shea Givens - Kevin Cooper - Anthony Cullins Dec 5. - Holiday Edition! - JT Moring - Cara Cormier - David Beldock and Peggy Watson For inquiries, media comps, or further information, please contact: Lindsay White lindsaywhite.music@gmail.com Songwriter Sanctuary on Instagram

Come Indulge in the rich flavors of Laos at the 3rd Annual Lao Food Festival. Traditional Lao Food, Music, Art , Food Tours, 40+ Vendors. Visit: https://www.laofoodfestival.org/ LAOSD on Instagram and Facebook

Big Wet is a one-day festival with dance music, immersive art, and curated experiences at the center. Featuring a lineup of twenty-two local DJ's across three stages, large-scale art, silent disco, interactive installations, tattoos, food vendors, and a handful of surprises throughout the day. Visit: soapfactoryevents.com/ The Soap Factory on Facebook / Instagram

Enhance Your Spiritual Evolution! Crystal gemstones and candles have been used for centuries for their beauty, mystery and metaphysical properties. They radiate their own aura and spiritual power and can greatly enhance the practice of meditation and prayer. Celebrating the 25th anniversary edition of "Change Your Aura, Change Your Life", join Dimitri in this interactive, comprehensive exploration of the transformative power of crystals and candles. Learn how these two essential tools can strengthen your aura field and boost the effectiveness of your spiritual light work and life. Discover: Nine types of crystals and their spiritual properties. New ways to use candles for prayer work, healing and spiritual transformation. How to include crystals and candles to enhance your meditation practice. Specific situations to apply crystals and candles including, strengthening relationships, healing physical, mental and emotional conditions, increasing prosperity flow, helping to resolve challenges and conflicts. You will be meditating with crystals in this workshop! Dimitri Moraitis is cofounder and executive director of the renowned Spiritual Arts Institute. An accomplished metaphysical teacher, Dimitri lectures across the country, appeares on numerous radio shows, and leads workshops and training classes offered at the Institute. With co-founder Barbara Y. Martin, Dimitri is co-author of Communing with the Divine, Karma and Reincarnation, the highly acclaimed The Healing Power of Your Aura, Heaven and Your Spiritual Evolution and the 25th anniversary edition of the international bestseller Change Your Aura, Change Your Life. Visit: Meditating with Crystals and Candles Spiritual Arts Institute on Instagram and Facebook

Artist Alliance members, along with their guests, are welcome to engage in a group art share and critique, aimed at fostering professional growth. Not yet part of the alliance? No worries, you can join either before the event or on-site! Free for museum and alliance members plus their guests. RSVP now! Oceanside Museum of Art on Facebook / Instagram

Join us at "EXPO After Dark", an offsite celebration that brings us all together through world-class music acts and an immersive visual experience. Curated by MCASD, Mortis Studio, and Hotbed, local music community & collective, the lineup features Life on Planets, a Surprise guest, and Phonetik (AMZEL b2b PTTG of Hotbed). This event also features an exclusive launch of our EXPO merch and special MCASD Membership promotions. This event is 21+ and food and drinks are available for purchase at the venue. MCASD Members: Don't forget to use your code at checkout for discounted tickets. About Life on Planets: Life On Planets (LOP) a solo singer/songwriter project. Melding soul, R&B, and house in his original productions; Life’s eclectic sound took him from the streets of Baltimore to cities the world over. Join LOP as he weaves live performance with electronics to bring electricity, connection and magic to every dance floor. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

A 5-Star Variety Bash of Arts, Laughter, and Imagination — for Kids of All Ages! Get ready, San Diego — the San Diego International Fringe Festival is bringing the magic straight to your neighborhood with Family Fringe Days, a free and fabulous celebration of creativity designed just for families. Think of it as the ultimate sampler platter of the arts: one moment you’re grooving with a live musician, the next you’re giggling at a clown’s antics, getting your face painted, or joining in on a Junkyard Jam Band! From mini-performances to hands-on art activities and interactive games, Family Fringe is all about fun, self-expression, and creating unforgettable memories with your kids. Why should families attend? Because play is powerful. Shared experiences like these nurture creativity, boost confidence, and build bonds that last long after the event ends. Whether your child is an aspiring artist or just curious to try something new, Family Fringe Days offer a safe, welcoming space to imagine, explore, and connect — all for free. Happening at library branches and community centers across San Diego from May 17–25. Great for kids, teens, and the young-at-heart! 100% FREE — because everyone deserves access to the arts. Learn more at: https://sdfringe.org/family-fringe/ San Diego International Fringe Festival on Facebook / Instagram

Tired of giving soap or socks to honor the father(s) in your life? Make a personal card to honor your father(s) and gift it! In this workshop, we use tarot cards to explore fatherhood’s energy. We will celebrate our relationship to fathers and fatherhood through writing and a collage project, with room to explore challenging connections and what we’ve learned from them, including looking at connections forged with chosen family as well as blood family. The simple tarot journaling process we will use will help you discover and uncover your connection to fathering energy and how it can best nurture you. And if you wish, create personal tarot card art you can keep for yourself (your Inner Father) or a card for your actual father or person who fathered you. Bring an open heart, paper and pencil, and some photos of the father you are honoring (photos of you or your father(s)), and any images you feel express the gifts and lessons of that relationship. Please feel free to bring your own tarot deck(s) though your instructor will provide a variety of tarot images. Remember you can point the arrow of this inquiry towards your own father, or towards yourself in the role you play with your children or those you parent. All perspectives and experiences welcome; no prior writing or tarot experience necessary. Comes with a PDF for continuing your exploration on your own. San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

The Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts at UC San Diego invites all to the 2025 Memorial Event - a film screening of the recently-restored independent film "High Art," followed by a talk with its award-winning screenwriter and director, Lisa Cholodenko. Special guest Lisa Cholodenko will participate in a discussion with Michael Trigilio, Director of the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts. She will share her experience working in TV and film, and answer questions from the audience. The event will conclude with a reception of light refreshments in the lobby. Schedule: 3 p.m. Opening | 3:10 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. Film | 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Talk | 6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Reception Event Is Free And Open To The Public | Please RSVP _______________________________________________ About the Film: "High Art" | 1998 | R | 1hr41m | Watch the Trailer "Twenty-two years later, High Art…resonates simultaneously as a timeless meditation on love, loss and art and as a trenchant drama with distinctive roots in 1990s aesthetics, culture and social issues." – Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Ms. Magazine Synopsis: At 24, Syd (Radha Mitchell) has landed her dream job at a New York photography magazine. After a chance meeting with her upstairs neighbor Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a once-celebrated photographer, Syd becomes enthralled with Lucy’s reckless lifestyle and relationship with her drug-addicted girlfriend (Patricia Clarkson). Before she can catch her breath, Syd discovers dark truths of life on the edge, and is forced to confront the consequences of her hunger for recognition and public esteem. _______________________________________________ About the Guest: Lisa Cholodenko is a writer-director working in film and television. While earning an MFA at Columbia University, her student film "Dinner Party" won the Channel 4 TX prize and was distributed for European television. Her first feature, "High Art", won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at Sundance and screened in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes. Cholodenko’s other feature films include "Laurel Canyon" and "The Kids Are All Right", which was nominated for four Academy Awards and won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical. Her HBO limited series, "Olive Kitteridge", earned seven Emmy awards and the DGA award for best limited series. "Unbelievable", for which she directed the first three episodes, was nominated for several Golden Globe and Emmy awards, and won the Peabody award. Currently, she’s working on an adaptation of Joan Didion’s "The Year of Magical Thinking" for HBO. _______________________________________________ About the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts: The Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts in the School of Arts and Humanities serves as the university’s hub for creative and academic advancement in culture, music, theater, film and the arts. The center provides access and opportunity for UC San Diego students and scholars to pursue their passion in cinematic arts through research, scholarship, teaching, production and exhibition of film and moving-image arts. Eventbrite RSVP Required. You do not need to bring your tickets to the event as your name will be added to the check-in list.

Use this time to finish any previous project started at an ArtReach workshop. Participants must have completed a workshop prior to signing up for an open studio session. Please email studiohq@artreachsandiego.org with any questions or concerns. We kindly ask that adults actively participate in this art activity alongside any child under the age of 11. Refunds are not available for no-shows, but a credit will be provided for a future class at Studio HQ if you cancel at least 24 hours before the class. ArtReach San Diego on Facebook / Instagram 9 am - 11 a.m. Open Studio 11 am - 1 p.m. Open Studio