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Holo Holo Music Festival is back, set to light up San Diego with an electrifying celebration of reggae, island, and Polynesian-inspired music at Gallagher Square at Petco Park on August 30–31. Now in its biggest year yet, the two-day festival unveils a star-studded lineup and debuts a brand-new cultural highlight: The Great Island Cook Out, an immersive culinary experience that brings the flavors of the Pacific Rim straight to the heart of San Diego. "Holo Holo is about bringing people together through the power of music, culture, and community," said Dan Sheehan, festival producer. "This year, we're raising the bar with our most exciting lineup yet and introducing the Great Island Cook Out, because no island celebration is complete without incredible food." A Weekend of Unforgettable Performances The 2025 lineup features a dynamic mix of reggae legends, island favorites, and fresh new voices, all celebrating the evolving influence of Pacific Island music. Saturday, August 30 - J Boog - The Green - Josh Tatofi - Ekolu - Paula Fuga - Ho'onu'a - Johnny Suite - Tribal Theory Sunday, August 31 - Common Kings - Wyclef Jean - Ooklah The Moc - DJ Noiz x Kennyon Brown - K'Nova - Likkle Jordee - The Great Island Cook Out Debuting this year, the Great Island Cook Out will transport festivalgoers on a flavorful journey through authentic island-inspired cuisine. From smoky Hawaiian BBQ and fresh poke bowls to tropical fruits and sweet shave ice, the Cook Out brings the tastes of the Pacific alongside the festival's world-class performances. All Holo Holo San Diego tickets include access to this new culinary showcase, making it a full cultural experience of island sounds and flavors. Tickets and More Information: Tickets for Holo Holo San Diego 2025 are on sale now at: holoholofestival.com/san-diego URLs: Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3212500-0?pid=5498 Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3212500-2?pid=5498 Date and Time: On Saturday, 30 Aug 2025 1 p.m. - Sunday, 31 Aug 2025 10 p.m. Venue details: Gallagher Square, 840 K Street, San Diego, California, 92101, United States Prices: General Admission: $265.86 Great Island Cook Out: $6 Artists: J Boog, The Green, Common Kings, Wylcef Jean, Josh Tatofi, Ekolu, Paula Fuga, Ooklah The Moc Holo Holo Music Festival on Facebook / Instagram

Mary Ellen Matthews has been SNL's photographer for 25 years. In a new book, The Art of the SNL Portrait, she shares her most iconic celebrity photos, like Pete Davidson eating pasta.

San Diego State University, Arts and Letters 201 – or live stream via Zoom PARKING: Parking Structure 12 (Aztec Bowl, San Diego, CA 92182) DIRECTIONS: https://htm.sdsu.edu/documents/ps12_map.pdf Free to members and the public and available via Zoom. Pre-registration required. About the program: The San Diego World Affairs Council is co-sponsoring the in-person and Zoom presentations by acclaimed author and columnist Peter Beinart. Beinart will discuss his new book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,” with SDSU Professors Jonathan Graubart and Manal Swairjo. The book confronts the dominant “pro-Israel” narrative, which features a recurring Jewish experience of persecution and victimhood that endures even amid Israel’s destruction of Gaza. That narrative, Beinart argues, both warps our understanding of Israel-Palestine and erases the richness of the Jewish experience. He imagines an alternate narrative of what it means to be a Jew and how to reckon with injustices perpetrated in the name of the Jewish people. In this future, Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, while Jewish and Palestinian safety and dignity are co-dependent, not mutually exclusive. As Adam Hochschild writes, “At this painful moment, Peter Beinart’s voice is more vital than ever. His reach is broad—from the tragedy of today’s Middle East to the South Africa he knows well to events centuries ago—his scholarship is deep, and his heart is big. This book is not just about being Jewish in the shadow of today’s war, but about being a person who cares for justice.” The other sponsors of this event are: 1) San Diego State University organizations: Political Science Department, ISCOR, Jewish Studies, Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies. 2) UC San Diego organizations: Department of Communication, Center for Study of Religion, and Middle East Studies. 3) San Diego chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 4) San Diego Hinenu Havurah. About the speakers Peter Beinart is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is also editor at large for Jewish Currents, publisher of The Beinart Notebook, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, and an MSNBC analyst. Peter Alexander Beinart was (born February 28, 1971). His parents were Jewish immigrants from South Africa (his maternal grandfather was from Russia, and his maternal grandmother, who was Sephardic, was from Egypt). His father's parents were from Lithuania. Jonathan Graubart is a professor and chair of the SDSU Political Science Department. He is the author of Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs (Temple University Press 2023). Graubart is a co-founder of Hinenu Havurah, a progressive Jewish collective in San Diego. Manal Swairjo is a professor of biochemistry at SDSU. Her research focuses on RNA biogenesis processes and their links to human disease. Dr Swairjo was born in Gaza, Palestine. Much of her family in Gaza was killed by Israel’s destructive assault. In San Diego, she co-founded a Jewish-Palestinian dialogue in 2000 after the collapse of Oslo and the outbreak of the second Intifada.

The Alliance Française San Diego is thrilled to present our exciting summer camps! Designed and instructed in French by expert teachers, our camps offer a rewarding and fun experience for children age 5+ and teenagers, whether they're beginners in French or seasoned francophones. Join us as we practice and learn about French culture through games, cooking, artistic activities, and much more. Get ready to create lasting memories and enhance your language skills while having fun. Summer is calling, so enroll today and embark on a French adventure! Classes available for all levels, from those new to French to native French speakers. Classes are 9 a.m. to noon with the possibility of extended care from noon to 2 p.m. Alliance Française de San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

Some big companies are reporting real financial pain from tariffs and economic uncertainty — but for others, business is booming.

Hundreds of artists signed a letter sent to the National Endowment for the Arts asking it to reverse policy changes made as a result of recent executive orders issued by President Trump.

Join us at Artreach HQ for Open Studio! 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. Visit: Open Studio for All Ages ArtReach San Diego on Instagram and Facebook

"Mutual abuse" is a term you may have heard in celebrity abuse trials - here's how to make sense of it.

Extracting truths from family archives to inform present day stories is the subject of “Threads of Time,” an exhibit by Robin North that will open at on February 8 and run through Black History Month, ending on March 1. North, whose forebears worked as slaves in the cotton fields of Texas, has used photographs and old documents to show how his family’s personal history is interwoven with the larger history of cotton, a commodity that spelled wealth for some and bondage for others. “Two bodies of work within ‘Threads of Time’ explore the family histories of Americans of African descent, addressing forced migration, labor, land ownership, and modernity in rural, deep southern Texas,” says North, who had been working as a corporate information specialist when he decided to pursue fine art photography. Through conversations with family members and by studying old photographs and documents, he began to decode messages from the past and realized that there was more to those photos than met the eye. “Decolonized Aesthetics” presents portraits of black subjects using historical photographic processes and stresses the intercultural connections resulting from cotton commerce. Some subjects pose with a bale of cotton. “Part of what I want to do is take this fusion of culture and this cotton bale and bring them together, because the reason this even happened is because of cotton,” North says. “That’s how this body of work came to fruition.” In "A Way of Looking," North visits places in the rural South that are connected with his family’s past and links them to the present. “A lot of my work focuses on looking backwards,” North says, and consequently we see his back as he faces away from the camera and looks toward an old church, toward cemetery headstones, and toward an old school building that appears to be losing a battle with a devouring landscape. The church, the school, the cemetery are all part of North’s family history, which is part of the larger history of cotton’s role in a nation’s history. The Photographer’s Eye Gallery will exhibit “Threads of Time” from February 8 through March 1. North will conduct a walk-through of his art on opening day at 4 p.m., and the gallery will host a reception for the artist at 5 p.m. The gallery will also host an artist’s talk on February 9 at 10 a.m. The talk is free, but a reservation is required and can be made by going online to the website to reserve a space. The nonprofit gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and by appointment by calling 760-522-2170. Free parking is available behind the gallery, and on the street. The Photographer’s Eye Collective on Facebook / Instagram

The National Working Waterfront Network’s Conference is the only national event that brings together people from across North America to connect with one another and showcase initiatives that protect and promote working waterfronts. Working waterfronts include waterfront lands, waterfront infrastructure, and waterways that are used for water-dependent activities, such as ports, marinas, small recreational boat harbors, and fishing docks. By design, the conference moves around the country to highlight the diversity of our nation’s working waterfronts; to foster a cross-fertilization of ideas, knowledge, and solutions; and to generate strategic partnerships. The National Working Waterfront Network is pleased to be partnering with California Sea Grant to host the 2025 conference. The conference will take place from February 4 to February 6, 2025 in San Diego, California, with pre-conference events occurring on February 3. Website registration is closed. Please contact Shannon at: iShannon.Hogan@umb.edu for tickets. Purpose of the Conference *To connect and unite stakeholders from across the U.S., and to showcase innovative, successful, and timely solutions to waterfront and waterway issues. *To provide attendees an opportunity to network with others who are involved in the same types of professional issues and, together, develop strategies, timelines, funding sources, and regional alliances to address them. Program Structure *Plenary Sessions, which will feature leaders and keynote presenters from the working waterfronts and waterways community. *Traditional Concurrent Sessions, which will include 15-20 minute speaker talks accompanied by PowerPoint presentations. Concurrent sessions will be arranged from individual abstracts submitted on similar topics. *Breakout “Panel” Sessions, which will include 90-minute breakout sessions with a panel of speakers on topics related to a specific theme. *Roundtable Discussions, which will include 90-minute breakout sessions of a facilitated and interactive discussion with engaged attendees on specific topics. *Formal Poster Session, which will feature all NWWN Conference poster presentations. *Creative Communication Installations, includes an individual or team presentation, discussion or performance of art, media, film, poetry, etc.