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This weekend's San Diego arts top picks: Luis Alonso Sánchez at Bread & Salt; San Diego Potters’ Guild; "The SpongeBob Musical"; "Measure for Measure"; Dear Tomorrow's jazz-and-pasta pop-up; Icelandic indie folk; ballet and more.

"Blood Memory" brings together regional artists working in art, design, film, fashion, and more to explore inherited cultural memory. Through contemporary creative practices, the exhibition considers how ancestral knowledge, traditions, and lived experience can connect generations, shape identity, and inspire new ways of carrying culture forward. On view September 12, 2026, through February 28, 2027, at the California Center for the Arts Museum. California Center for the Arts, Escondido on Facebook / Instagram

CIRQUE MUSICA HOLIDAY WONDERLAND BRINGS THE MAGIC TO THE CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ON DECEMBER 9TH! This holiday season, follow our heroes as they are transported into a dazzling winter wonderland where time seems to stand still. With each daring act, they grow younger, rediscovering the joy, imagination, and spirit of the holidays they thought they had lost. This brand-new production blends world-class circus artistry with your favorite holiday music for a show unlike anything you’ve experienced. Breathtaking acrobatics, soaring aerial performances, and heart-pounding feats bring the season’s most beloved melodies to life, delivering an unforgettable holiday experience for the whole family. Don’t miss your chance to be part of the magic! Join us at the California Center for the Arts Escondido on Wednesday, December 9th for a night of wonder, excitement, and holiday cheer. Standard Tickets $54 – $175 including fees (face value $45 – $160) VIP Packages available VIP Package 1 Enjoy the best seat in the house and the ultimate holiday Cirque VIP Experience! Being a VIP allows guests to go behind the scenes, meet the talented Cirque Musica cast first-hand, get on stage, play with show props, take photos and more! Learn how the magic happens with this exclusive one-of-a-kind experience! It all begins 75 minutes before showtime! Be sure to bring your camera VIP Package 2 As an add-on; Enjoy the ultimate holiday Cirque VIP Experience! Being a VIP allows guests to go behind the scenes, meet the talented Cirque Musica cast first-hand, get on stage, play with show props, take photos and more! Learn how the magic happens with this exclusive one-of-a-kind experience! It all begins 75minutes before showtime! Be sure to bring your camera! California Center for the Arts, Escondido on Facebook / Instagram

Kick off the Fall Semester with us by attending our FREE Open House event. Meet some of our incredible faculty, participate in art, dance, and theater activities, and figure out the perfect Seaside classes for all the artists in your family! AUGUST 16 | SUNDAY SAMPLER OPEN HOUSE 11 AM – 12:30 PM: Activities for ages 12 mo – 5 years 12:30 PM – 2 PM: Activities for ages 6+ Register TODAY: https://seasideartscenter.org/open-house/ Seaside Arts Center on Facebook / Instagram

Interested in learning how to archive and care for your personal art collection? Join us for a day of workshops, an artist market, an artist panel, and a resource fair. During the day, join us for printmaking workshops to explore different kinds of printmaking techniques. Support artists in the community and hear how collecting their artworks impacts their work. Learn more about how to care for your collection and see what archives in the area are up to at the resource fair. Resource Fair Booths: Athenaeum Art Center Balboa Art Conservation Burn All Books Chaos Craft Time Logan Library San Diego EMP Scanners Archive Artist Panel: Kalli Arte Isa Ybarra Rafa Barrientos Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center on Facebook / Instagram

A lawsuit seeks to block President Trump's name from going back on the center. The center's board warns that if renovation plans don't go forward, it may be demolished.

The proposed changes aim to allay schools’ apprehension about spending their arts money granted through an initiative voters passed in 2022.

San Diego Black Pride 2026 "Unbound and Unlimited" Join us for San Diego Black Pride 2026, a bold reimagining of what Black Pride can be when we refuse limits and center possibility. Under the theme "Unbound and Unlimited," this year’s celebration is a two day experience grounded in freedom of expression, lineage, imagination, and collective care. UNBOUND speaks to releasing ourselves from boxes, from a single narrative of Black queerness, from hierarchies of identity or expression. UNLIMITED honors abundance, intergenerational wisdom, and futuristic Black queer joy. Every element of this weekend is intentionally designed as a living village where joy, art, history, and community care coexist. This is not just a celebration, it is a declaration. A space curated by us and for us, rooted in pleasure as resistance and joy as strategy. Friday, July 10 The Legacy Ball Volume 2: Unbound & Unlimited Edition 8 p.m. Ages 18+ Saturday, July 11 Floatin' & Flawless 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. H & M Landing Ages 21+ Sunday, July 12 Sunday Service 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Soap Factory, San Diego Ages 18+ For more information visit: https://sickening.events/e/san-diego-black-pride-2026 San Diego Black Pride: Website / Facebook / Instagram

Athenaeum Arts Center just opened a sound installation called "Ess Whiteley: listening materials," and it might change how you perceive the world.

Future Is Color's Listening Room is an extension of the collective's events centering on liberation through music. The event asks people to think deeply about the world and the communities around them.