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This event will feature a conversation between guests from San Diego’s art and civic community followed by audience table conversations. Join us for the KPBS One Small Step Experience Event! KPBS presents One Small Step in partnership with StoryCorps. This initiative brings people with different beliefs and backgrounds together for a conversation - not about politics - but to get to know each other as people. The KPBS One Small Step Experience event will feature a respectful conversation between our special guests from San Diego’s art and philanthropic communities followed by audience table conversations where you can discuss and share your own viewpoints. Tuesday, June 23, 2026 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Doors open, check in and reception (light refreshments) 5:50 p.m. Program Location: KPBS: 5200 Campanile Drive, San Diego 92182 Special guest participants: Bob Lehman, Executive Director, San Diego ART Matters Grant Oliphant, CEO and President, Prebys Foundation Audience table conversations will be facilitated by the National Conflict Resolution Center. Learn more about KPBS’ One Small Step program at KPBS.org/OneSmallStep Public Matters is an initiative of KPBS, inewsource and Voice of San Diego. These three independent, non-profit journalism organizations are sharing content, conversation, and events that ensure all San Diegans understand their opportunity to participate in the democratic process and that it means more than voting in an election. The KPBS One Small Step program is a part of the Public Matters initiative. Public Matters is generously funded by Irwin and Joan Jacobs.

Create your own unique grater & spoons! Tuesdays, June 30 & July 14, from 6-8:30 p.m. Ages 15+ welcome! In this 2-part series, students will learn the basics of handbuilding to create functional and fun pieces. Working with mid-fire clay, we will explore handbuilding forms and decorative techniques to create one of a kind ceramic garlic graters & spoons. Students will create and build their pieces in the first class and glaze their creations in the second class. Students will learn the art of glazing, with many decorative techniques. Students will be able to utilize a wide array of glazes and colors in this course. Beginners welcome! All materials provided. Additional optional materials available via the instructor for a fee. We recommend that each student bring an apron to wear and an older towel or a cloth rag. • Military, first responders and sibling discounts • Scholarships available • Homeschool funds accepted • If this class is full, join the Interest List to be notified. • If you would like to be notified of future offerings, join the Interest List to be notified when new dates or spaces are available. San Diego Craft Collective on Facebook / Instagram

Create your own fun egg tray! Mondays, July 20 & August 3, from 6-8:30 p.m. Ages 15+ welcome! In this 2-part series, students will learn the basics of handbuilding to create functional and fun pieces. Working with mid-fire clay, we will explore handbuilding forms and decorative techniques to create a one-of-a-kind ceramic egg tray. Students will create and build their piece in the first class and glaze their creations in the second class. Students will learn the art of glazing, with many decorative techniques. Students will be able to utilize a wide array of glazes and colors in this course. Beginners welcome! All materials provided. Additional optional materials available via the instructor for a fee. We recommend that each student bring an apron to wear and an older towel or a cloth rag. • Military, first responders and sibling discounts • Scholarships available • Homeschool funds accepted • If this class is full, join the Interest List to be notified. • If you would like to be notified of future offerings, join the Interest List to be notified when new dates or spaces are available. San Diego Craft Collective on Facebook / Instagram

For the Filipino diaspora, food is a strong tether to their homeland and their identity. But for decades, traditional fruits and vegetables from the Philippines were hard to come by.

Opening Reception | 21st Annual SDSU Art Council Scholarship Exhibition Athenaeum Art Center 1955 Julian Avenue San Diego, CA 92113 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 5–8 p.m. May 16–July 3, 2026 CATHERINE AND ROBERT PALMER GALLERY 21st ANNUAL SDSU ART COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP EXHIBITION The Athenaeum Art Center is excited to present the 21st Annual SDSU Art Council Scholarship Exhibition, featuring new work by five exceptional graduate and upper-division undergraduate students from the School of Art and Design at San Diego State University. Since 2002, the SDSU Art Council has recognized outstanding emerging artists with scholarships and the opportunity to exhibit their work at the Athenaeum, one of San Diego's most cherished cultural institutions. This year's five recipients gather under a quietly urgent shared theme: the body as a site of history, resistance, and reinvention. Whether mapping chronic pain onto the indifferent American medical system, excavating the layered textures of immigrant memory, or refusing the limits imposed by colonial and binary thinking, these artists use their diverse practices to insist on visibility—for their communities, their experiences, and themselves. Andrea Mendoza is a Mexican American painter and metalsmith whose oil paintings draw on the vibrant color traditions of Mexican art and her indigenous heritage. Working through a feminist lens, she reclaims narrative space for overlooked communities, presenting cultural identity with power and pride, and extending the canvas itself into wearable jewelry through metalsmithing. Tina Mardan, an Iranian American interdisciplinary artist, works across photography, painting, drawing, and installation to explore how memory, displacement, and the domestic environment shape a person's sense of belonging. Her layered compositions find the political embedded in the everyday. Todd Bradley is a San Diego–based mixed-media artist whose C7 Series confronts chronic pain, neurodivergence, and American cultural mythology head-on, using collaged medical imagery, book pages, X-rays, and embroidery thread to transform vulnerability into visual power. Ana Saad works in clay and fiber to investigate queerness, gender performance, and communal existence, distorting the natural world into something liminal and uncanny where trees and manufactured spikes carry the weight of growth, defense, and becoming. Isa Ybarra, a mixed-media painter and printmaker, channels Chicanx muralism, skate culture, and DIY activism into works that critique the racial, bodily, and gendered borders born of colonization, creating visibility for the queer Latinx community while challenging the systems that constrain it. Together, these five artists make the case that art is not merely aesthetic; it is an act of presence and of claiming space. The exhibition can be viewed in the Catherine and Robert Palmer Gallery at the Athenaeum Art Center (1955 Julian Avenue, San Diego, CA 92113) during open gallery hours, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and every second Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m., during the Barrio Art Crawl, and by appointment. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

From June 3-7, 2026 DISCO RIOT will present San Diego’s signature queer-focused movement-arts festival, Queer Mvmnt Fest. The festival presents artists who identify as part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ dance community from San Diego and beyond. Queer Mvmnt Fest features queer-focused spaces as well as events open to the general public, including performances, workshops, artist Q&A’s, and movement-based short films. This program addresses inequity through an intersectional lens by centering the work of queer artists who additionally identify as BIPOC/Global Majority and Disabled. This year, we will be featuring four artists with one being an international artist. We are also featuring a Variety Showcase with 10 unique artists, highlighting many eclectic performance forms such as drag, burlesque, and circus acts. The festival also features an International Film Screening, and 6 dance classes and workshops offered by the Performing Artists throughout the weekend. Artists will be coming to San Diego from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Raleigh, and Montreal, Quebec along with an array of local San Diego artists. Festival Schedule Wednesday, June 3 — International Film Screening International Film Screening 5pm Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - La Jolla Thursday, June 4 — Workshops + Community Outing The Rhythm of the Heartbeat with Azul Lopez 5 – 6:30pm 1100 Kettner Blvd. Community Outing - 2 Options Cathaus Revue Rich's San Diego, CA 7:30 pm - 11 pm Diversionary Theater’s RENT Diversionary Theater 7pm Friday, June 5 — Workshops + Variety Show MORNING EXORCISE with Jas Lin and musical accompaniment by Hearthealer 10am-12pm 1100 Kettner Blvd. Ballet For All Bodies with Alyah Baker 12:30-2pm 1100 Kettner Blvd. Variety Show 6:40pm Doors Open & Pre-Show 7:00pm Show Starts Malashock Black Box Studio Theater Saturday, June 6 — Workshops + Featured Artist Showcase dragXDance with Rowan Janusiask 11am-12:30pm 1100 Kettner Blvd. The Art of Kunt-Fu: Becoming The Queer Warrior with Devante Love 1-2:30pm 1100 Kettner Blvd. Primal Physics with Meesh Herd and Toni Brianna Guida Wendel 3 – 4:30pm 1100 Kettner Blvd. Featured Artist Showcase 7:10pm Doors Open & Pre-Show 7:30pm Show Starts Malashock Black Box Studio Theater Sunday, June 7 — After Party After Party 1 - 4pm Négociant Winery Disco Riot on Facebook / Instagram

Sign painter and content creator Koy Sun argues that choosing the slower path — whether through art, storytelling or supporting local businesses — can be a powerful way to challenge the status quo.

A block party taking place in Marie Widman Park on Sunday is a revival of the original Encanto Street Fair. Then, emerging AAPI artists will exhibit their work Saturday in National City. And finally, your weekend preview.

The proposal also would adopt recommendations from the city's Independent Budget Analyst's office to shift $6 million from San Diego's Transient Occupancy Tax (essentially a hotel tax) to arts programs, as well as restore $1.3 million in grants.

Join us for Fiesta at the Chapel! Not just a show. A gathering. Experience live music and dance performances featuring Steve Baker, Rebekah Brown, Lilian Ibarra Pantoja, Jean Isaacs, George Willis and Yoneme Grupo Folklorico; honor shared histories through an interactive Altar of Memories and explore a striking 3D industrial art exhibit celebrating resilience and unity, inspired by the spirit of service and community by Joe Pisano. Savor global flavors and drinks that showcase the unique San Diego-Tijuana border identity. This Fiesta bridges arts with the community. Performers include Rebekah Brown, Elizabeth Dimelfi, Amal Elwardi, Marissa Ericksen, Cecily Holcombe, Lilian Ibarra Pantoja, Liv Isaacs-Nollet, Paulina Ortiz, Lisa Tenorio, Amelie Vera, Yoneme Grupo Folklorico, Ruru Zhang, and more.