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Find the best events in San Diego during the weekend of February 2-5, 2012. From whale watching to black holes, visitors can find the best events and things to do this weekend! Read More…
Find the best events in San Diego during the weekend of January 6-8, 2012. From whale watching to hiking, visitors can find the best events and things to do this weekend! Read More…
1. San Diego Beer Week: From November 4-13, hundreds of beer-centric events take place throughout the county during this 10-day festival that highlights San Diego’s award-winning craft beer, breweries and pubs. Two capstone events are the San Diego Brewers Guild Festival’s kick-off on November 5 at Liberty Station on Point Loma and the closing event, a beer and food pairing at the Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla on November 13.
Southern California’s expansive vistas and ethereal light have an unspoken power. If it were a sound, I would imagine it to be a deep cleansing exhale, like a cool breeze blowing off the ocean on a warm sunny day. If it were to be conveyed as an image or object, it is undoubtedly captured in the body of work created by a group of artists from the region in the 1960’s, who were part of an art movement known as Light and Space.
The transcendental experience of being in Southern California – the deep blue Pacific Ocean and the …
The country’s largest urban cultural park, Balboa Park, has been one of my favorite San Diego spots since childhood. I can remember taking class field trips to the many museums, my 8-year-old self awestruck by their enormous grandeur. As an adult, I still love visiting Balboa Park. No matter how many times I wander the park’s vast Spanish Colonial walkways, I always find something new and exciting to explore that awakens my inner 8-year-old spirit.
To celebrate Arts Month San Diego, take your inner child to explore the arts offerings of the nation’s largest cultural park. With 15 …
This week, Arts Month San Diego is highlighting the cultural neighborhood of La Jolla. We all know La Jolla for its beautiful beaches, fine dining options, shops, and beautiful scenery – but it also offers significant cultural institutions, including the La Jolla Playhouse and the La Jolla branch of The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.
FALL EVENTS IN LA JOLLA
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface: Spanning both Museum of Contemporary Art locations in downtown San Diego and La Jolla, Phenomenal takes an in-depth look at 13 rising artists working in Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s …
1. Festival of Sail: The 2011 Festival of Sail, hosted by the Maritime Museum of San Diego, will transform the North Embarcadero into a nautical theme park. More than twenty tall ships and other fascinating vessels from around the world will visit San Diego, September 2-5. The festival kicks off with a majestic parade of tall ships on San Diego Bay, Thursday, September 1. Parade begins at 11:00 am and can be seen from the Embarcadero, Harbor Island, Shelter Island and Coronado.
2. ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair: More than 60 leading galleries from the US, Canada, …
1. Meet an Astronaut: On Friday, August 26, the San Diego Air & Space Museum is offering a special opportunity to meet Al Worden, command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971. Worden will give a talk relating his fascinating moon-travel experiences, and sign copies of his new book Falling To Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon.
2. Ride the Bridge-Bike the Bay: On Sunday, August 28th, take advantage of a rare opportunity to ride over the iconic San Diego-Coronado Bridge. This popular, noncompetitive 25-mile ride along Bayshore Bikeway …
A unique pop-up shop opened earlier this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s downtown location. Product Porch is a six-month retail experiment that will serve as a destination for new design and creative retail in San Diego.
Product Porch will offer accessories, functional objects, and furniture made by a new generation of creative talents from all over the world and will occupy a portion of the Museum’s building at 1001 Kettner Blvd. throughout the run of the exhibition Phenomenal. Continually rotating merchandise along with a series of interactive programs inspired by the exhibition will offer …
Sailing to the South Pacific in the 1700s and 1800s must have seemed like riding a bicycle to the moon, but the Maritime Museum of San Diego shows how three adventurers did just that. Three connected narratives thread together the adventures of explorer Captain James Cook, author and merchant seaman Herman Melville, and post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and how they (almost) discovered paradise. A first-of-its-kind exhibit for the Maritime Museum, Cook, Melville and Gauguin: Three Voyages to Paradise, on view through January 1, 2012, features over 150 pieces from Cook’s, Melville’s and Gauguin’s travels, selected from the Kelton Foundation’s …