Asian American Dance Festival
Celebrate heritage, resilience, and identity at a dynamic AAPI dance festival. Experience powerful performances that honor the past, embrace the present, and explore what it means to be Asian American today.
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KPBS San Diego Book Festival
Join KPBS for the first-ever San Diego Book Festival on August 23, featuring award-winning authors, live entertainment, bilingual programming, kids’ activities, and more. Free with registration.
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TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR
Meta description: Don’t miss the San Diego Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Spectacular at The Rady Shell, featuring Stephanie Childress, Kiron Atom Tellian, and fireworks over the bay.
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Soul Science Lab: Make a Joyful Noize
Make a Joyful Noize (MAJN) is a multimedia experience that blends music, film and movement to capture the visceral and contagious energy of Black joy. Joy gives us a reason to live, even when it seems life has forsaken us. Black joy is entertainment, therapy, self-love, and salvation. It is the thing that allows us […]
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Homegrown ArtBeat
Through painting, photography, sculpture, textile arts, interactive performance, and live music, Homegrown ArtBeat reveals how deeply art lives in our everyday surroundings, often unnoticed.
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Sinatra
Experience City Ballet of San Diego’s Summer Wind and The Seasons—two inventive ballets by resident choreographers Geoffrey Gonzalez and Elizabeth Wistrich. A dazzling evening of Sinatra classics and Glazunov’s timeless score brought vividly to life.
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San Diego Restaurant Week
Enjoy an 8-day edible extravaganza featuring 100+ restaurants from Oceanside to Chula Vista offering variations of multi-course menus starting at just $30. Whether you are looking to rake up a […]
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San Diego Made: LIVE
Experience San Diego Made: LIVE during San Diego Design Week—an evening of music, live art, installations, open studios, and community connection at the San Diego Made Factory.
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Jazz in Verse: The Rhythm of Resilience
Step into an evening where poetry finds its pulse in the rhythm of jazz. Classic poems of resilience and connection are reimagined alongside new contemporary works. Introduced on the smooth currents of jazz. Featuring Kahill Childs on Sax, Luke Littie on Bass, Quincy Reyes on Piano, Zollie Wariner on drums and Clarence McDuffie III on trumpet.
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Trolley Dances
For over 25 years, San Diego Dance Theater’s Trolley Dances™ has transformed transit stops into stages, bringing site-specific dance to the public via the city’s trolley system. Created by Jean Isaacs, this unique annual event features original choreography performed by community and company dancers across unexpected urban locations.
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Adams Avenue Street Fair
The 43rd annual Adams Avenue Street Fair brings 75 bands, food, vendors, beer gardens, and family fun to Normal Heights, Sept. 20-21, 2025.
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Sacha’s Supper Club
Sacha’s Supper Club and La Jolla Music Society present Paris After Dark, the debut of the Music Without Borders series. Celebrate 100 years of French and American jazz and pop classics with singer Sacha Boutros, trumpeter Stéphane Bel
