Hello San Diego!
Welcome to the San Diego Participant Observer newsletter, your go-to
source for the latest cultural events in the city. From the San Diego
County Fair to live performances, art exhibitions, film screenings, and
music festivals, discover a week filled with enriching experiences. Go forth and explore!
The San Diego County Fair continues through the long weekend and wraps up on the 4th.
Friday (today), Amanda Portela will perform at the Golden Island restaurant. The Portuguese Hall of San Diego will present A Night of Fado (Uma Noite de Fados). At Mic Drop Comedy, panelist for Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Helen Hong will perform 2 stand-up shows. She has an additional 2 shows the next day. Musica en la Plaza at the California Center for the Arts will feature Latin artist Fercho.
Saturday, as part of the San Diego County Fair, there will be an International Beer Festival at the Fairgrounds. Kensington Library will present an outdoor program of Iranian music for Tîrgan (Persian Summer Festival) by the music collective known as Dornob. At the Front Arte Cultura, there will be an opening for El Viento O El Polvo, Tal Vez featuring the work of artist Mariel Miranda. At Little Italy's Firehouse Museum Theater, the music documentary L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio will be shown. Metalachi will perform at Music Box.
Sunday, at Bread & Salt, there will be a Valle de Guadalupe Wine Fundraiser for the Friends of Friendship Park.
Wednesday, Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning masterpiece Spirited Away will be screening at the Angelika Film Center. There will be an additional screening the following day. Grammy-winning Hawaiian singer/songwriter/guitarist Henry Kapono will perform at the Belly Up.
Next Thursday, the Mexican rock band División Minúscula will perform at Music Box.
Next Friday, the Digital Gym will show the film Squaring the Circle (The History of Hipgnosis) which is about the artist pair of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell who designed a great number of famous album covers from the 1960s to 1980s. The annual Tanabata Festival will be held at the Japanese Friendship garden. Rogê & Mitchum Yacoub will perform at Quartyard.
Next Saturday and Sunday, Handel's opera Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Truth) will be performed at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla.
Next Saturday, at the Frida Kahlo Celebration in Barrio Logan, you can enjoy a day filled with all things Frida Kahlo from themed art shows, live art, painting classes, flower crown workshops, games of Loteria, shopping, dining, to a Frida Kahlo Look-a-like contest. The Bayfest Reggae Festival will take place at Waterfront Park. There will be an Aklasan Fest Pre-Show at Che Cafe. Aklasan is a Filipino punk festival that will happen in early August. Latin rock groups Cardiel and Ladrones will perform at the Casbah.
Next Sunday, the House of France will host its annual Lawn Program at the International Cottages. The Sabrosas Latin Orchestra will perform at Liberty Station.
Local theatrical productions include Twelfth Night at the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre at the Old Globe and Six the Musical at the San Diego Civic Theatre for a limited run.
Please note that after two weeks in the main calendar section, ongoing events (such as exhibitions and plays) can be found in Ongoing and Extended Events.
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