KPBS/Arts Calendar

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Fodoreanu: "writings" - Solo Show

C Fodoreanu: 'writings' - Solo Show

Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 4 PM to 6 PM

level of service not required

Free

The Salty Series: 'Echoes of Density'

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Bread & Salt Art Gallery

$15 or Pay-What-You-Can

Four new folk art, craft, and design exhibitions

Four new folk art, craft, and design exhibitions at Mingei

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10 AM

Ongoing until August 17, 2025

Mingei International Museum: Balboa Park

Free - $15

The cast of "Regency Girls," 2025.

Arts
Theater

'Regency Girls'

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 8 PM

Ongoing until May 11, 2025

Old Globe Theatre

'The Hot Wing King'

'The Hot Wing King'

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 7 PM

Ongoing until May 2, 2025

Old Town Theatre (Cygnet Theatre)

30-64

The 25th Drawing Show

The 25th Drawing Show

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 12 PM

Ongoing until May 4, 2025

San Diego Central Library: Art Gallery

Free

'Art Alive'

Art Alive

Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 8 AM to 6 PM

San Diego Museum of Art

Museum members: free. Adults: $40. Youth ages 7 - 17: $5. Youth ages 0 - 6: free

WOW Festival

WOW Festival - La Jolla Playhouse

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 4 PM

Ongoing until April 27, 2025

UCSD

Free - $37

'The Mountain that Loved a Bird'

'The Mountain that Loved a Bird'

Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 11 AM to 1 PM

Jacobs Music Center

$29 - $52

Adams Avenue Unplugged

Adams Avenue Unplugged

Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 12 PM to 12 AM

Adams Avenue

Free

Grossmont Symphony Orchestra & Master Chorale - Dvorak's New World Symphony

Grossmont Symphony Orchestra & Master Chorale - Dvorak's New World Symphony

Friday, April 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Grossmont Performing and Visual Arts Center

$5 - $20

San Diego Master Chorale Presents: 'Brahms Requiem'

San Diego Master Chorale Presents: 'Brahms Requiem'

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 4 PM

Ongoing until April 27, 2025

Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church

$30.99

"Son Of Smiley"

'La Jolla Surf: Culture, Art, Craft'

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 12 PM

Ongoing until May 25, 2025

La Jolla Historical Society

Free

"RENT"

SDSU Musical Theatre Program Presents 'RENT'

Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Ongoing until May 8, 2025

SDSU Mainstage

$20

Athenaeum Jazz Concerts | Spring 2025 Series | Athenaeum Music & Arts Library & Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla

Athenaeum Jazz Concerts | Spring 2025 Series | Athenaeum Music & Arts Library & Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

Series of 3 Concerts: $141 member / $156 nonmember; Individual Concerts: $50 member / $55 nonmember

"Chicanismo and the Art of Resistance: The Legacy of Ricardo Favela and the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)"

'Chicanismo and the Art of Resistance: The Legacy of Ricardo Favela and the Royal Chicano Air Force'

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10 AM

Ongoing until April 30, 2025

Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center

$8

¡Lotería: Game On!

¡Lotería: Game On!

Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 12 PM to 3 PM

California Center for the Arts: Escondido

Free

'Jaja's African Hair Braiding'

Theater
Arts

'Jaja's African Hair Braiding'

Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 8 PM

Ongoing until June 15, 2025

La Jolla Playhouse

Tickets from $30

'Voice Out': A Youth Media Arts Exhibition at Outside The Lens

'Voice Out': A Youth Media Arts Exhibition at Outside The Lens

Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 4 PM to 7 PM

Outside The Lens- The Wonderlab

Free

Puppets in the Park 2025

Puppets in the Park 2025

Saturday, June 7, 2025 from 10 AM to 1 PM

Villa Norte Park

Free

'Chasing Shadows' Exhibition by Kathleen Kane-Murrell

'Chasing Shadows' Exhibition by Kathleen Kane-Murrell

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 11 AM

Ongoing until July 6, 2025

Sparks Gallery

Free

'Voice Out': A Youth Media Arts Exhibition at Outside The Lens

'Voice Out': A Youth Media Arts Exhibition at Outside The Lens

Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 4 PM to 7 PM

Outside The Lens- The Wonderlab

Free

"Romeo et Juliet"

'Romeo et Juliet'

Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 2 PM to 7:30 PM

Balboa Theatre

"House of India"

The Old Globe presents 'House of India'

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 8 PM

Ongoing until June 1, 2025

Old Globe Theatre

Single tickets go on sale Friday, March 28, 2025 at noon

North Coast Rep presents "Birthday Candles"

Theater
Arts

North Coast Rep presents 'Birthday Candles'

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 7 PM

Ongoing until June 29, 2025

North Coast Repertory Theatre

In August 2021, the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan and Kabul’s airport became the center of a frantic evacuation. "The End of The Longest War"

GI Film Festival San Diego: 'THE END OF THE LONGEST WAR'

Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 5 PM

Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art (MOPA @ SDMA) in Balboa Park

April Named ‘Arts, Culture & Creativity’ Month in Escondido

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 8 AM

Ongoing until April 30, 2025

Escondido's Historic Downtown

Free

(from left) Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein hosts Thinking Shakespeare Live! with Jose Balistrieri, Angela Pierce, and Cornell Womack, 2023.

The Old Globe Presents Thinking Shakespeare Live

Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 11 AM

Old Globe Theatre

Priority seating goes on sale to Globe subscribers and donors on Friday, April 4 at Noon

City Ballet's "Carmen"

City Ballet's 'Carmen'

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 8 PM

Ongoing until May 4, 2025

California Center for the Arts: Escondido

39-99

Knock out Sounds with Reginald Mobley

Bach Collegium San Diego Presents Knock out Sounds with Reginald Mobley

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 7 PM

Ongoing until May 4, 2025

Multiple locations

Le Salon De Musiques: Masterpieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Hiller

Le Salon De Musiques: Masterpieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Hiller

Sunday, May 4, 2025 from 4 PM to 7 PM

La Jolla Woman's Club

$69-$120

8th Annual PROUD+ visual arts exhibition

8th Annual PROUD+ visual arts exhibition

Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 11 AM

Ongoing until August 1, 2025

The Studio Door

Free

'Great Expectations'

Friday, July 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

'The Glass Menagerie'

Music

'The Glass Menagerie'

Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

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