The Balboa Park Heritage Association and its community sponsor the Women’s Museum of California present Spring to the Past, the first Balboa Park Centennial event for 2015, celebrating the Panama California Exposition of 1915. Turn the clock back to the 1915 Exposition with hundreds of period costumes, Penny Farthing riders of period velocipedes and bicycles,…
SAN DIEGO – San Diegans have been visiting Balboa Park for 100 years, but there are still many in the city who have yet to experience the celebrated park’s arts, science and culture. In honor of the 2015 Centennial Celebration, 17 Balboa Park institutions and more than 75 philanthropic benefactors are donating $1 million in…
Steal Heaven, the new play at San Diego REPertory Theatre takes us to the afterlife where political and social activist, Abbie Hoffman, who co-founded the Youth International Party (“Yippies”) in 1968, is an activist guru in heaven. He has the power to send someone in purgatory back to Earth if they pass his training. He…
Celebrate the Summer Solstice, June 21, at the Fête de la Musique at the International Cottages lawn in Balboa Park, 5-8 p.m. The fifth annual Fête de la Musique is a free popular music festival featuring both amateur and professional performers across all genres of music. Appealing to all, The Fête aims to popularize musical performance from…
SAN DIEGO – Get your culture on this summer with a drive, or walk, across the refurbished Cabrillo Bridge. As the bridge re-opens to vehicles today, all of the sensational shows, exhibits and events from Balboa Park’s west end institutions are now easily accessible by car, and the recently renovated Alcazar Garden Parking Lot –…
“We’ve really put a lot of time into this,” Milton Aguilar said about his and Daniel Greer’s wedding, as they celebrated being the first same-sex couple to get married at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park last Saturday. This milestone in marriage equality in the San Diego community was born from the memories Daniel…
thursday, march 20 Community Organizations Social Please join the board of directors of The Imperial Court de San Diego as they mix and mingle with other community organizations to build relationships. The event will be held at Jake’s on 6th. No admission to attend but please support Jake’s with a purchase of a glass of…
March 21 Sister Speak releases it’s debut album, Rise Up For Love, recorded with two Grammy award winning engineers on the board – producer and mixing engineer Alan Sanderson(Fiona Apple, Elton John) and mastering engineer Brian Lucey(Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys). The March 21 CD release party will be held at the World Beat Center, 2100 Park Blvd….
thursday, feb. 6 Please Be Seated From woven mats to high-tech contemporary designs, this exhibition will reveal the never-ending quest to seat people comfortably, appropriately and fashionably. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection and from other institutional and private collections, the exhibition will present wide-ranging examples of seating from many periods and cultures. Mingei International…
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) introduced a resolution requesting the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to issue a postage stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 1915 Panama-California Exhibition at Balboa Park. “Balboa Park is a crown jewel in the heart of San Diego,” said Davis. “It is an integral part of the lives of San…
