February brings half-off museum admission, a theatrical ode to Julia Child, a community festival in Encanto, a Lunar New Year celebration, and more. Here are all the best things to do this month in San Diego:
Concerts & Festivals | Theater & Art Exhibits | More Fun Things to Do
Concerts & Festivals in San Diego This Month
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Watch a multimedia tribute to French cinema visionary Georges Méliès at the Gaslamp’s Balboa Theatre. In Right in the Eye, three musicians use instruments both conventional and inventive to score 12 of Méliès’ films live.
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Shapeshifting, genre-melding musician Sudan Archives performs her sultry new album The BPM in concert at Little Italy’s Music Box, with alt-pop artist Cydnee with a C opening.
Theater & Art Exhibits in San Diego This Month
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Why settle for one museum trip when you can visit more than 70 local institutions? San Diego Museum Month offers 50-percent-off entry to dozens of regional sites for art, culture, history, and science.
3–4/11
As part of the organization Craft in America’s 250th anniversary initiative, San Diego State University’s School of Art and Design presents Staying Power, an exhibition of handmade textiles, ceramics, leather goods, and more from faculty and alumni.
7–3/8
Hollywood actress Katie Holmes will play the conniving title character in the new Erin Cressida Wilson adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at The Old Globe in Balboa Park. In the acclaimed play, a newly married woman meddles to devastating effect.
10–3/22
Whatever ingredients it takes to become a culinary superstar, Julia Child had them in spades. Follow her journey from her Pasadena, CA hometown to Paris’ Le Cordon Bleu in The Recipe, Claudia Shear’s world premiere work at La Jolla Playhouse.
14–6/7
Stop by the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park and see nearly 150 of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide’s most striking images of communities and landscapes in her native Mexico and beyond, showcased in Photographs from Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE.
24–3/1
The macabre musical production of Beetlejuice, helmed by the infamous, striped-suit-wearing bio-exorcist, is resurrected for another drop-dead funny day-o at the Civic Theatre.
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Poway Center for the Performing Arts will host Cirque FLIP Fabrique for Blizzard, a spectacle of high-flying acrobatics set in a snowy, music-filled wonderland.
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The San Diego Museum of Art rings in its centennial with a Birthday Fest featuring free museum entry; performances and activities on the museum’s exterior steps; and a ticketed, dessert-filled party in Balboa Park.
More Fun Things to Do in San Diego This Month
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The free, three-day San Diego Lunar New Year Festival brings cultural entertainment; Asian street food; and contests for eating, drinking, and dumpling wrapping to Officer Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park in City Heights.
PARTNER CONTENT
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Come for the cuisine, stay for the community at Daygo Eatz. This free festival showcases the neighborhood of Encanto with art, music, food trucks, and offerings from local Black-owned businesses.
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Queue up “Sweet Georgia Brown”—the Harlem Globetrotters are back in town for their 100th anniversary tour. Get ready for some hoop-shooting razzle-dazzle at Pechanga Arena.
