Improv at the Brooks presents Amazing Incredible Tales, a fully improvised, HIGHLY interactive live superhero comic book made up on the spot based on audience suggestions from start to finish.
This documentary includes footage and interviews from the creation of the FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical World Premiere Recording – from conception of the show in 2016 to present, created in partnership with Broadway Records.
FREEDOM RIDERS: The Civil Rights Musical tells the true story of the 1961 activists who boldly challenged the legality and optics of the segregated Jim Crow south by riding buses in mixed racial groups. It features civil rights icons John Lewis and Diane Nash, famed newspaper editor John Seigenthaler, Robert Kennedy and and the courageous and diverse riders of the Civil Rights Movement.
NCIS: North County Improv Squad presents a fun night of improv comedy similar to what you would see on “Whose Line is it Anyway?” Joining NCIS will be Optimus Rhyme, a hip-hop based improv team based in San Diego. Everything is made up completely on the spot based on audience suggestions. It is a truly fun way to spend your evening. PG13
HIGHLIGHT Dance Showcase is a curated event featuring 14 groups, each presenting a 5-minute set. Designed as a space for movement artists to express their individuality on stage, HIGHLIGHT brings together a vibrant community that lives and loves dance. The evening features local artists debuting small choreographic projects that celebrate creativity and self-expression.
Resonance is a free, all-ages event hosted by St. Brigid’s Episcopal Church and Oceanside Theatre Company, that builds community through creative expression. It’s a space for all creatively-inclined people — artists, musicians, writers, and more — to showcase their work and to practice spontaneous creation together.
It’s not quite an open mic, jam session, drum circle, or art night — but it has elements of all of these. And everyone who comes is welcome to participate as much or as little as they choose. If you’d prefer to just come and enjoy the vibe and performances, you are welcome to do that too.
Laurel Elementary School’s Drama Club will be performing a special showcase for their loved ones as a culminating performance after a full year of creativity, collaboration, and growth.
“Bridging Communities: Echoes of Identity & Resistance” is a multidisciplinary performance experience that centers movement, memory, and cultural resilience to explore what it means to belong, to remember, and to resist. Through dance, spoken word, film, and storytelling, the program amplifies the voices of Asian and Pacific Islander artists and community members, creating a space where diasporic identity and ancestral memory come into dialogue.
Weaving together personal histories and collective truths, this event holds space for healing, transformation, and creative expression. In a time where cultural erasure and displacement persist, we return to our bodies, our stories, and each other — using art as a bridge between communities, generations, and geographies.
Improv at the Brooks presents Amazing Incredible Tales, a fully improvised, HIGHLY interactive live superhero comic book made up on the spot based on audience suggestions from start to finish.
In honor of Mental Health Week 2025, Oceanside International Film Festival—in partnership with Oceanside Theatre Company—invites our creative community to THE ROAD BACK, a specially curated film series celebrating the vital role of the arts in the healing process, mental well-being, and the resilience of the soul. This 76-minute showcase features the following short films:
This very special Artist Open House is celebrating the opening of the BLACK PERSPECTIVE 2 exhibition in honor of Juneteenth. The exhibition was so popular and successful last year, that we are thrilled to have previous exhibitors and new POC artists sharing their vision of Black history, culture, family and community. Come meet the artists and discover the beauty and power of art from the black perspective.
In addition, noted pianist Robert Parker will “tickle the ivories” for everyone’s listening pleasure as visitors to the Gallery meet “Miss Mary”, an upright piano designed by artist BJ Lane as a visual celebration of theater and the performing arts and donated by the Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation. Everyone is welcome to this free event between 5:30 and 8 pm.