Arts & Culture Update

On Saturday, November 6 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m Studio ACE will present the first annual Valley Arts Festival (VAF): A Celebration of the Luiseño Tribe of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians at Heritage Park at 220 Peyri Drive in partnership with Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation, Muramid Art & Cultural Center and California HQ for the UNESCO Center for Peace, Oceanside Public Library and the Friends of the Oceanside Public Library, with Mel Vernon, Captain, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians. This free festival will feature music, both flute and blues, basket weaving demonstrations, Indian Fry Bread for purchase, educational tables filled with historic cultural items, and a variety of participatory familyfriendly activities. https://www.studioace.org

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Event Chair: Dori D. Harris -760-822-0683 Co-Chair: Genevieve Wunder - (760) 717-7151 www.oceansidepubliclibrary.org (760)- 435-5600

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On Friday, November 13 at 3:30 p.m., the Old Globe’s Globe for All will have a free outdoor performance at the Civic Center Plaza at 330 N Coast Highway. Globe for All brings free, live, professional productions of Shakespeare and select productions from the mainstage of The Old Globe to diverse multigenerational audiences in the neighborhoods throughout San Diego County. The tour gives audiences an intimate, upclose, and visceral experience of live performance and fosters a shared sense of community between performer and spectator. https://www.theoldglobe.org/arts-engagement/globe-for-all/ To sign up: www.oceansidepubliclibrary.org

Art During the Time of Covid: Why Art Matters Now

By Maria Mingalone Recent studies substantiate what I believe intrinsically as the leader of an arts organization and business operating in downtown Oceanside. The arts contribute to our overall wellbeing and have a constructive role to play in a community’s resilience. During the pandemic, the OMA community shared their appreciation for our ongoing, adaptive programming. These virtual art experiences helped all of us cope with isolation, fear, and anxiety. During good times, and even more so during turbulent times, the arts matter. They allow us to be transported to other places, real or imagined, and offer new ways of understanding the world around us. When we experience the arts we can feel solace, joy, passion, and inspiration. Where once the arts may have felt like an extracurricular or a luxury experience, they now feel more essential and help define what it means to be a part of a community and to feel connected. What OMA is hearing from our community is mirrored by what other arts providers in the region, and across the country, are hearing from their constituents as well. An understanding that may surprise even the most business-minded readers, the “arts and creative industries offer a powerful spark for localities to reignite economic growth. Rebuilding and renewing an economy that will provide opportunity and prosperity for all is a colossal challenge, one that will require policy makers, and community leaders to leave no stone unturned in their search for viable solutions.” 1 The creative economy has value as an industry in its own right* 2(Noonan, 2020), but also stimulates growth in other sectors, by offering diversification and rapid growth less influenced by slower recovering sectors. The arts work to grow communities as artistic centers collaborate with destination tourism, community revitalization, and the livability of a region. It has been shown too that arts and culture attract and enhance workforce talent. Art unlocks creativity. Art invites us to take risks and to try something new or unknown. Art fosters innovation and wonder. Wonder compels us to explore, create, experiment, and imagine ‘what if.’ These are qualities alone are worth considering when weighing the arts as a valuable tool to be used toward seeking collective social and economic recovery.

1. Noonan, Douglas S. (2021). Creative Economies and Economic Recovery: Case Studies of Art-led Recovery and Resilience. 2. The Arts and Culture Sector’s Contributions to Economic Recovery and Resiliency in the United States. Copyright © 2020

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. The arts and related creative industries are a substantial economic force, comprising 4.5% to the US gross domestic product—more than construction, transportation, mining, and agriculture— adding $877 billion to the nation’s economy.

Maria Mingalone, Executive Director, Oceanside Museum of Art. Mingalone serves as co-chair on the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Recovery Task Force.