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This week, San Diego's Human Rights Watch film festival, Jeremy McQueen brings his Black Iris Project home, Filipino stories of healing, Motown in Escondido and more

This weekend in the arts: "El Huracán" at Cygnet Theatre; Filipino American performance and art at New Americans Museum; "Electrification, Efficiency and Equity" at Art Produce; the San Diego Symphony's "Peltokoski, Thayer and Mozart" at California Center for the Arts Escondido and Southwestern College; "A Map Project" and "Excavation" at City College; Camarada at The Conrad; and "Lost in Translation" at the Central Library Art Ga...

Local artists were given words penned by local writers and asked to interpret their words into a drawing, painting, photograph or other form of visual art

The event, now in its 14th year, will be held at the San Diego Convention Center from Sept. 9 to 11

Alida Cervantes, Angélica Escoto, Carlos Castro Arias and Cog•nate Collective were chosen this year by a newly expanded jury of nonlocal curators representing the Whitney Museum, San Francisco's MOMA and more.

As we emerged from the harshest restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 made headlines in connection and creativity.

Perry Vásquez, PANCA, Hugo Crosthwaite and Beliz Iristay are this year's San Diego Art Prize recipients