Guides

Oct 16, 2026 - Oct 22, 2026 City of Newport Beach

Celebrating its 27th year, the Newport Beach Film Festival is one of the largest luxury lifestyle film festivals in the United States. The Festival brings an internationally curated collection of films and vibrant cultural events to the beautiful Southern California coast. Committed to championing…

Oct 16, 2026 - Nov 06, 2026 Coastline Community College Art Gallery

SCAPE Gallery presents, For the Record, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of artists Kara Maria and Suvan Geer at Coastline College Art Gallery in Newport Beach.  Exploring extinction, ecological disruption, and resilience, Maria’s paintings portray endangered species within fragile…

Oct 16, 2026 Memorial Hall, Chapman University

Opera Chapman presents Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone and the American premiere of Claude Arrieu’s La cabine téléphonique, directed by Marc Callahan, with music direction by Janet Kao and Timothy Wong. Chapman University’s Memorial Hall  

Oct 16, 2026 Lake Forest Performing Arts Center

The Pacific Rasa Festival is a festival of embodied arts and the science of emotions, founded by psychologist and Natya artist Dr. Dimple Kaur. Rasa means essence- the felt heart of art, of feeling, and of taste. The Founding Edition brings the three together in one evening. The programme 6:00 pm —…

Oct 16, 2026 - Dec 09, 2026 CSUF – College of the Arts Galleries

Patrick Merrill: Prints from the Permanent Collection, 2004–2009 On view: September 21 – December 9, 2026 College of the Arts Galleries (Visual Arts, Bldg. G) Free and open to the public Patrick Merrill (1948-2012) was a master printmaker and mixed-media artist known for his monumental woodcuts…

Oct 16, 2026 - Jan 10, 2027 Laguna Art Museum

Laguna Art Museum prsents Radiant Terrains: Elements of Light in Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection.  Drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection, Radiant Terrains explores how artists working from the 1960s to the present have transformed light into sculpture, painting…

Oct 16, 2026 - Oct 18, 2026 UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art

Starting in the 1960s, Raymond Saunders (b. 1934, Homestead, Pennsylvania: d. 2025, Oakland) developed a painting practice rooted in improvisation. He combined everyday objects, found imagery, drawing, notational markings, and text in constellated compositions blending abstraction and figuration…

Oct 16, 2026 - Nov 06, 2026 Saddleback Art Gallery

Celebrating the start of the academic year, this exhibition showcases recent work by Saddleback College faculty and staff creative professionals in the division of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design (AMPD). Exploring both physical and conceptual approaches to cultural production, Orientations…