Celebrate local creativity at the O’Arts Grants Celebration!

🗓️ Saturday, October 18, 2025

⌚ 11 am - 1 pm

🏢 Civic Center Plaza & Library Courtyard

This is a free and family-friendly event featuring:

• Appearances by 2025 Oceanside Arts & Culture Grantees

• Live announcement of the 2026 Oceanside Arts & Culture Grantees

Schedule:

11:10 am - Welcome

• CJ DiMento, Library & Cultural Arts Director

• Mayor Esther Sanchez

11:15 am - 2025 Grantee Vika S. Hernandez & Sambamerica Dance Collective

11:30 am - 2025 Grantee Oceanside Theatre Company: "Once Upon a Mattress"

11:43 am - 2025 Grantee Glassless Minds, Open Mic & Writing Workshops

11:50 am - 2025 Grantee Soultry Sisters Arts + Wellness Collective

11:55 am - 2025 Grantee lima Kam Martinez & KUhai Halau O 'llima Pã 'Olapa Kahiko

12:08 pm - 2025 Grantee Star Theatre: Poly Kazmerchuck

12:13 pm - 2025 Grantee Coastal Music Studios: The Hill Street Six

12:23 pm - Live Announcement of 2026 Oceanside Arts & Culture Grantees

11:00 am - 4:00 pm - Special edition of Oceanside Art Walk

• 1 pm 🪘 Aki’s Drums

• 2:30 pm 🎷 Josias Miguel

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The O|Arts Festival celebrated the Oceanside California Cultural District on Saturday October 19th, 2024 in downtown Oceanside highlighting what makes Oceanside unique.

The festival took place starting at 11am across the district in live music venues, restaurants, theaters, museums, galleries, and in Artist Alley.

Click here for more details!

Also celebrated were the 2024-2025 grant recipients:

Cultural District:

• Glassless Minds

• Friends of Oceanside Dia de los Muertos 

• North County LGBTQ Resource Center

• Oceanside Theater Company 

• Star Theatre

• Southern California Asian & Pacific Islander Festival

• Soultry Sisters Arts + Wellness Collective

• Vika S. Hernandez 

Citywide:

• Cat Chiu Phillips

• Mindfull Movement

• El Camino High School Band Booster Club

• The Hill Street Country Club

• Ilima Kam Martinez

• Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego

• Luz Helena Thompson

• Media Makerz

• North County Children's Choir-Coastal Music & Arts Foundation

• KOCT Television

The inaugural Oceanside Culture Fest debuted in 2020 in a virtual format, highlighting Oceanside’s musicians and artists, arts and culture organizations, museums and culinary scene.

It was streamed online on Saturday-Sunday, October 17-18, 2020. The event featured performances by Watkins Family Hour, Dead Feather Moon, and Shane Hall recorded in the historic Brooks Theater.

The festival also featured videos from Cadence Dance Project, Cupstacking sport (invented in Oceanside), Fil-Am Cultural Organization, Hill Street Country Club, Noche Mexicana, Oceanside High School’s show choir, Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside Theatre Company, Pride by the Beach, Samoan Cultural Celebration, Visit Oceanside’s Cooking Show Series featuring local chefs and restaurants, and more local and regional artists and organizations.

This event was hosted by the Oceanside CA Cultural District steering committee with title sponsorship by Visit Oceanside. It was produced by Becky Goodman (TenPints Entertainment, Carlsbad Music Festival), Steve Kader (Adams Avenue Street Fair/Adams Avenue Unplugged), and Lou Niles (Oceanside International Film Festival, In Your Neighborhood, 91X).