Open Your Hearts to North County Arts

NCAN Presents:
Open Your Hearts to North County Arts

April is Arts, Culture and Creativity Month

Health, Healing & Hope and The Role of Arts in Community Resilience is the theme for the April 2025 Arts, Culture  Creativity Month

The North County Arts Network is promoting events that exemplify the spirit of hope and resilience at a time in our lives that we are bombarded by environmental and political challenges.  This promotion is part of the Open Your Hearts to North County Arts, our ongoing proof of the variety and depth of arts activities in our region.

Now is the time to advance the message of Health, Healing, & Hope, and how our artists and culture bearers are essential to community cohesion, reparative justice, and individual wellbeing.

Arts and Culture Activities

  • Produce Positive Mental Health Outcomes
  • Catalyze Personal Growth
  • Help Heal Trauma
  • Support Spiritual Growth & Connection

It stimulates pride in our community, personal well-being – even personal transformations, and builds empathy and understanding.

The North County Arts Network was established to serve, advance, and lead the diverse network of organizations and individuals who work in the arts in North County San Diego. We look to invigorate the arts community, enhance quality of life and encourage prosperity in our region to maximize support for the arts.

We encourage everyone to become involved in the arts, especially in North County San Diego. It’s not that far!

You can see all the April Events on the NCAN Calendar of Events. Use the scroll bar to view the next 100 events.

Here is a selection of featured events curated on the topic of Health, Healing and Hope.

Ethan Chan & David Peña: Heavy as Ghosts

This two-person exhibition features the work of ICA San Diego’s 2024 artists in residence, Ethan Chan and David Peña. Over the course of the past year, Chan and Peña each […]

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18 January 2025
Institute of Contemporary Art North, 1550 S El Camino Real
Encinitas, CA 92024 United States
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Fredric Hope: Silent Storytellers

Through his art, Hope emerges as a lifelong observer and contemporary interpreter of Southern California’s evolving shores, transforming his recollections and relationship with coastal artifacts – shells, stones, tidepools and […]

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07 February 2025
William D. Cannon Art Galllery, 1775 Dove Ln
Carlsbad, CA 92011 US
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Surfing Madonna Save the Ocean 5

Front Porch Gallery in collaboration with Surfing Madonna Oceans Project endeavors to promote a love for and understanding of the fragile coastal environment by encouraging people to be stewards and […]

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26 March 2025
Front Porch Gallery, 2903 Carlsbad Blvd.
Carlsbad, CA 92008 United States
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Expressive Arts Workshop: Metaphors from Nature: Awareness, Self-expression, Wisdom, Nurturing, and Healing

8-week series: Fri, April 4 through Fri, May 23 Keeping Nature as a connecting thread, we’ll be playing and learning together, adding an artful dimension, and embodied mindful awareness for […]

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04 April 2025
UC San Diego Health Cancer Services, 1200 Garden View Rd., # 101
Encinitas, CA 92024 United States
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The Art of Autism

An exhibition celebrating neurodivergent artists and the unique ways neurodivergent individuals perceive, create, and contribute to the world. A Different Lens will feature works from more than a dozen artists, […]

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05 April 2025
Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way
Oceanside, CA United States
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The Art Center’s 16th Annual Signature Watercolor Exhibition

Both established and emerging artists come together to fosters a vibrant community of art enthusiasts, highlighting the medium’s unique qualities, from its fluidity and transparency to its vibrant colors and […]

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15 April 2025
Fallbrook Art Center, 103 S. Main
Fallbrook, CA United States
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Peril in the Alps

The twin sister of Captain Hasting’s wife, Dulcie, has been kidnapped — and Hercule Poirot rightly expects not only extortion to follow, but murder. Using elements of Agatha Christie’s “Poirot […]

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16 April 2025

Photography and Mindfulness

Discover the art of seeing with intention. This class blends photography with mindfulness practices, helping you slow down, observe the world more deeply, and capture meaningful images. Through guided exercises […]

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19 April 2025
ICA San Diego / North (Encinitas), 1550 S El Camino Real
Encinitas, CA 92024 US
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Ventana Huichola

The results of the workshops that made yarn “Tsikuris” or God’s Eyes are curated by Natalie Gonzalez. Tsikuri (meaning “the power to see and understand things unknown” in the Huichol language), […]

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26 April 2025
Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way
Oceanside, CA United States
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