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 […]
Encinitas, CA 92024 United States
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 […]
Carlsbad, CA 92011 US
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 […]
Carlsbad, CA 92008 United States
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, […]
Oceanside, CA United States
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 […]
Encinitas, CA 92024 US
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), […]
Oceanside, CA United States
Recent Open Your Hearts Newsletters
Week One: Health, Healing, and Hope a month of events April 2025
Week Two: Open Your Hearts Continues to Grow
Week Three: Bursting at the Seams
Week Four: Art Events Bring May Flowers
