San Diego weekend events: live music, sports and a film festival
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The San Diego Seals in action. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for NLL
If you're looking to spend your weekend out and about in San Diego, we've got options:
Friday
🎬 Oceanside International Film Festival
Screen independent films by filmmakers from around the world at the 13th annual event.
- When and where: Show times vary through the festival's closing Saturday evening. Sunshine Brooks Theatre.
- Cost: $10+
🥍 San Diego Seals Marvel Superhero Night
Watch the Seals don Thanos-themed jerseys while Spider-Man and other heroes roam the concourse.
- When and where: 8pm, Pechanga Arena.
- Cost: $15+
📖 Writers' Symposium by the Sea
Hear interviews with acclaimed writers Nick Hornby and Susan Orlean as part of the 29th annual installment.
- When and where: 7pm, Brown Chapel at Point Loma Nazarene University.
- Cost: $10+
Saturday
Experience a daylong celebration of photography and Afro-Diasporan perspectives.
- When and where: 10am-6pm, San Diego City College V Building.
- Cost: Free
See the hip-hop superstar in downtown San Diego.
- When and where: 9:30pm-2am, Parq Nightclub
- Cost: $45.36+
Cheer on women's international soccer stars as Puerto Rico takes on Panama and Colombia plays Brazil.
- When and where: 4:30pm, Snapdragon Stadium
- Cost: $18
Take in performances, music, food and all-ages activities at an event going strong since 1983.
- When and where: 10am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday, San Diego Chinese Historical Museum.
- Cost: Free
Sunday
🎙️ Black History Month Sound and Liberation Listening Party
Enjoy live music from Black ambient artists Joy Guidry, Niecy Blues and Myles Ortiz-Green.
- When and Where: 6-9:30pm, the Hill Street Country Club in Oceanside.
- Cost: $10
Catch the jazz and funk guitarist, and don't miss ascendant LA LOM's opening set.
- When and where: 6:30pm, The Observatory North Park
- Cost: $54
⚽ San Diego Sockers Cowboy Hat Giveaway
Cheer on San Diego's indoor soccer team and get yourself a new cowboy hat (while supplies last).
- When and where: 5:05pm, Pechanga Arena
- Cost: $25+