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For this who live locally, there are several events happening this Saturday, August 23rd: The 2nd Annual Rolling from the 60s into the 70s fundraiser, Surf Art exhibit opening at Oceanside Museum of Art, and Never Die Young in concert.

The California Surf Museum has its first online auction live through this Saturday at 3pm! Read about it below.

REMINDER: The museum will be closed this Sunday, August 24 for a private event.

The Exhibit Hall will be closed September 2-5 (the Museum Store will remain open 10-4) to take down “Stars, Cars & Guitars: The Birth of the Modern Surf Era 1958-1965” and “GHOST WAVE: The Mystery of Cortes Bank” exhibits and install “Surf Art: Exploring Southern California's Coastal Culture.”

And we can't forget Big Wednesday on September 3rd!

Read about it all below . . . Be sure to follow us on social media too to keep up-to-date with everything happening at the California Surf Museum.

Welcome to our Online Auction — Now Live!

Bid on rare and special items — with proceeds supporting the California Surf Museum and the Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Museum. This is being held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Rolling from the 60s into the 70s fundraising event. Click here to check it out and bid on your favorite items!

Saturday, August 23 • 3-8pm

2nd Annual Rolling from the 60s into the 70s

Celebrating the culture and history of skateboarding and presentation of the 2025 Silver Skater awards.

Co-emcees: Denis Shufeldt

and Brian Logan

Guest Speaker: Steve Olson



2025 Silver Skater Honorees

Linda Benson

Joey Cabell

Ed Economy

Jim Ganzer

Randy Lewis

Carrasco Brothers: Richy, Rene, David

Call 760-721-6876 for tickets or to get on the wait list. Almost sold out!

$85 admission includes dinner and one drink ticket

$225 Silver Skater Package. Includes dinner and one drink ticket, event t-shirt and hat, 13 tickets for Spin to Win ($130 value), and entry into drawing for a California Surf Museum one-year membership.

Click here to keep up-to-date on this event and to see more about the online auction.

It's all happening at the

Veterans Association of North County

1617 Mission Ave. Oceanside 92058

In conjunction with the Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Museum.

Surf Art: Exploring Southern California’s Coastal Culture

Opening reception at Oceanside Museum of Art 

Saturday, August 23, 5-7pm • Admission $15

Click here to purchase your ticket.

California Surf Museum members: see Sunday's email for ticket purchase information.

Opening reception at California Surf Museum 

Sunday, September 14, 2025 2-4pm

On exhibit through February 1, 2026

Juried by Jim Kempton (Executive Director, California Surf Museum), Maria Mingalone (Executive Director, Oceanside Museum of Art), Katie Dolgov (Director of  Exhibitions and Collections, Oceanside Museum of Art), and artists Phil Roberts and Wade Koniakowski. 

A dual exhibition at the California Surf Museum and the Oceanside Museum of Art, this exhibition will explore art that has emerged from the surf-culture lifestyle and surfing’s influence on artists. Everyone who has experienced the feeling of riding a wave understands just how hard it is to describe that incredible sensation, referred to as “stoke.” It seems that only through creative self-expression can surfer-artists capture the essence of stoke and the inspiration that can be found between the surfer and the wave. Artists who surf may take this creative energy in many directions and may explore subjects outside of surfing and surf culture. This joint exhibition will feature a variety of media, from traditional art making methods to works in resin, murals, surfboards, graphic art, sculpture, or fabric, all with the goal to convey the creative power that all artists experience, on or off the wave. 

Luminaries in the surf art genre have been pre-selected as Featured Artists for the exhibition and will be represented at both museums; 113 artworks were selected from 768 submissions. 

Click here to see the full list of artists at oma-online.org. Coming soon: the list of artists displaying at the California Surf Museum.

Never Die Young, a Tribute to James Taylor

August 23, 7-9pm: Bornemann Theatre, San Marcos

Click here for show information and tickets.

From Never Die Young: We are inviting you out to the beautiful and intimate Bornemann Theatre in San Marcos for a special show from Never Die Young. Our show is this Saturday 8/23 at 7pm. The theater is really trying to gain momentum and is part of Teri Campus that does incredible work for challenged individuals. Please come out and support Teri. We will do our best to put on a great show celebrating James Taylor and Friends! This is a wonderful cause, I hope you can make it out and support Teri.

On display through September 1

If you have not yet seen it, come check out one of our most dynamic exhibits to date! So much to see!

This “blast from the past” exhibit demonstrates how, in less than a decade, from the years from 1958 to 1965, surfing related elements came to dominate popular culture forming a lasting effect on California, America and the world at large. From iconic record albums, period surfboards, fashion artifacts, seminal photographic images and memorabilia, visitors will get a clearer sense of why this era is considered the “golden age” of surfing and the surfing lifestyle.

Wednesday, September 3

The Sunshine Brooks Theater is hosting the California Surf Museum’s Big Wednesday film screening of shaper Dick Brewer’s bio pic “The Shape of Things.”

Film Screening

The Shape of Things:

The Dick Brewer Story

With special guests Jeff Hakman, Jericho Poppler, Alan Sarlo and Gary Linden, and Director Bob Campi, all who appear in the film.

Sunshine Brooks Theater

217 N. Coast Hwy.

Doors open at 6pm

Presentation begins about 6:45pm

$10 general admission 

To RSVP and purchase tickets, please call 760-721-6876.

Winner of the Maui Film Festival and the Honolua Surf Film Festival “Audience Choice Awards.”

This documentary chronicles the colorful and controversial legendary surfboard designer Dick Brewer. Arguably the most influential surfboard shaper of the 1960s and 1970s, Dick Brewer has often been called the father of the modern-day surfboard. He changed the design of surfing equipment not once, not twice, but three times in his 50-year career as a trailblazer, with all the notorious tales that have until now remained just rumored legends.

Directed and edited with the skill of a lifelong cinematographer Bob Campi, this biopic captures the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of visionary who changed the world of surfing forever, a trailblazer throughout his career. The filmmakers tell his story with phenomenal cinematography and archival footage coupled with a retro soundtrack, that will take you back to the era where surfers and board designers redefined what riding a wave could be.

Director: Bob Campi

Screenwriter: Jim Kempton (Executive Director, California Surf Museum)

Producer(s): Teresa Tico, Allen Sarlo, Steve Morgan

Click here to read more and see the trailer.

Run time: 59 min.

The Boardroom International Surfboard Show presented by US Blanks

Oct 11 & 12, 2025 - Del Mar Fairgrounds

The Boardroom highlights the surfboard manufacturing industry. A gathering of like-minded enthusiasts who are drawn by an authentic love for riding waves and the crafts that move us along those waves. The California Surf Museum will again have a booth at this year’s show. If you are interested in surfboards and shaping, this is the show for you!

Click here for information about this annual event and to purchase tickets. Please note that there is also a charge to park at the Fairgrounds.

YOU ARE INVITED!

17th Annual Gala Fundraiser

Saturday, November 1

2-8pm

It’s going to be an Endless Summer in November as we celebrate the 2025 Silver Surfer honorees!



Bruce Brown in memory • Mike Hynson in memory • Robert August

John Van Hamersveld • Dana Brown

Robert “Wingnut” Weaver • Pat O’Connell

with Honorary Gala Chairwoman 2017 Silver Surfer Jericho Poppler

Join us at The Seabird Ocean Resort & Spa 

overlooking the ocean and Oceanside’s iconic pier!

101 Mission Avenue Oceanside

Want to stay at The Seabird when you attend the Gala? Click here for our event discount for Saturday night, November 1.

Tickets are on sale — click here to purchase!

Click here to stay up-to-date with all things Gala!

September 19-21

The Super Girl Pro is back at Oceanside Pier and looking for volunteers!

If you are interested in volunteering at the Super Girl Pro Surf Festival, click here for the volunteer sign up form.

Click here for information about this annual event.

Be sure to check out surfmuseum.org!

There’s always lots to see!

As we gear up for the 17th Annual Gala Fundraiser, be sure to see all the fun and fundraising at the wrap up of the 16th Annual Gala Fundraiser here.

Click here to see past issues of the California Surf Museum’s newsletter OUTSIDE! going back to 2007! We still have more to upload.

Take a look around past events in the Event Archive.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn!

And don’t forgot to follow the California Surf Museum on YouTube! Lots to see there too! Including videos from past events and the very popular “Jan and Dean Sidewalk Surfin’” video.

The California Surf Museum Exhibit Hall is Open

10am-4pm Daily

NOW ON EXHIBIT

Click here to read about some of our exhibits online.

• Stars, Cars & Guitars: The Birth of the Modern Surf Era 1958-1965 through September 1, 2025
• GHOST WAVE: The Mystery of Cortes Bank through September 1, 2025
• Wave Science: Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP)
• A Brief History of Surfboards: from Wood to Foam and Fiberglass
• Courageous Inspiration: Bethany Hamilton
• Making Waves: Jack and Reid Van Wagoner
• Bodysurfing: Fins and Handplanes

Shop the California Surf Museum Store!

They are back in stock!

Our favorite Surfing Monkeys!

In store only — no shipping.

Our Museum Store is stocked up with lots of unique merchandise both in store and online! Click here to shop online (California Surf Museum members: be sure to call in your order to get your 10% discount on California Surf Museum-branded store merchandise).

Remember, memberships always make great gifts -- click here -- or click here to renew your membership today! Besides 10% off on California Surf Museum-branded store merchandise, members get free admission to our exhibit hall, and free or reduced admission to our Big Wednesdays and other in-house events.

Already a member? Be sure to share the stoke by sharing your guest passes with your friends and family!

Mission Statement

The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing by capturing, preserving, and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current and future generations.