Each week, Arts Orange County and Culture OC deliver you this look at the stories and events happening in our arts and cultural community.

A Thousand Thoughts: A Live Documentary with Kronos Quartet and Sam Green

Soka Performing Arts Center plays host to a unique multimedia experience that immerses you in the half-century history of these legendary musical artists with narration and archival film as they simultaneously perform live MORE

Historic Laguna Beach Building That Was Once a Millionaire’s Private Art Museum Has Transformed Into a Public Arts Center

Tucked away on Broadway Street near the waterfront, the old Laguna Beach post office now boasts a state-of-the-art, museum-quality exhibition space that’s open to the public.

Bridging the gap between past and present, the Honarkar Foundation for Arts & Culture opened with an inaugural exhibition from Dec. 1, 2023-Jan. 14, a 20-year retrospective of Jorg Dubin’s work. He’s a prominent contemporary artist and resident of Laguna Beach. The 38-piece show featured a strong history of formal portraiture with politically charged content reflecting the times.

Thursday kicks off the center’s official opening and second exhibition, “Tony DeLap, A Survey of Works: 1960s-2000s.”

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Gives an Age-Old Tale a High-Tech Makeover

The Monégasque company brings a new, AI-inspired version of “Coppélia” to Orange County.

All That Glitters Really Could Be Gold at Laguna Art Museum

When the Laguna Art Museum introduced its newly created Art and Nature Festival in 2013, it was designed to be an innovative approach to the idea that artists gain inspiration from nature in its myriad forms.

That year, the program introduced sand drawings by Jim Denevan, monumental spirals evoking floral shapes that were traced into the sand of Main Beach and illuminated by hundreds of solar lanterns.

Scroll to 2024 when LAM has rejuvenated itself again by staging its first exhibition of decorative art titled “Modern Alchemy: The Fusion of Art and Nature in the Jewelry Designs of Adam Neeley,” which runs through July 29.

Each week, we recommend a variety of events and experiences from the listings at SparkOC.com, our free website for Orange County's arts and cultural community.

Mesa Dance Festival

Learn some moves in workshops, root for your favorites in a dance battle, or just sit back and enjoy the hip-hop styles of dynamic local crews at the Robert B Moore Theare on the campus of Orange Coast College MORE

ICIT Anniversary Concert

ICIT stands for Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, a cutting-edge graduate program at UCI that puts student on the forefront of not just musical creation, but musical presentation; and this free concert celebrates 15 years of those experiments and innovations MORE

“Reflections” Closing Celebration with Timothy J. Clark and Jean Stern

A joint tour and stimulating conversation between artist Timothy Clark and art historian/Irvine Museum director Jean Stern is the highlight of Saturday's closing celebration for the Moulton Museum's exhibition of Clark's work MORE

Asian Comics: Evolution of An Art Form

Saturday marks the grand opening of this Bowers Museum exhibition that offers a rare opportunity to see the vivid, expressive original artwork which is mass-printed in the manga books that have become a global cultural phenmoenon MORE