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

Juneteenth Celebration at the OC Great Park

Free for the whole family, BIPOC Orange County celebrates the joy of freedom and our newest federal holiday with music, food, dance, and other live performances MORE

Fullerton’s Day of Music Turns 11 With 200+ Performers and a Story Worth Knowing

How a French festival tradition and a city in crisis gave birth to one of SoCal's biggest free music celebrations.

Waffle Outsoles and Anaheim Concrete: Skateboarding Culture is on Display at Muzeo

In 2004, an exhibition called “Beautiful Losers” opened in Cincinnati, Ohio, and went on to tour museums for years, including a stop at the Orange County Museum of Art from Feb. 6-May 15, 2005, redefining the skateboard as art and bringing counterculture into conversation with fine art.

In its wake, numerous other skateboarding-related exhibitions have been shown around the world and locally in spaces like Laguna Art Museum, the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum and Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, among others.

The most recent example is Muzeo’s “Concrete Wave: 60 Years of Vans and the Culture Born on Broadway,” presented in collaboration with the storied skatewear brand and the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in Simi Valley. The exhibit is on display through July 12.

‘Gospel Voices of OC’ Ventures Through the Eras of Black History

Juneteenth overlaps with the nation’s 250th anniversary, making this season a special celebration, especially for the nonprofit Arts & Learning Conservatory, which puts on the “Gospel Voices of OC” every year during the Juneteenth season. This year’s performance will take place at the Irvine Barclay Theatre at 7 p.m. June 27.

“By the time you leave a production like ‘Gospel Voices,’ you'll feel like Broadway meets the Black church,” said Debora Wondercheck, founder of the Costa Mesa-based Arts & Learning Conservatory and producer of the show. It has the “high caliber of a Broadway show, and it's also bringing in the elements of what you'd experience if you were sitting in a pew, listening to a gospel choir at a Black church.”

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.

The Book of Will

Closing weekend for Lauren Gunderson's play, which dramatizes how the actors in Shakespeare's company struggled against all odds to preserve his works for posterity after his death, presented by Begins and Ends With 'A' Productions at the Brea Curtis Theatre MORE

Fête de la Musique Laguna Beach 2026

Every year, over 1,000 cities around the world mark the coming of summer with Make Music Day; and Laguna Beach will fill its downtown streets with performances at over 30 locations MORE

Little Seedlings Story Time

Corona Del Mar's Sherman Gardens invites pre-school aged children every Friday to experience stories, picture books, and poems at their beautiful oasis of nature MORE

Spirits of ’76: A Mixology Tribute to USA 250

History meets flavor at Anaheim's MUZEO as expert cocktail crafter Cornelius teaches you how to create a perfect beverage to honor America MORE