Encinitas events this weekend and beyond (March 30)

For a complete list of events, visit the city’s newsletter at https://bit.ly/2pvUPe1.

Spring Egg Hunt

Calling all kids! Enjoy two performances by Hullabaloo and 20,000 eggs on March 31 from 10 a.m. to noon at Encinitas Community Park, 425 Santa Fe Drive. Egg Hunt times: 10:15 a.m. for ages 4 & under upper field, 5 & up lower field; 11 a.m. for ages 4 & under upper field, 5 & up lower field; and 11:45 a.m. for ages 4 & under upper field, 5 & up lower field. Bring your own basket for eggs. Extra parking with a free shuttle bus is available at San Dieguito Academy High School parking lot, at Nardo and Melba roads. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2DMf0th.

LIFE Film: The Hunt

Set in a small Danish village around Christmas, this film follows a man who becomes the target of mass hysteria after being wrongly accused of sexually abusing a child in his kindergarten class. It will be screened March 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. on the San Elijo Campus of MiraCosta College, 3333 Manchester Avenue, room 204. For more information about this free event, email lifesanelijo@gmail.com.

Families Make History: Rain Sticks

Native American’s used rain sticks to call upon the gods for rain in a dry climate. Every Saturday and Sunday in March, from noon to 4 p.m., celebrate these customs by making your own rain sticks, using paper rolls, rice, beans, foil, paint, feathers, and, of course, your imagination, and let your creativity rain supreme at the San Dieguito Heritage Museum, 450 Quail Gardens Drive. For more information about this free event, visit https://bit.ly/2Ff0hMj.

La Paloma Theatre

Now showing: I, Tonya; Phantom Thread; and Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tickets: $10 (cash only). 471 Coast Hwy. 101. For show times, call 760-436-7469.

Life is Designed to Work Workshop

Do you sometimes feel life is not designed to work? In this interactive workshop on April 8 from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Dr. Jane Ilene Cohen, Intuitive & Transformational Counselor, NLP & TimeLine Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapist will address the ways you personally experience your life as not working, from the perspective of the “Life Is Designed to Work” thought system. Bring your issues, questions, and concerns to the workshop. Admission is a $10 to $20 donation. It will take place at Dr. Cohen’s home office in Encinitas. Space is limited. RSVP at (760) 753-0733 to reserve your space and for the address. For more information, visit https://janecohencounseling.com/events/.

Skate Rising event

Skate Rising, which aims to empower girls through skateboarding, will partner with Tea Collection for an event called “Beyoutiful, Beyounique, Beyourself” on April 14 at Encinitas Community Skate Plaza, 429 Santa Fe Drive.

The event will feature talks from Tea Collection co-founder Leigh Rawdon and professional skateboarder Amelia Brodka. For more information and to RSVP, visit www.facebook.com/skaterising.

Encinitas and North Coast Democratic Club

Join the ENCDC at the Carlsbad Dove Library, 1775 Dove Lane in Carlsbad on April 7 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. to learn more about working for positive change in your community. Speakers include Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear and Carlsbad City Councilmember Cori Schumacher, presenting: “Creating a Better World through Local Leadership.” Introductions from Democratic candidates running for county offices will also be held and refreshments provided. For more information, visit www.encdc.org.

USO San Diego’s 77th Annual Stars and Stripes Gala

USO San Diego’s 77th Annual Stars and Stripes Gala: For Love of Country will be held May 5 at the San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina.

The event honors and supports active duty military personnel and helps provide them with much-needed services. The signature gala has emerged as one of the top five gala events in San Diego and celebrates the strong, enduring relationship between San Diego and the Armed Forces.

Gala entertainment for the evening includes two-time Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. A powerful baritone, Stokes has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2000 for his performance in Kiss Me, Kate. For the second year, Joe Emerson, National Anthem singer, painter, and TV personality will lend his remarkable talents to the gala.

Co-Chairs for the event include Arlene and Richard Esgate, Hélène and George Gould, Reena and Sam Horowitz, Jeanne Jones and Don Breitenberg, and Stephanie Brown. Mark Larson of KFMB AM radio will serve as emcee. Mark Larson of KFMB AM radio will serve as emcee.

For ticket information, visit www.usosandiego.org/gala-2018. For sponsorship and underwriting opportunities, please contact Sharon

Sean Penn to tout novel at D.G. Wills Books

Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn will read from his first novel, “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla.

“We’re absolutely ecstatic,” said D.G. Wills owner Dennis Wills, who noted that this will probably be the biggest-drawing event in the bookstore’s 27-year history.

Penn, will read from his novel — which press materials describe as about “a modern American man, entrepreneur and part-time assassin” — and then will take questions, submitted on 3x5 cards, that he pre-approves beforehand.

“This is something his publicist and I agreed upon immediately,” Wills said. “He’s a humanitarian, but he’s a controversial person as well.”

Penn will also appear at a similar reading for Warwick’s on Sunday, April 8 at 5 p.m., but it will be held at University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre at 5998 Alcala Park, not at the bookstore’s La Jolla location.

14th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance

The La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will be returning to the shores of La Jolla Friday, April 6 through Sunday, April 8. The 14th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will showcase some of the most exquisite automobile displays in the world. For more information or tickets, visit www.lajollaconcours.com.

ArtFest at the Garden

ArtFest at the Garden April 7-8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., features some of the finest regional artists displaying their talents with the beautiful San Diego Botanic Garden as a back drop. This fine arts show features more than 20 artists displaying and selling their work at amazing prices just for Garden guests. Many of these fantastic sculptors, painters, glass artists, potters, gourd and fiber artists who participate in ArtFest will also provide interesting demonstrations of their craft.

www.sdbgarden.org

San Diego Symphony Orchestra to perform April 8 in RSF

For the first time ever, the full San Diego Symphony Orchestra is coming to Rancho Santa Fe Sunday, April 8 at 2:30 p.m. to present “Rumanian Rhapsody,” a Jacobs Masterworks Special Concert at the Village Church.

The program includes Edward Elgar’s final significant composition, an orchestral concerto of Hungarian themes by Zoltán Kodaly and a blazing rhapsody of Romanian music by Georges Enesco led by conductor Cristian Macerlaru and featuring rising young Romanian cellist Andrei Ioni. For more information about the concert and tickets, visit bit.ly/2GRvtyr

Women’s Film Festival San Diego

The Women’s Museum of California will present the 2018 Women’s International Film Festival San Diego, April 13 - 15. This annual film festival was created to celebrate women’s stories and experiences through film. The weekend-long festival highlights the importance of female representation in the film industry, including women both in front of and behind the camera.

Festival passes can be purchased on the Women’s Film Festival website at womensfilmfestivasandiego.com

Encinitas Garden Tour

This year’s San Diego Horticultural Society Garden Tour will highlight gardens in Encinitas, an area rich in horticultural history. The tour will be held Saturday, April 7 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Several of the gardens are within large estates with multiple outdoor rooms, and some of the yards have raised beds and fruit trees, meadow-like areas, and unique plant cultivars. There will be eight full gardens and three front-yard gardens on the tour.

In keeping with past tours, the San Diego Horticultural Society has arranged to have local artisans offering their hand-crafted garden art as well as well as plein air painters capturing the lovely spaces.

Tickets and information at www.sdhort.org

Poetry & Art Series 2018 presents Cultures Connect

On Saturday, April 7, San Diego Writers, Ink and Poetry & Art Series 2018 present Cultures Connect in San Diego, featuring authors Sharon Elise, Pilar R. Aranda, Shadap Zeest Hashmi, Ted Washington, Francisco Bustos, Viet Mai and Alexis Ng. Hosted by Jim Moreno and Michael Klam. DJ Barry Thomas will provide music and sound throughout the show.

This interactive arts and culture experience will include beverages, snacks and time to mingle. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m. Members are free, nonmembers $6 at the door. The event takes place in the San Diego Art Institute, 1439 El Prado, Balboa Park. Visit bit.ly/2pKzayR

Taste of Leucadia

Tickets are now on sale for Taste of Leucadia, which will be held Thursday, April 5 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

The Taste of Leucadia will highlight local restaurants, retailers, craft brewers and local vintners. The event will be held at various locations along N. Coast Hwy 101 Leucadia, 92024.

Visit www.leucadia101.com

Del Mar Mud Run 2018

Del Mar Mud Run 2018 will be held Saturday, March 31 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Epic mud- and fun-filled obstacles are strategically placed throughout a 5K run/walk course, followed by Del Mar Mud Run’s signature post-race FOAM FEST showers. This event and producer VAVi Sport & Social donate to the Challenged Athletes Foundation, raising $300,000 for CAF’s Operation Rebound program since 2011. Visit www.delmarmudrun.com

American Mariachi

The Old Globe Theatre’s 2017-2018 season continues with the world premiere of José Cruz González’s “American Mariachi,” a comedy with live music. It runs through April 29 on the Shiley Stage, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park. Tickets from $30. (619) 234-5623. theoldglobe.org

Concert Time

• Athenaeum Jazz at TSRI opens 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 with Etienne Charles and his high-energy sextet, Creole Soul, known for its new jazz expression that taps into a myriad of styles rooted in Charles’s Afro-Caribbean background, at the Auditorium at The Scripps Research Institute, 10620 John Jay Hopkins Drive. Early reservations advised. $30-$35. (858) 454-5872. ljathenaeum.org/jazz-at-tsri

• Camera Lucida, a chamber music collaboration between four musicians with diverse backgrounds, presents works by Beethoven and Brahms, 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 2 at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall on the UC San Diego campus, 9500 Gilman Drive (at Russell Lane). Program includes Beethoven’s “String Quartet ‘Rasumovsky’ in e minor, Opus 59 Nr. 2” and Brahms’ “Piano Quartet in A major, Opus 26.” Tickets from $28, students free. (858) 534-8497. musicweb.ucsd.edu