SIGHTS AND SOUNDS : If you like art, jazz and quilting, you could spend a heavenly day at Angels Gate.

Summer Festival 1993, where music and art meet sun and sea, will provide a little seasonal refreshment Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Angels Gate Cultural Center.

The eclectic program, which includes seaside jazz concerts, artists’ studio tours and galleries full of photographs, paintings, drawings and quilts, offers thought-provoking exhibits and a chance to kick back and not think at all.

The third annual “On Site at the Gate,” a juried members exhibit, provides a centerpiece for the festival. The show, in The Gate Gallery, features 60 works by 39 Southern California artists who use largely “non-traditional materials,” Angels Gate spokeswoman Betsy Lohrer said.

Make that non-traditional and somewhat elemental materials. The mixed-media exhibit includes installations that use cement, water, sound and light. An example is Tara Daly’s “Cinderella,” a piece consisting of a dress that emits light.

Contemporary and turn-of-the-century quilts from diverse cultures make up “Generation to Generation: Roots, Tradition, Continuum,” a collection of about 25 works exhibited in the Studio Gallery.

Visitors who may have always thought of quilting as a European and Pioneer American craft can see works of African-American, Jewish, Hmong and Hawaiian textile artists. The works range from king-size to crib-size and have been created using hand-tied, hand-stitched and machine-stitched techniques.

Created largely by members of Southern California quilt guilds, the works represent the similarity and differences in the technique and tradition of various cultures.

Quilting demonstrations will be given as part of the exhibit.

In addition to the gallery shows, “Summer Festival 1993” also offers the public an inside look at the lives and work of the creative individuals who make up the Angels Gate Cultural Center artists’ community.

Festival-goers can visit with Angels Gate artists during a self-guided tour of 24 working studios from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors can “see the surroundings in which art is created” and view and purchase artists’ works, Lohrer said. Tour maps are available in the Gate Galley, Building A.

Additional insight on creative communities and the artistic process will be provided in the premier of “Artists Seeking Sanctuary,” a 10-minute video documentary highlighting four culturally diverse Angels Gate artists.

The video will screen continuously in the Multiple’s Gallery, in Building A.

Sea Jazz 1993, an outdoor concert, will provide the rhythm and soundtrack for the daylong festival. Three Los Angeles-based music groups will offer their talents in the Angels Gate Cultural Center’s outdoor amphitheater from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Seating is limited, but music-lovers are encouraged to bring along a blanket and take a seat on the grass.

“Oranji,” an improvisational trio, will open the entertainment with the performers’ unusual combination of funk, bop and Eastern influences.

The Goodie Williams Quintet will take the second set, beginning at 2 p.m., with a program of “Afro-Asiatic jazz.” Williams will introduce the audience to the sound of a six-foot long, zither-like instrument, the Japanese Koto. Williams plays with three ivory picks in her right hand while bending some of the instrument’s 13 strings with her left.

“Alegori,” another five-piece band, will wrap up the concert with a jazzy sound spiced with a Latin and Brazilian beat.

Admission to all events is free; so is parking. Refreshments will be available.

Angels Gate Cultural Center is at 3601 South Gaffey St., San Pedro. Information: (310) 519-0936.