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Photographers, designers, illustrators, musicians, writers and all other Santa Clara County residents interested in contributing Content Magazine, please contact us. Email your idea and proposal to [email protected] We look forward to collaborating with you.

SoFA District (& beyond!) The FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk is back along with STREET MRKT indie urban art faire!Bring friends ...
04/09/2025

SoFA District (& beyond!) The FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk is back along with STREET MRKT indie urban art faire!

Bring friends and family for a unique night out downtown. Stroll through all the exhibits hosted by downtown’s best galleries, and then enjoy Street Mrkt as it transforms S. 1st St. into an open-air gallery full of incredible hyper-local artists.

Join as we come together to ensure that the arts, creativity, and community thrive.

The Full Lineup:
southfirstfridays.com
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Enjoy exhibitions such as

“A love letter to all the cars that could have hit me, but didn’t” Kazland (UK)
Hosted
Image 1: Kazland,   | “Things could be a whole lot worse,” Acrylic, oil pastel, wax pastel, 100x120cm canvas.

“In Search of Our Mothers Garden” by Hargun Mahal Mann
Hosted at Art Ark, .hastings.artark
Image 3: Hargun Mahal Mann,

“Visual Umami” Savory Landscape Photography, Jerry Berkstresser
Hosted at
Image 4: Jerry Berkstresser, | “Infrared Collection,” Taken November 7, 2017

“There Are New Suns” Opening Reception
Hosted at
Image 5: Cecelia Perez, .ruce | “Viva San José,” Digital Art, 2025

Opera San José at California Theater
Hosted at The California Theatre,
Image 6: Erin Salazar, .es | Così fan tutte Collage

And many more!
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First Friday | First Friday with VOICES CircleSinging, led by David Worm, Friday, September 5, 2025, 6–9pPerformance at...
04/09/2025

First Friday | First Friday with VOICES CircleSinging, led by David Worm,

Friday, September 5, 2025, 6–9p
Performance at 7p | Free
110 South Market Street, SJ


Learn more
bit.ly/925SJMAFF
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Join for an evening of CircleSinging with VOICES, led by David Worm. CircleSinging is a participatory form of community singing that emphasizes improvisation and collaboration. Sometimes called vocal jamming or vocal orchestra, CircleSinging dates back to the earliest forms of human singing and is currently practiced all over the world.

About Circlesinging:
CircleSinging involves a group of singers, typically arranged in a circle, who spontaneously create music together. A facilitator usually starts by improvising a musical line and then teaching it to one section of the circle. Other sections of the circle then add their own improvisational parts, until everyone has joined, creating a new, spontaneous song. CircleSinging is a “mistake-free zone”—everyone is welcome.
VOICES is led by David Worm and was formed in March 2020 in response to the pandemic shutdown.

About David Worm:
David Worm is a vocalist and instrumentalist whose musical career spans the globe. It has been marked by decades of collaboration and innovation, including his longtime work with Bobby McFerrin and founding roles in vocal ensembles such as Voicestra, WeBe3, SoVoSo, and Motion. He has performed with renowned artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, and Meredith Monk and composed vocal scores for acclaimed dance companies and film projects.
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Image 1: CircleSingers at Make Music Day San José in 2025. Photo by SJMA/Frederick Liang

Join  for their monthly music festival and visit the local art galleries open late. This Friday, September 5, 2025~5:00 ...
04/09/2025

Join  for their monthly music festival and visit the local art galleries open late.

This Friday, September 5, 2025
~5:00 pm - 8:00 pm~

Enjoy exhibitions such as

FALL EXHIBITIONS, ARTISTS’ RECEPTION
Hosted at 
Image 1: Taylor Stoneman, | “Drill, Baby, Drill,” oil on canvas, 37 x 27 inches

“City Lights” by Maura Carta
Hosted at 
Image 2: Maura Carta, | “Charleston,” Oil on Linen, 7x9

Daniel Meehan, “Half Dome and Elsewhere”
Hosted at 
Image 3: Daniel Meehan, | “Half Dome Side View # 3” 2024, 7x8.5, watercolor & pencil
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Networking opportunity: Join , , and ’s Young Professionals for an evening of networking and emerging arts leadership.Th...
03/09/2025

Networking opportunity: Join , , and ’s Young Professionals for an evening of networking and emerging arts leadership.

Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, 6:00-8:30p
FREE EVENT
110 S Market St, San Jose


RSVP:
bit.ly/2025SJMACreativeMeetUp
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’s mission is to empower creative individuals and emerging arts leaders. They envision a thriving arts community in Silicon Valley that draws on a strong network of emerging individuals prepared to serve as the next generation of leadership.

Join us for lively conversation, a cash bar, and free admission to the Museum galleries while mixing and mingling with fellow arts professionals, artists, designers, and creatives of all fields.

Plus, enter a drawing to win a one-year complimentary SJMA Young Professional membership, genARTS swag, and Content Magazine memberships.

This partnership between Content Magazine and genARTS Silicon Valley hopes to gather creatives on a warm summer evening to network and be in community.

Bring your business cards, questions, and good vibes. Connect with three community arts organizations based in the South Bay.
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Join for their monthly Art Tour, which features exhibits and art events in our local galleries and art spaces.This Frid...
03/09/2025

Join for their monthly Art Tour, which features exhibits and art events in our local galleries and art spaces.

This Friday, September 5, 2025
~5:00 pm - 8:00 pm~

September First Friday in Santa Cruz features 37 galleries and venues showcasing work from local creatives.

Check out all the event listings at:
firstfridaysantacruz.com
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Enjoy exhibitions such as

WHIM & WONDER – Unexpected Joys, Extraordinary Vision
Hosted at .art
Image 1: Paul Morin, | “Kaij4” 2023, Oil and Silver Metal Leaf on Canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Art and Wine at the Silver Mountain / Bottle Jack Tasting Room
Hosted at 
Image 3: Allegra J. Bick-Maurischat,

First Friday at The Santa Cruz Hostel
Hosted at 
Image 4: Sydney K Yeats, .sky | ‘Oona’ Oil Pastel on Wood

Celebrating Dorothy Alden Becker: The California Mermaid
Hosted at 
Image 5: Photo of Dorothy Alden Becker (1900-1989), a champion swimmer and early female surfer in mainland USA, featured in the Princes of Surf 2025 exhibition.

September First Friday @ Treehouse
Hosted at 
Image 6: Maylani Cornier, | “Coastin”
And many more!
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Images from firstfridaysantacruz.com

Featured: Summer 2014 Issue 6.1, “Sight and Sound,” Aki Kumar, Join Aki for Little Village’s Big Easy Block Party & Beer...
29/08/2025

Featured: Summer 2014 Issue 6.1, “Sight and Sound,” Aki Kumar,

Join Aki for Little Village’s Big Easy Block Party & Beer Fest at .

Saturday, August 30, 11a-8p
Free Admission
West Saint John Street, San Jose


Get Tickets:
bit.ly/2025LittleVillageBlockParty

Join and for the first-ever littlevillagemusic’s Big Easy Block Party & Beer Fest, a high-energy celebration blending the heart of New Orleans street culture with the best of Bay Area craft beer.

This is your can’t-miss end-of-summer event hosted by Jay Meduri of and .

This event will benefit the non-profit Foundation, for which all proceeds from the Beer Garden will benefit LVF. LVF is a non-profit record company that seeks to shine the light of awareness on musicians who might not otherwise be heard. LVF produces CDs for diverse artists, including mariachi, folk, blues, gospel, rock, spoken word, roots, soul, and more. Unlike a traditional record label, all proceeds from CD sales return to the artist, who also owns all their intellectual property.

Eight bands on the LVF label will be featured on two stages. The main stage will be on West Saint John Street, and the other will be on the Poor House Bistro patio.

What to expect:
8 Live bands/2 Stages.
The main stage will be located on West Saint John Street
The second stage will be located on the Poor House Bistro patio.

Bands include:
Rick Estrin & The Night Cats w/ special guest Kyle Rowland
Greaseland All-Stars
Chris Cain & Maurice Tani,
DK Harrell,
Alabama Mike, & Nia Cephas
All Things Swamp
Mighty Mike Schermer
Aki Kumar,
John Blues Boyd
Marina Crouse,
and more
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Read more:
bit.ly/61AkiKumar
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Written by Nathan Zanon,
Photography by Stan Olszewski,

Featured: Issue 15.3, “Perform,” Rubén “Mr. Fúchila” Darío Villa, .fuchilaJoin Mr. Fúchila for the grand opening of Casa...
28/08/2025

Featured: Issue 15.3, “Perform,” Rubén “Mr. Fúchila” Darío Villa, .fuchila

Join Mr. Fúchila for the grand opening of Casa de Cultura y Arte—Gilroy’s new home for arts & culture.

Saturday, August 30, 12-5p
140 5th St. Gilroy, CA 95020

Grand opening featuring
Performances:
1p — Los Amigos, 
2p — Carolina Perez,
3:30p — Yosimar Reyes, 

Food & Drink:
Taaza Coffee & Chai, .coffee
Over Flow Tap House & Grill, 
El Guapo Kitchen, 
Panaderia 3 Hermanos, 

Vendors:
Niñøs de la Montaña, 
Orlando Salcedo, 
Plant Cultura, 
Digital NEST Gilroy, .nest

Statement from Mr. Fúchila
“Casa de Cultura y Arte is just that… a dream turned reality. La Casa gives tangible form to years of not just dreaming, but of dedication to our calling to bring our community together. To make room for us. To hold space for our stories, music, traditions, and existence. During this wild time in history, may La Casa be a refuge for those in fear, for those who feel alone, for those who simply want to laugh again. May La Casa be a literal and figurative stage for movements and moments far too large for the walls that hold our 168-year-old roof up.

Que Dios bendiga este hogar y recuerden, están en su casa.

Gracias to all the dreamers! Gracias to everyone who showed up to our Open House and gracias to anyone who’s supported our journey thus far.
ofrenda.festival
Teatro Jaguar 
nestcoffee
Gilroy Historical Society”
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Read more:
bit.ly/153MrFuchila
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Written by Chris Jalufka,
Photography by Daniel Garcia,

Networking opportunity: Join Silicon Valley’s vibrant creative community and SJMA’s Young Professionals for an evening o...
26/08/2025

Networking opportunity: Join Silicon Valley’s vibrant creative community and SJMA’s Young Professionals for an evening of networking and emerging arts leadership.

Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, 6:00-8:30p
FREE EVENT
110 S Market St, San Jose


RSVP:
bit.ly/2025SJMACreativeMeetUp
(Link in Profile)

Join us for lively conversation, a cash bar, and free admission to the Museum galleries while mixing and mingling with fellow arts professionals, artists, designers, and creatives of all fields.

This partnership between Content Magazine and genARTS Silicon Valley hopes to gather creatives on a warm summer evening to network and be in community.

Bring your business cards, questions, and good vibes. Connect with three community arts organizations based in the South Bay.
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Artist Opportunity: Calling all Bay Area artists! Submit your artwork to the 2025 CURA Contemporary Open Call. Submissio...
25/08/2025

Artist Opportunity: Calling all Bay Area artists! Submit your artwork to the 2025 CURA Contemporary Open Call.

Submission Deadline: Monday, September 15th, 2025 at 11:59PM PST 
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10th, 2026, 4-6pm
Exhibition Run Dates: Saturday, January 10th, 2026 – Sunday, February 1st, 2026 
17395 Monterey Rd, Morgan Hill

Learn more:
bit.ly/CURAOpenCall2025
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is thrilled to announce their 2025 Open Call! They are looking for Bay Area artists to submit work for a group show. The application opens Friday, August 15th and closes Monday, September 15th, 2025. Before submitting, they encourage artists to visit their gallery to experience the type of work they exhibit and/or explore the artwork they have available online. 

CURA Contemporary is an art center located in Morgan Hill, CA. The gallery features two floors of exhibition space that alternate monthly with group and solo shows. Their roster of over forty artists includes both emerging and mid-career artists whose work has a strong sense of materiality and whose practices embrace process. The work is tactile, colorful, and unexpected across a wide mix of mediums including painting, photography, works on paper, textile, ceramic, glass, wood, and jewelry. 
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The artwork shown is from CURA Contemporary’s artist roster in their online gallery. 

Image 1: Kathryn Polk, , “NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY,” 2024. Stone Lithography. 14 x 11 inches. 35.6 x 27.9 cm. AP (Artist’s Proof)
Image 3: Abiam Alvarez, .alvarez, “MULTI-COLOR VESSEL 1,” 2024. 3D Printed Ceramic. 23 x 8 x 8 inches
Image 4: Allan Barnes, , “ROWYNN,” 2009. tintype. 5 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches
Image 5: Samantha Buller, , “SKY HIGH,” 2025. Oil on Canvas. 24 x 48.

Featured: Issue 17.4, “Profiles,” Mark Engel, Join Mark for the opening reception of his solo exhibition, “Shifting Terr...
25/08/2025

Featured: Issue 17.4, “Profiles,” Mark Engel,

Join Mark for the opening reception of his solo exhibition, “Shifting Terrain,” at .

Opening reception: Saturday, August 30th, 2025, from 2-4p
On view through January, 4, Permanent Gallery
1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara


“If I want to make the work better or different or push it into new territory, I have to be comfortable with that awkwardness.” -Mark Engel

Engel’s curiosity about figurative art led him to instructor Leroy Parker, who inspired him and became both mentor and close friend. “His approach to the figure and his philosophy on life and on the figure, it just really was inspirational for me,” said Engel. “That really got me into working with the figure and with painting.”

Artist Statement
I use the human figure as a central motif to explore themes of connection, transformation, and involution. My work revolves around the ever-changing motion of selfhood and explores the dynamic interplay between external forces and internal experiences. Process is an essential component in my work, and I build compositions that combine the figure with landscape, fragmentation, distortion, and gesture to reflect transitional states. Relying heavily on intuition, I feel my way through each composition by adding and subtracting elements to arrive at an image that is broader than my conscious awareness and infuses the work with a deeper level of meaning. I strive to find a balance between retaining form and dissolving into abstraction to capture the fluid nature of becoming and soften the boundaries between self and other.
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Order your copy of Issue 17.4:
https://bit.ly/174profiles
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Written by Joshua Hascall, .art
Photography by Daniel Garcia,

This Sunday, August 24, is co-hosting with the legendary  to bring you an unforgettable & FREE Reggae Sunday at St. Jam...
23/08/2025

This Sunday, August 24, is co-hosting with the legendary  to bring you an unforgettable & FREE Reggae Sunday at St. James Park!

Sunday, August 24, 2025, 3:30-7p
St James Park - San Jose
Free Concert


This FREE community concert celebrates culture, music, and good vibes — right in the heart of San Jose.

Featuring
Groundation, , fusing roots reggae with jazz and dub like no other
Kruel Summer, , blending island-style rhythms with indie soul

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind collaboration bringing island rhythm to the city.

AND unique to this Sunday’s concert is releasing an exclusive Cukui × Levitt San José commemorative t-shirt — available ONLY at the concert.

100% of the PROCEEDS SUPPORT FREE LIVE MUSIC at St. James Park

Check out this summer concert series.
LevittSanJose.org
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Image 3: T-shirt design by  

Artist Opportunity: Submit your artwork to the 5th Annual Experimental Exhibition, “Interwoven: the threads that bind (...
22/08/2025

Artist Opportunity: Submit your artwork to the 5th Annual Experimental Exhibition, “Interwoven: the threads that bind (US)” hosted at .dtsj

Submission Deadline: Monday, Aug. 25 at 11:59 PM
Opening Reception: Fri, Oct. 3 from 6 - 9 PM
Exhibition Dates: Fri, Oct. 3 - Thurs, Oct. 30 @ Local Color’s Noble Gallery

Learn more:
bit.ly/genARTS5thInterwoven
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For the 5th Annual Experimental Exhibition, genARTS Silicon Valley, in partnership with Local Color, invite submissions of paintings, sculptures, photography, digital art, and mixed media. As an “experimental” exhibition, we encourage artists, whether emerging or established, to think beyond convention. They highly encourage artists to create a piece in response to the theme or submit one that hasn’t been exhibited before and was created within the past three years.

Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly. Submissions may explore relationships, networks of support, safety nets, or moments of solidarity. Your work might examine connection and disconnection, celebrate community, or challenge us to see the ways we are interwoven. This exhibition aims to spark dialogue about the ties that hold us together and the creative potential of coming together as “us” in the “US” during this current turbulent political climate. 
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Questions? Contact [email protected] 

Image 1: Submission from the 4th annual 2024 “Boundaries” Experimental Exhibition - Natasha Kramskaya, Ukrainian Spring (2024), Acrylic, oil stick, collage on board,

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