Big List Of Things To Do In San Diego This Weekend | July 28 – July 31

Get busy having fun this weekend from our list of things to do in San Diego. See a movie, a concert, support the San Diego Padres, or run for a cause!

Thursday, July 28

Celebrate The Lavender Harvest Season At The 18th Annual Lavender Festival

Visitors of all ages are invited to stroll through the winding paths of organic lavender fields, participate in guided tours in horse-drawn hay wagons, learn how lavender essential oil is extracted, taste lavender-inspired dishes and enjoy live music.


Kids’ Happy Hour at One Paseo

Every Thursday this summer, from 3PM-5PM, you and your kiddos can enjoy family friendly entertainment and a snack from one of our restaurants. Puppets, bubbles, balloons, storytelling and more! Open to all ages!


Get A Taste Of The Pacific Islands At Bali Hai

PIFA San Diego invites you to join them for ‘Taste of the Pacific’ at Bali Hai! You’ll be in for a fun evening with live entertainment from San Diego’s own “Motu Nehenehe” dancers while you sample the latest trends in cuisine from the islands in the Pacific!


Rooftop Cinema Club presents The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

Kuzco is a self-centered emperor who summons Pacha from a village and to tell him that his home will be destroyed to make room for Kuzco’s new summer home. Kuzco’s advisor, Yzma, tries to poison Kuzco and accidentally turns him into a llama, who accidentally ends up in Pacha’s village. Pacha offers to help Kuzco if he doesn’t destroy his house, and so they form an unlikely partnership.


The Plot Brings Thursday Night Live Music Series To Oceanside This Summer

Plant-based Oasis, The Plot, has recently introduced their Thursday night live music series. Every Thursday from 6:30PM-8:30PM, guests can enjoy an evening of free live music on The Plot’s patio, surrounded by the restaurant’s regenerative garden.


Rooftop Cinema Club presents The Lost City (2022)

Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions.


Friday, July 29

Come Celebrate 2022 Italian Heritage Night With San Diego Padres

The Little Italy Association, Convivio, and the Italian Cultural Center are proud to partner with the San Diego Padres for the 2022 Italian Heritage Night game on the Padres vs. Twins game.


Rooftop Cinema Club presents Father of the Bride (1991)

George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can’t think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony, he becomes slightly insane.


Calling All Night Owls | The Nat At Night Is Back

Nat at Night 2022 is calling all night owls or summer wolves — kick off your weekends at the San Diego Natural History Museum this summer.


Moonshine Presents: JUNESHINE at Moonshine!

Juneshine at Moonshine! Juneshine we’ll be here serving up $6 Drink Specials and raffling off some swag from 6PM-8PM.


Rooftop Cinema Club presents La La Land (2016)

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.


Saturday, July 30

Jog In Honor Of Our Navy Seals At Joggin’ For Frogmen 5k

Join us at NTC Park – Liberty Station as we jog in honor of our Navy SEALs (Frogmen)! As of 2021, the Travis Manion Foundation is the exclusive beneficiary of the Joggin’ For Frogmen 5K Race Series.


Comedian Jamie Kennedy To Perform At Mic Drop Comedy

Mic Drop Comedy welcomes comedian Jamie Kennedy to the stage! Don’t miss this night of amazingly good laughs. Doors open one hour before the show.


2000’s Indie Dance Party with Black Crystal Wolf Kids

Inspired by the audience participation of the Flaming Lips, the anything-goes attitude of The Henry Clay People, and the over-the-toppedness of 80s tribute bands like Fast Times, Black Crystal Wolf Kids are the world’s first indie-rock tribute band, paying costumed, sing-along-encouraged homage to the best music of right now (The Killers! MGMT! Billie Eilish!) as well as indie’s storied past (The Pixies! The Talking Heads! The Cure!).


Mission Brewery Celebrates 15th Anniversary Party With Their Awesome Customers (You!)

Mission Brewery is celebrating their 15th anniversary with a momentous party for the people that make it possible — their awesome customers (you!). Join them for some very special beer releases, food, live music…and…check out their new look!


Creative Saturdays with the New Children’s Museum

Creative Saturdays with The New Children’s Museum are back for summer at One Paseo! Stop by the pop up from 10AM-1PM to make or pick up a complimentary art kit.


Enjoy Movies Under The Stars At The Annual Little Italy Summer Film Festival 

Come enjoy a movie under the stars every Saturday night of the summer at the annual Little Italy Summer Film Festival! 


Rooftop Cinema Club presents The Sandlot (1993)

It’s the summer of 1962, and Scotty Smalls is the new kid in town. A budding ball-player, Scotty is taken under the wing of baseball prodigy Rodriguez, and joins a neighborhood gang of sandlot kids for a series of misadventures.


Witness An Amazing Evening Of Live Music At The Marine Band San Diego Summer Concert

Come out for an evening of amazing live music by the popular music group, “Sound Strike.” These talented Marines will get you pumped with a performance that will be sure to keep you swaying – ooh-rah!


Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines’ Seaside Summer Presents Dive-In Movies Series

Here’s a fun way to keep it cool this summer! Jump in, pull up a floatie, and enjoy a movie from the pool or watch poolside at the Dive-In movie series at Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines.


Gimme Gimme Disco – House of Blues

Gimme Gimme Disco is a DJ based dance party playing all your favorite ABBA hits, plus plenty of other disco hits from the 70s & 80’s like The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, & Cher (DISCO ATTIRE ENCOURAGED). So honey honey, take-a-chance and you’ll be dancing all night long.


Rooftop Cinema Club presents Ratatouille (2007)

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely – and certainly unwanted – visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.


The Holding Company Launches All Ages Disney-Themed Brunch

The Holding Company rooftop will transform into a Disney lovers’ paradise – for young ones and the young at heart. Families are encouraged to come to this Disney-themed brunch dressed as their favorite character and enjoy music from Taylor Busby, who will be belting Disney classics from 10:30AM to 1PM.


Summer Moonlight Cinema

Enjoy a movie under the stars with family and friends on the lawn area behind Harland Brewing Company. Movies start at 7PM. Don’t forget your blankets and chairs! 


Sunday, July 31

Rooftop Cinema Club presents Encanto (2021)

The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal—every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family’s last hope.


See you there, San Diego!

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