Conversations on Beauty
In this, Balboa Park’s centennial year, please join us for a lively and insightful panel discussion of San Diego’s past…and how a grand achievement like Balboa Park can still inspire our future as it relates to the arts, civic pride, and vision.
The development of Balboa Park 100 years ago was a very deliberate attempt by business and cultural interests to carve a niche for San Diego as a relevant city on the Pacific.
If you think of culture as a river where ideas appear and reappear on the surface, where did San Diego’s vision of Balboa Park come from? Have we seen other glimpses of this river during the past century? In 2015, with the civic energy that Balboa Park’s centennial has released, is the river coming back to the surface? Where is San Diego in the scheme of Pacific culture? Are we just sand and surf, or is there a grander vision waiting to emerge?
Panelists include:
Michael W. Hager, Ph.D., President and CEO San Diego Natural History Museum
James T. Hubbell, Artist and co-founder, Ilan-Lael Foundation
Roger Showley, Reporter, U-T San Diego, and author of three books on San Diego history
Peter Jensen, Moderator, former editor San Diego Home/Garden magazine.