News

San Diego Air and Space Museum Wants a Shuttle (San Diego: San Diego Union Tribune)

The San Diego Air & Space Museum wants to land a space shuttle.

It's an ambitious, exciting plan, but... “Houston, we have a problem.”

The Savior of Balboa Park (San Diego: San Diego Union Tribune)

Irwin Jacobs, the Qualcomm corporate founder and San Diego’s uberphilanthropist, is coming to the rescue again, this time to save Balboa Park.

Plan looks to Remake Papago Park as Tourist Hub (Phoenix: The Arizona Republic)

Officials believe they have found a way to make Papago Park into an urban tourist attraction in the mold of San Diego's Balboa Park.

San Diego Youth Symphony Proves Hope Floats (San Diego: San Diego News Room)

As California continues to grapple with budget woes, extracurricular programs such as school orchestras and bands are gasping for survival.

‘Heroes’ Worship At SDMA (San Diego: The San Diego Union Tribune)

In a society that acts as if the 1980s is ancient history, the art of antiquity can seem awfully remote. Somehow, the exotic nature of mummies and Egyptian tombs closes the time gap, but not Greek statues and pottery.

Events

LEAD Conference Debrief

Friday, September 10, 2010 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Bring a lunch and mingle with colleagues who attended the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disabilities Conference in San Diego (August 25-29), to find out what they learned and how it relates to Balboa Park. Please RSVP to learning@bpcp.org by September 8.