Events
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Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival
On Saturday, June 13th, attendees can explore over 40+ iconic boats on land and water, engage with boat owners and hear their stories, tour our featured vessel, the Spirit of Dana Point, and enjoy food and entertainment while celebrating maritime traditions. Saturday Festival Tickets (June 13, 2026) General Admission: $10/person Children’s Admission (Under 12 Yrs): Free Gondola rides will be available for purchase in person at the event. BUY TICKETS Saturday Tickets Are Also Available At The Gate (Subject To Availability)
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For the Love of the Sea Exhibition
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Announces Award Winners for “For the Love of the Sea” Exhibition Juried Competition Honors the Legacy of Frank Cuprien in partnership with the Laguna Art Museum LAGUNA BEACH, CA — The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA) is proud to announce the award winners for its premier juried exhibition, “For the Love of the Sea”. Presented in special collaboration with the Laguna Art Museum (LAM), this exhibition celebrates the enduring coastal legacy of Frank Cuprien, the “Dean of Laguna Coast Painters”.The competition drew over 320 entries from across the United States. Following a rigorous jurying process, the 2026 Awards Judges—Julie Perlin Lee (Laguna Art Museum…
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OC Archives Bazaar
Thank you for Celebrating 5 years of OC Archives Bazaar! With over 1000 attendees, 28 exhibitors, 20 volunteers, 10 guest speakers and 3 planning committee members, this year’s OC Archives Bazaar, Beyond the Archive: Textiles, Tunes, and Tales from Orange County was a great hit! Thank you for having visited our exhibition table at the Great Park. We enjoyed learning about your projects and are excited to collaborate with you. Oc Archives Bazaar by 70 Degrees
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Field Notes | March 2026
Happy Women’s History Month! We remember leading ladies’ legacies. View our collection of WWII Homefront stories. Route 66 – Happy 100th Birthday to America’s Mother Road: Paintings by Joan Gladstone December 13, 2025 – May 30, 2026 at the Hilbert Art Museum in Orange Celebrate the centennial of America’s most iconic highway as artist Joan Gladstone captures the spirit and nostalgia of historic Route 66 – the “Mother Road” that stretches 2,400 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica – across eight states. This exhibition showcases eighteen vivid contemporary oil paintings of the legendary road and its bold, colorful signage, inspired by Gladstone’s travels, archival images and imaginative reinterpretations. Book of…
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Field Notes | July 2025
Red Car at Balboa Pavilion, circa 1906, Photo courtesy of the Newport Beach Historical Society. Newport Beach summer visitors grew steadily after the Pacific Electric Railway connected the city to Los Angeles on July 4th, 1906. 2026 will mark the 120th anniversary of the Red Car and Pavilion. The Red Car made it accessible for Angelenos to stay in small beach cottages, cabanas, and at the Balboa Hotel. The Newport Pier, originally McFadden Wharf, became a popular hub of summer activity with commercial fishing and swimming. Join us at Newport Beach Tiki events! Learn More Book of the Month “Later on, Hamilton acknowledged that the Treasury job was the logical…
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9th Annual Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival
Celebrating Stories of the Sea: Wooden Boats in Film & Fiction Event Open to The Public June 13 & 14, 2025Newport Beach, CA – (March 19, 2024) – There is something undeniably romantic about a great adventure at sea. Think back to when a great sea tale first captured your imagination. Was it Jim Hawkins setting sail on the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island? Or perhaps it was seeing Marlin Brando as Fletcher Christian in the 1962 classic Mutiny on the Bounty? Or possibly for our younger readers it was the fantastic specter of the Black Pearl in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? This year the Newport…
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Sawdust Art Festival
We are working on Sawdust Art Festival’s 60th archive. You can follow the project and contribute your story! The archive contains thousands of never-before-seen photos, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Dive into the fascinating history of Sawdust and explore how Laguna Beach’s art scene developed. This collection contains photographs, oral histories, written stories, and ephemera. What was life like in the Laguna Canyon in the 1960s? The archive is a time capsule to the past. What did people do for fun? What were their hobbies? Discover this story within the space of six decades in these pages. You will see a variety of materials from the Sawdust Art Festival. Some…
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Center for Oral and Public History
Jennifer Keil shared her experiences as a 2014 Masters Degree graduate from the History Department in the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History in the Biennial Report | 2020-2021. Creating Access to California History showcases partnerships with cities and museums. Keil is the Founder of 70 Degrees and Museum Director of Moulton Museum, which will open to the public on July 1, 2022. Register to participate in the bi-annual Oral History workshop on Saturday, February 26th from 10am-1pm. As the Immediate Past President of Southwest Oral History Association, Keil encourages you to attend the conference with the theme of “The Memories Matter: Oral History, Hope, and Community”…
