Plan to join us for three weekends in October filled with glowing fun, giggles, and grins—October 9–11, 16–18, and 23–25—with activities starting at 5:00 PM. We've designed the entertainment to allow for social distancing, so you can have fun safely. Kids 11 and younger can come in costumes that align with our guidelines.

Japanese stone lanterns were adopted by masters of the Japanese way of tea who included them in tea gardens to help guide the pathways. Initially being accessible by the wealthy, they were eventually adopted not just as votive lights, but also as more practical lanterns to light the precincts of shrines and temples. Taka Saida is a 5th generation stone smith who will discuss the use of stone lanterns in Japanese gardens.

Every year in November the Leonid meteor shower occurs. What is a meteor shower? How do we know when one will occur? And how are meteor showers related to comets? Join us to find out!

Sparks Gallery is pleased to present a solo show by San Diego artist Jens Rossen. This exhibition, in partnership with Exclusive Collections Gallery, will showcase the artist’s newest body of work titled, “Segues.”

Born in Denmark, Jens Rossen is an expressionist painter whose paintings play on the viewers’ senses, transporting them into the realm of the sublime. Throughout his formative years, Rossen traveled back and forth from Denmark to California, resulting in a depth of influences manifesting itself within his own artwork.

“The obvious influences of de Kooning, Kline and even Pollock are melded together with his Scandinavian sensibility of naturalism so that a fresh new experience is to be found for the viewer in these welcoming, enlightening works of art” – Jamie Ellin Forbes