Valley Arts Festival

Spirit of the Valley, a Celebration of a Luiseño Tribe, The San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians

This free family-friendly festival will feature activities and vendors from the Luiseño tribe. It will showcase Native American flute music with Spiritual Storm, Native American blues music with Tracy Lee Nelson, Indian Fry Bread for purchase, and educational tables filled with historic cultural items. There will also be a variety of interactive and participatory family-friendly activities, including interactive community murals for youth and adults sponsored by Muramid Art & Cultural Center, interactive basket weaving with Diania Caudell, a Luiseño member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, and Board Member of the California Indian Basket Weavers Association (CIBA), a storytelling area featuring Native American books and crafts with Oceanside Public Library and live Native American storytelling with Cathleen Chilcote Wallace, native animal sand & rock painting with Studio ACE, gourd painting with Mission San Luis Rey, and more to come!

Valley Arts Festival (VAF) is made possible in partnership with Oceanside Public Library, Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation, Muramid Art & Cultural Center (and California HQ for the UNESCO Center for Peace), and Friends of the Oceanside Public Library, and in cooperation with Mel Vernon, Captain, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians. We are proud to continue these partnerships for the second year running and happy to announce the addition of Mission San Luis Rey in 2022!

Valley Arts Festival is made possible in part by a grant from The Conrad Prebys Foundation!