Photos from the 2019 Heritage Weekend at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá .
To see more, go to Facebook: SanDiego/Alcalá Sister Cities Society.
Thank you so much to everyone who made this weekend such a success!!

Mission San Diego de Alcalá commemorates 250th anniversary of its founding

February 16 and 17, 2019, have been designated as Heritage Week End at the Mission. San Diego/Alcalá
Sister Cities Society and the House of Spain are in charge of celebrating Spanish Heritage at the Mission;
therefore at 1:00pm, on Sunday, February 17, after 12:00 mass, dedicated to our friend and colleague,
Tom Case, we will celebrate the occasion with a Spanish meal of paella, salad, bread and a refreshment
or sangría accompanied by Spanish guitar music and Spanish dance in the California Room of the
Mission.

If you would like to join us for this celebration, please RSVP to sistercityalcalá@gmail.com by
Wednesday, February 6. You can make payment for the meal and entertainment at the California Room
of the Mission on Sunday, February 17: $20, adults; $15 for children 15 years old and under. Don´t
forget to RSVP with the number of people who will attend.
On Saturday, February 16, from 9:30-3:00 there will be activities for children to celebrate Spanish
Heritage and we will have available for purchase at 9:30 churros and chocolate and at 12:30 Spanish
stews.

Brunch, music  and fun are the flavor of the day this Saturday 25 January 2020, with San Diego-Perth Sister City Society’s  inaugural Australia Day in North Park celebration.

Australia Day commemorates the landing of the First Fleet under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip. The First Fleet entered Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788 with its cargo of convicts from Great Britain. The Union Jack was raised, and the new colony was formed under the Governorship if Captain Phillip.

The San Diego – Alcalá Sister City Society will host a PAELLA fund raiser to benefit a sister city student exchange. Students from San Diego will travel to Spain and students from Spain will travel to San Diego to have a once in a lifetime experience.

August 15th at Prepa Federal Lazaro Cardenas, Tijuana Mexico
9:00am Girls game starts at 9:30, Boys at 11:30.

Don Quijote Read-a-thon Image Gallery

2018 SanDISCA Concert Series

The Taichung-San Diego Sister City Society recently hosted  twenty-three 11th grade students and two English teachers from National Kinmen High School.  Kinmen is a very special Place only 5 miles from China Coast and is 60 square mile total in area. The island is also called Quemoy by westerners.

The group arrived on January 27th and had a packed schedule with English classes at the Mission Valley International House in the morning, from 8AM to 12:20PM and extensive visits to San Diego locales.

The students managed to squeeze in visits to the Midway Museum , the La Jolla Cove, Hotel Del Coronado, Old Town, Seaport Village,  and Pacific Beach during the week and enjoyed special tours of SeaWorld, the San Diego Zoo, Universal Studios and Disneyland on the weekends.

Thank you to all that participated in making this visit a success!

San Diego/Alcalá Sister Cities Society invites you to the yearly Don Quijote Read-a-thon in the International Cottages Lawn Program area.
In addition to the public reading of Don Quijote de la Mancha, House of Spain will offer their world-renowned paella for purchase, plus Spanish music and dance performances.

Edinburgh has been rated the top “cultural and creative city” of its size in Europe in a major new study which explored 30 different countries.

The Scottish capital was ranked alongside Paris and Copenhagen, which topped the categories for bigger populations, in the European Commission findings.

Researchers took the “cultural pulse” of 168 cities across Europe, examined how much the creative industries contributed to each economy and explored their efforts to attract talent and encourage participation in the arts.

Key factors taken into account included the range of arts venues, historic attractions and landmarks, the number of overnight stays recorded, and attendance at theatres, concerts and cinemas. The number of jobs in arts, culture, media and communications were considered, along with university rankings and the number of university graduates in subjects like arts and humanities.