The Mission Bay Preservationists go to Japan!

We are fundraising to give some of Southern California’s most talented young musicians the opportunity to travel and perform in JAPAN. This adventure started in 2017 when the Preservationists were selected to perform and represent San Diego in its sister city Yokohama, Japan to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of sister city relations. We will be returning in April of 2023 to collaborate with local musicians, perform for community events and enhance the bonds between our two cities.

Sponsored by Sister Cities International (SCI), the showcase gives youth worldwide the opportunity to express their vision for a more unified peaceful world through original art (classical and digital) literature (authors and  poets), photography and music (original pieces).  Students between 13-18 years of age, associated with a Sister Cities Society may participate.  As an added incentive, winners of the international competition in each category receive cash awards: 1st place, $1000.; 2nd place, $250.; 3rd place, $100.  The winners of each category will be announced during the summer at the Youth Leadership Summit.

On April 23, 2022, San Diego/Alcalá Sister Cities Society organized the 9th Annual Cervantes Festival in Balboa Park. We celebrated and honored Alcalá de Henares, our sister city in Spain and  birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes, by a public reading of passages from Cervantes´ immortal novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.

San Diego/Alcalá Sister Cities Society and House of Spain invites you to the 8th annual Cervantes Festival.  Saturday, April 23rd, from 10am to 3pm at the Balboa Park House of Pacific Relations lawn.

San Diego’s Sister City in Spain is Alcalá de Henares, birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes. To honor and celebrate the  author of Don Quijote de La Mancha, SanDiego/Alcalá Sister Cities Society organizes an annual Cervantes Festival in Balboa Park. Students and their instructors and families, along with all SanDiegans, are invited to read their favorite passage of Cervantes’ immortal novel.

On october 29th Rotary club of Tijuana celebrated their 90th anniversary at Marriot hotel in Tijuana.  Dr. Shahrzad Kamyab, the president of San Diego-Tijuana sister city represented SanDISCA in this event.

The House of Spain will celebrate national holidays by hosting the Lawn Program  at the House of Pacific Relations cottage area on Sunday October 10, 2021, 11:30-3:30.

The Cervantes Festival this year is a virtual zoom event supported by Professor Sarah Heras’ students at The Children’s School in La Jolla and Professor Alicia Sandoval’s students at Longfellow Spanish Immersion Magnet School. The students will read a selection of Cervantes’ novel, Don Quijote de La Mancha, and submit original art depicting scenes of the adventures of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza.

The art displayed here is the three top selections from the Children’s School to appear on the official Cervantes Festival Poster. The art work from Longfellow School students will be displayed at a later date.

Thank you Sarah and Alicia for providing this experience for your students and for helping keep the Cervantes Festival alive!

The San Diego-Tijuana Sister Cities Society is supporting YOUTH ACTIVISM INTERNACIONAL’s “Digital school”  Project.

” Digital school ” is a diversity of virtual classes for migrating and refugee children currently living at the MEXICO-US border in Tijuana. The purpose of the virtual classes is to provide artistic and educational activities via online and digital. Given the global circumstances caused by the Coronavirus COVID-19 we seek to create a message of hope and love for the most vulnerable children & adolescents who live in refugee camps hoping to obtain asylum in USA. Classes will be taught live through digital platforms that will allow teacher-student interaction for 8 hours.
The most important thing is to protect the Right to education! 

YOUTH ACTIVISM INTERNACIONAL : Founded by Andrea Rincón in 2020, YAI: Youth activism International, is a non-profit organization that works to improve the situation of the most vulnerable such as adolescents and children who are migrating, have been deported, seek humanitarian shelter and belonging to the LGBTI + community; through accompaniment and social intervention (education and art) led by another young activist.

The expected results are that through the use of technologies and a direct connection with volunteer teachers within the refuge spaces, dynamics will be carried out that promote the empowerment of infants as well as access to the use of the Internet and reliable sources of information. In this way, in the medium term we seek to drastically reduce the negative impact of the emergency situation (such as the COVID pandemic) by offering information that raises awareness about their human rights, discrimination, xenophobia and types of violence, in order to reduce any type of violence within shelters due to overcrowding and social adaptation in emergency situations.

This program started with 500dlls and a lot of effort and love. We want to continue making this possible! The San Diego-Tijuana Sister City Society is asking supporters to kindly  help this wonderful project with your donations by using the link below.  Any donation amount will go a long way in that school, please consider helping.