Concert: Evolution Station
2025-02-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Join us at the majestic Vision Center for the triumphant return of this eclectic ensemble.
For the past 19 years, this band has evolved into a musical experience weaving together heart warming violin, soaring guitars, world percussion grooves, soul-soothing harmonies & ancient melodies from across the globe. A super group of exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalists, this band crafts a transcendent musical journey that lifts the spirit and captivates the soul.
We have both seating with tables for you to enjoy a refreshing beverage or cushioned chairs to sit and watch the concert in comfort. Refreshments will be available at Cafe V. Tables of four are set up and you may have to share a table if your group is smaller than four people.
There is also an option to watch from home so you can be in the comfort of your own place
General Admission – ($25) or Streaming Donation
Saturday, February 1st @ 7:00 pm

https://vimeo.com/1046897621/0c393c0137?ts=0&share=copy

Prayer Shawl Group
2025-02-02 11:45 - 12:45 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
The Prayer Shawl Group gets together to knit and/or crochet blankets with prayer folded into the blankets for people receiving chemo, homeless, hospitalized patients, hospice or nursing home patients.
First Sunday of each month from noon to 1:00 pm.

Concert: An Evening of Latin Jazz
2025-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Please join us at Vision for a super fun evening of live jazz! The music will feature 6 singers with the Jim Guerin Sextet.
Doors open at 6 pm, live music starts at 7 pm and a beverages and hors d’oeuvre bar will be available from 6 pm to 8 pm (or while supplies last). However (just like on the airplane) water will be available all night. Don’t miss this event. It’s going to be really fun! There will even be a sing-along! (Any questions, contact Dorothy Darling (your host for the evening) at doedarling14@gmail.com.)
Saturday, February 8th @ 7:00 PM

Cabaret Concert: Andy & Nathan - A Dance of Hearts
2025-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Join Andy Anderson & Nathan Fry
Andy & Nathan will be singing Songs About Love!
Cabaret Concert @ Vision. Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 pm
A&N have been singing together for over 35 years and their blend of singing and entertainment brings joy and creates great memories.
We have both seating with tables for you to enjoy a refreshing beverage or cushioned chairs to sit and watch the concert in comfort. Refreshments will be available at Cafe V. Tables of four are set up and you may have to share a table if your group is smaller than four people.
There is also an option to watch from home so you can be in the comfort of your own place
Table Reservation ($30), General Admission – ($25) or Streaming Donation

Watch and see what you can expect at an Andy & Nathan Concert!

Concert: A Night of Nostalgia & Love Songs with Karole Foreman - Canceled
2025-02-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
CONCERT CANCELED – SORRY FOR INCONVENIENCE

Concert: Moriah Angeline - (still a) Hopeful Romantic
2025-02-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Moriah brings her one-woman cabaret show from NYC to San Diego, sharing stories and song about her adventures in living life and looking for love.
Joined by fantastic San Diego musicians Justin Gray, Martín Martiarena, and her band Bad Rabbit: Ross Lee, Brian O’Keefe, & Paul Vouaux
Featuring songs by artists including Janis Joplin, Heart, P¡nk, Jason Mraz, and Aretha Franklin
Bio: Moriah is a San Diego native who has performed in theatres and venues across the country and in Japan. She started locally at the San Diego Rep, Lamb’s Players, the Welk Resort Theatre, & Diversionary Theatre, performing such diverse roles as Girl in Once, Rizzo in Grease and Vi Petty in The Buddy Holly Story. She worked as a singer at a theme park in Japan, had a fantastic year as Sophie in Mamma Mia in Las Vegas, did a stint in New Mexico as Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde, and enjoyed a summer in Portland playing her favorite rock icon, Janis Joplin. In NYC she performed at Soul Night at Toshi’s Living Room and produced three shows at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre, including two solo shows, one of which was attended and lauded by Ed Asner. She currently performs with local female trio Harmony Three, which has 6 shows covering music genres from 40’s swing to sassy country, sings with the Xceptional tribute to ABBA, and fronts local cover band Bad Rabbit. Her voice can be heard on various video games, most notably as the original Maria Robotnik for the Sonic universe.
www.moriahangeline.net
Saturday, February 15th – 7:30 pm

Open Mic Night
2025-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Vision’s Open Mic Night is a live show organized to encourage new talents. The brilliant part about this event is that anyone can simply go along, sign up, and perform either covers or their own original songs. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a singer, songwriter or musician, everybody gets the chance to perform in front of a live audience. Open mics are not just fun and easy to sign up for, but they’re the best outlets for emerging artists to get that all-important experience of performing in front of an audience.
Wednesday, February 19th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission – $10
Please send music and requests to Jim Bianchi at Click Here To Send Email

Movie Night - "The Six Triple Eight"
2025-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.

Host: Diversity Team
Fresh Popcorn will be served

Concert: John Katchur
2025-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Winner of the San Diego Music Award for Best Acoustic Performer, John Katchur has performed as opening act for such legendary artists as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Steven Stills, Don McLean, Arlo Guthrie, and many others.
As a performer, John has a strong reputation for impeccable and captivating delivery. The San Diego Troubadour magazine says,
“John Katchur plays guitar with equal measures of grace, complexity, and fearless confidence with an unbelievably effortless,
sonorous, aching voice.”
His recorded music blends singer/songwriter sensibilities with powerful rock textures and haunting atmospheres. Acoustic guitars delicate and fierce, smooth airy vocals, crunching electric guitars, organic keys and organs form “lush soundsacapes like magic flying carpets” ~San Diego Troubadour
Thursday, February 6th with opening set by Joe Rathburn

Jacob Glass @ Vision - Rescheduling To Summer
2025-03-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Rescheduling To Summer
VISION is proud to welcome back world renowned speaker, teacher and author, Jacob Glass, who will be back with us on Saturday, March 1st at 10:00 am. Jacob is deeply spiritual and totally irreverent with a sense of humor that brings us all to realize that we are one with spirit but don’t take it too seriously. He has been a part of San Diego for over 30 years and we are so glad to have him with us at VISION.

Jacob Glass has been lecturing on New Thought and metaphysics full time since 1990 on stages large and small including – the Saban in Los Angeles, the Santa Barbara County Bowl, the Arlington and Lobero theaters in Santa Barbara, Renaissance Unity Church in Detroit, and many New Thought churches throughout Southern California including San Diego and Palm Springs. He has shared his stage with best-selling authors Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson and Grammy winner Kenny Loggins, and has authored 10 books with more on the way soon.

Concert: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" with DeAndre Simmons
2025-03-02 19:00 - 21:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
DeAndre Simmons will be preforming songs, arias and spirituals from black composers from over the ages. He and pianist, Ken Anderson, will bring you through the decades of music that has changed our American culture.
Tickets $25

American bass, DeAndre Simmons, having been hailed as being the performances “class act” by the Los Angeles Times, continues to gain recognition for his beautifully velvet voice, incisive musicianship and captivating stage presence. He has performed with such great opera houses and orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, San Diego Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl under Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and Bramwell Tovey, Columbia Pro Cantare, Opera Panama, Pacific Opera Victoria, Castleton Festival under Maestro Lorin Maazel, Santa Barbara Symphony, London Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern and others throughout Europe and the U.K. He performs a healthy mix of opera and concert repertoire ranging from Handel to Mozart to Rossini and to Verdi and Wagner.
In addition to his operatic roles, DeAndre regularly performs both plays and musicals. Most recently starring as the Narrator in EVERY BRILLIANT THING (CCAE Theatricals) and Montrellous in CLYDES(Moxie Theatre). His recent musical credits include Boatman in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGEand Ken in AINT MISBEHAVIN,(CCAE Theatricals), Caiaphas in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and Kerchak in TARZAN(Moonlight Theatre). Other theatre credits include playing Malvolio in TWELFTH NIGHT, Father in CHILDREN OF EDEN. His portrayal of Sweeney Todd in Sondheim’s masterpiece SWEENEY TODD(San Diego Musical Theatre)was voted TOP TEN BEST SHOWS in San Diego 2024 by the San Diego Union Tribune and he was nominated for a Craig Noel Award for “Best lead performance in a musical.” He ended the year playeing Professor Bhear in LITTLE WOMEN (Moxie Theatre). Having spent years under the tutelage of the great Barbara Cook, he frequently performs the music of musical theatre and the American Songbook in recitals, pops concerts and cabaret. DeAndre’s 2024/2025 season include an American Songbook recital with Opera in the Park Portland, Marchese/Baron in LA TRAVIATA (Opera in the Park Portland), Sweeney Todd in SWEENEY TODD(SDMT), First Soldier in SALOME and Marchese D’Obigny in
LA TRAVIATA (San Diego Opera), Count in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Greenville Symphony) and a recital tour of arias, songs and spirituals by composers of the African Diaspora titled “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in Portland, OR, San Diego, Chicago and Philadelphia. Also Soloist in Verdi’s REQUIEM with the Modesto Symphony. He rounds out his season with both lieder and American songbook recitals around the country.
An alumnus of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, DeAndre is a pupil of Fred Carama and has been protégé of James Morris, Dame Kirk Te Kanawa and Barbara Cook for musical theatre.
IG:@DeAndresVoice / www.DeAndreSimmons.com

Ken Anderson has been a music instructor, trainer, adjudicator, director, and performer in San Diego
for several decades. He is the director of the USD Gospel Choir, UCSD Gospel Choir, and Martin
Luther King Jr. Community Choir San Diego (MLK Choir). Ken and the MLK Choir have performed
throughout America and 9 countries abroad. Ken has also performed as a soloist with the San Diego
Opera and productions of Showboat and Jesus Christ Super Star with local theaters. He is also adjunct
faculty at City College and two of their high school satellite campuses, teaching the history of black
music in America.

Open Mic Night
2025-03-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Vision’s Open Mic Night is a live show organized to encourage new talents. The brilliant part about this event is that anyone can simply go along, sign up, and perform either covers or their own original songs. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a singer, songwriter or musician, everybody gets the chance to perform in front of a live audience. Open mics are not just fun and easy to sign up for, but they’re the best outlets for emerging artists to get that all-important experience of performing in front of an audience.
Wednesday, March 19th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission – $10
Please send music and requests to Jim Bianchi at Click Here To Send Email

Movie Night - "Thelma"
2025-03-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson,
she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

Host: TK Ekrom
Fresh Popcorn will be served by our new popcorn popper

The Love Joy Afternoon Tea Fundraiser
2025-03-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
The Love Joy Afternoon Tea Fundraiser
Join us for a fun filled Love, Joy Tea Party honoring and celebrating organizations that support women and children who are healing from domestic violence. Home Start, Sharia’s Closet, Sister League, Uptown Community Service Center.
We will have powerful poetry, hilarious comedy(Billie Frances), fabulous dancers (Mary Ann Tanaka), and a dynamic singer (Moriah Angeline).
The food will be delightful and the tea will be exquisite!
Bring some Joy! Show some Love! (Can’t make it but want to help? Purchase a ticket! THANK YOU!)
Wear a fabulous hat for our “parade.” And Get ready to participate in our exciting opportunity drawing! We have some amazing prizes up for grabs, so don’t miss your chance to win!

Cabaret Concert: Andy & Nathan - March Into Spring
2025-03-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Join Andy Anderson & Nathan Fry
Andy & Nathan will be singing Songs of Spring!
Cabaret Concert @ Vision. Wednesday, March 26 at 7:00 pm
A&N have been singing together for over 35 years and their blend of singing and entertainment brings joy and creates great memories.
We have both seating with tables for you to enjoy a refreshing beverage or cushioned chairs to sit and watch the concert in comfort. Refreshments will be available at Cafe V. Tables of four are set up and you may have to share a table if your group is smaller than four people.
There is also an option to watch from home so you can be in the comfort of your own place
Table Reservation ($30), General Admission – ($25) or Streaming Donation

Watch and see what you can expect at an Andy & Nathan Concert!

Concert: The Don L Big Band presents Swing Into Spring
2025-03-31 19:00 - 21:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
The Don L Big Band presents Swing Into Spring
Monday, March 31st @ 7:00 pm
The Don L Big Band is back with their first show of 2025!
“Swing Into Spring: A Tribute To Cole Porter”
Cole Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood films. He’s one of my all time favorites and I’ve written several arrangements for this 14 piece band and we will also be playing some of our favorites from previous shows.
Joining us on stage will be vocalists Andy Anderson, Carissa Fagan, Lori Hable and Corey LeMaster Hable.
Tickets – $45 Streaming $30

Class: Infinite You as The Universe
2025-04-03 18:30 - 20:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States

Movie Night - "Conclave"
2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events — selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church.

Host: TK Ekrom
Fresh Popcorn will be served by our new popcorn popper

Healing Arts & Psychic Fair
2025-04-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Join us for our 5th Healing Arts & Psychic Fair with vendors offering Energy Healing, a technique in which a practitioner channels healing energy through their hands to the client’s body to restore energy balance. We will have Readers who attempt to discern information through the use of heightened perceptive abilities. Computerized Aura Readings will also be available. Our Fair will offer all kinds of jewelry and pendulums, rocks and crystals and special artwork.
Everything for the body, mind & spirit!
Saturday, April 12th from 10:00am-4:00pm
$5.00 Entrance Fee
Click Here For More Info

Class: Spiritual Economics
2025-04-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States

Open Mic Night
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Vision’s Open Mic Night is a live show organized to encourage new talents. The brilliant part about this event is that anyone can simply go along, sign up, and perform either covers or their own original songs. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a singer, songwriter or musician, everybody gets the chance to perform in front of a live audience. Open mics are not just fun and easy to sign up for, but they’re the best outlets for emerging artists to get that all-important experience of performing in front of an audience.
Wednesday, April 16th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission – $10
Please send music and requests to Jim Bianchi at Click Here To Send Email

Cabaret Concert: Andy & Nathan - March Into Spring
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Join Andy Anderson & Nathan Fry
Andy & Nathan will be singing Songs of The Rat Pack!
Cabaret Concert @ Vision. Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:00 pm
A&N have been singing together for over 35 years and their blend of singing and entertainment brings joy and creates great memories.
We have both seating with tables for you to enjoy a refreshing beverage or cushioned chairs to sit and watch the concert in comfort. Refreshments will be available at Cafe V. Tables of four are set up and you may have to share a table if your group is smaller than four people.
There is also an option to watch from home so you can be in the comfort of your own place
Table Reservation ($30), General Admission – ($25) or Streaming Donation

Watch and see what you can expect at an Andy & Nathan Concert!

Concert: Michael Tiernan @ Vision
2025-04-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Michael Tiernan @ Vision. Saturday, April 26 at 7:00 pm
Meet Michael Tiernan. Through the experiences of what could be ten lifetimes, Michael is an artist who has plunged into and explored the deep spaces of personal and worldly conflict, the beauty of love and nature, as well as the meaning of suffering and pervasive unhappiness that threatens our human experience on all sides. In his music, he resurfaces from these depths beaming with a positive outlook for all of us. Throughout Tiernan’s career, he has seamlessly melded elements of folk, reggae, bluegrass, blues, soul, and modern pop rock into his own brand of acoustic guitar-centric music. Bart Mendoza from the San Diego reader comments, “Tiernan’s rep grows with each release. Crucial to his success is that he’s a great all-around entertainer, from musicianship to between-song banter. All of his albums to date have won or been nominated for music awards around the country, but it’s his live set that’s helped Tiernan become one the area’s most popular singer-songwriters.” The San Diego Troubadour notes Tiernan’s releases are “relentlessly catchy, slickly produced pop that reflects Michael Tiernan’s ability as a master of hooks – and it has something to say.” Tiernan has received international airplay of many of his releases over the years, as well as several placements of his music in national TV shows. 2025 finds Michael performing in support of his 8th studio album, “For Others” a collection of Custom Songs that he has written for other people, based on in-depth interviews and deep dives into the inspiring stories of others.
Enjoy a refreshing beverage or cushioned chairs to sit and watch the concert in comfort. Refreshments will be available at Cafe V.
There is also an option to watch from home so you can be in the comfort of your own place
General Admission – ($30) or Streaming Donation

Class: Tara, The Liberator
2025-05-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Hybrid Event, 4780 Mission Gorge Place, Ste H, San Diego, CA, 92120, United States

Special Movie Night - "Carving The Divine"
2025-05-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan.
Determined to pass his craft down to future generations, Master Koun Seki, the former apprentice of renowned Busshi, Kourin Saito, interviews a candidate applying to be his new apprentice. Quickly though, we discover this apprenticeship and the Busshi’s life to be far less glamorous, and much more austere, than we (or the Candidate) would’ve likely imagined.
Once Master Seki makes his selection, we’re taken on a trip through a guild culture unlike anything existing today in The West: From the growing pains of a novice apprentice, to the entire guild working together as one body to create breathtaking works of art, to the monkish practice of the famed, Grand Master Saito himself, alone on his quest to “leave nothing but great works behind.”
Join us for a special event featuring an award-winning documentary about Japan’s most significant spiritual art tradition. Following the screening, Director Yujiro Seki and Philosopher Peter Bolland will lead a discussion and Q&A exploring the inner spiritual realization within us all.

What the audience get out of this event
On the surface, the film appears to be a cultural exploration of Buddhist statues created by modern Japanese sculptors working in an ancient millennium-old tradition. At a deeper level, however, it offers a rare opportunity for self-reflection. As we navigate life, we often focus on the external world while neglecting our inner world—where true peace and happiness reside. One of the vital purposes of Buddhist statues is to challenge us to ask life’s most fundamental questions: “Who are you? What is the purpose of your life?” These questions help us connect with our true selves. While viewers typically watch the film and internalize the experience on their own, this special event goes further with an intimate discussion and Q&A session featuring director Yujiro Seki and philosophical teacher Peter Bolland. Together, we will explore profound existential questions about our human existence and our connection to the universal self.
Tushar Gandhi, author and great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi, viewed Carving the Divine and was deeply impressed, offering a heartfelt endorsement. As a prominent peace advocate who speaks worldwide, Gandhi maintains a careful reputation and only endorses work he truly believes in. His sincere appreciation for the film’s merit led to his thoughtful statement. We welcome you to share his endorsement, as spiritually conscious people will recognize the value of the endorsement of the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
“Saw ‘Carving the Divine’, a beautifully-made documentary by Yujiro Seki. I thoroughly enjoyed this beautiful documentary. My compliments to the director. He has beautifully portrayed the spiritual aspect of Buddhism through the learning of the sculptures and the evolution of both Master and apprentice in the art of sculpting as well as in the realization of the deep spirituality inherent in that art form and the deep understanding of Buddhism both Indian as well as Japanese. It is a feast for the eyes, mind and soul. My compliments to all who are associated with creating such a beautiful work of art.” Tushar Gandhi, author and the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi & Kasturba Gandhi
Carving the Divine’s impressive achievements deserve recognition. This is no ordinary documentary – its consistent selection by prestigious institutions demonstrates the film’s exceptional quality and impact. The widespread acclaim and continued recognition speak to something truly remarkable about this work.
Carving the Divine has been selected for 33 film festivals across 22 countries and has won 13 awards worldwide, including the Best Director Award for Foreign Language Documentary at World Cinema Milan. The film premiered at the prestigious Raindance Film Festival in London.
It has been screened at major institutions including Yale University, University of Chicago, National University of Singapore, San Antonio Museum of Art, Morikami Museums in Florida, Japan House London, Master Carver Association London, Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin, Terasaki Nibei Foundation, and San Francisco Zen Center. Additional screenings have occurred at Miami University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Leiden University, University of Hawaii Hilo, Seattle University, Tel Aviv University, Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, University of Oregon, Willamette University, Saint Joseph’s University, University of Virginia, Union College, North Carolina State University, University of Southern California, Colgate College, University of Florida, University of South Florida, Vassar College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Tennessee.
The film was also featured at the 2024 American Academy of Religion Conference in San Diego and the 2025 Association of Asian Studies Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
The film has also been selected for presentation at the 2025 International Association of Buddhist Studies Conference—Europe’s largest academic conference on Buddhism.

Movie Night - "The Penguin Lessons"
2025-05-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.

Host: TK Ekrom
Fresh Popcorn will be served by our new popcorn popper

Open Mic Night
2025-05-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Vision’s Open Mic Night is a live show organized to encourage new talents. The brilliant part about this event is that anyone can simply go along, sign up, and perform either covers or their own original songs. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a singer, songwriter or musician, everybody gets the chance to perform in front of a live audience. Open mics are not just fun and easy to sign up for, but they’re the best outlets for emerging artists to get that all-important experience of performing in front of an audience.
Wednesday, May 21st from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission – $10
Please send music and requests to Jim Bianchi at Click Here To Send Email

Cabaret Concert: Andy & Nathan - Hey Soul Sistah
2025-05-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Join Andy Anderson & Nathan Fry
Andy & Nathan will be singing songs of Soul Music!
Cabaret Concert @ Vision. Wednesday, May 28th at 7:00 pm
A&N have been singing together for over 35 years and their blend of singing and entertainment brings joy and creates great memories.
We have both seating with tables for you to enjoy a refreshing beverage or cushioned chairs to sit and watch the concert in comfort. Refreshments will be available at Cafe V. Tables of four are set up and you may have to share a table if your group is smaller than four people.
There is also an option to watch from home so you can be in the comfort of your own place
Table Reservation ($30), General Admission – ($25) or Streaming Donation

Watch and see what you can expect at an Andy & Nathan Concert!

Concert: A Night of Dylan Played by Joe Rathburn & Peter Bolland
2025-05-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Peter Bolland and Joe Rathburn do their tribute to Bob Dylan in this comfortable, great sounding venue. Snacks and beverages are available.
Purchase both tickets for in person or to watch from home below.
Tickets In Person – $25 or Watch From Home – Donation

Movie Night - "Will & Harper"
2025-06-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Vision Mission Valley, 4780 MISSION GORGE PLACE, SUITE H, SAN DIEGO, CA, 92120, United States
Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his‬ dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman.‬ That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day at‬‭ Saturday Night Live‬‭ back in 1995.‬ From that fateful first meeting in the halls of 30 Rock, Will knew he had found a match made in‬ comedy, and their friendship and creative partnership would only continue to grow over the next 3‬ decades.‬ In this intimate, honest, and heartfelt documentary, Will and Harper hit the open road together to‬ process this new stage of their friendship and reintroduce Harper to the country that she loves –‬ this time, as herself. Over 16 days, the two drive from New York to LA, visiting stops that are‬ meaningful to them, to their friendship, and to America. Through laughter, tears, and many cans of‬ Pringles, they push past their comfort zones as they re-examine their relationships to these‬ spaces, and to each other, in this new light.‬

Host: TK Ekrom
Fresh Popcorn will be served by our new popcorn popper
