San Diego Zine Fest 2026

Name: San Diego Zine Fest 2026
Start: 2026-08-01T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-02T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Balboa Park, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

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Sat, Aug 1 – Sun, Aug 2, 2026

Sat 10:00 AM PDT – Sun 6:00 PM PDT

Balboa Park, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

Free admission

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San Diego Zine Fest returns to Balboa Park for its annual celebration of independent publishing, underground comics, handmade books, and print culture. Over 200 zine makers, comic artists, photographers, poets, and small press publishers set up tables for a free open-to-all market. Attracts the most creatively interesting crowd in San Diego. Workshops and readings throughout both days. Bring cash. August 1-2, 2026.

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Balboa Park, 1549 El Prado, San Diego. July 19th. Free. The So-Cal Cosplay Shoot returns to Balboa Park — the outdoor community photoshoot that uses the park's Spanish Colonial Revival architecture as the backdrop that makes any costume look like a production still from something that required a real budget. Balboa Park is the setting that does the work. The facades, the fountains, the museum courtyards, the garden paths — any of these reads as a fantasy environment regardless of what you're cosplaying. A mech suit against the Museum of Man's exterior photographs differently from anything you could construct at a studio. A soft fantasy build against the Botanical Building's lily pond catches the light in ways you can't plan for. Free to come. July 19th. Follow @socosplayscene on Instagram for the exact gather location and start time. Any fandom. Any build level. Photographers bring your gear — the park accommodates it. Cosplayers who shoot without a photographer find each other. The morning light is best before the park fills, which means arriving early rewards you in every way. Show up in costume and let Balboa Park do what it does.

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San Diego's Lunar New Year Festival brings the celebration of the new lunar calendar to Balboa Park in January/February 2027, one of the largest public Lunar New Year celebrations in Southern California outside of the Los Angeles basin. The event draws San Diego's Chinese American, Vietnamese American, Korean American, and broader Asian Pacific communities alongside the general public. Balboa Park provides an ideal setting — the Spanish Colonial architecture of the park's central plaza creates a dramatic visual backdrop for the festival's red lantern decorations, dragon and lion dance performances, and the outdoor stages that run cultural programming throughout the weekend. The park's museums and cultural institutions open their doors with Lunar New Year programming during the festival. The two-day event features multiple lion and dragon dance troupes performing throughout the grounds, traditional martial arts demonstrations, calligraphy and traditional craft activities, cultural performances ranging from classical Chinese music to Korean drumming to Vietnamese áo dài fashion showcases, and a food marketplace with dishes from the full range of East and Southeast Asian culinary traditions. Balboa Park is located in central San Diego, accessible from the I-163 (Park Blvd exit). Parking throughout the park; the Zoo's north parking structure is typically accessible during festival events. Free admission to the park and festival grounds; individual vendor and activity purchases. The Lunar New Year 2027 falls in late January — specific dates confirmed through the San Diego Lunar New Year website.

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