Guest DJ

Friday Community Mixer | 6:00-9:00pm

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Ciara Dominique, She/Her | DJ

@ciaraaathisbeatis @thesilentdisc0

Ciara is a creative multi-hyphenate from Oceanside, CA who uses various modes of storytelling to convey it's connection to our liberation. Alternating between the worlds of filmmaking, writing, djing, and event curation, there is an underlying push to highlight how interconnected the arts are to the healing and expression of self.

Live Performance

Friday Community Mixer | 6:00-9:00pm

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Alana Segi-Wight, She/Her | Singer/Rapper & Songwriter @theholyrainbowclub

Alana is a singer/rapper and songwriter from Oceanside, CA, under the moniker theholyrainbowclub. It is a safe space to produce and write the music I want to hear. My sound is always changing but you can find me somewhere between R&B and Hip Hop.

I'm also part of another project based out of Oceanside called Topeka Clementine & we've been playing shows all over Southern California in the last year

Guest Workshop: Yoga

Saturday, July 8 | 12:15 - 1:15pm

Owl Rare, They/Them | Artist & Yogi

@owlrare @imaniyogastudio

Owl Rare is a multi-dimensional artist and yogi currently living in San Diego, CA. They are an East coast transplant and have practiced yoga for over 10 years. Owl finds yoga to be a powerful tool for all to heal, especially folk living in the diaspora.

Guest Workshop: Soul Sound Journey

Saturday, July 8 | 2:00-3:00pm

Kizzy Satchell, She/Her | Artist & Sound Healer

@kizzypresents2u

Kizzy is a sound healer & massage therapist located in Oceanside, CA. Her sound healing team is called Sound Journey and her love for music and being of service to her community has sent her on a magnificent healing journey through meditation and sound healing. Her focus is to open up the heart space through healing sounds of nature, indigenous culture, live sound healing instruments & vocal harmonies.

Guest Workshop: Tranquility Treasures

Saturday, July 8 | 3:15-4:15pm

Gabrielle Romberger, She/Her | Artist & Arts Educator 

@gabrielleromberger

Gabrielle is an arts educator and artist working in the Arts and Culture sector of San Diego for the past seven years focusing on art education and community programs in museums. She has dedicated her professional career to building relationships between arts organizations and the San Diego community to help strengthen inclusion, representation, and equity in our vibrant city. Gabrielle is passionate about the positive role art and play has in enriching, teaching, and even healing audiences. In her personal artwork she uses screen printing, painting, and ceramics to examine and reclaim language often used to oppress. "I grew up moving around, a lot. From Hawai’i to North Carolina, I saw most of the United States by age 12. But no matter where I went, people always wanted to put me in a box. Whether it was questions about my heritage, ‘What is your background?’, to observations about my personality, ‘You seem shy.’, I always had the urge to respond my explaining myself in parts. I’m part this or I’m half that. Making myself smaller until I was palatable for others. I think this is a feeling that many of us can relate to. I wanted to create art that causes us to think about and reclaim the words we use. We are whole and we are unique."

Chef Jennie's Culinary Corner 

Saturday, July 8 | 4:30-5:30pm

Jennie Wright, She/Her | Sustainability Advocate & Chef

@dramaticallymee  @heirloombk

Jennie is a sustainability advocate & chef who is working to shift the narrative around sustainability, specifically amongst people of color. Jennie uses her platform to show an accessible sustainable lifestyle. Her hope is to show people that you can be sustainable, with what you have! This is not a new lifestyle for people of color, it’s just time that we get back to the basics!

Guest DJ

Saturday, July 8 | 4:30-5:30pm

Sunday, July 9 | 5:45-7:00pm

Miki Vale, She/Her | Performing Artist & Founder of SoulKiss Theater

@mikivalethemc @soulkisstheater

Miki Vale is an international Hip Hop performing artist & cultural ambassador, Teaching Artist, Old Globe-commissioned playwright and founder of SoulKiss Theater, an arts education organization for queer Black womxn. Her work serves to amplify community consciousness around relationships, wellness, and justice. Miki has performed and participated in panels at landmark venues and festivals in the US and internationally, from Hollywood and D.C. to Mumbai and Cairo. For her contributions to Hip Hop culture, Miki has earned a San Diego Hip Hop Honors Award, a Female Perspective Award, and the 2021 San Diego Music Award for Song of the Year for "Bad Wolves", a song condemning anti-Black racism. For her work within the LGBTQ community, Miki was awarded the

2017 Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Honor.

Guest Workshop: The Listening Space 

Sonic Ritual

Sunday, July 9 | 3:15-4:15pm

Ianne Celeste Rivera, She/Her | Research Scientist & Embodiment Composer

@one_thread_rituals

As an Embodiment Composer, Ianne (she/her) unites 16 years in Cancer research and 10 years in the healing arts to the creation of Sonic Rituals®. Inspired by her Mexican culture, hip hop, R&B, natural soundscapes, guided visualization, and spoken word, Ianne is a sound healer who creates sensual rituals + ceremonies to embrace the body for emotional wellness, self-actualization, and pleasure liberation. She creates digital spaces of exploration as the host of the podcast Pleasure Revolution and founder/creator of the first World Pleasure Day on August 18th. She holds 1:1 “Sensual Activations” for those needing support to ground themselves as they navigate life’s great transitions and changes.

Guest Workshop: Writing as Time Travel Sankofa Dream Capsule

Sunday, July 9 | 4:30-5:50pm

Kelsey Daniels, She/They | Artist, Organizer, Baddie Scholar

@andsheshere_

Kelsey O. Daniels is an artist organizer baddie scholar from Southeast San Diego. Their work centers on storytelling, world building, and dreamwork as tools for liberation. As a fat Black queer disabled femme, Kelsey honors her ancestors and descendants by revoking consent from the failed experiment of white supremacy & dreaming up worlds that are affirming and lit. Through poetry, performance, and mixed media, they explore themes of identity, imagination, and ancestral memory, inviting audiences to engage in active relationship with themselves and their communities. She curates a creative universe called Black Dream Experiment that explores Black dreaming as a collective ancestral, wellness, and liberation practice. When Kelsey is not moving in her public roles she enjoys going to the beach, cackling until her sides hurt & listening to her comfort playlists.

Live Performance

Sunday, July 9 | 5:45-7:00pm

William BJ Robinson, He/They | Arts Educator, Music Director, and Composer @willbjrob

William BJ Robinson (he/they) is a Black, White, Puerto Rican queer arts educator, music director, and composer. They are grateful and thrilled to return to Summer SOULstice!

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BJ currently serves as choir director at Christ United Presbyterian Church in South Park San Diego; and as the host of KPBS/Arts on KPBS and Tough Talk on multiple virtual platforms. They are also Director of Community Outreach for Loud Fridge Theatre Group & a board member of Cappella Gloriana.

Festival Social Media Manager

Edrian Pangilinan, He/Him | Content Creator/Filmmaker/Photographer/Artist

@edrianpenguino @thefilamfilmcollective

Edrian Pangilinan is an aspiring Filipino-American content creator/filmmaker/photographer + dance artist based in San Diego, CA. His work is greatly inspired by his press for representation as a brown, filipino and lgbt human. He intends on pursuing his dream of becoming a filmmaker focusing on LGBT+ related themes that challenge the status quo AND initiate dialogues necessary for change. Credits include TFC/ABS-CBN, GMA, Goldilocks, San Diego Filipino Cinema, and Sundance.

Festival Videographer & Photographer 

Pauline Scully, She/Her | Filmmaker & Photographer

@pauline.scully  @noendsmedia

Pauline Scully is your friendly neighborhood director and storyteller. She has a deep appreciation for how a compelling story can make someone aware of their experience and emotions. She believes that communication through narratives has the power to initiate change and shift perspectives. 

Festival Commissioned Artists

Summer Soulstice Art Installation 

The Re-Use Project 

@the.reuseproject

The Re-Use Project is a collaborative group of creatives with the goal to raise awareness to Environmental Issues through creating Art with used materials based in San Diego County. We are a program under the umbrella of The Hill Street Country Club, a non-profit arts organization located in Downtown Oceanside. Our work is community driven and works to bring together all groups of people to contemplate our impact on the environment and ways we can as individuals waste less. We are educationally focused to bring attention to the serious problems our global environments are facing to the youth and general public. Through conversations and understanding we hope to shed light on the problem of waste at large and the importance of accountability. 

Festival Content Creator

Lexie Puzon, She/Her | UGC Creator, Content Creator

@lexiewithlove @shotbylexie

Lexie is a UGC Creator and Content Creator based in sunny San Diego with a deep passion for creating visually aesthetic content related to lifestyle and travel. She specializes in creating high quality, authentic, scroll-stopping content on different social media platforms to expedite social growth and engagement for brands. She's been a creator on social media for 7 years, ever since she launched her blog, www.365storiestotell.com, as a way to share her love for creating + traveling and hopefully inspire others to go for it! Little did she know, she would be able to build an audience & have the opportunity to connect and work with so many amazing brands. Lexie fell in love with creating content and working with brands to bring their creative vision to life!