Gentryfries

Savor Local Stories & Support Civic Engagement!

Gentryfries is a community archiving culinary project that celebrates the rich history and vibrant cultures of Oceanside and North San Diego County supported by FSBN City of San Diego Art and Culture and Prebys Foundation.Gentryfries is created by The Hill Street Country Club in collaboration with local archives, and guest artist Alejandro Arreguin Villegas, Gentryfries transforms family stories, photographs, and documents into artistic archival records—beautifully wrapped around every serving of crispy fries. 

Each fry container serves as a vessel of history, offering a delicious and meaningful way for the community to connect with their heritage while engaging in civic action. By highlighting the impact of public policy on housing and displacement, Gentryfries aims to increase awareness and foster a deeper understanding of local history.

Through this project, we create human connections between past and present neighbors, encouraging compassionate support for policies that prioritize keeping people housed and strengthening the fabric of our community. Whether you’re savoring the taste of history or sharing your own story, Gentryfries invites you to be part of a movement that nourishes both body and soul, inspiring us all to build a more connected and just community—one fry at a time.

Join us in celebrating the flavors and stories that shape our neighborhoods and advocate for a future where everyone has a place to call home.

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Sound + Liberation

Sound + Liberation is a free live performance series that encourages conscious listening and intimate experiences with an intentional transfer of energy between the artist and their audience. Guests get up close and personal with performers and the ideas that drive their work as we explore music and sound as means to express, connect, and heal.
Since its origin as Soft U, an online concert series hosted by Libelula bookstore and livestreamed by Hill Street during the Covid Lock down of 2020, Sound + Liberation has expanded to include poetry workshops, and experimental performance. We’ve had the honor to host local, national, and international touring acts at our gallery, and produce events in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

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Papercuts Zine Club

Submit your zines to be chosen for check out and circulation at the Oceanside Library 
Artists can submit as many zines as they want and do not have to reside in Oceanside to be considered. Chosen submissions will be compensated for.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity as a zine maker to become an officially archived artist and gain exposure!

Papercuts Zine Club of HSCC is partnered with The Oceanside Public Library in this collection, access, and circulation program - funded by California Arts Council

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Mobile Art Workshop

The Hill Street Country Club (HSCC) and Oceanside Public Library are proud to present Mobile Art Workshop (MAW) an extension and expansion of HSCC’s Papercuts Zine Club, community art gallery and teaching artists program. MAW is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency and the City of Oceanside Arts Commission. MAW will run parallel to the Library’s Adult Summer Reading Program (Dig Deeper, Oceanside) from June 1 through August 8 and will benefit Oceanside neighborhoods’ engagement in contemporary art practices, arts education and exhibition artists. A rotating roster of local and regional artists, Lissa Corona, Alofa Gould, Alejandro Arreguin Villegas, Rachel Fernandes and Alyssa Junious will explore contemporary, accessible and affordable art mediums. Every two weeks, MAW will provide participants with a unique project kit with materials curated by the teaching artist to explore mediums such as cyanotype photography and Zine creation. Online tutorials by the teaching artists will take participants through a step by step process. These workshops seek to demystify the art making process, give confidence to prospective artists, and encourage arts appreciation as a lifelong, necessary practice.

Register HERE for the free Mobile Arts Workshop and kit delivery.

Click HERE to watch step-by-step M.A.W. tutorials on our Youtube channel!

Find us on Instagram for live tutorials @thehillstreetcountryclub every Wednesday at 12pm (pst)

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Supper Club Artist Project

2014, Supper Club Artist Project featured Exploring Engagement Artist, Claudia Cano, Geoff Cunnninham, Mark Jesinoski, Chuck G. Miller and James Enos. This project was supported by the James Irvine Foundation

The Supper Club Artist Project

A Three-Part Series Providing Community Education & Involvement in The Art. Based on three actions to

EDUCATE • APPRECIATE • CELEBRATE

The artist's work and their role in the community.

Supper Club Artist Project started in 2014 when co-founders Dinah and Margaret would host a dinner with artists as part of the studio visit process to create an environment for community conversations about their artwork, practices, and ideology for art as a tool for building a new art world for social change.

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