Open Mics in San Diego, CA

The Venue's Website, checked Aug 31, 2026, confirms a current open-mic program [s2]. A regional open-mic calendar site lists a dated Tuesday, Sept 1, 2026 instance called 'Open Mic "Raffle"' at this address, with sign-up from 7:30-7:50 PM and an 8 PM start [s1].

A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.

As of Aug 31, 2026, the venue's own current website does not mention 'open mic' on either its La Jolla location page or its homepage. One possible source suggests a dedicated events page describing an open-mic series may exist, but it could not be located.

The fourth Thursday of each month, 7:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.

La Bodega Art Gallery closed at the end of 2019 after a rent dispute; its last show was Dec 14, 2019 [s5]. Its website is now a parked domain [s6]. Palabra poetry open mic is still active at Bread & Salt, listed there Feb 26, 2026 (Thursday, 7 PM) [s3]. Bread & Salt is about a mile from the old gallery. It was listed there again March 26, 2026 [s4]. Both dates suggest a monthly fourth-Thursday schedule, not twice-monthly.

A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.

Weekly on Fridays, 4:00 PM. Only one source reports it.

As of Aug 31, 2026, neither the venue's homepage nor its dedicated events page, both checked directly, clearly mentions an open mic. A secondhand claim of a Friday open mic with live music could not be corroborated against any dated, readable page.

Weekly on Fridays, 6:00 PM. Only one source reports it.

A civic business-improvement district's own article, published July 23, 2026 -- about five weeks before Aug 31, 2026 -- describes a currently-running weekly Friday open mic here with named hosts, in the present tense [s1].

Both sources list this event, but neither confirms recent activity.

Occasional.

The sources give the same night and time, but none confirms recent activity.

As of Aug 31, 2026, the venue's own events calendar carries a upcoming Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026 instance of 'Open Mic Night on the Patio Stage,' with a separate, earlier entry confirming a Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025 instance — a genuine, ongoing weekly series on the venue's own page [s1]. An open-mic listing site lists the same event [s2].

The host organization's own live-events page, checked Aug 31, 2026, gives its main, current schedule statement as this event running the third Wednesday of every month at 7 PM at Book Catapult [s1]. This is a standing description of the recurring schedule rather than a single dated instance.

The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.

The second Friday of each month, 7:30 PM. Only one source reports it.

As of Aug 31, 2026, the only dated instance cited — a 'next event' pointer reading 'Friday, February 14th' — actually falls in February 2025 given the day of the week, about 18 months stale [s1]. The page's own comment thread shows the organizers acknowledging their listings aren't reliably updated. A general monthly pattern (2nd Friday) may still hold, but no fresh confirmation was found.

A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 9:30 PM. Only one source reports it.

As of Aug 31, 2026, the venue's real website was located, and both its homepage and calendar page, checked directly, are readable but neither mentions an open mic. A secondhand lead describes a possibly different Wednesday comedy showcase, not confirmed elsewhere.

The venue's own dedicated page, checked Aug 31, 2026, currently states Monday is its open mic night [s1]. A structured third-party listing confirms the same day and gives 5:30 PM sign-up and 6:00 PM start times, open to all formats, music, comedy, and poetry [s2].

Occasional.

A regional open-mic calendar site, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists several dated instances of this venue's open mic in early September -- Wed Sept 2, Thu Sept 3, and a Sat/Sun pair Sept 5-6 -- each describing the same Instagram-based sign-up process [s1]. This confirms the program runs on a genuinely variable set of nights rather than one fixed weekday. An earlier listing agreed the event exists [s2].

The venue's own official website, checked Aug 31, 2026, carries a real, dated recurring calendar with instances on Sept 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2026, all confirmed to be genuine Saturdays [s1].

A ticket page on meetup.com lists this night, but may not be current.

Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.

A dated ticketing-site listing confirms the venue and the Thursday comedy open-mic format are real, though the listing is from Jan 30, 2025 [s1]. That is about a year and a half old, so it does not by itself show the event is still running. The hosting group's current events page shows no upcoming instance.

The event organizer's own ticketing page, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists a upcoming instance for Monday, Sept 14, 2026 -- the second Monday of the month, two weeks ahead [s1]. This is consistent with an earlier confirmed instance on June 8, 2026, also a second Monday, three months apart but following the same monthly pattern.

Weekly on Mondays, 9:00 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.

An owner-interview feature, dated May 13, 2026, quotes the owner directly: 'Peter D's offers karaoke from Friday through Monday nights... Monday nights kick off with karaoke and open mic comedy' [s1]. This confirms Monday as the night and corrects the event's type from unconfirmed to a mixed karaoke-and-open-mic-comedy format, per the owner's own words.

The venue's own events page, checked Aug 31, 2026, states verbatim: 'Fridays: - Comedy Show/Open Mic by Comedy or Worse from 7:30 to 9:30 pm - Free to attend!' [s1]. The page's own metadata shows it was last modified May 27, 2026, about three months earlier, matching the recorded day and start time exactly.

The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.

Weekly on Saturdays, 6:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.

The venue's own events page (checked twice, Aug 31, 2026) describes its Friday show in detail but never mentions Saturday anywhere, which weighs against the claimed Saturday slot [s1]. That Saturday show's existence rests only on other unconfirmed information and an open-mic listing site, whose stated start times disagree by about an hour (6:30 PM vs. 7:30 PM), an unresolved discrepancy.

A regional open-mic calendar site, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists a dated instance of this exact event — $5 cover, 7 PM sign-up — landing on Thursday, Sept 3, 2026, the first Thursday of the month, consistent with the claimed first-and-third-Thursday frequency [s1]. An open-mic listing site confirms an 8 PM start [s2].

The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.

As of Aug 31, 2026, the organization's own events page, rechecked, confirms a genuine upcoming instance on September 23, 2026 — correctly both a Wednesday and the 4th Wednesday of the month — with page text that has changed since an Aug 15, 2026 visit, consistent with an actively maintained page [s1].

The Venue's Website, checked Aug 31, 2026, confirms in the present tense 'Live music every Thursday @ 7pm!' [s1]. A dedicated open-mic page on the same site could not be reached, returning an error.

The sources disagree on the night.

A regional open-mic calendar site, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists a dated Tuesday, Sept 1, 2026 instance of this event at 916 Pearl St, with a specific call-in and raffle sign-up process [s1]. This contradicts an earlier, uncorroborated claim of a Thursday 7 PM slot; only one forward instance was observed, so confidence is medium rather than high.

The sources disagree on the night.

A San Diego open-mic calendar site (checked Aug 31, 2026) shows a upcoming Thursday, Sep 3, 2026 instance at this address [s1]. An open-mic listing site (checked the same day) instead describes a Tuesday, 6:30 PM lottery-format mic at the same address [s2]. The two disagree on both day and signup method, which may represent two distinct events rather than an error in either source.

A page on danceus.org lists this night, but may not be current.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 6:30 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.

As of Aug 31, 2026, a nationwide events listing site, re-checked, gives a detailed description of this Wednesday blues jam, though it carries no date of its own [s1]. It does link to the Venue's Website. The venue's own homepage never mentions the address, the day, or a jam anywhere checked. One detailed but undated listing isn't enough to confirm the event on its own.

A listing on openmikes.org lists this night, but may not be current.

As of Aug 31, 2026, the only available dated evidence is an open-mic listing site entry credited to an Aug 13, 2025 update [s1]. That is now just over 12 months old, well beyond the roughly six months that would show a weekly event is still running. The listing itself is unchanged and still live, but no fresher confirmation was found.