Award in a 12 x 10-inch wooden frame with signatures from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. It reads: 'Presented to The City of San Diego for outstanding achievement in presenting the 1989 Soviets Arts Festival, with special appreciation for bringing us Leningrad's Maly Theatre'. This was presented for 'Treasures of the Soviet Union', a three-week arts festival held in 1989. The festival was largely the brainchild of Mayor Maureen O'Connor, who dreamed up the event while in Scotland for the 1987 Edinburgh Festival.