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Join American Me Comedy, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 8 p.m., at the historic La Jolla Comedy Store for an evening of laughs to benefit the local San Diego organization: Foster the Earth. Jason Rogers and Stefani N. Von Huben are bringing together a hilarious line-up of comics including: Host Jason Rogers, John Campanelli, Brett Dodenhoff, Sal Mascali, Cole Klayman and San Diego’s own, Pamela Wardrip. It's going to be a fun night of comedy for a cause in support of Foster the Earth.Proceeds from tickets sales will be donated to Foster the Earth: a 501c3 volunteer-run nonprofit that provides transformative hiking and backpacking experiences to vulnerable foster children and young adults with limited access to the outdoors. Foster the Earth is dedicated to helping underserved youth in foster care connect with nature. Their program provides: educational wilderness immersion in which participants build skills and self-confidence; imparts a sense of wonder and awe; and inspires these underserved youth to become future advocates to protect our world’s wild places.Come share this special one-nite comedy event in support of Foster The Earth! With your support, we can make an impact on our San Diego Foster Care Youth and help change lives, one laugh, and one trail at a time!For more information visit: showclix.com/eventStay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

The Osher at SDSU community invites you to join us for a special event featuring guest lecturer, Kate Liszka. She is the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. Since 2014, Kate has directed the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition to the Eastern Desert, along with Bryan Kraemer and Meredith Brand. She received her PhD in 2012 in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania with her study of the Medjay. From 2012-2015, Kate was a Costen Fellow and member of the Society of Fellows at Princeton University.

In February of 2024, California State Senator Catherine Blackspear introduced Senate Bill 1196 to expand access to Medical Aid in Dying. Click here to read the fact sheet. The bill was the direct result of tireless activism by A Better Exit, a grassroots political advocacy group founded by Hemlock Society members.The proposed text of SB 1196 included the following provisions:- Eliminate the requirement that a person must be within six months of death.- Include the option of an intravenous method for self-administering the life-ending drugs.- Make Medical Aid In Dying available to people with early to mid-stage dementia who have decision-making capacity.- Remove the California residency requirement, a requirement that two states have already eliminated.- Remove the 2031 sunset date for the End of Life Option Act.Unfortunately, SB 1196 was pulled from consideration just days before a scheduled hearing before the Health Committee. But the quest for expanding the California End of Life Option Act is far from over. This temporary setback was expected and the objections from powerful voices in the end-of-life area will be addressed in future legislative efforts.Join us on Zoom to hear from the advocates who sponsored the bill about their ongoing endeavor to make Medical Aid in Dying available to more Californians, and what you can do to support their efforts.For more information visit: hemlocksocietysandiego.orgStay Connected on Facebook

Peter Sprague presents a sonic spin through the atmosphere that songwriter Carole King created. Her hits, including “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” and “It’s Too Late,” take on a new hue with Peter’s jazz reimagining. Who would have thought that the young female songwriter working out of the Brill Building in the ’60s would continue to inspire and touch future generations of musicians? Join us for a night of classic songs jazzified as only the Leucadia Muso Mafia elegantly delivers.The band includes Beth Ross Buckley on flute, Pamela Pendrell on vocals, Tripp Sprague on sax and flute, Danny Green on piano, Mack Leighton on bass, Duncan Moore on drums, and Peter Sprague on guitar.Related links:Museum of Making Music: website | Instagram | Facebook

Join the Zoom or livestream! “Body Modification: Anatomy, Alteration, and Art in Anthropogeny“ is the topic of a free, virtual public symposium hosted by the CARTA: UC San Diego/Salk Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 (Beginning 10 a.m. Pacific with Q&A and expert discussion and commencing ~ 1:30 p.m. Pacific), co-chaired by Mark Collard (Simon Fraser University) and Francesco d'Errico (University of Bordeaux). Event Summary:Permanent body modification is an intriguing phenomenon. It is regularly practiced by living humans but is not seen in other extant mammals. It is highly variable within and between cultures. It is also often both expensive and risky. All of these characteristics—its uniqueness, its variability, and its actual or potential costliness—make permanent body modification an important behavior for scientists to understand. However, the scientific study of permanent body modification is in its infancy. The goal of this symposium is to provide a snapshot of where we are at with regard to research on permanent body modification and to identify questions that should be prioritized over the next decade. The symposium will bring together academics from a number of disciplines as well as practitioners from the permanent body modification industry. We will cover a wide range of historical and contemporary permanent body modification practices, including but not limited to tattooing, piercing, finger amputation, and cranial modification. In addition to considering the ‘when’ and ‘where’ of permanent body modification, we will delve into the motivations behind this behavior, considering both the personal justifications offered by participants and the scientific hypotheses proposed to explain it.Additional Information:For updates regarding the Zoom and live webcast on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, follow CARTA’s X/Twitter (@CARTAUCSD), Facebook (@ucsdcarta), and LinkedIn accounts.Funding for this online-only symposium was provided by many generous CARTA friends like you. Closed captioning for recordings was made possible by CARTA Patrons Ingrid M. Benirschke-Perkins and Gordon C. Perkins.For more information, please email: khunter@ucsd.edu or carta-info@anthropogeny.org or visit carta.anthropogeny.org

We hear from those involved in the ongoing efforts to help individuals affected by flooding from the Jan. 22 storm.

It’s our 10th Anniversary! Join the California Native Plant Society, San Diego chapter in celebrating the beauty and diversity of San Diego’s native gardens. Explore a vibrant palette of 33 different landscape designs in the Poway area and Coastal San Diego - each garden teeming with native plants and the wildlife they attract. Our 2024 theme is 'Planting Animals’, highlighting the ties between native plants and the animals that rely on them. Planting California natives is the starting point for the web of life connected to our gardens. This includes us too!We are also featuring the gardens of three visionaries: Dennis & Pamela Mudd and Jim Smith. Together they created Calscape, a must-have online tool for the home gardener. Native plant sales, garden artists and the CNPS Bookstore will also be at select gardens. ADMISSION: Special student and group prices available on the websiteFor those still in need of tickets on Sunday, April 7, you may buy your tickets at that day's starting point which is 4234 Tacoma St, 92117. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | X

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent, and touching celebration of women’s spirit.By playwright Alan Ball.This show, part of our 85th season, is directed by San Diego Critic's Circle award winner Teri Brown.

Para limar asperezas en una relación tan importante como la de Estados Unidos y México, llena de temas espinosos, nada mejor que un poco de ‘diplomacia espacial’ aliñada con mucho entusiasmo y promesas de cooperación.

The women of our nation have been great warriors. From Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, to Mary G. Harris (Mother Jones) and organizing labor unions, to Ida B. Wells, fighting to end lynchings in the South, to Susan B. Anthony and the 19th Amendment, to Mary McCloud Bethune, First Lady of the Struggle & the Female Booker T. Washington, to Dolores Huerta and the United Farmworkers Association, to Angela Davis, Time Magazine’s Woman of the Year in 1971, our nation has been fecund in birthing women activists in social justice, AKA, women warriors. What about women poet warriors? Who are the women warriors of verse: the abolitionist, the suffragist, the civil rights activist, the feminist, the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer [or sometimes questioning], intersex, asexual, and others) activist, and in these days of the resurgence of hate and ignorance, the existentialist? The woman who looks at all that is happening around her which seems meaningless, and decides that she has to invent her own meaning in life. What seems to call her. The men in our nation who are not asleep or focused on a myriad of distractions or misinformation, face the goal of answering the same call.The first 90 minutes of this class for beginning or seasoned poets are focused on such abolitionist poems as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Eliza Harris, or suffragist poems such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Song For Equal Suffrage, to Alicia Ostriker’s essay on Muriel Rukeyser’s oceanic work, Learning to Breathe Underwater. Ostriker quotes Rukeyser with the following truthful, accurate paragraph on poem-writing: There are … two kinds of reaching in poetry, one based on the document, the evidence itself; the other informed by the unverifiable fact, as in sex, dream, the parts of life in which we dive deep and sometimes—with strength of expression and skill and luck—reach that place where things are shared and we all recognize the secrets. And do we all also recognize the story which resonates with, if not matches, our own.The second 90 minutes serves up the delicious verse nutrition of such women warriors of poetry as Ellen Bass, June Jordan, Naomi Shihab Nye, the current Poet Laureate of the U.S. Ada Limon, Lucile Clifton, and one of the voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Sonia Sanchez. Fulfilling Jim Moreno’s IMIC, the acronym that stands for Inspiration, Motivation, Imagination, & Contagion is an important goal in Jim’s poem-making classes. You will leave this workshop after completing two original poems. You will also have a bibliography that will provide you with hours of inspirational reading. Join Jim in this Zoom class to taste the poetry cuisine. Click the link at the top of this course description to register.San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram