San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Shakespeare goes outdoors, Saki, MartyO, 'A Sonic Youth,' Belladon and community ofrendas

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You can add some art and culture to your spooky weekend without door performances of Shakespeare's creepiest scenes, Latin inspired, classical ballet, and some artistic community offering does joining me with all the details is our KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans. Welcome Julia.

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Hi Jason. Thanks for having me on. All right, so

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Let's start with the Shakespeare. Uh, we have two ways to get a Shakespearian fixed this weekend, both of them free and both of them outdoors.

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Right? And I think it's so perfect that we're bringing in this spooky weekend with Shakespeare because he's written some of the darkest stuff. Uh, first is the old Globes free globe for all tour, which is it's an annual program. They do to bring Shakespeare performances out into the community. And this performance, this year is kind of a mashup of famous Shakespeare works, but using an audience call and response style. So with actors, improvising and a DJ who is the Globes teaching artists wrapper Mickey Vale, this tour lasts for about two weeks and chances are, you'll have a performance near you this afternoon. It's at three 30 at the Martin Luther king Jr. Memorial park in Southeast San Diego. And then Saturday at four at the Chula Vista public library. Both of these are outdoors and official seating is first come first served with masks required, but you could also bring a blanket or a chair of your own to sit or stand nearby. And at the San Diego museum of art, they're doing an outdoor version of one of their SDMA plus programs. This is partnering with the San Diego Shakespeare society. There'll be in the sculpture garden. That's just behind Panama 66 and actors will perform spooky scenes from plays like Macbeth and the Tempest. These are near the sculptures and there'll be taking some cues and inspiration from those artworks as well. They're short shows on Sunday. So it's actual Halloween and the show times are 3, 3 45 and four 30 in the afternoon.

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Shakespeare call and response is today at three 30 and Saturday at 4:00 PM. And the San Diego Shakespeare society performs at the S D M a sculpture garden Sunday afternoon at three in the classical music roll Bach, Collegium kicks off a new season with some works of music, both written in the year, 1707. Tell us about this show.

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Yeah, they're calling the concert a Sonic youth because both of these are really early compositions by Bach and Handel. Um, there's some of their earliest surviving manuscripts, even including box Chris lag in total abandon, which translates from German into Christ play in deaths, bonds

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And on a brighter note, Bach Collegium performs at all souls church in point Loma, which has this really lovely wall of stained glass by local artists, James hovel,

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Bach Collegium perform Saturday at 7:00 PM at all souls and point Loma. This week, you wrote about the San Diego ballet who are bringing back their REIT. Most Latinos concert. Tell us about this.

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Yeah, the show runs this weekend and next with two afternoon performances each weekend, and these are outdoors. The choreography is inspired by and set two different styles of Latin music. So like Mambo and mariachi though, it's still very much a classical ballet. So you'll have the dancers dancing on points and doing the traditional foot positions, but with costumes and music that reflect the Latin roots and folklore

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I talked to choreographer Javier of Alaska this week, who is the long-time artistic director of the San Diego ballet. And he said that a lot of this is inspired by his own family history, like the mariachi number they're doing K Benita M or the first time he heard that was when his aunt sung it to the bride to be at a family wedding 20 years ago at another number. Mama mania is a mashup of music by Cuban Mambo, legend Perez Prado. And he said, this also came out of his own childhood.

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When my parents used to have parties at the house, I was responsible for like, uh, putting the records on the record player. I just remember the great time that my parents had, but I also remember the album covers. They have these, you know, twisting wild women in these vibrant colors. It always just sort of stuck with me

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That San Diego ballet choreographer, Javier Velazco, the San Diego ballet performs read most Latinos Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 PM on Liberty stations, new outdoor stage. There are also some DIA de Los Muertos celebrations this weekend, but you have a few off renders or community altars at art galleries to check out,

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Right? So you belong here in city Heights has one, and you can send in your pictures via a Google form ahead of time, and they will print them out for you and add them to the altar. It's viewable from the sidewalk through the windows 24 7 all weekend through Tuesday, but they also have some indoor hours where you can actually go inside and spend some time with it or place your own items there. Those hours are Sunday from 11 to 6:00 PM and then Monday and Tuesday, 11 to 7:00 PM. And in Logan Heights at bread and salt, they're building out an Altera with the help from the public on Sunday, all day from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. And it will be on view Monday and Tuesday evenings. In fact, Tuesday, the artist Ponca will be at the gallery and we'll give you a personalized item for your own friend day. If you show up

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And you can find more DIA de Los Muertos events on our website, get details on all of these events and also sign up for Julia's weekly KPBS art newsletter@kpbs.org slash arts. I've been speaking with KPBS arts, producer and editor, Julia Dickson Evans Juliet. Thank you. Thank

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You so much, Jane. Have a good weekend.