Visual art
'M(other) Tongues'
The San Diego Central Library Art Gallery will open a new exhibition featuring textile art that explores migration, mark-making and ancestral traditions, with work by an impressive group of local women: Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Leila Khalizadeh Aghdami, Kirstyn Hom, Yasmine Kasem and Shirin Towfiq. On view through April 18 in the downtown library's distinctive ninth-floor gallery.
Reception: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 31 | San Diego Central Library Art Gallery, 330 Park Blvd., downtown | Free | MORE INFO
'Teeny Tiny Art Mart'
A whopping 657 artists submitted tiny works of art to the Oceanside Museum of Art's annual miniature art sale, a fundraiser for its education programs. Each piece is priced at just $25, and the artist's name will be hidden until purchase. The works are on view just through Sunday as a preview. The online sale begins 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, and runs through Feb. 22.
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, Jan. 28 - Feb. 1 | Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside | Free - $15 | MORE INFO
'Remember': A Community Knitting Circle
Artist Linda Litteral will lead a monthly knitting circle at Art Produce (in partnership with Space 4 Art) to create knitted pieces for a 2027 large-scale textile installation to honor people affected by sexual trauma, stitch by stitch. The final project will feature a series of hand-knitted banners, and all contributions by knitting circle participants will be named in the exhibition catalog. All supplies are provided, and no experience is necessary — the group will help beginners learn how to knit.
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 | Art Produce, 3139 University Ave., North Park | Free with RSVP | MORE INFO
'The Art and Life of Jfre Robot Coad'
Whistle Stop Bar will honor former bartender and artist Jfre Coad by hanging his art on the walls. Sunday evening, the bar is hosting the opening night of the exhibition and a casual celebration of life for Coad, who passed away just before the holidays.
Opening: 6 p.m. - midnight Sunday, Feb. 1. On view through Feb. 14 | Whistle Stop Bar, 2236 Fern Street, South Park | Free | MORE INFO
Music
Casbah's 37th Anniversary: The Album Leaf and moondaddy
Jimmy LaValle started his instrumental, electronic project The Album Leaf in San Diego in the late 1990s. He's since landed in Los Angeles, but the band is still going strong.
As part of the Casbah's 37th anniversary monthlong celebration, The Album Leaf returns to perform with local dream pop singer-songwriter moondaddy.
If you can't make the show Thursday, the 37th celebration spans a few more shows this weekend, including The Antlers on Friday and locals The Black Heart Procession on Sunday.
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29 | Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy | $34.54 | MORE INFO
King Britt: Blacktronika at Part Time Lover
King Britt, a UC San Diego professor of music and Blacktronika researcher, producer, composer and DJ, will take over the vinyl booth as a guest selector at Part Time Lover, North Park's hi-fi listening bar, for a late-night set on Friday. Guest selectors are curated by Folk Arts Rare Records.
10 p.m. - 2 a.m. Friday, Jan. 30 | Part Time Lover, 3829 30th St., North Park | Free | MORE INFO
'Breaking Boundaries'
The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus' first show of the year features cellist Peter Ko, who will also play halldorophone, a cello-like electro-acoustic feedback instrument (I had to Google it). The orchestra will perform a fascinating range of compositions from Frank Zappa to Hannah Wolkowitz and Jean Sibelius.
Jan. 31-Feb. 1 | Mandeville Auditorium | $22-$48.50 | MORE INFO
Music of the Night: Mahler Symphony No. 7
Find someone who looks at you the way Rafael Payare looks at a Mahler symphony. In continuing a commitment to exploring Mahler's works, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra will perform his "Symphony No. 7," known as "Song of the Night," one of Mahler's gorgeously optimistic and hopeful works. Payare and SDSO CEO Martha Gilmer will hold a discussion immediately after the performance.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 | Jacobs Music Center, 1245 Seventh Ave., downtown | $42+ | MORE INFO
Haydn Voyages
Local string ensemble the Hausmann Quartet returns to the deck of the Maritime Museum's Berkeley ship for its long-running Haydn Voyages series. The quarterly concerts are intended to chip away at Haydn's entire repertoire of string quartets, pairing them with his contemporaries as well as living composers. Sunday's performance features works by Boccherini, Haydn and Beethoven, along with Morton Feldman's "Structures" and Caroline Shaw's "Punctum."
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 | Maritime Museum of San Diego, 1492 N. Harbor Dr., downtown | $10 - $60 | MORE INFO
Theater
'SORPRESIMOVIL reloaded'
La Jolla Playhouse is offering a series of free, drop-in community performances of "SORPRESIMOVIL reloaded," a WOW (Without Walls) experience by Puerto Rico-based immersive theater company Poncili Creación. The title translates to "surprise mobile," and at the heart of the show is a colorful truck full of puppeteers. Performances are 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, at Mujeres Brew House; 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at Teralta Park; 10 a.m. at Jackie Robinson Family YMCA; and 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at Teralta Park. Fern Street Circus will collaborate on the Teralta Park shows.
Jan. 29 - Feb. 1 | Multiple locations | Free | MORE INFO
'The Apiary'
New Village Arts presents the San Diego premiere of Kate Douglas' "The Apiary," the story of four women responsible for keeping the last honeybee colonies alive in a lab set 20 years in the future. Directed by Kristianne Kurner, the show stars a strong local cast of Michelle Caravia, Adelaida Martinez, Milena Sellers Phillips and Nio Russell.
Jan. 23 - Feb 22 | New Village Arts, 2787 State Street, Carlsbad | $35 - $70 | MORE INFO
Dance
Hervé Koubi: 'Sol Invictus'
Compagnie Hervé Koubi, a French-Algerian dance company, brings its powerful blend of contemporary dance, athleticism and martial arts to Balboa Theatre, presented by La Jolla Music Society. The 15-performer company is touring with its production of "Sol Invictus," inspired by light and movement. Malashock Dance director Molly Puryear will present a pre-show talk for all ticket holders at 6:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30 | Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., downtown | $61 - $91 | MORE INFO
Books
Small Press Nite vol. 13
San Diego's own celebration of indie literature returns this Saturday — as does its former host, Kevin Kearney, author of "Freelance," who will read along with Tex Gresham, Kkuurrtt, Shy Watson and Kyle Kouri.
7 p.m. Saturday, Jan 31 | The Book Catapult, 3010-B Juniper Street, South Park | Free | MORE INFO
