San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Matilda To Rapper Ric Scales To Drive-Through Art
Speaker 1: 00:00 Hot town summer in the city this weekend, but our weekend preview events can be enjoyed from your shady backyard or cool inside spaces. And there's a lot to choose from musical theater, watch parties, virtual visits with writers and a wrap open mic night from the old globe. We have your weekend arts plans covered. Joining me is KPBS arts editor, Julia Dixon Evans, with all the details and welcome Julia. Hi Maureen. Now, first off, tell us about a watch party with a local youth musical theater company. Yeah. San Diego junior theater has put together some favorite clips from the beloved musical adaptation. I have Roald Dahl's Matilda. They're calling it a fund size version just a half hour. I love that idea of a 30 minute performance stream. It's perfect for our pandemic or technology ravaged attention spans. And I watch party means that you can kind of chat along with other viewers kind of like a tune in moment. This performance just wrapped up auditions and callbacks when the shutdowns hit. So it was originally scheduled for at late April. And this is a great way to experience some of the play. It's a relatively new play, but it's a classic story and the songs have already become hits. At least in my house. Like the emphysemic revolting children Speaker 2: 01:59 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 01:59 Was from revolting children from Matilda, San Diego, junior theaters, fun size rendition of Matilda and streams. Tonight at seven on Facebook live up next. There's a special local art auction going on right now. It might not be this see, and be seen gala atmosphere of a classic art auction. But Julia, tell us a little bit about why it's important through the blue is a project put together by a faculty in San Diego. State's visual art department, along with bread and salt gallery. And it's a benefit auction for build America, which directly works in the Alfredo neighborhood of Tijuana. The neighborhoods historically struggled with poverty and COVID has hit it really hard. Build America works to build homes in that neighborhood. And they've been serving the communities basic needs to food and necessities, who are some of the artists involved. They've picked artists with some connection to San Diego state, like faculty, alumni and current students. And it's surprising how many amazing locally artists actually have a connection. There's Griselda Rosa, who has a piece in the auction clients. Swanger Anna O'Kane and Annie Buckley and dozens more. There's about 38 pieces in the show. Some of them are priced as low as 50 or a hundred dollars. And a few as of this morning still don't have any bids yet through them. Speaker 3: 03:20 Blue art auction continues online through Monday night, the revised San Diego writer's festival has the second installment of their virtual summer festival days series on Saturday. So what can we expect? Speaker 1: 03:35 Yeah, just in its second year, the San Diego writers' festival had to do some major gear shifting the chime, pull up this year's event. It was originally scheduled for early April, these four separate summer festival days each have a theme and a variety of programming, performances, workshops, and keynotes available to live stream for free. And this Saturday is the second and the theme is for the love of storytelling and it focuses on craft sessions. But for those of you looking for more entertainment than craft and writing instruction, poet Gil, so too, who was just on midday this week, we'll kick off the day at 10:00 AM with a spoken word performance. And I also recommend the screening and Q and a for a powerful local short film called Isabel, which is based on a true local story. And that's it, 11:45 AM. That film is really witty, but still had me in tears. It's about a caregiver who finds an unlikely companion in a very salty elderly woman. And here's a clip from the trailer. What's your name? Uh, Taran. Well, apparently that's made up well, it is, but I mean, isn't every name when you think about it. I mean, who came up with it? Isabel, it's the biblical well, so whoever wrote that is probably God that's go make me a bagel. Speaker 3: 05:04 The San Diego writers festival broadcasts on Facebook live on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Finally, what's happening at the old globe tonight. Speaker 1: 05:15 So word up is a gathering that the old Globes arts engagement department puts on each Friday night and it features a local performer as the teaching artist. It's kind of like a part hang sesh part open mic night part master class. This week's features local rapper, Rick scales, half of the duo 18 scales. You can tune in to get to know scales and listen to his performance, learn a thing or two about rap, and even maybe try your hand at it. And the community performance segment I highly recommend. If you want to get a table, that's fair, Rick, 18 scales track, anything you want, which came out in December. Speaker 4: 05:59 So this song is [inaudible] Speaker 3: 06:19 Word up featuring rapper. Rick scales takes place tonight at 6:00 PM on the old globe art engagement Facebook page for more arts events or to sign up for the weekly arts newsletter, go to kpbs.org/arts. I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor, Julia Dixon. Evan's Julia, have a great weekend. ETA. Thanks Maureen.
