Spooky San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Halloween Theater, Día De Los Muertos, Wearable Art And Dead Man's Party
Speaker 1: 00:00 If you count the pandemic and election day jitters, this could be the spookiest Halloween ever, even without the trick or treaters. Fortunately, local arts groups can help us turn to some of the more classic tales of horror, right? In our homes, plus a community of friends and spooky live music. So this Halloween weekend, dim the lights and settle in for some spooky culture. Joining me as KPBS arts editor, Julia Dickson Evans, with all the details and Julia welcome. Hi Maureen, this year's poll fast has gone online, but it's still here with the best of Gothic literature to celebrate the season. How can we tune it? Speaker 2: 00:42 Yeah, so performers from right out loud, they have recorded videos of retellings of a bunch of classic creepy short stories, poetry and folktales. So including ed ground hoe, but also HP Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins, Gilman, and more each year, they usually perform in the old Adobe chapel in old town. And they've recreated that this year in onsite to film the stories for us at home. And they're in bundles of six separate readings. So you can either binge them all or space them out. And you can even just pick one or two to buy a pass for. It all starts off with mr. Poe's, the mask of red death. It's sort of got a little boost in the news lately. It's a story of a bunch of wealthy leaders who think they're immune to a deadly plague. So they gather for a party and spoiler alert. It goes wrong. I am personally looking forward to the yellow wallpaper, which is deeply interior, sort of horror about a woman. Who's trying to figure out if it's the house or her mind that is haunted. And of course all those classic post stories like the Raven read here by the incredibly spooky Travis red Wilson. Speaker 3: 01:55 No, I said, hi, what it is. It's only stock and still both from someone happy master who must have for disaster followed fast, then followed faster cause his songs when the burden ball. So the damage is of his hope that none and coli burden ball of never, never know. Speaker 1: 02:14 That's Travis red, Wilson of PO fast reading Edgar Allen Poe's the Raven. You can catch the whole story plus more in six episodes online now through November 8th and the San Diego museum of art has paired Shakespeare with paintings in a spooky virtual SDMA plus performance. What can we find here? Speaker 2: 02:37 Yeah. So it's across the pond from ed ground poets. So much of horror and dark creepy art even today is inspired by Shakespeare and the San Diego Shakespeare society. They're pairing up with sanding a museum of art again, to perform some works alongside pieces from the museum's collection. There'll do some really classic scenes, the out, out spot scene and the dagger scene from Macbeth. Plus that be not a feared part from the Tempest as well as scenes from Othello. Plus it's not just Shakespeare. I'm excited about the pairing of Emily Dickinson's. I felt a funeral in my brain poem with contemporary abstract artists. Nancy Lawrence is chaotic gold tinge work and these virtual SDMA plus offerings they've run on the short side during quarantine. So I'm really looking forward to this one, being packed to the gills with stuff. It's a video format on YouTube. So you can experience the art too. Speaker 1: 03:37 San Diego museum of art plus San Diego Shakespeare society performs spooky works of literature with art from the museum. That's online Saturday, that's Halloween at 6:00 PM. DIA de Los Muertos starts on Sunday and city Heights. Art space. You belong here has a special offering. Tell us about their community of friends. Speaker 2: 04:00 Yeah, you belong here. Brought in artists to Maria Ramirez to install a public, alter her a friend as are really beautiful pieces. And one nice part about this project is that it's viewable from the outside. Through you belong here is windows 24 hours a day through Monday. So you can go to pay your respects and celebrate those who came before you, even if you're not quite ready to go indoors. But if you are, you belong here as offering short in VAR viewings of no more than four people at a time. So you can interact with the altar. They're open this afternoon until four and Saturday and Sunday from 10 to noon and masks are required. Speaker 1: 04:42 [inaudible] community of friends will be on view at you belong here in city Heights through Monday and in the scary music world. Let's head back to the 1980s. What does the belly up have to offer this weekend? Speaker 2: 04:56 Yeah, so dead man's party. It's an oil and go Boingo cover band. And what good is Halloween without going through dead man's parties, an eight piece band with a three piece horn section and they're from San Diego. They'll take the belly upstage Saturday night to live stream a bit of Danny Elfman energy, right to our houses. You can expect all your favorite spooky ongo Blanco hits. And this is also the kickoff to belly ups, 10 concert virtual tour series, and proceeds support the venue and all the artists who regularly share the stage. So you can get tickets just for the show or a pretty good discount on all 10 in the tour. Speaker 1: 05:35 Vans, parties, streams live from the belly up Saturday at 8:00 PM. And let's have a listen to weird science covered by dead man's party. Speaker 2: 05:57 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 06:14 Yeah. Just briefly remind us about the County health guidelines about trick or treating this year. Speaker 2: 06:19 Yeah, they're recommending that people avoid traditional door to door trick or treating. They've been playing out that leaving out bowls of candy on the porch is unsafe and instead they recommend one way trick or treating where you have individually wrapped goody bags lined up outdoors. So families can grab them while practicing social distancing. You can check the county's special Halloween fact sheet online. So yeah, I mostly just recommend listening to post stories. Speaker 1: 06:46 That's keeps us safe. Right? I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dickson Evans. For more arts events, you can go to kpbs.org/arts or sign up for the weekly KPBS arts newsletter. Happy Halloween, Julia, Speaker 2: 07:01 You too Marina. Thank you. [inaudible].
