San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Projected Photography, ‘A Christmas Carol,’ ArtWalk And Jazz
Speaker 1: 00:00 It's December and perhaps you're not quite in the holiday mood yet or ever, or maybe you've been decking the halls since Halloween, while our picks for arts and culture this weekend give you plenty of options along the festive scale. Joining me with the details as KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans, and welcome Speaker 2: 00:21 Julia. Hi Maureen. Thanks for having me. Speaker 1: 00:23 Let's kick things off with the new exhibition of outdoor projected photography in San Ysidro. Speaker 2: 00:30 Yeah, so the friends aren't in Kaltura and Santa Sedro opened two new exhibitions. Recently, one is an indoor one. And by appointment, you can view a group exhibition called magnetic currents with work by 13 really great visual artists, but exciting in, uh, 20, 20 sort of ways. The adjacent outdoor exhibition it's called Nat [inaudible] and it features works at photography projected onto the front of the building. It's kind of perfect for our pandemic weary arts consumption. So they installed a large screen and they project the art from across the street. It's viewable throughout the night on select evenings. There's four artists. The works are themed on reflections mirrors and movement. And I kind of loved the idea that you could drive by and catch just a split second of an image, or maybe the transition between two images and experience the art in a totally different way than if you were to stand on the sidewalk and watch the whole thing. It is about a 15 minute runtime, so that's doable too. And if you bring a flashlight, you can check out these new murals on the same block that were recently commissioned by the front. Speaker 1: 01:45 Now, TIVA is projected on the front gallery in San Ysidro tonight from 6:00 PM through morning, next theater and literature lovers alike are sure to love a new filmed production of Charles Dickens classic a Christmas Carol, how was the LA Jolla Playhouse bringing this show to our city virtually? Speaker 2: 02:05 So this is the Tony award winner, Jefferson Mays in a one man production. This adaptation, it originally premiered at the Geffen and LA a few years back. And they recently staged and filmed it in New York at the United palace theater. It's part of a collaboration between theaters and production companies across the country, including LA Jolla Playhouse. And now that COVID is expanding our access to productions from all over the world. It's kind of a nice way to ensure that these local organizations are supported. As we check out this world-class stuff from elsewhere. Jefferson Mays and director Michael Arden have been on the Playhouse stage before. And this film and stage hybrid is a really great flex for their skills. Maze is pretty mesmerizing as Ebeneezer Scrooge. He's playing something like 50 roles at once, and it's a pretty spooky playing up the terror of these hauntings. That's some fun, special effects. Here's a clip of maze in the ghost of Christmas present scene courtesy of at Christmas, Carol live Speaker 3: 03:12 Set her giants to sea and raised it high to shed his light on screwed. As he came peeping round the door. I am the ghost of Christmas present. Speaker 1: 03:37 That's Jefferson Mays in a Christmas Carol presented by the LA Jolla Playhouse live streaming. Now through January 3rd, a youth dance organization has pivoted their annual production to a virtual dance film. What does transcend dance youth arts project have to offer? Speaker 2: 03:57 So this group transcendence offers free intensive dance instruction as well as school programs and title one schools. And each year they put together a pretty impressive performance. This year. They rehearsed online and came together masked and socially distant in the park to film this production. It's called home within a home. It's a collection of nine dance pieces, peppered with stories and interviews from the dancers. One is a collaboration, even with musical youth, non-profit locally, David's harp, and they wrote a piece called six feet away. Another piece women of the home is movement set to this collection of spoken texts that the dancers themselves wrote about the women in their lives and the complicated themes of home and domesticity. And here's a clip of women. Speaker 3: 04:48 Oh, she, she who is out of [inaudible] beautiful. She works for her children. Everything is a strong warrior. Her daughters, the provider, the only one Speaker 1: 05:16 From transcendence virtual production home within a home that's streaming Saturday at seven and Sunday at 3:00 PM. And finally the Athenaeum hosts live jazz from some of San Diego's greats. How do we tune in Speaker 2: 05:32 Yeah, Monday night, you can ease yourself back into the week with some of our finest jazz in town guitarist. Peter Sprague has been central to the jazz scene here since the seventies, and he's collaborated with vocalists Leonard patent for years now. And patent also takes some turns on the hand drums when they play together, their performances often hop around genres, dabbling and jazz, as well as Americana covers a rock and roll and folk music. And here's a clip from their 2015 full length album. And it's a cover of Nat King. Cole's straighten up and fly, right? Speaker 3: 06:23 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 06:26 That's Peter Sprague and Leonard patents are edition of straighten up and fly. Right? You can check out their music live stream from the apnea monday@sevenpmformoreartseventsortosignupfortheweeklykpbsartsnewslettervisitkpbs.org slash arts. I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans. Julia. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Have a good weekend. Speaker 3: 08:11 [inaudible] [inaudible].
