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To honor Juneteenth as an important part of American History, please join us for Juneteenth at UC San Diego Park & Market: A Celebration of Black Art, Music, and Community on Sunday, June 18 from Noon to 7 p.m. This event includes a black-owned business market, a panel discussion on “What does liberation mean in the 21st Century?”, and live music throughout the day. The festivities conclude with a Neo Soul performance by some of San Diego's best musicians. This free event is open to the public and includes complimentary food and beverages. This celebratory event was made possible by support from the County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce, and our Community Partners Courtney Dade, Terrell Thompson, and Blake Dye. Information about the Panel Discussion: What does Liberation mean to you? Featuring: Dr. Helen Griffith, Executive Director, The Preuss School UC San Diego Bruce Mayberry, Chairperson, County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce Brisa Johnson, Director, San Diego Black Worker Center Blake Dye, CEO, SMPL Collective Marisol "Dottie" Dothard, Biomedical Sciences PhD Student, UC San Diego Moderator: Loren Cobbs, Founder of SD Melanin & Champion for Diversity and Inclusion Event Schedule: Noon - 7 p.m. Vendor Market with a DJ, singers and live piano in The Forum with art, crafts, and services 2:30 - 3 p.m. Welcome Ceremony in The Guggenheim Theatre featuring remarks by Dr. Becky Petitt 3 - 4:15 p.m. Panel Discussion in The Guggenheim Theatre featuring community partners representing commerce, the workforce, arts and culture and education. 4:30 - 5 p.m. Choir Performance by The A Squad on The Grand Staircase 5:15 - 7 p.m. Neo Soul/Jazz Performance by Soul Sunday and Serenade Social in The Guggenheim Theatre The community is invited to join the event by hosting vendor booths, showcasing visual art, volunteer, or provide sponsorship. Space is limited so please email DESarts@ucsd.edu before May 25 for consideration.

The American freeway is born during a time of boundless optimism for the automobile … how did we not see the dark side?

This weekend in the arts: Intimate photos of Frida Kahlo at California Center for the Arts, Escondido; the poet laureate and open studios at Space 4 Art; JFest's Jewish New Play Festival at The Old Globe; Young Lions Jazz Conservatory at the Loft; Ed Simon and Magos Herrera at the Athenaeum; Project [BLANK]'s chamber opera adaptation of Sartre at Bread and Salt; Drummers Without Borders at The Front; a livestream of TEDxSan Diego and more.

The most anticipated installment of San Diego Filipino Cinema’s year-long programming, the San Diego Filipino Film Festival (SDFFF) is back on its third year this fall from October 3-8, 2023. Held during Filipino American History Month in October, SDFFF is SDFC's centerpiece event that aims to raise awareness for Filipino cinema as an important art form and a powerful tool for representation, education, and entertainment. SDFFF will bring San Diego communities together to celebrate diversity, culture, and heritage through cinema with a diverse mix of narrative features, documentaries, and short films. More About the Film: Rica (50s), after working abroad comes home to stay with her ageing mother until she finds new work. She is disappointed to discover that all past years of sending money to the Philippines to repair their old home amounted to nothing. It looks the same way as she left it years ago. Her son, Vincent (18), is finishing college and needs to focus on his studies so Rica takes over to be a caregiver to her mom, Choleng (85). Taking care of her stubborn elderly mother is a nightmare. She never thought that it can be so difficult. Choleng complains about everything and treats Rica like a child which she really despised. Afternoons are spent on prayer meetings and evenings on more praying. Rica realizes that her mother’s difficult behavior is caused by her impaired hearing. With the help of their prayer meeting group they pitched in to buy her a hearing aid that she refuses to use. It reaches a point that Rica and Choleng start fighting. Rica blames her mother for her futile sacrifice of working abroad. Rica decides to accept an offer to work abroad again.Choleng requests for her not to leave anymore. Rica thinks otherwise. On the same evening, Choleng prays silently but earnestly in her room. Suddenly she chokes and breaks down, tears running down her eyes. She goes to sleep then into comma. In the end, Rica learns what Choleng has done all the years that she was working abroad. It is just refreshing to see once more this mother and daughter tandem who made history when Gloria and her daughter Nadia Veloso (aka Maria S. Ranillo/Suzette Ranillo) were awarded Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the 1973 FAMAS for the movie Gimingaw Ako. For more information visit: sdfff.org Stay Connected on Facebook

Join us on Saturday, July 8th from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm for a celebration of life of renown Mexican artist Frida Kahlo on Logan Avenue in the Barrio Logan Art District! Come and enjoy a day filled with all things Frida Kahlo from themed art shows, live art, painting classes, flower crown workshops, games of Loteria, shopping, dining, to a Frida Kahlo Look-a-like contest! Frida inspired attire highly encouraged! Free family friendly event. Where: 2060 Block of Logan Avenue to S. 26th Street. Barrio Logan, San Diego For more information visit: allforlogan.com and IG @allforlogan

The most anticipated installment of San Diego Filipino Cinema’s year-long programming, the San Diego Filipino Film Festival (SDFFF) is back on its third year this fall from October 3-8, 2023. Held during Filipino American History Month in October, SDFFF is SDFC's centerpiece event that aims to raise awareness for Filipino cinema as an important art form and a powerful tool for representation, education, and entertainment. SDFFF will bring San Diego communities together to celebrate diversity, culture, and heritage through cinema with a diverse mix of narrative features, documentaries, and short films. About the Film | Inspired by the pre-colonial Filipino value kapwa, or “shared identity”, "Searching for Kapwa" follows the filmmakers quest to understand his ancestral roots, heal from a sense of cultural alienation, and find his place in the arc of history. As a child of immigrants and a queer brown person living in polarized America, Larry’s journey unpacks the complicated history of the Philippines, and its lasting impact on the Filipino diaspora. Ultimately, the film is a densely layered exploration of what it is to be American, and the legacy of the generations we all carry within us.

Researchers from across colleges and within the Center for Comics Studies at San Diego State University will share their knowledge — and the stage — at the annual San Diego Comic-Con. Scientists, artists, librarians, and historians will come together to showcase research on topics of social and racial justice, activism, science, and academics, all tied to comics. Here are some highlights of panels with SDSU participants (unless otherwise noted, locations are at the San Diego Convention Center): In “Fear and Fungi” (11 a.m.-noon Thursday, Grand Ballroom DE, 4th floor, Omni Hotel), Kari Sant, an associate professor and toxicologist in SDSU’s Division of Environmental Health, will join other scientists to examine the science of the HBO series “The Last of Us” (adapted from a video game), in which a zombie-like epidemic arises from a fungal outbreak. Sant will serve as a public health resource, presenting on how environmental stimuli such as fungicide use and climate change can change the interaction between humans and fungi. “My background in toxicology and environmental health, on top of my love of the games and show, will be on display,” Sant said. In “Comics Pedagogy: Teaching Outside the Panel” (5-6 p.m. Thursday, Shiley Special Events Suite, San Diego Central Library), students Fawaz Qashat (biology), Bradley Medina (studio art), alumnae Breanna Rohde (multimedia art) and Grace DeVega (history and political science), along with faculty Elizabeth Pollard, Pamela Jackson, and Neil Kendricks discuss comics in the classroom. MORE SDSUxCOMIC-CON: Engineering His Spidey Senses Students from Kendricks' Visual Odyssey art course will showcase their artwork. “Hearing from the students who thrived in this experiential art course and were able to publish their final comic-book projects outside of class will be inspiring for anyone who loves comics and graphic novels,” he said. Ethan Banegas, Luiseño Kumeyaay and lecturer in American Indian Studies will discuss how tribal historians are taking the lead in developing community-engaged comics in “Honoring the Kumeyaay Nation Past, Present, and Future Through Visual Storytelling,” (5-6 p.m. Friday, Room 29AB). Lecturer Desmond Hassing, from the Department of American Indian Studies will participate in “Star Wars Andor: Making a Rebel, Making a Rebellion” (7-8 p.m. Friday, Room 7AB). “My contributions to the panel will likely focus on Andor's construction of the Rebellion's creation as the formation of Narrative Warfare against the Empire, a counter narrative that seeks to build counter-hegemonic power,” he said. Hassing will be joined by Robert Dagnall, a rhetoric and writing studies master’s candidate Jake Rowlett, a doctoral candidate who is a critical film and media geographer researching the influences of on-screen representations and real-world impacts. “Comics Change the World: Comics Activism Then and Now” (4-5 p.m. Saturday, Shiley Special Events Suite, San Diego Central Library) features the co-directors of the Center for Comics Studies, Jackson and Pollard. MORE SDSUxCOMIC-CON: Cooking Up An Invisibility Cloak Panelists will consider how comics have been used in the past to address issues of social justice, civil rights, racism, censorship, and now more contemporary issues like LGBTQ+ rights and BLM movements, among others. “Comics can serve as a support system (and feeling less alone) for people who see themselves and their lived experiences reflected on the page,” Jackson said. “At a time when so many of our rights and identities are under attack, comics may be more important than ever.” Jackson will be present on five panels this year (her 14th year attending Comic-Con) and Pollard will join four panels in her 17th year at the conference. Alumna Grace deVega (‘23) will share her research “Sound of Comics” (compiled while an SDSU history and political science student) at “The Poster Session: Sound of Comics” (2-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 26AB). She created a digital exhibit “to explore both the variance in depictions and the variance in purposes for sound in comics.” Her research covers music, sound effects, and disability in sound. Cell biologist Catherine Schrankel will join “The Science of Superpowers: Radiation and Mutation and Aliens, Oh My!” (2-3 p.m. Sunday, Grand 10 & 11, Marriott Marquis, San Diego Marina) to showcase the supernatural, yet very real abilities of marine invertebrates. “Examples include the ability to regenerate (sea star arms), to ‘see and hear’ with sensors all over their bodies (sea urchins and sea stars), to camouflage instantly (squid/octopuses), and the presence of a highly expanded set of molecular tools against infection (sea urchins),” Schrankel said. ”I will also have fun anecdotes that describe how studying these animals in the lab has led to some superhuman health benefits.” Additional panels and their SDSU participants: THURSDAY The Comics Memoir: From the Beginning, Pamela Jackson, 8-9 p.m., Room 9 FRIDAY Centers and Certificates: Comics Go to College, Elizabeth Pollard and Pamela Jackson, 5-6 p.m., Shiley Special Events Suite, San Diego Central Library SATURDAY Comics, Social Justice, and Libraries, Pamela Jackson and Elizabeth Pollard, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Room 26AB Creators Assemble: Comics Camaraderie, A Networking Event, Moni Barrette, 4-6 p.m., Marriott Marquis Marina D SUNDAY Comic Justice, Jess Whatcott and Diana Leong, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Room 26AB Afrofuturism: Black to the Future, Ajani Brown, 4-5 p.m., Room 25ABC Stay Connected on Social Media! 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A lifetime love of basketball and sports blended with artivist (artist & activist) Jim Moreno’s social justice leanings prepared him to respect Coach Greg Popovich’s outrage at some of our nation’s leaderlessness and insouciance to suffering and injustice. Coach Popovich broke ranks with staying silent in many press conferences after games to denounce injustice, the murdering of our children in our schools, and power’s reluctance to challenge the status quo on military assault rifles. A basketball coach, he didn’t talk about his team’s loss in one press conference, Coach Pop addressed the cowardliness and selfishness of legislators who shy away from gun control legislation so as not to lose votes and paychecks. How does this poetry class for beginning or seasoned poets inspire participants to write original political poems. Moreno answers, “There are more of us like Coach Pop who are sick and tired of the carnage. There are more of us that would like to find a language to speak out against the greed that robs families of their children, of their children’s lives. I can teach anyone to write poetry from this genre by following the wisdom of those on whose shoulders we stand, poets who came before us.” Audre Lorde said, “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less & less important whether I am afraid.” June Jordan said, “To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself. And that’s political, in the most profound way… Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.” Or President Kennedy, who quoted poet Robert Frost, when he said, “When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.” This three-hour class for beginning or seasoned poets will be divided into two ninety-minute segments. The first segment includes poetry prompts and film clips from some poets who resonate with Coach Pop: local poet Alfred Williams, Joe Milosch, and Rudy Francisco. We’ll also review some of Coach Pop’s press conferences as well as press conferences of Coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors. The second segment will include some national and international poets like Robert Bly, June and Audre, Sandra Cisneros, and Pablo Neruda. The poets chosen from these two segments will include the above poets and poets who are inspirational in the hopes that class participants will also be inspired to write original poems in a Container of respect and dignity, no matter the culture or color of skin. We stand on the shoulders of June Jordan when we live and write from her quote: “What’s important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That’s what it means.”

In this month-long introductory ceramic handbuilding course, students explore hands-on, hand building work in clay. Students will create functional and nonfunctional ceramic art. Learn how to create with coils, slab construction and clay pinching methods. See the beauty of the final results as your pieces come out of the kiln. Students will create multiple pieces and learn how to glaze finished artwork. Ages 12-17 welcome! All materials included. Projects are changed regularly, so students can return month after month to continue to develop their skills! • Scholarships available • Homeschool vendors accepted • Military and sibling discounts

Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Wednesdays, Sept. 17 - Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Explore the early life of Frida Kahlo as she discovers her genius for painting following a tragic, life-changing accident, leading her to encounter world-famous muralist Diego Rivera who she later marries, twice.