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For the first time since 2020, the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair (GSDSEF) will be held in person at The Balboa Park Activity Center (BPAC) on March 15, 2023. The GSDSEF will include 338 students with 312 projects from San Diego and Imperial Counties in grades 6-12.Students that present the top projects will be awarded scholarships, educational experiences, cash prizes and be selected to attend additional prestigious fairs. These include Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for middle school students, The California Science and Engineering Fair in April, and 6 high school students will be given all expense paid trips to attend The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair held in Dallas, Texas. This is held in May and nearly $6 million in awards will be given out.In the past, $20,000+ dollars of award money has been given out to students, and numerous students have gone on to win top prizes at the state and international fairs.Judging will be held at the BPAC on March 15, 2023, however this will be closed to the public. The awards ceremony will be held at The Observatory North Park on March 16, 2023 at 6pm. The awards ceremony will be open to families of participants and we will be making a video for later viewing. The BPAC will be open to the public to view projects on Saturday, March 18, 2023 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. This is a great opportunity to be inspired and see what amazing projects these students have put together. Please join us then!For more information go to www.gsdsef.org

The British architect is known for his crisp, understated, elegant work. "He enhances the quality of people's lives through a poetic sensation that always flows from his buildings," the jury said.

Skate Rising, a program that offers service opportunities and free skate instruction for girls ages 4-18, is hosting a food drive and learn-to-skate clinic 9-11 a.m. on March 11 at the Encinitas Community Park. The six-year-old program invites participants to bring granola bars, dried fruit or nuts, and crackers to donate to low-income families served by the Community Resource Center. Professional instruction will be offered by local pro and Olympic skaters and free rental gear will be available for all. Participants will have the opportunity to win prizes from Arbor Skateboards, Hydro Flask, Garden of Life and 187 Killer Pads.Register for this free event

The ocean inspires, connects, sustains us. Artists, poets, musicians, surfers… beach-goers the world over share a deep admiration and respect for the sea.The "Poetry in Ocean: A Celebration of the Sunset, Surf and Sea" panel and open reading was born of the same gusto for sun and surf, San Diego style! The evening will start with a panel discussion led by surfer and associate publisher of the San Diego Poetry Annual, Michael Klam. Panelists are surf journalist, Scott Bass, classical pianist/surfer, Jeeyoon Kim, poet/visual artist, Ted Washington, and lifelong surfer, artist, author and contributing writer at The Surfer’s Journal, Cher Pendarvis.Open mic follows the panel. All poets and writers of any genre are invited to share their take on the influence and inspiration they draw from the sea. Open mic readers will share one poem (or two short ones) or one piece of short prose each. Writers can sign up on the night of the show or preregister to read at sdpoetryannual@gmail.com.The Friends of the San Diego Central Library will also be hosting a membership drive to support the library. Everyone who stops by their table will get an opportunity drawing ticket and be eligible to participate, no purchase necessary. Prizes include a Hank Warner custom surfboard, $100 dinner gift certificates to Bully’s East Prime Bistro Sports Bar (and ball caps and shirts from the restaurant), and assorted swag from Rocky’s Crown Pub.Visit: https://sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/poetry-ocean-celebration-sunset-surf-sea-poetryhttps://poetryandartsd.com/

Live concert“Beauty, power and ferocity all mixed together with love and hope.” This describes singer-songwriter-activists Pat Humphries and Sandy O, known as Emma's Revolution, with fearless, truth-telling lyrics and melodies you can’t resist singing. The duo are in their 20th year performing together. Emma’s Revolution's songs have traveled around the world and have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger and covered by Holly Near.With one eye on the news, Emma’s Revolution consistently writes songs about critical issues happening in the world and enthusiastically lends their voices to the movements those issues inspire. “Our House is on Fire” was selected as the opening track for Hope Rises, a compilation CD from a national nonprofit co-founded by Noel (Paul) Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary. “Keep on Moving Forward” opened the UN’s Committee on the Status of Women’s Bejiing+25 Conference. The song originally opened the NGO Forum of the 4th UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, becoming its unofficial anthem. Emma’s Revolution are winners of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize and the first Phil Ochs Award.

Ales Bialiatski was one of the leaders of Belarus' pro-democracy movement, inspiring protests against what activists maintained were fraudulent presidential elections in 2020.

The Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts is pleased to invite you to the Media Care Talk, "When Does Care Become Cruel? Rethinking Care with Animals in 3 Scenes" with Juno Salazar Parreñas on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 5 p.m. at the Public Engagement Building (PEB) 721 in the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood.Speaker: Juno Salazar Parreñas, associate professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cornell UniversityRespondent: Pascal Gagneux, professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San DiegoHosted by Wentao Ma, Ph.D. student, Department of Literature, UC San DiegoAbstractWhen does care become cruel? Caring for semi-wild orangutans entails hitting them in order to make them averse to human contact because an ideal rehabilitated orangutan should avoid people instead of seeking them out. Caring for ex-circus lions, which are apex predators, hinges on both unequal land ownership and an attitude that some lives are naturally prey. Meanwhile, offering sanctuary to ex-dairy cows extends their lives to unknown durations and unknown geriatric health challenges. All of these cases suggest the difficulty of drawing a line between care and cruelty. This talk cautions against uncritical acceptance of what care is and what actions are done in its name.BiographyJuno Salazar Parreñas is an associate professor of Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke UP, 2018), which received the 2019 Michelle Rosaldo Prize from the Association for Feminist Anthropology.Location + ParkingPublic Engagement Building (PEB) 721 is located in the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood.The closest visitor parking is located in the Scholars Parking underground parking structure. Weekend parking is $2/hour.About the Media Care Talk SeriesDozing at the movie theater, listening to the podcast on the subway, counseling via Zoom appointments, searching immigration policy on the internet…In this increasingly crumbling world, media offer maintenance and sustain our vitality while they also harm our well-being through abuse and addiction. This talk series examines the concept of care and showcases the process of knowledge production surrounding artificial care in media practice. We will browse a range of media objects and platforms - from cinema to teletherapy, from smart drugs to sleep apps - and explore the habitual, affective, and material potential of healing and solidarity within film and media theories.This series is co-organized by the Film Studies Program and the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts at UC San Diego with generous support from the following: 21 Century China Center, Department of Communication, Department of Visual Arts, Department of Literature, and the Institute of Arts & Humanities.QuestionsEmail surajisranicenter@ucsd.edu.By registering for this event you agree to receive future correspondence from the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, from which you can unsubscribe at any time.

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Hugo Crosthwaite's stop-motion animation portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci will be installed in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

WEDS@7 presents incandescent tonguesSusan Narucki, soprano and Donald Berman, pianoSoprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman continue their exploration of the songs of women composers in a concert to be presented on March 8, 2023, at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at the UC San Diego Department of Music. The duo's recording of songs by women composers, "This Island," featuring songs by Nadia Boulanger, Marion Bauer, Henriette Bosmans, Elizabeth Claisse and Irene Fuerison, was released by London's AVIE Records in February 2023.The upcoming program features works by two illustrious living composers, Tania Leon and Judith Weir as well as little known works by African American composer Margaret Bonds, French composer Elizabeth Claisse, and more. Although written in a wide array of compositional styles, each composer has an uncommon sensitivity to the fusion of text and music, and exceptional skill in writing for the combination of voice and piano.British composer Judith Weir's "The Voice of Desire," a song cycle written in 2003, is a series of conversations between humans and birds, in which, according to the composer, "the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint than their human hearers." With texts by John Keats, Thomas Hardy Robert Bridges and a setting of Yoruba Poetry translated by Ulli Beier, Weir's luminous, intricate writing for the piano provides a perfect framework for vocal writing of immense variety and uncommon skill.Cuban-born American Tania Leon was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize and honored at the Kennedy Center. Her music is characterized by its rhythmic vitality, bold use of instrumental timbre and color and inventive and expressive vocal writing. The Atwood Songs, with poems by the well-known novelist Margaret Atwood, are by turns exuberant, irreverent and wistful. Margaret Bonds is best known for her settings of texts by Langston Hughes; our program will present four little known setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In addition, Elena Ruehr's exquisite piano solo, Erinnerung, and selections from "This Island" will complete the program.Ticketing information:Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7 p.m.Conrad Prebys Concert HallPurchase Tickets: music.ucsd.edu/ticketsGeneral Admission: $15UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10Students: Free with IDLivestream:Watch Livestream: music.ucsd.edu/liveSocial media:View this event on Facebook