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What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.

I Love My Park Day is a day of FREE multicultural and multigenerational activities celebrated at four parks in the City of San Diego: City Heights Recreation Center, Linda Vista Recreation Center, Dolores Magdaleno Memorial Recreation Center, and Skyline Hills Recreation Center. Through music, theatre, arts and crafts, games, sports clinics, and tournaments, I Love My Park Day promotes health, safety, equity, community well-being, and pride in San Diego neighborhoods. Organized by the San Diego Parks Foundation, the event also includes several community partner organizations who will provide information on many services available to residents.

Free admission From the gallery: "Crossing the Line" features the artwork of 29 artists whose work considers the notion of boundaries and borders. The exhibition brings together a range of media and individual artworks articulating a breadth of concepts weaving together narratives that touch on communication, the duality and perception of borders, identity, and migration. Whether interpreting these ideas in relation to material or process, social and cultural expectations, or socio-political factors, the work in this exhibition represents expansive approaches and perspectives. Crossing the Line is organized by the SDSU Art Galleries. The exhibition is juried by Guusje Sanders and Alexandro Segade. Crossing the Line and related events are sponsored by the School of Art and Design and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts. Featuring work by current faculty and alumni of the School of Art and Design: Juan Cabrera, Claudia Cano, Remi Dalton, Yvette Dibos, David Fobes, Natalie M. Godinez, Christian Garcia-Olivo, Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Meredith Habermann, Matthew Hebert, CJ Heyliger, Zac Keane, Neil Kendricks, Aleya Lanteigne, Rianne Elyse Magbuhat, Chaz Martinsen, Jennifer Moore, Caitlin Petersen, Luciano Pimienta, Kerianne Quick, Michael Rybicki, Sage Serrano, Aren Skalman, Kline Swonger, Kelly Temple, Christiana E. Updegraff, Mary Cale Wilson, Tessie Salcido Whitmore, Tyler Young On view March 7 – May 4, 2023 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Thursday from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. and by appointment Related events: All events are free and open to the public Opening Reception with Artists: Thursday, March 2 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. University Art Gallery For more information about the exhibition, events or parking, please contact the SDSU Art Galleries at artgalleries@sdsu.edu or 619-594-5171. Directions and parking: For SDSU campus interactive map, click here. Once parked, you can use the “wayfinding” tool in this map from your parking spot to the “SDSU Art Gallery” to find your route. Visitors may pay to park in Parking Structure 12 in any Student/Visitor space on levels 3–8. Parking passes can be purchased on level 8 in person. Once on campus, visitors may also purchase passes with the Pay by Phone app or calling 1-800-515-7275 (use the code 28512 for Parking Structure 12). University Art Gallery School of Art + Design Art North Building 4th-Floor Courtyard 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 619-594-5171

Parents can build on strong messages of compassion by reading books to their children that explore empathy, celebrate diversity, and encourage kindness. Here are 10 books to get you started.

Join us for a 1-hour sensory play and messy art class! The class will be held on the grassy area of the park. All ages are welcome (most popular for ages between 18 months-6-years old) $25 per child ($15 for siblings) Parent supervision required. Please wear clothing that can get dirty. Come play and get messy with us!

Every face tells a story and throughout time artists have created portraits that reflect an inner essence. Join OMA art instructor, Robin Douglas to unpack the how and why of famous portraits, including a demonstration on human facial proportions. Plus, be inspired by OMA’s current exhibition Contemporary Portraits from the Simay Collection before starting your own artwork using realistic, ideal or abstract portraits in a variety of media. Refreshments and all supplies for your original artwork will be provided. Date/Location: Oct. 14, 2021 @6pm Oceanside Museum of Art Price: $40/Members, $50/Visitors For more information on this event please visit: https://90085.blackbaudhosting.com/90085/Taste-of-Art-Portraits--Imagined-and-Imaginative

A German company owned by the fossil fuel firm, Shell, is working to build a network of residential batteries in California.

Epidemic media can range from spanking new care affordances (like test-kits or self-check devices) to sophisticated aggregative technologies (disease surveillance networks like FluNet) and pioneering medical platforms (diagnostic and prognostic). Drawing on "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (forthcoming Duke UP, 2023), Ghosh argues that high epistemic value of "new," "smart," or "sophisticated" media habitually bypasses the significance of low-tech media crucial for the regulation and control of acute infection. Often located at clinical points of care, these media appear as mundane commodities circulating within global biomedical infrastructures; there seems nothing creative or innovative about them. Focusing on "patient files" as a case in point, Ghosh theorizes the ordinary "media care" of chronic infection at two HIV/AIDS health centers—the Site B clinic Khayelitsha (Cape Town) and Sanjeevani at Humsafar Trust (Mumbai). Following Cornelia Vismann (2008), Ghosh argues that files accumulative tendency readies these technologies for tracking infection beyond clinical confines. Files attune caregivers to the "interior milieu" of an individual patient but they are baggy enough to open into the greater disease milieu. As such, these are smart epidemic media that eschew an anthropocentric approach for a multispecies politics of health. Biography: Bishnupriya Ghosh is faculty in the English and Global Studies departments at UC Santa Barbara. She has published two monographs, "When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel" (Rutgers UP, 2004) and "Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular" (Duke UP, 2011) on global media cultures. Her current work on media, risk, and globalization includes the co-edited "Routledge Companion to Media and Risk" (Routledge 2020) and a new monograph, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (forthcoming from Duke University Press, May 2023). She is starting research on media environments of viral infection in a book of essays tentatively entitled, "Epidemic Intensities." About the Media Care Talk Series: Dozing 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. Speaker: Bishnupriya Ghosh, professor, UC Santa Barbara Respondent: Lisa Cartwright, professor, Departments of Visual Arts and Communication, UC San Diego Hosted by Wentao Ma, Ph.D. student, Department of Literature, UC San Diego 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.

You are invited to the Intersections Concert Series featuring The Alison Brown Quintet presents Bluegrass: Bending It with Folk and Jazz. Join UC San Diego for our Intersections Concert Series at Park & Market in the Guggenheim Theatre hosted by UC San Diego and New York-based violinist Yale Strom, one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music and history. One of the most multi-faceted minds in roots music, Alison Brown is a GRAMMY-winning musician, GRAMMY-nominated producer, former investment banker (with an AB from Harvard and an MBA from UCLA) and co-founder of The Compass Records Group which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023.  Alison grew up in La Jolla and began her musical career as a teenager in the San Diego bluegrass scene. Over the course of her career, she has expanded on her love of bluegrass and built a reputation as one of today’s most forward thinking and innovative banjo players. She is known for taking the instrument far beyond its Appalachian roots by blending bluegrass and jazz influences into a sonic tapestry that has earned praise and recognition from a variety of national tastemakers including The Wall Street Journal, CBS Sunday Morning, People, NPR and USA Today. On her new release, aptly titled "On Banjo," Alison continues her musical explorations on a set of original compositions with special guests including Steve Martin, Kronos Quartet, Sierra Hull, Anat Cohen, Sharon Isbin, Stuart Duncan and members of the Alison Brown Quintet. Alison is the recipient of the USA Artists Fellowship in Music and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. A pioneer among women in the music industry, Alison was the first female to win an Instrumentalist of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association; in 2019, she became the first female 5-string banjoist to be inducted into the American Banjo Museum’s Hall of Fame. She recently worked with the Spring Valley-based Deering Banjo Company to develop the Julia Belle model low banjo in honor of the late John Hartford. Alison serves on the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy and as co-chair of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize. She lives in Nashville with her husband, bassist and Compass Records co-founder Garry West and their two children Hannah and Brendan. More info: The Intersections Concert is a new interdisciplinary event series, presented by UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, taking place at the multi-tenant, mixed-use business, arts, and educational office building in downtown San Diego’s East Village. Intersections offers new, diverse takes on traditional ideas and forms in a variety of disciplines, from artistic performances to educational lectures will take place at Park & Market’s state-of-the-art Guggenheim Theatre. Hosted by UC San Diego and New York-based violinist Yale Strom, one of the world's leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music and history.

The 2023 Masquerade on-stage costume competition (or Cosplay Competition for those who favor that term), a tradition at Comic-Con from almost its beginning, will be Saturday evening, July 22, starting at 8:30 p.m. The event celebrates not only the contribution of costuming to the popular arts, but also the amazing creations that our attendees make and bring to the convention. The costume presentations, intermission entertainment, and then awards presentation will run 2 and ½ hours and be set in the Convention Center’s 3,900-seat Ballroom 20, with overflow seating again available at the large screen in the Sails Pavilion. Not a dance or party as the name may imply, it is more akin to a talent show set on a large stage before an audience, showcasing amazing costumes crafted by our non-professional but still very creative and talented attendees. Most costumes will be impressive re-creations from movies, television, anime, comic books, fantasy, Broadway shows, video games, and history; others will be completely original designs from the imagination. Some will be solo entries; others will be groups with a shared theme. All genres are welcome, but NO purchased costumes are allowed. For more information and to enter the competition, visit: https://comic-con.org/cci/masquerade Comic-Con International on Facebook / Instagram The event is free to participate in, or to have a seat in the audience, for anyone with a Comic-Con convention badge valid for Saturday.