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Premieres Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. At 14, Aurora Madriganian survived the horrors of the Armenian Genocide and escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Her newfound fame led to her starring as herself in Auction of Souls, one of Hollywood's earliest blockbusters. Blending storybook animation, video testimony, and rediscovered footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives her forgotten story.

Juried exhibit features 61 artists from 900 entries

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The second event in the series Music on the Move features a presentation by the project Drummers Without Borders and Francisco Morales, sound artist and curator of the Front Gallery. Showcasing artists whose work and practice are informed by border dynamics, we present important perspectives on how music and performance play a role in reshaping the border narrative. Drummers Without Borders (DWB) was formed in San Diego, CA, in 2004 by Felix Diaz, Silvio Diaz, and Abril Diaz, a family of musicians, educators, and artists. It began as a program introducing music to students with special needs in one underserved elementary school. Felix, Silvio, and Abril taught the students how to drum to help establish feelings of accomplishment. Through the years, DWB gained experience, evolved, and grew to incorporate students and the public of all ages in the therapeutic practice of drumming. Drummers Without Borders’ mission is to develop music projects to address gaps in education, community building, health, and the environment stretching beyond San Diego. DWB’s welcomes collaboration with individuals and organizations of similar interests. They hope their expertise can create a better world for future generations. About Francisco Morales Eme Francisco Eme, originally from Mexico City, now lives and works in San Diego, CA. Francisco is a composer, producer, and multimedia artist. He mainly works with sound but integrates various disciplines into his practice. He has released solo albums, collaborations, and musical projects in electroacoustic, experimental, and electronic pop music, and other genres. His work has been featured in museums, galleries, and concert halls in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and South America. Francisco is the current Gallery Director at The FRONT Arte & Cultura, a bi-national art gallery in the San Diego-Tijuana border region, where he curates art exhibitions, workshops, concerts, and performances focused on the transnational artistic life of the area, but also attentive to the international art scene. Francisco Morales Eme’s Artist Statement: "My work is driven by a deep observation of the culture in which I live, social interactions, and everyday situations. Art, society, technology, and science merge in my practice. I strive to start a conversation with the audience about relevant issues of our time." Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook & Instagram

A world premiere two-person show with live music and theatrical mime elements. Set in an abandoned boxcar, Willie, a traveling hobo who once dreamed of being a circus clown, is visited by a jovial apparition, Ring, who guides him to rediscover his lost joy. A homage to Chaplin, Skeleton, and Emmitt Kelly, as well as insight into the world of hobos in 1935. Performed by renowned San Diego mime, theatre artist, and teacher Jerry Hager, who has performed locally since 1980, and award-winning musician Jason Berman (Millennial Tech Middle Teacher of the year 2022-2023, and Musical Coordinator for SDSU Performing Arts Troupe). For more information visit: mojalet.com Stay Connected on Facebook

When does text become art? How does the use of words in artwork impact the whole? Join us on Friday, June 16 for a discussion on Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s "Home Economics" (1997) and Ed Ruscha’s "Ace" (1962). Then, using a found poetry activity to help spark ideas, incorporate text and traditional or modern calligraphy to create text-and-image-based artwork. Participants may attend this single session and create standalone artwork, or attend multiple sessions. The artwork from this session can be added to a handmade artist’s book during the final session. This workshop is part of Reflections, an eight-session workshop series designed to serve adults 55 and older. Learn from trained Museum educators about Contemporary art, and together with friends, share inspired connections and tell your personal story through art. Only 15 spots available. Can't join us for these dates? MCASD will host additional Reflections series through 2024. Reflections is generously supported by E.A. Michelson Philanthropy.

Join us on Friday, September 29 to celebrate the release of "The Snakes Came Back" by Lora Mathis. There will also be a live poetry performance by Lora Mathis and Matty Terrones in Jacobs Hall and a Book Pop-Up Shop in Berglund Lobby. Refreshments will be available for purchase from The Kitchen. "The Snakes Came Back" is Lora Mathis' third collection of poems, published by Metatron Press in Montréal, Quebec. Lora Mathis’s "The Snakes Came Back" invokes mythology, dreams, and the natural world as realms of solace and wells of knowledge in the healing of trauma. In Lora Mathis’s poems, the body is a temporary resting place for the infinite, resilient soul. "The Snakes Came Back" follows a speaker contending with trauma in the slipstream of earthly time. Mathis’s poems are peopled with friends and lovers—both named and anonymous, current and past—and invested in necessary interdependence as a means of healing the self. "The Snakes Came Back" cracks open everyday tasks and familiar landscapes to reveal their haunting depths. Saturated with heat and wind, Mathis’s poems vibrate with the will to face life’s temporality, its impossible contradictions, its beauty and its pain: “There is loss, but there is renewal too.” About the Author| Lora Mathis (she/they) is a poet and artist who grew up between Southern California and Montréal. She is interested in creating immersive worlds through poetry, video, and performance. She has been sharing her art and poetry online for the last twelve years, and has utilized digital tools, such as video, graphic design, and photography, as a part of her practice. In the last two years, her practice has expanded into printmaking and sculpture. They have published two collections of poetry including, "The Women Widowed to Themselves" (2015; republished 2020). The experimental essay "Here I Am In It" was published by Burn All Books in 2022. Mathis performs poetry on their own, and with their sound collaborator and longtime friend, Matty Terrones. With Terrones, they put out the poetry and music album Sediment via Hello America Lit. Mathis is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley and currently lives in Oakland. Related links: MCASD website | Instagram | Facebook Lora Mathis website | Instagram

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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

For many years Jim Moreno has been inspired by the 4 Latino poets from Mexico, Central, & South America who were Nobel Laureates in Literature. Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala – 1967), Gabriela Mistral (Chile –1945), Pablo Neruda (Chile – 1971), Octavio Paz (Mexico – 1990), excelled in poetry & other writing disciplines such as education, diplomacy, fiction, playwrights, politics, and journalism. Magic Realist Miguel Angel Asturias was both a writer and a social champion. He spent his life fighting for the rights of Indians, for the freedom of Latin American countries from both dictatorships and outside influences—especially the United States—and for a more even distribution of wealth (All Poetry). He is the first poet in this 3-hour class for beginning and seasoned poets. Magic Realism blends a style of literary fiction and art. It paints a realistic view of the world while also adding magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. Magic realism often refers to literature in particular, with magical or supernatural phenomena presented in an otherwise real-world or mundane setting, commonly found in novels and dramatic performances (Wikipedia). When Asturias writes, “We were made that way/ Made to scatter/ Seeds in the furrow/ And stars in the ocean/ we are riding the sometimes thundering, sometimes whispering, waves of magic realism.” 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 Asturias and Chile’s Gabriela Mistral, who was Pablo Neruda’s elementary school teacher. Mistral moved away from the Catholic and Symbolist influences of her early poems and developed a uniquely song like, limpid (clear, free of anything that darkens) style, a voice of almost maternal lullaby that murmurs through simple traditional forms (Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry). In her poem, “Close to Me,” Mistral writes, “Little fleece of my flesh/ that I wove in my womb/ little shivering fleece/ sleep close to me/ we hear the maternal murmur and we feel nurtured and at peace.” The second class segment features poetry, film clips and poetry prompts from Chile’s Pablo Neruda, and Mexico’s Octavio Paz. By Neruda’s third book of poetry we hear an inventive verbal lushness…that enact the poems’ emotions of disintegration, despair, claustral ennui and sexual tumult (Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry). In his poem, “Tonight I Write,” Neruda’s music calls to us: “Tonight I can write the saddest lines/ I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” Mexico’s great Octavio Paz has a history which is a track of restless formalism, ranging from tight imagistic perpetual moments…to the broader inclusiveness of poems based on Aztec models to even more universal techniques and themes. In his poem, “Mystery,” Paz writes, “Glittering of air, it glitters/ noon glitters here/ but I see no sun,/ we enter a figurative form of mystery for which the author shares few peers.”