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On view: Jan. 15-Mar. 12, 2022 Opening reception: Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Artist walkthrough: Saturday, Jan. 29. 2022 at 11 a.m. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. About the exhibition: Writer Jared Stanley and artist Matthew Hebert collaborate on the interactive sound installation La Jolla Reading Room. Composed of sculptures and sound recordings, the exhibition draws inspiration from the Athenaeum’s collection of over 2,000 artists’ books, as well as the tradition of library reading rooms, places set aside for silent reading and contemplation. The sculptures resemble a set of reading tables arranged in a maze-like pattern within the gallery, and recordings are composed of the voices of writers, artists, and book enthusiasts within the larger San Diego and La Jolla community—a collaged chorus of readers, thinking aloud about the experience of reading and interacting with artists’ books. Stanley and Hebert invited community members to visit the Athenaeum and spend about 45 minutes engaging with selected books in the library’s collection, after which they recorded brief interviews about their experience. Selections from the interviews are included in the installation, blended with the voices of others in the community to create a constantly shifting chorus. “Our fond wish is to have visitors enter a space which seems static, quiet and formal, but which upon entry becomes full of sound, a cacophony of voices filling the air with sounds, ideas, emotions, and tones, creating a loud library, a place where book bound language could be returned to the status of voices, revivifying tones, timbres, accents, and emotions.” –Jared Stanley Major support for this exhibition provided by the University of Nevada, Reno. About the artists: Jared Stanley is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, EARS (Nightboat Books, 2017), The Weeds, (Salt Publishing 2012) and Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing, 2009), which won the Crashaw Prize for Poetry. His poetry and prose have appeared in many journals including Harvard Review, Triple Canopy, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day and in the anthology Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for the Anthropocene (Wesleyan, 2018). His awards include a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. Born in Arizona, Stanley grew up in northern California and now lives in northern Nevada, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno Matthew Hebert has been working under the studio name eleet warez since completing his undergraduate studies in the mid-90, a name borrowed from hacker culture suggesting the technical sophistication, improvisational spirit, and freewheeling appropriation that is essential to his work. Hebert creates work that deals with technology and its effects on the domestic environment and our sense of space and place, taking recognizable forms and layering new use and meaning onto them. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Berkeley Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco; California Center for the Arts, Escondido; Chicago Cultural Center, and Core77 in New York. He received his BA in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley; and his MFA from California College of the Arts. Hebert has taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, CalArts, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently Associate Professor of Art at San Diego State University. Related links: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram The Athenaeum on Facebook

Artist Mohsen Lihidheb collects objects that wash ashore in Zarzis, Tunisia. His collection is a tribute to the migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean.

On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story, underscored by emotionally charged music. The story of a guy who gave up on love and music, and the girl who inspired him to dream again. From the very first note, "ONCE" draws you in and never lets go. This emotionally captivating musical is the only show to have music that won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Olivier Award and a Tony Award. "Once" will be playing at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido from April 22 through May 1 on the following schedule: • Fridays at 7:30 p.m. • Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. • Sundays at 2 p.m. • Thursday, Marh 5 at 7:30 p.m. Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $40 to $70. For more information, please visit artcenter.org/event/once or call (760) 839-4138.

The Villalobos Brothers have been acclaimed as one of today’s leading contemporary Mexican ensembles. Their original compositions and arrangements masterfully fuse and celebrate the richness of Mexican folk music with the intricate harmonies of jazz and classical music. The ensemble’s virtuosic performances delivered with brilliance, combined with a message of love, brotherhood, and social justice, have delighted audiences around the world. They will be performing at the California Center for the Arts on Wednesday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m.

This spring semester the Hyde Art Gallery will be transformed into an aquatic temple dedicated to the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades. Meticulously captured by photographer Suda House, the daughters of Atlas have secretly returned to earth, inhabiting Grossmont College’s Performing and Visual Art Center, to spread awareness of the impending doom of a changing climate and humanity’s wasteful use and disposal of single-use plastics. Through these large-scale celestial photographs and an accompanying installation of plastic refuse, House seeks humanity’s reprieve from the worst-case scenarios of ecological collapse and postulates a solution grounded in history, scientific data, and mythic plausibility. Climate change is here and House’s narrative premise highlights the peril our progeny will confront. While many have ignored the inevitable, few have taken action and others have pleaded up to the sky, calling for help to avert the inescapable destruction of our world. "Saving Grace" will be on display at Grossmont College’s Hyde Art Gallery from Tuesday, February 22 until Saturday, April 9. An artist reception will be held on Tuesday, March 22 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Walk-in visitation is available for all students currently enrolled in any on-campus classes or any staff and faculty already approved to be on campus. Students learning remotely, faculty and staff operating remotely, and the general public can request an appointment to view the exhibition. For more information, please contact alex.decosta@gcccd.edu.

The San Diego Watercolor Society proudly presents “Simple Pleasures, an Art Exhibition,” juried by award-winning artist, Thomas Franco. This water media exhibition runs Feb. 3 – 27, 2022 at our Gallery in The ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. The Gallery is open Thursday - Sunday from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.. Come and enjoy over 95 ready-to-hang original paintings by our very talented Members. The paintings can also be viewed and purchased online. Visit www.sdws.org for more information.

From Montego Bay to Miami, sargassum is leaving stinky brown carpets over what was once prime tourist sand. But whether it gets ignored or removed, it comes with high health and environmental risks.

The community of Lakeside is excited to welcome back its Annual Western Days Parade in historic downtown Lakeside on Saturday, April 23 at 9:35 a.m. The theme this year is, “Reading—A Passport to Adventure.”' The Lakeside Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to host the parade in a spirit of community that supports the Lakeside Rodeo, local businesses and unites the community. The parade will feature exciting floats, local pageant queens and court, and equestrians from all over San Diego County. Local students will also be representing their esteemed arts, performing and world-class language immersion programs in the parade. For further information on this event please visit website: https://lakesidechamber.org/western-days-parade

Event Details: Join the Library for the 2022 Summer Festival Jazz Concerts. Sponsored by the Friends of the Coronado Library and Hotel Del Coronado, concerts will take place every other Friday from June 3-August 26. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to each performance. On Friday, July 29, the Uptown Rhythm Makers will showcase their unique style of authentic New Orleans style traditional jazz. A staple of the San Diego music scene since 2003, they've performed at the California Center for the Arts and the San Diego Jazz Fest . This concert will show off their range and feature favorites from traditional jazz hits and songs written especially for jazz bands in the 1920’s and 1930’s. If you listen closely, you’ll recognize tunes from King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Isham Jones, Duke Ellington, Spencer Williams, and more. Performer Bios: Bruce Vermazen: cornet & vocals: Bruce is a retired Cal - Berkeley professor and jazz cornetist since his teens. He is also a published jazz historian and has led jazz and ragtime orchestras in San Diego and the Bay Area. Bob Andersen: trombone & leader: Bob works part-time as a home health Occupational Therapist and leads the Uptown Rhythm Makers. He was a member of the seminal post-Katrina New Orleans trad jazz revival band, the Loose Marbles. Jim Fiedler: clarinet: Jim is a retired Navy veteran and a professional jazz clarinetist since high school in the late 60s. Armand Frigon: guitar: Armand is a former college music professor and professional jazz guitarist since the 70s. Jeremy Eikam: string bass: Jeremy is a high school music teacher and band director, and an in demand bassist around San Diego. Ray Conseur: drums: Ray teaches part-time with the San Diego USD and has been a professional drummer since the 70s.

Through beautiful images, this talk will introduce the Rajputs and the arts they patronized, with an emphasis on manuscript paintings. We will look at the ways that Rajput rulers used art as a way to promote specific ideas about their power, their traditions, and their position in relation to the ruling Mughal emperors, and later the British. The talk will touch on the ways that the paintings were made and used, and will include some choice examples from The San Diego Museum of Art’s Edwin Binney collection of manuscript illustrations. Date | Saturday, February 26 from 10 a.m. to noon Location | Online Get tickets here! General admission: $10 Free for active South Asian Arts Council (renewed for 2021-2022) and SDMA members. For more information, please visit sdmart.org/event/from-forts-and-palaces-paintings-made-for-the-rajputs or call (619) 232-7931.