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Join us for a panel discussion with a group of San Diego and Bay Area-based scholars, curators, and artists, each of whom knew López variously as a friend, teacher, mentor, and icon. The panelists will discuss their relationship to López and her practice, exploring the late artist’s influence and legacy as a progenitor Chicana feminist art. Yolanda López (1942-2021) was an artist, activist, and educator celebrated for her role in the Chicano civil rights movement and for her iconic Guadalupe series. With her exuberant Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe, López produced one of earliest feminist transformations of the figure and inspired subsequent generations of Chicano/a/x artists and thinkers. Date | Thursday, March 3, 3033 at 5:30pm Location | Virtual Link The panel is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Yolanda López: Portrait of the Art, on view through April 24 at MCASD downtown. Panelists include: • Leticia Gomez Franco, Executive Director of Balboa Art Conservation Center • Irene Lara, Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University • Terezita Romo, art historian and Lecturer in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis • Jessica Sabogal, Muralist Image: Jessica Sabogal, Sobreviviremos: A Portrait of Yolanda López and Tribute to the 1969 organizations working toward liberation and self-determination: Los Siete de la Raza, The Black Panther Party, and the Indians of All Tribes, 2021. Located at Casa Adelante - 2060 Folsom Street, San Francisco For further information on this event and discussion link visit: https://www.mcasd.org/events/portrait-artist-panel-discussion-celebration-yolanda-l%C3%B3pezs-legacy

Join us for an evening of learning the art of modern calligraphy! Whether you're a stationery nerd, DIY Bride-to-be, or just a crafty individual, in this workshop you'll be learning an introduction to modern calligraphy with a pointed dip pen and ink. We will cover all the basics and get you ready to add those special lettered details to your snail mail, wedding paper goods, home decor, and more! The perfect crafty night out! Date | Monday, June 13, 2022 at 5:30pm Location | The Lafayette Hotel Purchase tickets here! $65 Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and demonstration, our beginner's calligraphy kit (two nibs, black ink pot, 2 letter guides, tracing paper, and straight pen holder), and all materials to write on. Everything is yours to keep at the end of the night! For further information on this event please visit: https://sipandscript.com/event/learn-modern-calligraphy-at-the-lafayette-hotel-4/

The new omicron variant is spreading rapidly and both testing and positivity rates are way up in San Diego, and long lines at local testing sites. Meanwhile, Petco Park in downtown San Diego is hosting the 43rd annual Holiday Bowl on Tuesday. The North Carolina State football team is scheduled to arrive in San Diego Thursday to begin a series of practices and activities leading up to facing UCLA in the game. Plus, some unconventional holiday tunes from KPBS’ arts editor and producer.

Serbian police said they arrested a suspect in a shooting attack that killed at least eight and wounded 14, the nation's second mass shooting in two days. Serbia's president vowed tough gun measures.

Thousands of Afghans that were promised U.S. visas remain on the run from the Taliban. The Biden administration, however, quickly cleared red tape for Ukrainians after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The final mobile homes still standing at De Anza Cove mobile home park on Mission Bay are coming down.

Celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope Launch with the Fleet! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory which will help in solving the mysteries of our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars and probing the mystifying structures and origins of our universe. The Webb Space Telescope is an international program led by NASA, along with its partners ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, and it promises a multitude of discoveries related to our understanding of the universe. Join us in our wide-ranging list of all the ways you can learn about and celebrate NASA’s newest “eye on the universe!” Date | Monday, February 7 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Location | The Fleet Science Center Get tickets here! For more information, please visit fleetscience.org/events/james-webb-telescope or call (619) 238-1233.

Juneteenth is the commemoration of the end of slavery specifically in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

The California Democrat, the oldest sitting member of Congress, said she will accomplish as much as possible before she steps down.

He was traveling to Boston to draw attention to a new federally backed study that seeks evidence for using blood tests to screen against cancers.