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Showcase your talents and creativity by submitting an essay, poem, visual artwork, song, rap, or other creative work that represents a Black historical figure or an event in Black American history that has influenced your personal life or shaped the world. Gift for all participants! Contest rules: Contest is open to students in 4th to 12th grade only. 1. One entry per person. 2. All content must be original work. 3. Make it colorful, be creative and have fun! 4. All entries must be submitted by February 28. Digital Work Submissions: Submit entry to the Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library via email at mxstaff@sandiego.gov or their Facebook page (please tag your entry with @malcolmxlibrary) with the following information included: Title of work, medium, student name, parent name phone number, email address, and grade level. Physical Work Submissions: Attach the completed entry form to your work and Submit physical work to Valencia Park/ Malcolm X Library by February 28 to be considered. Date | Submissions are accepted throughout the month February. Location | Valencia Park/ Malcolm X Library The contest is sponsored by Buy Black San Diego, Southeast Art Team, and the Friends of the Malcolm X Library. For more information, please visit sandiego.librarymarket.com/events/black-history-month-contest-2022 or call (619) 527-3431.

RELATED: Katie Ruiz paints magic portals to reimagine the border (KPBS feature about this exhibition) The exhibition is on view beginning Nov. 8, with an opening reception Nov. 9 from 5-7 p.m. From the gallery: Border Portals are about finding new ways to re-imagine the word, “welcome”. A portal is something that can transport you to another place, to the other side of the border. While a portal that transports people across space and time may not be the real answer to the immigration issues, it offers a moment to stop and contemplate the idea of reimagining. For this body of work Katie Ruiz has gone back to figure painting after discovering a love for textile and fiber art. The new work still references blankets, with the use of emergency blankets and Otomi patterns that have influenced her work for years. The blanket is a symbol for warmth and protection. The emergency blanket on the other hand, that silver aluminum film, has become a symbol for refugees, oppression, cages, and expendability. Ruiz has a long history working with refugees, first in Botswana, Africa, where she created a knitting group, mural, and art classes. Recently, she worked as a teaching artist bringing art classes to the migrant shelters in San Diego. The experiences inspired her to make paintings of the border. Ruiz’s father was born in Tijuana when his mother came to the border to work as a housekeeper and seamstress, eventually gaining five green cards at a time when the American/Mexican border was more open. The border wall is a dividing line between two groups of people; right and wrong, good and bad, desired and undesired. As Gloria Anzaldua, the great American scholar of Chicana history once said, “The US Mexican Border is an open wound, where the third world grates against the first and bleeds... This is my home, this thin edge of barbed wire.” Related Links: Point Loma Nazarene University Art and Design on Instagram Katie Ruiz on Instagram Opening reception event on Facebook

Explore San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum’s new "Our Town: Healthcare Heroes" exhibit sponsored by Palomar Health. Step into the world of doctors, nurses, and paramedics to experience a brand new exhibit filled with engaging, hands-on adventures in the wonderful world of healthcare! In the Healthcare Heroes exhibit you will have opportunities to: • Practice life skills by being a patient, doctor, EMT, receptionist, and more • Learn about your body by completing a life-size bone and organ puzzle • Examine patients with real medical tools and diagnose and treat their ailments • Tinker with special arts and crafts to learn how to keep your mind and body healthy Date | Opening on Tuesday, February 1 and available until November 30 Location | San Diego Children's Discovery Museum Get tickets to the SDCDM here! Access to the exhibit is included with museum admission. • Members: Free • Children under the age of 12 months: Free • Children and Adults: $9.50 • Military/Veterans: $6.50 • EBT/WIC/SNAP: $1 For more information, please visit sdcdm.org/healthcareheroes or call (760) 233-7755.

Sierra Talks: The Making of Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change: Rob Badger and Nita Winter take you behind the scenes on their 27-year journey photographing wildflowers throughout California. Photographing beautiful landscapes and individual flowers evolved into their documentary art project. Internationally acclaimed conservation photographers Rob and Nita have been life partners and creative collaborators for more than three decades. Their work has been featured in Time, Mother Jones, and Sierra magazines, the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times. They are the recent recipients of the Sierra Club’s 2020 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography. Program will be live streamed on Sierra Club SD Chapter Facebook Home page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/sierraclubsd/

Be ready to have fun! A Kimball Holiday will be Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 at Kimball Park located at E. 12th Street from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tree Lighting at 6 p.m. Live DJ & Led dance floor Community performances Holiday movies Santa's Village Ferris wheel Food trucks Snow hill Arts & Crafts

Australian artist Guido Van Helten is known for his large-scale murals, often painted on abandoned industrial sites. Now he's telling the stories of McKinney, Texas, on the sides of its grain silos.

Our weekend arts picks: Trash Lamb Gallery, acoustic music along Adams Ave., "Bob Fosse's Dancin'," "Women in Jazz," high school orchestras at the Shell, "Les Paul through the Lens," and György Kurtág's "Kafka Fragments."

Sometimes, the most interesting discussions occur over a beer or a glass of your favorite vino. That’s the concept behind Suds & Science, a monthly event that brings scientists face-to-face with the general public in a neighborhood bar. We invite you to sit back, sip your favorite beverage and participate in the discussion. October Topic: Nanotechnology in our World What do the waterproof fabric Gore-Tex and the latest coronavirus vaccines have in common? They are both made using nanotechnology. An increasing number of the products we encounter in our daily lives contain nanometer-scale objects that enable their function, and even many “conventional” products are now made using nanotechnology. What is it about a nanomaterial that makes it different? Providing examples from the fields of medicine, consumer products, and environmental safety, Professor Sailor will discuss the promises, the challenges, and the dangers of the emerging field of nanotechnology. Date | Monday, October 11 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location | Thorn Street Brewery North Park Get tickets here! Ticket prices vary from $5 to $10. For more information, please visit fleetscience.org/events/suds-science or call (619) 238-1233.

Whose life will you save? The Carlsbad Village Association hosts its first Heart of the Village Blood Drive of 2022. Over 130 pints of life-saving blood have been donated during this fantastic event, going strong for five years. We are pleased to have Barrio Glassworks be our host location this year. While here, you can enjoy their live glass blowing demonstrations and beautiful art gallery and retail store. Enjoy convenient Valentine's Day shopping in one location! Artisan vendors will include: • Handmade greeting cards by local artist Monica Martin • Homemade chocolate gift boxes by Susie's Sweet Fudge • Handcrafted shortbread cookies by Carlsbad Cookie Company •Spa gift sets and glass creations by Barrio Glassworks • On site gift wrapping • Live music! Date | Saturday, February 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Location | Barrio Glassworks This is a free event, open to the public. For more information, please visit carlsbad-village.com/events/heart-of-the-village-blood-drive or call the Carlsbad Village Association at (760) 453-7076.

A New World returns to San Diego! Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the beauty and power of Final Fantasy music in the most intimate setting. The incredible New World Players chamber ensemble, led by acclaimed conductor Eric Roth, will perform classics and surprises, battle medleys and character themes from throughout the entire series. Specially featuring the music of composer Nobuo Uematsu, A New World delivers an amazing communal music event! Date | Saturday, January 15 at 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Please choose preferred showtime. General admission is $55. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/awr-music-productions-llc or call (858) 459-3728.