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Free Live Craft Demonstrations & Portable Saw Milling! Friday, June 2 from 4-7 p.m. Drop by San Diego Craft Collective on June's First Friday for a big HUGE crafting experience. We have a special guest this month! We're partnering with our friends at Lumbercycle to show the community how urban trees can be cut into usable lumber. We'll be cutting logs from trees removed from Liberty Station that would have otherwise gone to the landfill. Come by and tour our garden, watch some cool people mill some big logs, cookies, and ask questions and learn about biomass utilization and sustainable urban forestry! Free to the public and open to all ages! We'll have earplugs available for anyone who would like them. On the first Friday of every month, the Arts District in Liberty Station is packed with ways to enjoy the best in life. Whether your visit includes a waterfront walk, a bite & drink from one of the great restaurants or market, or a bit of fun shopping, Craft Collective opens their doors for a fun evening of connecting over craft. Drop in and check out our upcoming workshops, tour our educational garden, or bring a young one in your life for a free, family-friendly craft that evening from 5-6 p.m. This month, kids will be crafting with leather. Each month the children's craft changes, so pop in while you're visiting and get crafty! Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

On the first Friday of every month, the Arts District in Liberty Station is packed with ways to enjoy the best in life! Whether your visit includes a waterfront walk, a bite & drink from one of the great restaurants or market, or a bit of fun shopping, San Diego Craft Collective will always have a free, family-friendly craft for kids that evening from 5-6 p.m. Each month the craft changes, so pop in while you're visiting and get crafty! June's Craft: Crafting with Leather This project is great for children of all ages. Young children may need help from an adult. From 4-7 p.m., we'll also be hosting an Open House with special guest: Lumbercycle. We'll be milling urban trees on site! RSVP for that event from 4-7 p.m. to receive a free raffle ticket for our giveaway! We'll have earplugs available for anyone who would like them. We can't wait to see you there! Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

The San Diego Veterans For Peace will be setting up its Arlington West Memorial in front of the USS Midway Museum to honor the 288 brothers and sisters from Southern California who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The press and public are encouraged to stop by, honor the fallen, read their names, and reflect on their sacrifice. Chapter members from the various military services will be present to answer questions about the memorial and to ask the public to reflect on these wars and ongoing wars around the globe. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook & Twitter

Your kids will really thank you for enrolling them in one of our Zoo Camps this summer! Our half-day Zoo Camps introduce kids to what it’s like to be a Zookeeper. They’ll learn about nutrition needs for animals, make some behavioral enrichment, take part in some husbandry activities, and meet and interact with some of the 100+ animal ambassadors that call Wild Wonders home. Our camps are always great fun and educational. Many kids return year after year. Our camps are on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning on June 20 and continuing through August 3. Camps are for kids ages 6-12 and are limited to 15 kids. The price is $90/child. Tickets and more information is available through here. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook & Instagram

From the Hausmann Quartet: May’s Haydn Voyages program journeys through places and times far and wide, from Haydn’s Vienna and London to Milhaud’s Europe, Caroline Shaw’s musical depiction of the grounds of Washington DC’s Dumbarton Oaks and Max Vinetz’s work inspired by a cross-country journey. Max was also a prize winner in our 2021 Quarantine Composition Competition, and we’re proud to share his work in his native San Diego. Related links: Hausmann Quartet on Instagram | Facebook

Volunteers of all ages are needed to help with beautifying the San Diego River Park Foundation’s River Center at Grant Park in Mission Valley! When it is completed, this project will create a beautiful community space for residents and visitors to start their exploration of the San Diego River. You can help put your stamp on this project by joining us as we have set a goal of planting 500 plants! We also will be finishing a mural. Lots of volunteers are needed! No experience needed, there will be leaders on hand to help you with the art project and the planting, and both activities are family-friendly.

Pacific Coast Harmony will present “Happy Together,” a concert of modern four-part acapella harmony music on Saturday, June 17 2023, at 3:15 p.m. at the Rancho Santa Fe Community Center, 5967 La Sendita, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067. The music spans the Great American Songbook, Broadway theater and film, popular songs, and beyond. In addition to the chorus, there will be several quartet appearances, featuring “The Summertimers Harmony Band,” 2022 Barbershop Harmony Society Far Western District champs. The concert will follow a reception from 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. with beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction. Tickets are $25.00 and can be purchased by emailing PacificCoastHarmonyInfo@gmail.com or by calling (619) HARMONY /427-6669. Pacific Coast Harmony is an a cappella ensemble based in La Jolla, California, under the direction of Bonnie McKibben, an award-winning director, quartet champion, and recording artist. PCH is proud to be a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. For more information, visit PacificCoastharmony.org or call (619) 427-6669.

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This illuminating essay uses film scenes to tell of the forced cultural appropriation of a world-famous landscape. Monument Valley is one of the most recognizable landscapes in the world. Its iconographic use in American Westerns has had a lasting influence on stock photography, advertising, and tourism. The valley has been given mythical significance as an image of a “primitive West” firmly in the hands of white people and meant to be protected from intruders. The fact that Monument Valley is traditional Navajo territory has been obscured in the process. A radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), The Taking scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West,” replete with self-perpetuating falsehoods, and why it continues to hold mythic significance in the global psyche.