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Knowing how to establish mood is essential to good writing. Hook readers early through the expression of believable feelings and a well-established mood. The best tools to create mood and atmosphere are simple literary elements. We will explore them in this three-hour workshop and write from prompts to try them out and build new stories. Please be advised that it is best to register at least a week before the start of a class to help our instructors prepare and ensure that it does not get canceled or rescheduled. Policies regarding registration, refunds, cancellations, etc. can be found on our policies page. SD Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

Join in on the "Literature Comes to Life" Halloween program! We read, sing, dance, and play in this special storytime meant to encourage a love of reading and build essential early literacy skills. Designed especially for children ages 3 - 5 Visit: https://sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/preschool-storytime-craft-421176

Amanda Kramer’s "So Unreal" is a cinephile’s visual essay examining a canon of films that dared dream beyond the threshold of the real. Across a 30-year span – 1981 to 2001 – depictions of ‘future shock’ technologies such as artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and virtual reality grew in both frequency and complexity. Cinema in these years provided an outlet for humanity’s intertwined anxieties, fears, and fantasies about the brave new frontiers looming ahead. Narrated by Blondie icon Debbie Harry, "So Unreal" mines the substance and subtext of cyber-minded landmarks like "Tron," "Videodrome," "Brainstorm," "Terminator 2," "Tetsuo," "Lawnmower Man," "Hackers," "The Matrix," and dozens more. Soundtracked with deep cuts from the electronic underground, and styled with CGI-glitch FX, "So Unreal" maps the subcurrents of euphoria and dystopia simmering in the cinematic subconscious of the end of the 20th century. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram

Join us for Through The Youth Lens Film Festival! Come to Outside The Lens’ Wonder Lab on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:30 - 7 p.m. for an exciting showcase of films created by talented young filmmakers. This in-person event celebrates the creativity and vision of youth’s unique perspectives and the storytelling of the next generation of filmmakers. Are you a young person who wants to share a film at this event? Submit your work Don’t miss this opportunity to support and encourage young talent and young event organizers! This event is organized by OTL’s Arts & Culture Event Apprentice Natalia Ahmed. Free and open to the public — RSVP now to save your seat and support the next generation of storytellers! Let’s uplift their voices. See you at the movies!

On Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, One Warm Coat will lead the nation in observing National Share the Warmth Day, a dedicated national day of awareness and action to ensure everyone has access to the warmth, comfort, and protection they need to thrive. Since 1992, One Warm Coat has helped distribute nearly 9 million coats and kept 22 million pounds of textiles out of landfills. Every coat collected stays within the local community where it was given, ensuring immediate impact. Observed annually on the third Tuesday of October, National Share the Warmth Day inspires thousands of individuals, schools, community groups, and companies to donate coats, host coat drives, and make financial contributions to provide warmth to children and adults in need. The need is more urgent than ever: More than 37 million Americans currently live in poverty. Homelessness rates jumped by 18% in 2024, with more than 771,000 people in the U.S. without housing. Last year, One Warm Coat supported 4,600 coat drives, facilitating the distribution of nearly 500,000 coats nationwide, yet 60% of local nonprofit partners reported not having enough coats to meet the need. 84% of One Warm Coat’s nonprofit partners expect an increased demand for services this year. Ways to get involved include: Give money: Every $1 donated warms one person in need. Give coats: Find a local drop-off site at onewarmcoat.org/donatecoats Give time: Organize a coat drive in your community with help from One Warm Coat. Lands’ End - $10 off in-store purchase with coat donation from 09/27/25 - 12/07/25 J.Crew - $25 off next purchase of $125 or more with coat donation 10/14/25 - 12/31/25 One Warm Coat thanks their 2025 sponsors: J.Crew, MOD Pizza, Lands’ End, Max Mara, The Samueli Foundation, Todd Synder, Vodafone Foundation, and Garnett Hill. One Warm Coat on Facebook / Instagram

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 at 6 p.m. at Coronado Public Library 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, Calif. 92118 619-522-7390 eskelly@coronado.ca.us Adults Free Film and Discussion In the Winn Room “DR. STRANGELOVE” (1964. 95 min. PG.) - Stanley Kubrick’s subversive howl of outrage is a pitch black, absurdist satire of superpower paranoia. An unhinged rogue general (Sterling Hayden) accidently unleashes a nuclear attack against the Russkies as a war room full of government buffoons and an eccentric scientist (Peter Sellers ) scramble to avert a global Doomsday. Co-starring George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones.

First, the Department of Homeland Security is looking to veterans to fill ICE jobs. Then, ADU’s being turned into vacation rentals? Next, local comedians give their take on recent news like Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air. Finally, Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off in the San Diego Community College District.

As free speech dominates national headlines, we sit down with local scholars to discuss how recent FCC moves could impact broadcasters here in San Diego. Plus, how national politics are impacting the tradition of comedy.

Go bananas! Back by popular demand, the Savannah Bananas are returning to Petco Park March 21 and 22, 2026. Savannah Bananas on Facebook / Instagram

"If you close your eyes, you might wake up inside the movie, unstuck from time yourself." — New York Times A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country, has not yet occurred and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form. A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz, this personal passion project is the first feature by the Brothers Quay since "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" (2005) nearly 20 years ago. Digital Gym Cinema on Facebook / Instagram