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UPDATED: Because of uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant, the 2022 San Diego Black Film Festival is now April 21-May 1. By mid-March, we will announce whether the festival will be in-person or virtual. Hopefully in-person! Standby... Established in 2002 and held each year during the last week of January, the San Diego Black Film Festival has grown to become one of the largest black film festivals in the country. We screen over 100 films each year: Comedy, Drama, Documentaries, Animation, GLBT, Horror, Religious, Foreign/African Diaspora, Shorts, Feature Films and music videos. As the first and largest black film festival of the year, numerous other festival reps scout new films from us for their event. Simply put, each year the San Diego Black Film Festival will premiere a large percentage of the independent black films that will prove successful throughout the year at other film festivals. This event is transitioning to Virtual due to new Omicron variant. Visit the website HERE, for updates on this event.

This 5-week session provides an opportunity to develop that idea in your head into a script, or hone and develop your current play-in-progress. Playwriting format and essentials will be covered in the first class. Both group and individual feedback is offered to writers throughout the workshop. Aleta Barthell is a playwright and teaching artist in the San Diego area and a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for the San Diego region. Aleta received her Bachelor of Science in Theater from Northwestern University and trained at the British American Drama Academy and Shakespeare & Company. Aleta studied playwriting/screenwriting at UCSD. Her stage play, WINDOW OF SHAME, is a finalist with the 2020 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and was a finalist for the 2016 HUMANITAS/CTG Playwriting Prize. Aleta is currently developing a television series about the 12th century queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Note: This hybrid session will be held via Zoom for the first four classes and IN PERSON for the last class on February 13, 2022, at our Liberty Station space (2730 Historic Decatur Rd., Barracks 16, Suite 204). If you cannot attend the final session in person, there will be a Zoom link available. To attend the in-person session, please submit either proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of the event using this Google Form. Masks are also required for everyone except the instructor/presenter. Thank you for your compliance! For more information on this event and class registration please visit HERE!

After a long campaign cycle that stretched into December with a runoff election, Georgia elected Sen. Raphael Warnock to a full term.

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/

Join us Thursday, January 19th at 6pm for our Whiskey Club of the month with a Bunnahabhain Distillery as we will taste through the amazing lineup including Limited Release scothes and the fenomenal 25 year old bottling! We will be joined by Joe Schlegel, the expert from Terlato Artisan Spirits to guide us through the exciting heritage of one of the most famous Islay distillery. Welcome cocktail and light bites will be provided. Limited bottles will be available for purchase. *** Due to the limited availability, tickets must be purchased on line prior to the event. All attendees must have a $50 Whisky Tasting ticket or a $25 DD pass for attendees not participating in the Whisky Tasting. For more information on this event and ticket purchases please visit HERE!

The Real Word is a panel comprised of courageous individuals who currently live or have lived in foster care, and who now speak both locally and nationally about life in the dependency system. At their presentations, Real Word panelists are open and forthright about their experiences. They share what it’s like to move from home to home, how it feels to be separated from siblings, and how they coped in the face of adversity. Panelists will inspire, humble, uplift, and move you as they share their personal stories and describe how the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program has made an impact on their lives as foster youth. Join us at our virtual Real Word panel on Wednesday, Jan. 26,2022 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Register here! This event is free for all attendees. Only 18+, not appropriate for children. For more information on Voices for Children and The Real Word Panel please visit: https://www.speakupnow.org/news-events/real-word/

Housing, immigration and the fentanyl crisis were all part of a packed agenda for San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria as he visited Washington D.C. Tuesday.

A new report has some suggestions for how to preserve it. But they come with a pretty big price tag.

A green fuel company in one of San Diego’s urban neighborhoods has a new filter system up and running.

A panel sentenced Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding political office. She will not be jailed while appealing the verdict, which could take years.