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Experience a Direct Divine Light healing, performed in a supportive group setting, on the Full Moon. Full moons are the perfect time to release any negative energy in your aura and blockages in your life. Whether you are seeking physical, mental or emotional transformation, Divine Light healing is a full-spectrum aura therapy. It offers spiritual upliftment in every area of life including a greater sense of self-reliance and self-confidence, release of past traumas and negative habits, accelerated development of talent and abilities and greater harmony in all types of relationships. “Spiritual energy is the single biggest key to building and sustaining health, because it connects you to your source of health.” - Barbara Martin & Dimitri Moraitis – The Healing Power of Your Aura The aura is crucial to healing because it is the place where you generate the spiritual energy to manifest health. Built on the clairvoyant experiences of renowned teachers Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis, these healing techniques have been endorsed by medical luminaries C. Norman Shealy and Dr. Richard Gerber. NEIL MINTZ is a certified Divine Light Teacher through Spiritual Arts Institute, with 12 years of intensive study in metaphysics and healing. A devoted husband and father of two sons, Neil founded a highly successful manufacturing company innovating new products. Neil currently volunteers his fulltime to serving the Institute as Director of Events and Outreach, on the Board of Directors, and teaching workshops and classes. Neil’s teaching style is open and accessible. He focuses on helping students understand how to apply the teachings in their everyday lives. For more information visit: spiritualarts.org Stay Connected on Facebook / Instagram

German vocalist Ljiljana Winkler makes her west coast debut at the NWEAMO Festival 2024, set to take place on January 25, 26, and 27, offering an eclectic mix of musical performances, musical theater, and community engagement. Joining NWEAMO will be NYC-based Composers Concordance. This year’s festival promises an immersive experience, blending genres and cultures. Day 1: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 Event: Ljiljana Winkler Interprets Songs of Joseph Martin Waters Venue: Episcopal Cathedral 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103 Time: 7 p.m. Ljiljana Winkler Bio Based in Augsberg, Germany, active internationally, and known for passionate delivery and dazzling technique, vocalist and band leader Ljiljana Winkler performs songs by Joseph Martin Waters, accompanied by the Swarmius ensemble. The repertoire bridges pop, classical, jazz, and rock, featuring arching melodies and lush harmonies. The ensemble includes flutes, saxophones, cello, piano, drums, and electric bass – a unique blend of a classical orchestra and a rock band. Performers: Ljiljana Winkler – soprano; Alina Steele & David Ramirez – flutes; Todd Rewoldt & Brian Levy – saxophones; Isadora Flores & Peter Ko – cello; Sergio Bocanegra – synthesizer; Karen Follingstad – piano; Andrew Michel – bass; David Sullivan – Drums; Backing vocal ensemble: Miguel Zazueta (conductor), Karen Garcia, Cerah Rodriguez, Philip Gomez, Israel Rodriguez. Admission: A $20 suggested donation at all events. Ljiljana Winkler on Facebook / Instagram

Celebrate the Festival of Light with the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. Since their emergence more than 30 years ago, The Klezmatics have transcended genres, blending klezmer with aching shtetl melodies, raucous Latin stomps, wild jazz riffs, and provocative Arabic, African, American, and Balkan rhythms. This holiday performance will include seasonal music from their acclaimed album Happy Joyous Hanukkah that set lyrics by the late Woody Guthrie to their delightful original compositions. “The Klezmatics aren’t just the best band in the klezmer vanguard; on a good night, they can rank among the greatest bands on the planet.”—Time Out New York

This weekend in the arts: San Diego Symphony plays Texu Kim; dance on the Trolley route; Revision's wicker kintsugi art; "Primary Trust"; Ballet Collective San Diego; Marialena de la Hoz at Art Produce; plus live music picks and more.

Madame Entropy is a persona who began participating, unannounced, in public lectures about contemporary art in 2011. Appearing intermittently over the past decade, she is intent on transmitting knowledge about art that doesn’t fit into words. Madame Entropy takes “lecture” into unfamiliar territory, using an interplay of image, text, speech, and gesture to unsettle the experiences of “learning” and “knowing.” The format carries her message, embodying the dynamic relationship between theory and practice. She can be identified by her yellow gloves and citrine earrings. Meredith Tromble is an artist and writer whose work mingles drawing, text, and performance. Her talks, installations, and performances exploring art, science, and technology have been presented at venues ranging from the Mills Museum in California to the Tate Britain and the University of Manizales, Colombia. As artist in residence at the Complexity Sciences Center at the University of California, Davis, she worked with geobiologist and Mars Curiosity Scientist Dawn Sumner to develop artwork with interactive, 3-D projection. One iteration of their work became a “dancer” in performances by the Los Angeles-based company Donna Sternberg Dancers. Writing from the viewpoint of an artist, Tromble has also published extensively in books, web, and radio. Her art writing began with regular commentaries on art for KQED-FM in San Francisco. She was active in broadcasting for fifteen years and has authored many print and digital publications. From 2000 to 2010, she was a core member of the artist collective Stretcher, publishing Stretcher.org and organizing performative art events. Her blog "Art and Shadows,” on contemporary art in light of contemporary science, was honored with an Art Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Tromble is Professor Emeritus, San Francisco Art Institute and Affiliate, Feminist Research Institute, University of California, Davis. Visit: visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20240129_meredithtromble.html

This is an in-store event with author Cory Doctorow. The event will consist of a 30 minute discussion, followed by a Q&A with the audience, and finally a book signing. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently The Lost Cause, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation, a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Purchasing a copy of The Bezzle through Mysterious Galaxy will get you a numbered ticket for the signing line after the event. Only those who have purchased one of Cory's books through Mysterious Galaxy will receive a numbered ticket for the signing line. Those who have not purchased a book through us are still welcome to get their books signed, but will have to wait until after the numbered line has finished. New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he’s kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life. Martin has made his most dangerous mistake yet: trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they’ve found their newest mark—California’s Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they’re living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy. A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues. For more information visit: mystgalaxy.com Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

The previous men's champ, Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, didn’t attend the competition this year over a sponsorship tiff.

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based IsidoreString Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’ Outside the concert hall the quartet has worked with PROJECT: MUSIC HEALS US providing encouragement, education, and healing to marginalized communities-including elderly, disabled, rehabilitating incarcerated and homeless populations-who otherwise have limited access to high-quality live music performance. The name Isidore recognizes the ensemble’s musical connection tothe Juilliard Quartet: one of that group’s early members was legendary violinist Isidore Cohen. Additionally, it acknowledges a shared affection for a certain libation-legend has it a Greek monk named Isidore concocted the first genuine vodka recipe for the Grand Duchy of Moscow! PROGRAM Mozart: Quartet in C Major, KV 465 “Dissonance” Billy Childs: String Quartet no. 2 “Awakening” Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 44 no. 3 Related links: ArtPower at UCSD: website | Instagram | Facebook

An Easy Path of Awakening: How and Why to Start on the Path and the Benefits of Awakening. Rev. Dr.. Kenji Akahoshi draws from psychology and other sciences to explain how and why we can become like Buddhas too -- without heroic effort. Unlocking the practice of Shin Buddhism for ordinaru people, Rev. Akahoshi provides steps for starting on your path today. The seminar is free and open to the public and will take place on the top floor of the Buddhist Temple of San Diego, on 2929 Market Street, San Diego. Off-street parking is available in the Temple's lot. Online access is available via BTSD's YouTube channel, on which the seminar will be livestreamed. About Rev. Akahoshi | A nationally recognized speaker on how Buddhism helps us in our everyday lives, Rev. Akahoshi’s articles have appeared in national periodicals like Tricycle and Lion’s Roar. Before retiring in 2021, Kenji Sensei was the resident minister at the Buddhist Temple of San Diego. Please contact the Temple as shown below to RSVP if you will be attending in person, or if you have questions. Buddhist Temple of San Diego / 2929 Market Street / San Diego CA 92101 / 619-239-0896 / info@btsd.net

Best-selling contemporary jazz keyboardist Scott Wilkie returns with his wildly popular “JOY” program. Scott’s quartet of famous jazz musicians (Pat Kelley, guitar; Jeff Olson, drums; Darryl Williams, bass) present unique arrangements of holiday favorites and fresh interpretations of traditional Christmas classics to officially put you into the Spirit of the Season! Ticket Details | $20 Adult Advance: $25 beginning at 12 pm on December 1 Children 18 and under are free