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Experience an intimate evening of storytelling and song with Songwriter Sanctuary’s upcoming event on May 31, 2024, at Normal Heights United Church. This beloved local series brings together a lineup of exceptional artists sharing the stage in a Nashville-style round that dives deep into the stories behind their music. This Month’s Featured Artists:Stucky Leigh: Lauren Leigh and Will Stucky are more than a duo; they're a musical power couple. Their songs, as earnest and heartfelt as their own partnership, blend Lauren and Will’s individual artistic strengths to create exceptional performances that hit right at the heart. Photo credit: Sydney ValienteHugo Anché: Hugo Anché infuses his performances with a rich palette of sounds from Latin jazz to soulful funk. Each song he plays tells a story, reflecting his deep musical influences and the cultures that inspire him. Photo credit: Daniel RobledoAshley E. Norton: Ashley Norton is a major force in San Diego and Ramona’s Americana scene, known for her energetic stage presence and her commitment to supporting her fellow local artists. Her performances and curated events not only showcase her musical talent but also reflect her dedication to building community. Photo credit: John Hancock Songwriter Sanctuary is hosted by the legendary Jeff Berkley, whose deep roots in the San Diego songwriter scene and playful irreverence set the stage for a delightful evening of entertainment.Event Details:Time: Doors at 6:30 p.m., Show at 7:00 p.m. Suggested Donation: $10 (All ages welcome). Donations are graciously accepted to support the artists directly. While we encourage generous donations within your capacity to support our artists, no one is turned away for lack of funds.Food and Drink: Enjoy snacks and beverages available for purchase thanks to Duck Foot Brewing Company and Flying Embers. Guests are also welcome to bring their own food to enjoy during the show.Accessibility: For any accessibility requests, please contact Molly Lorden at molly@nhunited.orgWe invite the community and music lovers to join us for this special evening that celebrates the rich tapestry of local music.For more information visit: lindsaywhitemusic.com

Bread & Salt's main gallery will open a new solo exhibition by sculptor and installation artist Richard Keely.About the artist:Richard Keely is an artist and educator from Southern California. Originally trained as a painter Richard’s work during the last twenty years has turned towards sculpture, photography and installation. With the sculptural work Richard is often concerned with transforming ordinary objects into visually dense wall pieces that have the potential to evoke an array of experiential possibilities. Richard's Installation projects have included collaborations with Sante Fe based artist Lynne Hendrick, and his wife Anna O’Cain. With these installations Keely, Hendrick, and O’Cain explore ideas concerning the visceral side of accumulating, storing, preserving, and communicating ideas and information. Additionally Keely and O’Cain have collaborated on a large body of work on the topic of hurricane Katrina that includes photography, installations and film. Keely and O’Cain also collaborated with San Diego artist Kristine Diekman and dance artist Karen Schaffman on United and Severed an installation that was shown at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido and Art Produce in San Diego. Richard’s work has a national reputation including solo exhibitions at gallery 4016 in Los Angeles and CAD/XO Gallery in Chicago and recent collaborations with Anna O’Cain for the Alt Picture Show, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Ben Maltz Gallery (Otis School of Art, Los Angeles), Art Around Adams and the Spruce Street Forum in San Diego. Additional collaborations with O'Cain include a Ceremonial performance Kat and Lilly Lee at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles and INSITE 2000 in San Diego. Richard has also exhibited his work and given lectures at several well-known Universities and has been a “Visiting Artist” at Murray State University, Oberlin College and Montana State University. In 1996 he was awarded a grant from Art Matters in New York. Richard has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa and has lived and studied Chinese painting in Taipei, Taiwan. Currently Richard is living in San Diego CA and is an Associate Professor of Art at San Diego State University, where he teaches sculpture for the School of Art and Design.Related links:Bread and Salt gallery: website | InstagramRichard Keely: website

Help us Yarnbomb together!Saturday, April 13 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.Calling all community members, Fiber-interested, & Fiber Friends!Knitters! Crocheters! Weavers! PomPom Makers!You are invited to join us for “United By Yarn / Unidos Por El Estambre: A Celebration of Textile Art and Community Connection!” Embrace the beauty of fiber arts with a collaborative initiative brought to you by San Diego Craft Collective, Visions Museum of Textile Art, and Songbirds Music.This engaging project will support community-created yarn bombing projects for all three organizations and is set against the backdrop of VMOTA’s upcoming exhibition, “Latine: Entretejida / Interwoven” (May 11 to October 5, 2024). Come and contribute to the creation of community art, celebrating the diverse and rich textile heritage of the San Diego / Tijuana region!We’ll provide the yarn and tools . You provide your creative magic! Don’t know how to crochet or knit? We’ll have fiber mentors to help you learn & create!We will be using acrylic yarn (so it will withstand the outdoor weather for our installations) and will have crochet hooks available, while supplies last. If you already have your own knitting needles or crochet hook, we’d appreciate it if you’d bring it along to use. We are accepting donations so we have enough for this event. If you would like to donate acrylic yarn or crochet hooks, please email team@sandiegocraft.org so we can coordinate with you.RSVP below so we can plan appropriately! Come learn! Come mentor! Come volunteer!If this event is full, email us here.How else can you get involved?Can’t come to the April 13 event? You’re invited to mail in a piece for the yarnbombing final work of art. Between now and April 8, 2024, you can mail in a knit, crochet, or woven motif to be used in the final yarn bombing projects. Please use acrylic yarn, keep the final motif to 12” x12” or less, and mail to VMOTA, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92106. We will accept 3-dimensional pieces too!Our Crochet Club is free this March and April, for people who want to come crochet/knit/weave together for this yarnbombing project. We’ll provide the yarn! Email us to sign up.Join us for a Sit and Stitch Session at San Diego Craft Collective on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. as we kick off the festivities, where you can crochet and knit projects to finish and donate to the United by Yarn project!Stay Connected on Social Media!Facebook | Instagram | X

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Steph Johnson and her band makes their long awaited debut at Golden Island Dim Sum & Asian Cuisine for the 171st show of Dim Sum & JazzSeating Begins at 6 P.M.Music from 6:30-8:30 P.M.Call (858) 578-8800 for reservations! Reservations are highly encouraged!About Steph JohnsonSteph Johnson is an award-winning, multi-dimensional recording artist and activist whose music deftly blends jazz, soul, funk and blues. Through her 20-year music career, Steph has recorded five studio albums.Her latest album "So In Love", is a collection of Johnson's favorite jazz standards and ballads. The 10-track record features pianist Josh Nelson (Natalie Cole), guitarist Anthony Wilson (Diana Krall), trumpeter Chris Lawrence, bassist Rob Thorsen and drummer Richard Sellers.“With her recent release of 'So In Love,' Steph continues her spiral upward towards bright, musical horizons. This may be her best recording to date.”— DeeDee McNeil. LA Jazz SceneGrowing up, Steph was influenced by her grandmother’s favorite singers: Ike and Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder; and by the ’70s icons beloved by her mother, including James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. She discovered jazz through Miles Davis' classic album, ‘Kind of Blue’, which led her to the great female jazz vocalists: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn.“Johnson’s core strength is as a communicator with rhythmic depth and smoky, pliant power…her sweet yearning vocal really soars." — Robert Bush, Jazz criticJohnson performs regularly throughout Southern California and the Western United States. She is currently working on new material for her next project.When she’s not working on music, Steph directs her creative energy towards social activism. In 2016 she co-founded Voices of Our City Choir, with fellow musician Nina Deering. What began as an organic collaboration between local musicians and people experiencing homelessness has grown into an internationally recognized performance ensemble and innovative nonprofit that uses music and arts to amplify the voices of people impacted by homelessness. Steph now serves as Voices’ Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director. Read more about Voices of Our City Here.Steph Johnson’s work and the formation of the Choir, was featured in the 2018 award-winning documentary “TheHomeless Chorus Speaks”, which aired on PBS.Her tireless dedication to her craft and the unsheltered community has earned her well- deserved recognitions, including 2020 “Woman of the Year”, a finalist for San Diego Magazine’s 2022 Activist of the Year, as well as “California Arts Champion” by Californians for the Arts, exemplifying Steph’s profound impact on the arts and society at large.Stay Connected with Steph Johnson! Facebook & Instagram

Join us for Voices on the Inside at the SDPL, a self-portrait photography and poetry exhibit by incarcerated members of Poetic Justice.Voices on the Inside unites our community with a multi-modal art exhibition, free to the public, rooted in the urgent need for a collaborative solution to amending punitive approaches to incarceration and increasing rehabilitation and healing. This exhibition offers an innovative and constructive approach to transforming prisons and jails by acknowledging and listening to those who are surviving incarceration. By bringing together communities for the purpose of dialogue, bridging differences, healing from harm together, and witnessing the humanity behind each individual, Poetic Justice hopes to make real change in the lives of incarcerated women.Poetic Justice is a community within and beyond women's prisons and jails, working alongside one another with a shared belief in the power of self-expression to change lives. Voices on the Inside, funded by the NEA, the World Design Capital and the California Arts Council, is a Poetic Justice photography and poetry program in collaboration with photographer Lisa Loftus that brings together incarcerated members of our community from California, Oklahoma, and Tijuana.On view at the downtown San Diego Central Library's Popular Library Fairway, April 29 through July 31, 2024.Opening reception: 1-4 p.m. Sunday May 5, 2024Feel free to arrive anytime between 1-2pm, as the reception and events will begin at 2pm. We can't wait to see you there!Reception information and RSVP here.Voices on the Inside is a free event, open to the public and if you would like to support the team who made it possible, please consider making a donation at the following link; https://www.poeticjustice.org/donate.If you are not in California or able to attend Voices on the Inside at the San Diego Library from May-July 2024, please also consider a donation that will allow Poetic Justice to bring this exhibit to your area!Related links:San Diego Public Library: website | InstagramPoetic Justice: website | Instagram

Returning to the stage with all-new material after his recent hit Netflix special “Kountry Wayne: A Woman’s Prayer”, this comedian is sure to provide an evening of laughter. Tickets available via LiveNation, ages 18+ only. Join us for our Plaza Pre-Party 30 minutes before doors on our outdoor patio. Get early admission to our plaza, lobby, and taco stand with freshly made nachos, elote corn, specialty cocktails and more available for purchase!For more information visit: magnoliasandiego.com

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