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Welcome to another session of San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy's Natural Impressions: Art in Nature program May 23rd features San Dieguito River Park's Ranger Dave!When: Thursday, May 23 at 9 A.M. - 11 A.M.Location: Piedras Pintadas / Bernardo Bay Staging AreaJoin us for a fun-filled day of photography and exploration in the great San Dieguito River Park. Ranger Dave will guide us through some photography basics, inspiring us to create our own masterpieces. Let your imagination run wild as you connect with the world around you through photography. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to celebrate National Photography Month [May] with a knowledgeable photographer!To learn more about the San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy visit here. Donations help to further the Conservancy's mission of conservation, education and recreation for future generations.The San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy is a 501(c)3 NonprofitOur work is supported by generous donors like YOU!Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook & Instagram

Outdoor concert on Shelter IslandWhether you’ve lived your life with this music as the soundtrack or are a modern concert enthusiast, Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam is bound to leave you much more fulfilled, delighted, and buoyant - and that much closer to the brilliance of the music of Dave Mason.To see this extraordinary guitar player, a soulful singer LIVE guarantees an evening of music as astonishing as the legend Dave Mason himself. Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam is a must see concert that includes fan favorites and deep cuts from Traffic, Dave Mason, and other surprise songs that share the story and important milestones in an undeniably powerful era of rock n’ roll history. Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam brings this all to life with multimedia visuals, dynamic set lists, along with first-hand stories and memories that can only be shared authenticity by a man who has lived it.Visit: https://humphreysconcerts.com/schedule.cfmDave Mason on Facebook / Instagram

The Robin Henkel Band with Horns performs their own unique blend of jazz, blues, funk and swing. Firmly grounded in artistic expression Robin describes it this way, “Our performances honor the rich music traditions of blues, jazz, swing and funk. The usual line-up is trumpet with tenor and baritone saxophones, guitar, bass and drums. Sometimes clarinet and congas find their way into the mix. We love playing music that is modern as well as digging into the styles of great artists from the past such as Duke Ellington and Slim Gaillard.” Robin Henkel is a four time recipient of Best Blues at the San Diego Music Awards. This band has been performing and evolving with members coming and going for over thirty years. “In the 1980s we opened for John McLaughlin at the Bacchanal as well as performed the KSDS 88.3 Jazz Live show in the Saville Theatre.” Robin has appeared with the San Diego Symphony, Sha Na Na, Johnny Almond, Willie King, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Witherspoon and Buddy Miles. Robin has opened shows for Dizzy Gillespie, Bonnie Raitt, Charles Brown, Bill Withers, Dr John, Arlo Guthie, John Mayall, Willie Nelson, Todd Rundgren, Steve Stills, Dave Mason, Jr Wells and Elvin Bishop. “Robin Henkel is a historian and a futurist”—LA Times.

Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Wednesday, May 1 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Samantha explores New Hampshire's treasures, joining a "RENT" rehearsal at Manchester's historic Palace Theatre. Then, it's a walk down Cat Alley and onto the Millyard Museum. In Portsmouth, Samantha visits the Museum of Dumb Guy Stuff, then enjoys dumplings and a pint en route to her former hometown of New Castle.

Artist talk/panel:12-2 p.m. Saturday, May 18with:JON ELLIOTTDAVE KINSEYALLISON RENSHAWAbout the exhibit:From the gallery:TECHNE is proud to present "Afterburner", a group show curated by Chuck Thomas featuring artists Jon Elliott, Jack Henry, Robin Kang, Dave Kinsey, Jason Clay Lewis, John Oliver Lewis, Mônica Lóss, Jessica McCambly, Tim Murdoch, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, and Allison Renshaw. Like early test pilots testing the sound barrier of Mach 1, artists are constantly pushing into the unknown.Afterburner features artists that are pushing the limits of traditional and non-traditional materials in completely unexpected ways. The resulting transformations create surfaces where magic and science collide into whimsical and dazzlingly beautiful dioramas of seductively controlled chaos.In the studio, when you are at that place when it’s all coming apart is often when inspiration finally comes like a shock wave. We are all searching for that moment of recognition where all the noise fades away and you break that barrier.The exhibition examines the intellectual, philosophical, and scientific explorations that blur the boundaries between painting, installation, and sculpture. The primary focus of the show is the definition of art and the nature of these boundaries. In essence, the show advocates for an inclusive perspective that expands the limits of art, highlighting its boldest expressive virtues. The show delves into various limits, including those related to our senses and different perceptual modalities, the vagueness and fuzzy edges between different types of materials, and the level of human intention verses intervention in the artistic creative process.Contrary to popular belief, the process of creating art is not solely about freedom and boundless choices. Defining the parameters of artistic practice requires more time than simply making hasty decisions.In today's era, the internet and print media grant us access to the entire history of art, along with a vast amount of contemporary artwork. It can be overwhelming being influenced by the multitude of images that rapidly pass by as we scroll through social media.It may appear contradictory that an artists abilities flourishes from the very constraints they impose on themselves. The answer lies in the fact that by restricting subjects, colors, brushwork, and composition each of the artists in the show are able to create a unique vision and more authentic voice for their distinctive styles.- Jason Clay LewisRelated links:Techne Art Center: website | Instagram

A new type of traveler is part of the post-pandemic reset at U.S. hotels, along with fewer daily cleanings and pancake-slinging machines.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2024 from 5 p.m. - 7 p.mExhibition on view through Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. Please check Gallery hours before visiting! "James Hubbell: Architecture of Jubilation" will be showing concurrently at the locations below:• Architecture of Jubilation - Central Library • A Mountain Home & Studios - Scripps Miramar Ranch Library • Pacific Rim Project - Mission Valley Library • Lado a Lado - Otay Mesa-Nestor Library In southern California, between the influences of San Diego, Tijuana and the Pacific; among mountains, manzanita, boulders and oaks, lives a man who builds a world he wants to live in - where the aesthetic is a reflection of nature - and philosophy and art are a way of life. Artist James Hubbell has a 70-plus-year career as a contemporary master who expresses himself through nature-inspired art, architecture and functional objects and spaces. Using stone and glass, paint and pen, wood and steel, his works are natural and unconfined. His human and nature-centric design places art in walls, roofs, floors, and furnishings, not separate from, but as extensions of life. In Hubbell’s world, the everyday is elevated to art, and art is for every day.Hubbell recognizes that it is our cities, buildings, structures - our treatment of our environment -that are perhaps our truest expressions of our views and values, our understanding of the ordering of the universe in which we live. Without great fanfare or financial reward, James Hubbell, the non-architect builder, personally led the design and construction of multiple architectural and fine art projects that accomplished meaningful social and educational transformation in Tijuana and San Diego. Architectural designer, sculptor, painter, stained-glass artist, community activist - James Hubbell is one of San Diego’s most prolific artists. His Architecture of Jubilation - is an invitation for all of us to create the world we want to live in.The Opening Reception will feature musician Pablo Dodero! Pablo is a producer, DJ, and writer originally from Tijuana, México. He is currently working on his PhD in Music at UCSD researching Mexico's electronic music history. He has been involved in the DIY music scene in Tijuana, San Diego, and Los Angeles for over two decades and currently performs experimental electronic music under the names Adiós Mundo Cruel and Les Temps Barbares.This exhibition was made possible by a collaboration between the San Diego Public Library, the San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, the Library Foundation SD and the Ilan-Lael Foundation. This Project is an official community initiative of the World Design Capital San Diego/ Tijuana 2024.Featured programming will be occurring throughout the exhibition run. Take a look at www.mysdpl.org/visualarts for more information. Visit all 4 locations and collect commemorative stickers! Featured ProgrammingFilm Screening - James Hubbell: Between Heaven & Earth directed by Marianne GerdesTuesday, March 19, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Register HereDave Hampton on “James Hubbell at Midcentury: His Early Years in the San Diego Art Community”Monday, April 22, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Register HereKeith York on “James Hubbell and Sim Bruce Richards: Collaborations”Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Register HereIlan-Lael Docent Tours. Registration Required.Thursday April 18, 2024 – Morning Tour - 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Saturday, April 27, 2024 – Afternoon Tour - 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.Saturday, June 22, 2024 – Morning Tour - 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Stained Glass Workshop with ArtReach SDFriday, May 17, 2024 | 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Register HereGallery Hours: Monday and Tuesday, 1 – 7 p.m. Wednesday – Saturday, Noon – 5 p.m. Sunday, 1 - 5 p.m.

The Book Catapult welcomes author & filmmaker Bill Perrine in conversation with art curator Dave Hampton for Bill's new book, "Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego" on Tuesday, July 18 at 7 p.m.From trailer park punks to Pulitzer Prize winners, this is the untold story of a sleepy Navy town that became the unlikely gathering point for some of the most innovative, unclassifiable American artists of their time. The late 60s arrival of Harry Partch — hobo composer, iconoclast and inventor of instruments such as the Harmonic Canon and Quadrangularis Reversum — jump started a revolution that was as much social as it was musical, drawing on the occult, self-realization and radical political movements of 70s Southern California.Artists such as Partch, Pauline Oliveros, Kenneth Gaburo, Roger Reynolds, Diamanda Galás, Warren Burt, David Dunn, Robert Turman and Master Wilburn Burchette may have pursued different paths — Sonic Meditations, compositional linguistics, microtonal scales, invented instruments, cutting edge electronics, underwater synthesizers, Tibetan throat singing, environmental sound, pure noise — but they also sought to dismantle the systems of American life and replace them with a radically inclusive and socially responsive aesthetic that looked to the future even when it sometimes referenced a distant, idyllically imagined past. In their pursuit of “Irrelevant Music” — Kenneth Gaburo’s term for an untainted music free of constraint and compromise — these disparate artists constitute a shadow history of American experimental music far removed from the European and East Coast models of the time.Event date:Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 7:00pmEvent address:3010-B Juniper StreetSan Diego, CA 92104Related links: The Book Catapult on Instagram | Facebook

The Coronado Historical Association invites you to the next lecture of our popular Wine & Lecture series as former CO of Naval Air Station North Island, David Landon, shares his knowledge about Coronado's naval history.The Navy's first aviator, Lieutenant Ellyson, and many other military personnel were trained at North Island starting in 1911. The station was granted official recognition as the "Birthplace of Naval Aviation" by a resolution of the House Armed Services Committee on August 15, 1963. From the military's aviation origins to geographical changes to North Island over time, David will share some of the many stories about the history and development of Naval Air Station North Island.David R. LandonDavid, a native of Guilford, Connecticut, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1975 with a BS in Business Administration. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1976 and retired as a Captain in 2006 after 30 years on active duty. He has commanded HSL-51 in Atsugi Japan, HSL-41 in San Diego California, Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility in San Diego and Naval Base Coronado, which included NAS North Island, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, NALF San Clemente Island, the Silver Strand Training Complex, La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Complex and OLF Imperial Beach. Since retiring from the Navy, David has worked as the Chief Operating Officer and co-owner of Priority Solutions, a permanent placement- recruiting firm and as a Program Manager and leadership advisor for Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Systems Technology Incorporated (STI) in 2011 and retired from STI in DEC 2017.Important Registration Information: Capacity is limited and reservations are required. No walk-ins will be admitted.If you have any questions please email or call (619) 435-7242.Please be aware that tickets for the wine & lecture events are nonrefundable, as proceeds support our educational mission.Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook & Instagram

Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.