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The next exhibition to take over the new ICA San Diego Central gallery in Balboa Park will feature the immersive multi-media video work of seven artists from around the world, including San Diego-based Pinar Yoldas. Each work studies the relationship of humans to the ocean, ranging from our reverence towards the ocean to our abuse and destruction of it. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, Mar. 25 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. RSVP here. RELATED: Two San Diegans Show Work In Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 (KPBS interview with Pinar Yoldas) From ICA San Diego: Surface Tension is an immersive multimedia exhibition that explores our relationship with ocean environments through its consumption, degradation, and beauty. Artists from around the world tell a story of their vision of our oceans through unique video presentations. The title, a reference to a property of water that allows it to resist an external force, reflects the ocean’s ability to act as both a support system for humans as well as a form of powerful opposition. As the largest mass on our planet and the source of life, oceans control the weather and provide food and products for humanity. However, it also acts as a receptacle for the disposal of plastics, oil, and sewage. For millennia, the ocean has been a connective tissue between cultures while also facilitating their destruction through mass colonization. The artists of Surface Tension evaluate these layered dimensions of our historic links with the ocean. Divided into two sections, the exhibition presents six artists who explore both our connection to and resistance to oceans. Artists bring their unique cultural identity to envision the ocean from a global perspective rather than one that functions within a local ecosystem. Together, all of the artists in Surface Tension explore the multi-species experience with ocean ecosystems, adopting historical and present-day tragedies while leading us down a path of contemplation and reevaluation. Where do we go from here? How can we atone for hundreds of years of ocean plundering? This exhibition has no answers – it is you, the viewer, who must make your own decisions on how you will consider your future relationship with the ocean. This exhibition will feature work from Marina Zurkow (B. 1962, US), Charles Atlas (B. 1949, US), Ulu Braun (B. 1976, Germany), Pinar Yoldas (B.1979, Turkey), Caroline Monnet (B. 1985, Canada), Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (B. 1995, UK). Opening reception: Friday, Mar. 25, 2022 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free / RSVP here Related links: ICA San Diego on Instagram ICA San Diego on Facebook ICA San Diego visiting information

Meditation has many benefits for patients with cancer. It has been shown to reduce psychological distress, improve sleep quality, control anxiety and depression, increase optimism and self-confidence, and even lower pro-inflammatory signaling. Reading the pulse has been a pillar of Traditional Chinese Medicine for centuries. Traditional Chinese medical pulse diagnosis correlates specific regions of the radial arteries on both arms with the functional state of specific internal organs and the overall health of an individual. Come join us and have Dr. Gellar, read your pulse and discuss her findings with you for information on how to improve your health. Join Dr. Alex Geller, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, for a free guided meditation designed specifically for patients with cancer and their loved ones. This is an opportunity to experience the benefits of meditation first-hand, learn to practice at home, and support one another through the power of community. Date | Monday, April 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Location | Revivorship Register here for free! For more information, please visit revivorship.com/events/free-meditation-and-pulse-reading-event or call (858) 956-0077.

Read & Romp is an outdoor, family event with activities that encourage parents to read to their children and promote a love of reading. Activities include: – Wild Things crafts – "Ella and the Wonderful, Colorful Food Cape" story time with pediatrician and author Dr. Veronica Naudin – Kamishibai story time with Write Out Loud Date | Saturday, April 30 from 9 a.m. to noon Location | Kid Ventures at Liberty Station Get tickets here! Pre-sale admission ranging from $10 to $35. Admission includes gift bags for children (while supplies last), access to crafts/activities, character meet-and-greets, and access to opportunity drawing.

You’re invited to Gelson’s Hiring Event! The premier supermarket is hosting a hiring event across their 27 stores, including all three San Diego locations: Del Mar, Carlsbad and Pacific Beach. Gelson’s is proud to be certified as a “Great Place to Work”, offering generous employee discounts, competitive union pay rates with exceptional benefits and retirement plans, paid vacations, and more. Employees also have access to flexible scheduling, weekly pay, career growth opportunities and multiple scholarships and tuition reimbursement programs. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of the amazing Gelson’s team! The event will take place Wednesday, April 6 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Check-in at the front desk upon arrival. San Diego Locations: • Gelson’s Pacific Beach: 730 Turquoise St., San Diego, CA 92109 • Gelson’s Del Mar: 2707 Via De La Valle, Del Mar, CA 92014 • Gelson’s La Costa/Carlsbad: 7660 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA 92009 For more information, please visit gelsons.com/events/view/join-us-at-our-gelsons-hiring-event.

Are you a creative and curious problem solver? Spend the summer exploring with San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum! Each day of camp includes access to Museum exhibits, hands-on exploration with trained education staff, and an opportunity to make new friends. Explore the deep blue sea, practice your paleontology skills, and blast off into outer space with endless opportunities to explore, imagine, and experiment. Register now to join us for a summer of FUN! Ages: Entering Kindergarten - Entering 3rd Grade (4 - 8 years old) Hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. *No camp July 4 - July 8*

From KPBS weekend arts preview: Opening Sunday with an evening reception, San Diego-based artist Charlene Mosley has long been fascinated by pollinating insects, bees and birds — and has manifested this interest into a new exhibition that parallels the largely unappreciated labor of a pollinator with that of women of color. Mosley's paintings teem with depth and movement, full of vivid color and an almost mythic crossover of wild, natural elements with the human form. These women, surrounded by exquisitely detailed birds, foxes, flowers, butterflies (you name it), evoke — for a split second — a fairy tale princess and her army of woodland creatures, but there's something too desperate, curious and sharp-edged in these works for that. Also opening on Sunday is Sparks' annual "Minis" exhibition, the popular group exhibition of small works (with small price tags). Details: Opens Sunday, May 15 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. and is on view through Jul. 3, 2022. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sparks Gallery, 530 Sixth Ave., downtown. Free (RSVP requested for the reception). —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From the gallery: RSVP for the opening! A pollinator is anything that helps carry pollen from the male part of a flower to the female part of the same or another flower, with the movement of pollen fertilizing plants to produce fruits, seeds, and young plants. Naturally a pollinator is integral to the survival of life on Earth. The exhibition “Pollinators" reveals Charlene’s love and fascination for nature and extraordinary insects, birds, bees and other animals that play a vital role in the massive operation of pollinating 80% of the world’s flowering plants. She strives to not only celebrate their beauty, but their resilience by defying the odds every day. One remarkable insect, the Monarch, is known to be the only butterfly to migrate over 3000 miles to perpetuate its species all the while carrying thousands of pollen grains from one flower to another. That seems like a miracle when considering the mere fact that metamorphosing into a butterfly alone is highly unlikely with only a 10% chance of survival from its egg form to adulthood. The women portrayed in the exhibition represent another type of pollinator. Women, especially women of color, have always ‘pollinated’ the development of civilizations with countless incredible contributions and achievements and were rarely credited for any of the ‘honey’ that was made from. Today, women rewrite history and are constantly defying stereotypes and breaking barriers. So, naturally Charlene feels a sense of empowerment and pride in creating strong, well-rounded characters based on real-life women in her family and surroundings, women she admires from afar, and even herself. Painted in a confident yet natural pose, the female figures often grab the viewer’s attention with a captivating eye contact, pulling them in to further analyze all the intricate details and the ever-moving vibrant strokes to their story. The artist draws similarities in her work between the two pollinators, focusing on their shared resilience, courage and strength as they flourish in each other's presence. She showcases a deep respect and appreciation for their achievements and the unequivocal endurance to the struggles of both their existences. “In a way, my work is the manifestation of imagination and endless conversations with myself and about life, examining my own identity as a woman, as an artist, as a person of color, as one individual within 7.7 billion and my impact on nature. Every one of my paintings and drawings play their own role and spark their own conversations in order to grow a bigger understanding and appreciation for what it means to be a pollinator of this world, in a literal and symbolic sense.” Sparks Gallery’s annual minis exhibition returns this year with a variety of small works from a wide range of artists. Each piece in this exhibition, sized 12in x 12in and under, constitutes a bite-sized sampling of each artist’s unique style and vision. This is a great opportunity to purchase a small piece from one of your favorite Southern California artists, priced $500 and under. Mosley’s works and our annual "Minis" show will be on view at Sparks Gallery from May 15 through July 3, 2022. We invite you to join us in the gallery on Sunday, May 15 from 5-8 for the Opening Reception. RSVP here: https://sparksgallery.com/rsvp?eid=32941 Regular Gallery hours: Monday - Friday from Noon - 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m., Sunday 11a.m. - 5 p.m.