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"Femeninas" is a special program created by celebrated Venezuelan pianist-composer-arranger Edward Simon, who is joined by Reuben Rogers (bass), Adam Cruz (drums), Luis Quintero (percussion), and Grammy-nominated Mexican jazz vocalist Magos Herrera. Simon says, “This project spotlights the contributions of Latin American women songwriters, living and past, well-known and unknown, such as Violeta Parra (Chile), Marta Valdes (Cuba), Chabuca Granda (Peru), Elizabeth Morris (Argentina), and Joyce [Moreno] (Brazil). These incredible songwriters have created beautiful songs that should be internationally known.” Related links: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library website | Instagram | Facebook

If current cancer trends continue, authors of a new study project “cancer incidence in the US could remain unacceptably high for decades to come.”

Directed by Dim Sum & Jazz returning artist, Lorelei Garner, and MBHS Music Director JP Balmat, Mission Bay High School returns to Golden Island Dim Sum & Asian Cuisine for the 149TH session of Dim Sum & Jazz! MBHS will be featuring two of it's jazz groups - Mission Swing, and the award winning Preservationists! About Mission Bay High School | Mission Bay High School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) School that offers a wide variety of music courses as well as a rigorous academic course load. From Concert Band to Orchestra, Jazz to Choir, Mission Bay has something for every music student! 2020 NAMM Award recipient for “Best Communities for Music Education,” the MBHS Music Program includes entry level classes for winds, strings, percussion and vocalists. Our advanced ensembles include multiple year-long jazz ensembles that meet during the school day as well as our Symphony Orchestra, MB’s elite classical ensemble. Ensembles like the Preservationists, Swing Choir, Mambo Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra give students a cross-cultural experience they will not find anywhere else.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Oprah Winfrey and Arthur Brooks about their book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. It's also a podcast and video streaming series on Youtube.

Russia's president signed at least a dozen deals with his Vietnamese counterpart and offered to supply fossil fuels to Vietnam, as Moscow is seeking to offset its international isolation.

Vanguard Culture presents the ENVZN23: Urban Art Takeover, a visual and performing arts festival that will transform numerous warehouses, industrial spaces, and other urban areas of the Commercial Street corridor in Logan Heights. Two full city blocks will be activated with multi-sensory art interventions by creatives from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Visitors will experience live dance, puppetry, and theatre performances on warehouse loading docks, a fashion show by Fashion Week San Diego in an industrial storage lot, art installations with curated soundscapes by Tijuana-based multimedia artist MALU, a short film festival inside a crossfit gym, delicious food and drink by local vendors, dance performances along the trolley line and much more. ENVZN23 will respond to the urban landscape by integrating curated sound and theatrical lighting design throughout. ENVZN23 is designed as a recurring event and will return during the year-long celebrations of World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024 for an audience of thousands of design professionals, art patrons, and other culture-seekers from the San Diego Tijuana region and around the world. ENVZN23 will feature programming by more than 40 visionary artists and arts organizations from both sides of the border including Larry & Debby Kline, Perry Vasquez, Cat Chiu Phillips, Hayley Thomas, Jose Hugo Sanchez, Doris Bittar, Natalie Gonzalez, Malashock Dance, Fashion Week San Diego, San Diego Sister Cities Association, San Diego Filipino Cinema, Coronado Island Film Festival, San Diego Italian Film Festival, La Jolla Historical Society, Art of Elan, Disco Riot, The Frontera Project, ArtWalk San Diego, XoQue Art in Motion, Abordo Teatro, George Sarah, ConnectArte, Marilu Salinas, Mesa College Art Gallery, Hoverlay Augmented Reality, Baja Wine + Food, Westward Entertainment, and more. Schedule: 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. VIP Wine + Culinary Experience at the Soap Factory lounge. 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Art Exhibitions & Cultural Program This is an all-ages event. Food & beverages will be available for purchase. Location: This event has two entry points and runs between them with programming throughout the entire corridor of Commercial Street between 30th & 32nd Street. Lined with eclectic warehouses and empty lots, this corridor of Logan Heights is fast becoming a home for creative spaces, community gatherings, and trending local businesses. This event has two entry points and runs between them with programming throughout: The Soap Factory 2995 Commercial Street San Diego, CA 92113 AND The 32nd & Commercial Street Trolley Station San Diego, CA 92113

Archaeologists unearthed 35 bottles of cherries from the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon. The 250-year-old fruits, many still intact, can shed new light on those who lived and worked there.

The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival JFEST returns even stronger with new partnerships and venues that go from Balboa Park to Downtown, to La Jolla, Encinitas, and Carlsbad, reaching different corners of the county through great artistic programming. The 2023 edition will run from Thursday, June 1 until Sunday, July 16 celebrating three consecutive decades of performances that explore Jewish history, people, and ideas across San Diego with a wonderful schedule that will include virtuoso music, theatre, dance, and fine arts featuring the return of favorites like Grammy-nominated singer and touring band member with the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen, Perla Batalla in House of Cohen: The Songs of Leonard Cohen and the return of the original theatrical piece Women of Valor, honoring six incredible women and how they have inspired the community. JFEST will also feature a special one-show-only reunion concert of the musical Witnesses, a moving production inspired by the diaries of 5 teenagers who died in the Holocaust. Recognized this year by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle as “Outstanding New Production” happening at the Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla. The debut of Eco-Jewish Play Fest, 7 plays. 24 hours to create. 1 night to enjoy! taking place in Coastal Roots Farm located in Encinitas for a full session of short new play creation, as well as The Whole Megillah New Jewish Play Festival celebrating new plays that are “unapologetically” Jewish that will be performed at The Old Globe and Carlsbad’s New Village Arts. Continuing with the theatrical line-up, "Hereville" playing at The Old Globe and New Village Arts involves a time-traveling, monster fighting orthodox Jewish girl. Theatre Dybbuk: "The Merchant of Venice" (Annotated), or "In Sooth I Know Not Why I Am So Sad" is a play from sixteenth century England that touches on how antisemitism and other prejudicial beliefs operate in our world today, to be performed at the Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla. The Congregation Adat Yeshurun, La Jolla will host the Festival Keynote: Judaism and Art with one of the world’s preeminent Jewish thinker and educator Rabbi Meir Soloveichik. In the musical section of JFEST, Jewish music takes on the flavor of cultures from Spain, Persia, Portugal, Romania, and many more in the 22nd Klezmer Summit: The World of Jewish Music happening at The First Universalist Unitarian Church of San Diego. “Neshama” – Music of the Soul, the community-wide musical concert that celebrates the deep connection of us all and Yale Strom’s "RECORDIALLY YOURS, LOU CURTISS, with a pre-show presentation on Jews and Folk Music at Digital Gym CINEMA, Park & Market, San Diego.

Cirque Dreams Holidaze dazzles with a brilliant and whimsical family holiday spectacular. This annual tradition wraps a Broadway-style production around an infusion of contemporary circus arts. As lights dim and the music swells, audiences will have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads as a fantastical cast of holiday storybook characters come to life. Broadway World exclaims, “Lose yourself for 90 minutes and go back to those wonderful dreams you had as a kid.” Featuring an ensemble of aerial circus acts, sleight-of-hand jugglers, fun-loving skippers, breath-catching acrobatics, and much more, the Dayton Daily News proclaims, “A new set of eyes should be added to my Christmas list…there’s no way the stunts I witnessed onstage actually happened as most of them aren’t humanly possible.” Imaginative and fun for the whole family, Cirque Dreams Holidaze features a world-renowned cast of performers accompanied by an original musical score including new twists on seasonal favorites such as Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree and Carol of the Bells. Singers, dancers, penguins, toy soldiers, and reindeer invoke the dreams behind a child’s eye on the most magical of nights. Amidst a backdrop of new sets, scenery, and storylines, this family-friendly production is sure to put a twinkle in your eye! Connect with Cirque Dreams on Social Media! Facebook & Instagram

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 - 7:00pm Event address: 3010-B Juniper Street San Diego, CA 92104 Related links: The Book Catapult on Instagram | Facebook