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Too few trees at California’s schools mean there’s little protecting students from a warming planet. Here’s how advocates say the state can pay for more shade.

"1000 sunflowers" by Vira Ustianska Located at the Inspirations Gallery at Liberty Station (Writer's Ink on the 2nd Floor of Barracks 16) If you haven't been to this exhibition yet, this will be the last day of the exhibition and we can meet together, and you can also: - see how an oil painting is created during a live demo - sign up for drawing and painting classes - be impressed with high-quality prints of my sunflowers with stories - purchase postcards with views of San Diego and NEW postcards and notecards with sunflowers. - choose your favorite painting and learn about its creation - have time to take advantage of special Christmas discounts and choose a unique gift - and also support me and take part in a drawing with interesting prizes, such as - an original painting, prints, postcards, notecards and individual lessons in painting and drawing. Many thank for sharing this publication. See you at the Inspiration Gallery and happy holidays! For more information visit: writeyourstorynow.org Stay Connected on Facebook

Andrew Alcasid will give an artist’s talk on April 11. His installation, “Turning Pages,” at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library has drawn viewers to his intimate drawings and alterations that highlight the library’s architectural assets. A graduate of the museum studies program at San Diego Mesa College, Alcasid also studied figure drawing at Miramar College and in the North Park Drawing Group. He has held artist residencies at Bread & Salt and Helmuth Projects, creating site-specific interventions. With an eye for scale, he began experimenting with street art and became a member of the electrical box program. His large-scale murals include “Omega” in Mira Mesa and “Cube, Palm, Orchid” in Normal Heights. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2019, Alcasid focused his energy on smaller scale still-life paintings. His partner, Aubrey Mejia, a floral designer, brought a variety of flowers to hospital and home as Alcasid underwent chemotherapy, and his resulting watercolor series of simple daisies in glass vases became the subject of the sold-out show “Get Well Soon” at Visual Art Gallery in North Park in 2021. Continuing the collaboration, the couple began the “Turning Pages” series. Combining both shared passions of reading and drawing, they used the time during the global pandemic and Alcasid’s convalescence to create the quiet studies on view at the Athenaeum through May 6, 2023. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

Premieres Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. America’s national night of remembrance returns live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for a special 35th anniversary broadcast taking us back to the real meaning of Memorial Day through personal stories and tributes interwoven with musical performances. The deeply moving annual event unlike anything else on television brings us together as one family of Americans to honor the service of generations of our men and women in uniform, our military families, and pay tribute to all those who have given their lives for our country.

Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Renée Fleming and Queen Latifah were given the star treatment as they received their Kennedy Center Honors.

Israel and Hamas are both holding the bodies of those killed on the other side, refusing to release them. They've done so for years and are again using the enemy dead as leverage in the current war.

KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis brings you the stories of several people who have been deported from the U.S. In other news, San Diego's premier rehab center for veterans is still under heavy scrutiny by lawmakers and oversight agencies. Plus, we have details on some weekend arts events worth checking out.

When a little girl has a terrible accident and slips into a coma, she finds herself thrust into a darkly surreal industrial dreamworld. Haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears, she must follow her mother’s radio-static voice to find her way back to consciousness. Shot on expired 35mm film stock with vintage rehoused lenses, "Moon Garden" is a fantastical odyssey and a visionary, handcrafted, and fully practical work of art that shows how a child can shine light even in the darkest places. Director: Ryan Stevens Harris | Runtime: 93 minutes | Year: 2022 | Rating: UR | Country: USA | Language: English

The Seoul summit is a follow-up to last November's summit in the U.K., where participating countries agreed to work together to contain risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence.

"Well Well Well" features the work of three artists, Glen Wilson, April Banks and June Edmonds. "Well, Well, Well" can be viewed at BFREE Studio from April 22 - June 10, Tues through Sun 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. and anytime by appointment. Upcoming events: Opening reception: Saturday, April 29 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Join us Saturday, April 29th for the Opening Reception of Well Well Well. This is an amazing opportunity to engage with the new exhibition. Artist Q&A: Saturday, May 13 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. June Edmonds, April Banks, and Glen Wilson will speak about their works, their artistic process, and their latest exhibition. First Friday Artwalk La Jolla: Friday, May 5 and Friday, June 2 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Bfree is a part of La Jolla’s First Friday Art Walk where over 16 local galleries open their doors for extended evening hours to art lovers. About the Exhibition: (excerpt from a narrative by Art Historian and Educator, Sally Yard, PhD) There are threads that weave through the work of April Banks, June Edmonds and Glen Wilson. Edmonds paints lush, meditative abstractions, Banks has created architectonic works in public spaces; photographs veiled in encaustic; fused glass and metal images. Wilson melds street photography and found objects and materials ranging from salvaged chain link gates embellished with metal arabesques to cymbals and broken records. In some of their works, each of the three takes as a touchstone one neighborhood or another. In works ranging from geometric abstractions to convergences of objects found in alleys to artifacts, all have in one way or another served as chroniclers, archivists or narrators of indomitable, complex lives that are full of intention and success—daunted by obstacles and triumphant nonetheless. Their works variously become a meditation, an invocation, recasting absence as presence, erasure as memory, the past as the platform from which futures will be formed. It is a project of alternative mappings. The exhibition at Bfree entails a return to place, Edmonds completed her undergraduate degree at San Diego State University and Wilson his MFA at the University of California San Diego. The works of Edmonds, Banks and Wilson are generous. Clear-eyed and exacting in uncovering what has been hidden, they propose grace and beauty and reflectiveness. —Sally Yard, PhD About The Artists: Glen Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. With roots stretching back to documentary and street photography, his body of work includes sculpture, assemblage, installation, and filmmaking. April Banks is an LA based artist and creative strategist with deep ancestral roots in Virginia. April is also the producer of Tea Afar, a nomadic storytelling experience, launched in 2016. Tea Afar was conceived as a salve—bringing us together across borders. She has produced events in Los Angeles, Montreal, Sri Lanka and San Francisco that center first person stories and hospitality traditions from around the world. June Edmonds uses abstract painting to explore how color, repetition, movement, and balance can serve as conduits to spiritual contemplation and interpersonal connection to her African-American roots. June Edmonds was born in Los Angeles, where she lives and works. BFree Gallery on Facebook | Instagram