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With Thanksgiving around the corner, you may have some extra time on your hands. And what better way to spend it than watching a movie with family.

Join us December 6, when San Diego-based band The Resizters will rock out for Planned Parenthood! Hear your favorite protest songs at Humphrey's Backstage Live in San Diego and support the Imperial Valley Homan Health Center Fire Relief Fund. Proceeds from tickets and the online auction (going live on Dec 5th) will help rebuild the flagship center in El Centro, recently destroyed in a fire this past August. Learn more and get tickets at http://planned.org/rebuild

The Ramona Outdoor Play tells a story of love and bigotry in early California.

Join us for a Free professional development program that will strengthen your knowledge of art history and provide you with creative ideas to integrate visual art into classroom teaching. You will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition Reconsidering Rembrandt: Night Watching 2019 by contemporary Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, hear talks on works in the Timken's permanent collection, and receive a lesson plan that supports and encourages the development of empathy in students. All attendees will have a chance to network with other educators over wine and light appetizers and receive free bus transportation to the Timken for their classrooms. In addition, you will be able to apply to have a professional teaching artist come to your classroom to teach a free art class (all supplies included). For more information email education@timkenmuseum.org

The Super Dentists love to celebrate the holidays, and this year, they will be spreading holiday cheer by transforming their Kearny Mesa location into a Winter Wonderland. Kids are encouraged to come dressed in their ugliest sweaters and enter a contest to win awesome prizes for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, judged by DJ Rick Morton of Z90.3. In addition, there will be live music, a scavenger hunt, snow, cookie decorating, face painting, balloon artists, carnival games, and carolers. Don’t forget to get your picture taken with Santa and The Super Dentist’s Characters. And there will be special goodie bags for all attendees! The Super Dentists on Facebook / Instagram

A 1928 movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse enters public domain on Jan. 1. But creative and commercial access to the character is complicated by both copyright and trademark law.

This year, the Latin Grammys will be held outside the U.S., in Seville, Spain. The location raises larger questions about how the awards perpetuate inequalities related to race, class and colonialism.

Oolong Gallery welcomes two artists to town with side-by-side solo exhibitions. Austrian abstract painter Markus Bacher will display large scale works that are vaguely figurative, vaguely landscape rendered in textured, muted tones periodically splashed with saturated yellows and other vivid hues. Claire Chambless, a recent Cal Arts MFA grad, will display a collection of striking sculptures. Her work often features curved and looped antler-like works adorned with jewels or beading. —From KPBS weekend arts preview by Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS. From the gallery: Oolong Gallery is honored to present a painting & sculpture exhibition featuring Austrian contemporary master, Markus Bacher, and rising star sculptor Claire Chambless of CalArts. The opening reception is Saturday, February 25 from 6-9 p.m. The artists will be present. Both exhibitions will be on view through March 31. Please contact the gallery for an exclusive preview by appointment: info@oolongallery.com Visit: https://oolongallery.com/ Related links: Oolong Art Gallery on Instagram

The New York State Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein's 2020 conviction last week, ruling that his trial was unfair.

The laws that govern our region’s rivers and reservoirs are tough to wrap your mind around. But art can create an emotional connection that helps people understand what’s at stake, as seen in one painter’s depiction of the Colorado River.