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Jesse Ray Smith, Justin Froese & Anna Ballew all at Belly Up Tavern Jesse Ray Smith I was raised in the artistic, small-town suburbs of Marin County, a few miles and a full generation removed from the hippy movement that swept through San Francisco in the late 60’s. From Fleetwood Mac's Rumours to Stevie's Songs in the Key of Life, many great records came out of Marin County, fueled by the musical prowess of legendary concert promoter Bill Graham. This was my home, and these legends were a part of the infrastructure that sustained us. Although my parents weren’t big Deadheads, their catalog ran deep, exposing me to a vast collection of great records and artists. Whether it was Graceland, Ziggy Stardust or Dark Side of the Moon — a record was always playing and music was a very present part of my life. Justin Froese In a world where genres strive to define and confine, Justin Froese emerges as a captivating force, effortlessly traversing musical landscapes with his groove-driven alt-pop stylings. With a decade of classical training under his belt, Justin's ability to transcend and defy genres is a testament to his innate talent and unparalleled artistry. Anna Ballew A Missoula Montana native, Anna Ballew entered the San Diego music scene in 2021, incorporating jazz-guitar stylings and soulful vocals to pop R&B hits, modern classics and original songs. Her formal entrance to music started with classical violin at age four, then transitioned to bluegrass fiddle at the age of eleven. This ignited her love of free-form and collaborative musical spaces. After hearing her father jam to folk-americana artists like Jackson Browne and James Taylor as a kid, she decided to pick up guitar and try out singing for family and friends at dinner parties in high school. From hometown performances and acapella groups in college to moving to California and becoming a full-time musician, Anna has swiftly moved through stages of a musical journey. Now modeling her sound around artists like Amy Winehouse, Ella Fitzgerald and Lake Street Dive, Anna is working on her first EP to be released in the next year, and can be found performing around at local restaurants and live music venues in Southern California. For more information visit: ticketweb.com

From the organizers: San Diego’s premiere contemporary fine art fair, Art San Diego, is back! Join us, in partnership with Presenting Sponsor UBS Wealth Management, at the San Diego Convention Center, September 9-11, for this immersive fine art experience. Enjoy music, entertainment, cutting-edge talent, artistic expression, diversity through multifaceted programs, and more. This year’s program benefits non-profits Humble Design, Monarch School and ArtReach. Get tickets and more information here! Related links: Redwood Art Group on Instagram

Over the past 25 years, OMA has presented over 300 diverse and engaging exhibitions that reflect their core interest to explore the stories of Southern California artists. Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community is a survey of artwork selected from many of OMA’s past exhibitions. Compelling pieces from landmark community-building exhibits such as Worn with Pride (2000), Chouinard: A Living Legacy (2001), Artifacts: Allied Craftsmen of San Diego (2018), Lowbrow Art: Nine San Diego Pop Surrealists (2009), and Masterpieces of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works from Fifty Years, 1900-1950 (2008), will tell the story of how a volunteer-based organization grew from its humble beginnings in 1997 to the cultural destination it is today. Featuring work by James Hubbell, Wendy Murayama, William Glen Crooks, Allison Renshaw, Italo Scanga, and Charles Arnoldi, among others, this exhibition will create new narratives while remembering the seminal role OMA has played in the history of contemporary art in our region. WHEN| Saturday, September 10, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. WHERE| Oceanside Museum of Art ‣ 704 Pier View Wy, Oceanside, CA 92054 ADMISSION| Tickets can be purchased here! ‣ General admission is $10, seniors 65+ are $5 ‣ Free admission with ID for OMA members, NARM and ROAM members, children under 18, students, and active-duty military and their dependents. SOCIAL MEDIA| Follow the Oceanside Museum of Art on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Artists and Repertoire: Rafael Payare, conductor Marc-André Hamelin, piano Richard Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 About the program: The exquisitely romantic Second Piano Concerto by Liszt is performed by the great Lisztian, Marc-André Hamelin, whom the New York Times hailed as “A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess.” Music Director Rafael Payare leads the Orchestra in Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, featuring one of the most famous openings in Romantic music, with the deep throbbing bass like a heartbeat, and a great arc of melody rising and falling — it seems so inevitable, so strong a way to begin this symphony. Note: gates for the Thursday performance will open at 6pm. An additional performance takes place Friday, Nov. 18 at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Related links: San Diego Symphony on Instagram San Diego Symphony on Facebook

September 10–November 5, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6:30–8:30 p.m. From the museum: British-born artist Derek Boshier presents a visual survey of various Occupations rendered in his characteristic heads. “I have of late been making many drawings from the size in this exhibition to larger seven-foot drawings,” he describes. Boshier first came to prominence with his paintings as a student at the Royal College of Art in London in the early 1960s, with fellow students David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, and others in the British Pop Art movement. Subsequently he has worked in other media, drawing, printmaking, film, books, three dimensional objects, installations, and photography among them. His graphic work with popular music groups such as The Clash and with David Bowie have brought his work to a wider audience. Boshier was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art, London in 2016, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from Solent University in Southampton, UK, in 2021. In addition to his art practice, Boshier has a long and distinguished record as an educator, teaching at the Central School of Art and Design, London, 1963–1979, the Royal College of Art, London, 1973–1979, the University of Houston,1980–1992, and the CalArts in Los Angeles, from 1997 to the present. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Related links: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram Visiting information

Kwame Brathwaite spent some six decades chronicling Black life, culture and activism. He's credited with helping found the "Black is Beautiful" movement.

From the San Diego Opera: Ahead of the world premiere of "El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego)," San Diego Opera has planned a special lead-up series of events. In partnership with UCSD Park & Market, SDO will host concerts, lectures and panel discussions throughout the month of October. Join us at the newly opened UCSD Park & Market in East Village as we explore the lives of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera through music, art and politics. Lecture with Gregorio Luke – “Frida and Diego: An Artistic Marriage” Monday, October 3, 2022 at 7:00 pm Explore the politics, economics, and art in the time of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, drawing on the expertise of UCSD Mexican Studies faculty and featured speaker Gregorio Luke, former Director of the Museum of Latin American Art. This lecture presents a portrait of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with more than 300 slides of their paintings, photographs, and rare film footage. The free lecture will be held inside UCSD Park & Market’s Guggenheim Theatre. RSVP required. Gregorio Luke is a lecturer, author, and specialist in Mexican Art and Culture. He is the former Consul of Cultural Affairs for the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, Deputy Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C., and First Secretary of the Embassy of Mexico in Washington D.C. The Songs of Frida Kahlo (Las canciones de Frida Kahlo) Did you know that Frida Kahlo loved to sing? Enjoy a 50-minute concert featuring singers and guitarists as we dive into the musical world Frida Kahlo with selections of her favorite songs from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Musical works include opera favorites, popular songs like “La Llorona,” “La bruja”, and “Puttin’ On the Ritz,” and much more! Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:00 pmTickets are $20. The concert will be held inside UCSD Park & Market’s Guggenheim Theatre. Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:00 pmFree. The concert will be held at Chula Vista Public Library Civic Center Branch, 365 F Street, Chula Vista, CA 91910. Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:30 pmTickets are $10 for the General Public and $5 for Students. The concert will be held at the Southwestern College Performing Arts Center. Click here to purchase tickets for this event. Who were Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo? (¿Quienes fueron Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo?) Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm Witness an in-person conversation between Diego Rivera’s grandson, Juan Coronel Rivera and Roxana Velasquez, Executive Director of the San Diego Museum of Art. These two experts will discuss the tumultuous relationship between the two iconic artists from Mexico, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Their passions and resentments, adoration and pain were sources of inspiration for the world premiere of El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego). Rivera and Velasquez will connect themes and images from the new opera to Diego Rivera’s mural Un domingo en la Alameda and the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos. This is a free event. The conversation will be held inside UCSD Park & Market’s Guggenheim Theatre. RSVP required. FRIDA (2002) Directed by Julie Taymor Starring Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo Film Screenings at the Digital Gym Cinema Located on UCSD Park & Market’s campus, the Digital Gym Cinema will present three showings of Frida (2002). This film is a biography of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confined to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she channels her pain into her work. For more information or tickets, visit https://digitalgym.org/movies/frida/. Showtimes: October 5, 2022 at 7:00 pm October 11, 2022 at 7:00 pm October 16, 2022 at 3:00 pm Related links: San Diego Opera on Instagram San Diego Opera on Twitter San Diego Opera website - Frida Festival

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September 10–November 5, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Artist Panel Discussion: Saturday, October 22, 6–8 p.m. From the museum: Continuum presents an intimate view into the lifework of Faiya Fredman (1925–2020), whose 70-year art career produced an ambitious and eclectic body of work driven by experimentation with unusual formats and unconventional materials. Her large and varied works include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, installations, and artist’s books. A graduate of UCLA, Fredman juggled marriage and raising a family with the rigors of developing cutting-edge art. Her final body of work combines goddess imagery, vintage puppets, narrative forays into surreal worlds, and hybrid works combining graffiti with botanical imagery. Fredman’s work can be found in many public and private collections, including the MoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and numerous others. Panel information: Join us for a panel featuring Suda House, Robert Pincus, Alfred Pagano, and Allwyn O’Mara discussing Faiya Fredman’s work and processes. Saturday, Oct. 22, 6-8 p.m. Related links: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library visiting information The Athenaeum on Instagram

Venue Presale 7/27/2023 @ 10 a.m. Public on Sale 7/28/2023 @ 10 a.m. Christopher Cross burst onto the music scene with his 1980 self-titled debut album, winning five Grammy Awards, including—for the first time in Grammy history—the “Big Four” most prestigious awards: Record of the Year (for the single “Sailing”), Album of the Year, Song of the Year (also “Sailing”), and Best New Artist. For more information visit: ticketweb.com