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A 6-week journey culminating with YOU on a virtual stage for an invited audience. Learn the art form of telling your story on stage! Bring your ideas, your experience and your talent. Then, write your story with the help of specific prompts you learn in this healing modality during the 6-week course. Each week you and your fellow classmates will have the opportunity to share your works in progress and revise to increase flow, add richness and create depth to your story. Together we will bring your scenes to life through the exploration of creating dynamic characters and using strong objectives. All levels of experience are welcome. This is a creative 6-week play shop where we’ll dive deeply, and Brenda will assist you in finding your message and the story you were meant to tell. Class culminates with a virtual showcase performance—Saturday, October 29 at 12 p.m. PST on Zoom! Be sure to get your $5 tickets early (Note: Class participants do not need to buy tickets). Buy Tickets Here! Short pieces developed and directed by Brenda Adelman.

This month, don't miss these noteworthy works on view: Jennifer Vargas at Mesa College Art Gallery, Maggie Shen at Athenaeum Art Center, Paul Strand at San Diego Museum of Art, Reiko Sudo at the Japanese Friendship Garden and Wendy Maruyama at PHES Gallery.

San Diego Poetry Annual open reading, hosted by author Curran Jeffery and sponsored by SDPA and Bluestocking Books. All authors, fans of lit arts, and poets looking to publish are welcome. Come to watch, share, and celebrate. Sign up to read by email at mkklam@gmail.com or text (619) 957-3264. Please indicate in your message whether or not you’ve previously published work in SDPA.

WOW serves up local, national, and international site-specific work April 21 to 24.

The German Theater Group San Diego is back with new funny and thought provoking skits and musical numbers about travel / vacation and “a German in America part II." It will be performed in German and English. Please join us and celebrate the show.

Join the library for an afternoon of music by the Adam Wolff Perspective. Spend your Sunday afternoon listening to standards, exciting Latin grooves, original compositions, and a couple of musical surprises. This concert will take place in Library Park, so bring a chair or blanket or you can use ours! In case of inclement weather this concert will be moved into the Winn Room. Visit: https://coronado.librarycalendar.com/event/adam-wolff-perspective-jazz-concert AWP-THE ADAM WOLFF PERSPECTIVE Adam Wolff grew up in New York State, travelling back and forth frequently from New York City to the upstate area. He lived in Manhattan during the 1980’s, and received a music degree from L.I.U. while performing and teaching in the New York area. His musical interests encompass jazz, classical, pop/rock and world music. He currently performs around the San Diego area with a variety of groups. He enjoys putting his own take on tunes that are not traditionally thought of as “jazz”. Dave Millard is a unique instrumentalist, with the ability to play fluently on almost any instrument he picks up. He currently counts flute, guitar, cello, saxophone and percussion as his “main” instruments (!) Adam and Dave first met in 1978, when Dave was playing the shakuhachi (a Japanese bamboo flute) in an impromptu concert on the beach. They have been playing together since then, in many different group configurations. Dave Marr is a stellar musician and bassist; he studied at the Berklee School of Music and played gigs for many years in New York, Chicago, Europe, South America, and the San Diego area. Charles McPherson, the local saxophone legend, included Dave in many performances. His particular love in music is that special era of jazz from the mid-50’s to the late 60’s, when so many of our country’s jazz masters were at their peak. Barry Farrar comes from a musical family in San Diego- his father, Barry Farrar Senior, had a big band for many years in the area that included many outstanding players. Barry followed his father into jazz, and has played with many of San Diego’s finest musicians, as well as fronting his own groups. The earthy swinging grooves of Art Blakey are just one of his important inspirations. Collectively, this quartet boasts well over 150 years of jazz performances. It would be hard to calculate how many gigs this represents! (Free CD to the person providing the best estimate.) Visit Coronado Public Library on Facebook + Instagram + @CPL92118 on Twitter

Together the artists explore their experience of the female body through a lens of both fecundity and loss, of excess and containment. Scale and material play a pivotal role in both artists’ work, defying expectations with installations that confront and engage the viewer’s body. Both of them mothers, the title Tether alludes to the sensation of being inextricably tethered to the body of others — to their children certainly but also to partners, to the varying social expectations of artist / mother / woman. Tether also examines their technical processes: Updegraff merges a multitude of materials together in her sculptures, using the delicacy of substances like thread and paper, then shackling them with industrial touches of cement, wood or metal. Carter works in a similar way with imagery, building up layers of images and melding them within her paintings, tethering them all back into one space onto one surface. Opening reception April 8 from 6-9 p.m.; preview rsvp info@oolongallery.com for April 6 from 5-8 p.m.

Executive Producer: William Lawrence | Director: Isaac Artenstein | Producer: David Richardson Complimentary for San Diego History Center Members and Film Underwriters General Public: $15 Reception at The San Diego History Center in Balboa Park Wine, Beer, Light Refreshments Program and Premiere (screened at MOPA) at 5:45 pm RSVP by Monday July 25th The Journeys of Harry Crosby is a one hour documentary by award-winning director Isaac Artenstein about Harry Crosby, renowned photographer and historian, whose journeys have resulted in classic books such as “The Painted Caves of Baja California,” “The Last of the Californios," ”Antigua California” and “Tijuana 1964.” Inspired by Harry’s richly illustrated books and on-camera testimonials, Artenstein and his crew traveled throughout Baja California to retrace his journeys from land and air. The Journeys of Harry Crosby is an engaging documentary that embraces a life of creativity, adventure and shared bi-national stories that speak to a long-time spirit of mutual understanding and conservation between the U.S. and Mexico. * Please note, the Premiere will take place next door, at the Museum of Photographic Arts and guests will need to walk from the San Diego History Center to MOPA. Seating is limited. Related links: San Diego History Center on Instagram San Diego History Center on Facebook Event information from the SDHC website

Micro cinema finds new home in East Village at UC San Diego's Park and Market building

MAY 14 - JUNE 18, 2022 Opening reception Saturday, May 14th, 5pm - 8pm Gallery Hours Tuesdays - Sundays 11am - 4pm From the gallery: BEST PRACTICE is pleased to announce the opening of Loose Ends, an exhibition of a new body of work by artist Nikko Mueller that will include several folded and pleated paintings on canvas and a large-scale fiber-based sculpture. From the artist: "My work applies evocative processes to fundamental motifs and forms. I employ the formal language of color and geometric abstraction with its implication of order and platonic ideal. I then disrupt these institutions through a process of folding, re-ordering the relationships, then patching fractures, restoring forms, and finding uneasy compromises. In “Mutually Inconsistent,” the initial composition of stripes becomes irregular and disjunctive as I re-stretched the canvas into pleated folds. The tension of the canvas on its frame becomes exaggerated horizontally, while its vertical pull goes slack. For “Between two parentheses”, I collected clothes from friends in Philadelphia where I’m from, LA where I lived for over a decade and finally SD where I am currently. The piece sprawls the gallery floor like a giant serpentine body pillow - placid in places, twisted and writhing in others. Each opening attaches to another opening; neck holes consume pant legs, armholes intersect waistbands, dress bottoms join shirt bottoms, past connected to present. In all of these works, the solutions I seek are provisional and partial, tentative and tense. As I attempt to connect edges, blend transitions, and repair movements, issues of representation and abstraction intersect in a pictorial space oscillating between literal and illusory." — Nikko Mueller About the artist: Nikko Mueller (b. 1977 in Philadelphia, PA) explores patterns and systems, particularly in situations where they are subjected to transformation and flux. His work in various media apply the strategies and processes of abstract painting to address how we locate ourselves and extend our perspectives in unstable circumstances. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, and his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Mueller has had solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery in Santa Monica, Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, Southwestern College Art Gallery in Chula Vista, and the Athenaeum in La Jolla. He has had numerous group exhibitions at art venues throughout the United States including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, Honor Fraser, Green Gallery West, Quint Contemporary, Dust Gallery, R.B. Stevenson Gallery. Mueller is a Professor of Art at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. He currently lives and works in San Diego, California. Related links: Best Practice on Instagram Gallery information