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The World Clown Association is bringing together all types of clowns for its 40th annual convention.

This weekend in the arts: Graffiti art at the Athenaeum Art Center; Barrio Art Crawl; Adia Victoria at The Casbah; Little Italy ArtWalk Summer Series; Katherine Brannock at Thumbprint; and Freestyle Love Supreme closes.

Just saying "hello" to a passerby can be a boon for both of you. That's what researchers are finding in studies we covered in our "Living Better" series. We asked readers to offer their own testimony.

The MFAs and Art Practice PhDs at UC San Diego's Visual Arts department invite you to Open Studios. Registration is required and attendees must follow the campus guidelines. Students, staff and faculty must show their daily symptom screener. Non-affiliate attendees must follow all campus requirements, including providing proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result received within the last 48 hours. Online representations of the 30+ artist studios, screening program, panel discussions, and exhibitions will be viewable starting February 26th at https://visarts.ucsd.edu/gradexhibitions This event is online and in person! Date: Saturday, February 26, 2022 from 2pm-6pm Location: UCSD Visual Arts Facility Cost: Free For more information on this event and registration please visit HERE!

Soprano Emily Ortlieb joins the Greater San Diego Chamber Orchestra in a concert of music from Mexico and Latin America. Program includes Conga Del Fuego Nuevo by Arturo Márquez, Libertango by Astor Piazzolla, Dama Antañona by Francisco de Paula Aguirre, and Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 and No. 5 by Heitor Villa Lobos. All Saints Episcopal Church offers both indoor and outdoor seating. Registered audience receive directions to free parking. Admission is free with free-will donation at the performance. Donation via Venmo, Zelle, or by check can be tax deductible. All performers have been fully vaccinated. Mask for the audience is encouraged. Visit https://gsdmusicoterie.org/events/latin-flavor/ for more details.

The 15th century was one of astonishing and almost uninterrupted artistic achievements in the area controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy and referred to as the Burgundian Netherlands. Artists from the Burgundian Netherlands extended the boundaries of painting until they seemed as limitless as the blue-tinged mountains of the distant horizons in their masterpieces. This included Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden who became the most renowned painters in Europe. Van Eyck acquired legendary status perfecting impeccable detail with oil paint. This practice clearly distinguishes Northern art from Italian art as well as art from the preceding centuries. Works by these masters were sought by princes and merchants throughout Europe, who prized them for their remarkable qualities of verisimilitude, technical and coloristic virtuosity, and heightened expressive power. This docent-led talk will focus on how Burgundian Netherlandish artists achieved their common goal - to make the painted image vividly present and to render the unseen palpable. Date | Thursday, April 14 from 11 a.m. to noon Location | Online Register here for free! This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required to attend. For more information, please visit timkenmuseum.org/calendar/event/virtual-talk-the-conquest-of-reality-early-netherlandish-painting or contact Alexandra Riley at ariley@timkenmuseum.org or by phone at (619) 550-5955.

The Writers Guild of America is on strike — that's the writers of the TV and films you watch. That will disrupt your viewing schedule, but in the long run, there could be benefits.

The 2022 Blue Water Film Festival (BWFF) presented by the Blue Water Institute is set for its third year from June 2 - June 5. Held each year in celebration of United Nations World Oceans Day, BWFF will screen eighteen feature films, fifteen short films and two animated films--35 films in all, one world premiere; 12 int’l premiere and the remaining California premieres. The festival kicks off Thursday, June 2 at Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park with a cocktail reception, world premiere of "Inside Antarctica: Machine Learning & Microplastics," followed by a Q&A discussion with the Director, Mike Libecki. The majority of films will screen in-person at the La Paloma Theater in Encinitas and at The Museum of Photography (MOPA) in Balboa Park; Media Arts Center San Diego; and streamed virtually at Blue Water+. A special outdoor screening of "Whale Wisdom" will be held Saturday, June 4 a Freedom Yacht Club followed by an after party celebration on the water. Jane Goodall will receive the festival’s Global Citizen Award, which is presented to an industry leader whose contributions to the innovation of marine science and entertainment have changed the industry—and the world—for the better. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 5 at closing night at La Paloma Theatre. BWFF is setup as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Learn more at bluewaterfilmfestival.org. Blue Water Film Festival is on Facebook + Instagram

Composers in Paris took pride in absorbing the artistry of others and building on it to create their own auditory worlds. Composers like Milhaud, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Ravel drew inspiration from Baroque composers and idioms to create the masterworks in this concert. This show is part of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2022, with a prelude lecture by Jennifer Walker at 2 p.m. at The JAI. Date | Sunday, August 7 at 3 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/beg-borrow-and-steal or call (858) 459-3728.

Step into the famed halls and studios of Le Conservatoire de Paris, the epicenter of Paris’ most innovative musical minds where, whether as student or professor, composers like Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Franck, and Fauré reflected the great artistic and intellectual movements of their times. This event is part of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2022, with a prelude performance by the Aestas Trio at 6:30 p.m. Date | Saturday, August 6 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/le-conservatoire or call (858)n 459-3728.