Search results for

On March 1, 2023 Kiwanis Club of Imperial Beach and South Bay will be launching our Literacy program in partnership with Readability, the first voice-recognition reading improvement technology. The event will take place at the Imperial Beach Library from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. At the event, parents of eligible K-6 students will be able to learn about the program, and sign their child(ren) up, and receive access to twelve free months to the Readability application. This Artificial-Intelligence (AI) based application is designed to develop the child's critical thinking skills, foster love of reading, boost the child's confidence, build a stronger overall academic performance foundation, and create a strong foundation for success. We believe our project will also incite a culture of visiting libraries; and checking out and reading books. In conjunction with the access to the Readability application our Club will have quarterly in-person literacy events to ensure ongoing support and commitment to the children of our community.

kallisti - Voice and Electronics Susan Narucki, artistic director Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 at 5 p.m. at Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theater Purchase Tickets: music.ucsd.edu/tickets General Admission: $15 UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 Students: Free with ID Watch Livestream: music.ucsd.edu/live Genre bending, luscious ethereal ice cream for the ears; that’s what the best experimental music for voice and electronics can be. Our hour-long concert will feature music by composers from all across the globe who have transformed the singing voice through their boundless musical ideas. Performed in the superb technological space of the Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater, our concert is a chance to experience electronic music in a way you’ve never imagined. kallisti is a vocal ensemble at UC San Diego performing contemporary Chamber Opera and masterworks of 20/21st Century Vocal Chamber Music led by Grammy Award winning Soprano Susan Narucki. PROGRAM: Rand Steiger Falling, rising for two female voices and electonics Natalia Merlano Gomez and Mariana Flores Bucio, sopranos Agata Zubel Parlando for voice and electronics Unisono 1 for voice, percussion and electronics Miguel Zazueta tenor and Mitchell Carlstrom percussion Phillippe Manoury Illud etiam for soprano and electronics Mariana Flores, soprano Marta Sniady S!C2 for soprano and electronics Natalia Merlano Gomez, soprano Macri Cáceres Cuerpo y Territorio (2022) Voice, flutes, and voice pedal Natalia Merlano Gomez, soprano

LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT is an event for people in love with another and people in love with themselves. This event will be hosted at SD Made Factory in downtown San Diego and will include locally based vendors and artists, including several past features of the Visible Magazine. There will be coffee served by Surje Coffee Co., live music from amm, Ben Parks, and DALL, and more to be announced soon! We will be doing a raffle drawing with a prize of gifted items from the participating vendors and artists, as well as items/experiences gifted from other local artists and creatives. Tickets are $10 ahead of time and $15 at the door. Grab a friend, your love, your mom, or yourself, and join us for a time of love, hate, libations, and more!

REGISTER NOW WHEN Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 7 p.m. WHERE Southwestern College Performing Arts Center AGES All ages COST Free At the San Ysidro Port of Entry - the busiest border crossing in the nation - wait times have skyrocketed; impacting everything from the shipping routes of multinational manufacturing industries to the daily commutes of workers who cross the border each day. Ongoing political focus on border security and safety has hampered the efficiency with which goods and services can flow between the two nations - a setback that has had ripple effects on the economies of either side of the border. Yet for many in San Diego, the full extent of this economic and cultural partnership remains relatively unknown. KPBS Investigative Border Reporter Gustavo Solis will discuss this relationship with a panel of experts, who will be taking audience questions. Guests include: Denice Garcia, Chief of Staff for San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas Ernesto Bravo, West Division President of Tecma Joe Smith, Senior Vice President of CBRE: Global Commercial Real Estate Services Kurt Honold, Secretary of Economy and Innovation Baja California Paola Avila, Chief of Staff for Mayor Todd Gloria A catered reception will follow the event. All attendees are required to wear masks in the theater. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the event begins at 7 p.m. promptly. Please allow time for parking and seating. This discussion will be live-streamed to the KPBS YouTube page. *Important COVID-19 Protocols - Please Review Prior to Registering* Southwestern College requires facial coverings indoors. You are encouraged to assess your health before you leave. If you observe any runny nose, cough, tickle/sore throat, fever, body aches or any other unusual symptoms, please stay home. If you test COVID positive up to 14 days following the event, please notify our team. Please note, COVID-19 policies are subject to change. We will email you with any updates as soon as we can. Thank you for your understanding.

From the gallery: The Hill Street Country Club is proud to present AGRIDULCE: a solo exhibition by Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez. The show features video works, soil prints, and terrazzo tiles that take a speculative fiction approach to explore connection, collaboration, and care against a backdrop of climate change and the lingering structures of colonialism in Puerto Rico. “My work is about imaginaries.” - Jezabeth Featured video works like the multi-channel piece, Isla Flotante uses a speculative fiction approach to the visual narrative and realities of the every day, that is they do not recount any particular event. Instead of constructing a story with casted characters and a final lesson, Jezebeth collaborates with their family acting as editor and composer of their personal experiences as seen through the family’s group chat. This lets each participant exist as a complex individual and brings viewers into the everyday acts of imagination and creativity required to connect across generations, space, and time. Jezebeth’s terrazzo tiles and soil prints are firmly grounded in a sense of place, literally. The distinct red/orange soil found around Jezabeth’s family’s home is a recurring material used in sculptures and printmaking processes. Accessible materials are a core part of Jezabeth’s practice and another point of collaboration with their family who collect and ship the earth from Puerto Rico in bricks. By positioning themselves as collaborator and caretaker, Jezabeth invites viewers to reconsider how we might draw on personal and material resources symbiotically. What does creativity look like when it is liberated from productivity? How might imagination be a means to stay connected in a world that is both passively changing and being actively changed? AGRIDULCE - Meaning: the mixture of something sour and sweet. Something that can be pleasant and unpleasant at the same time. ABOUT JEZABETH: Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez (they/them/Elle/Le) is a multidisciplinary Cuir-Diaspo-Boricux artist based in Oceanside, California. They hold an MFA from the University of South Florida where they received the Dedalus MFA Fellowship In Painting and Sculpture in 2020. Jezabeth has completed multiple residencies in the United States and Canada and is currently in residence at the Hidrante project space in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Schedule a free appointment to view the exhibit here. Gallery hours: Feb. 27 5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 28 5:30-8:30 p.m. (with the artist) Mar. 28 6-7 p.m. (with the artist; food and drinks provided) Artist talks: Sunday, March 5 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 14 6-8 p.m. Related links: The Hill Street Country Club on Facebook The Hill Street Country Club on Instagram Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez on Vimeo

Syntax: An Arrangement Feb. 4 to Mar. 12, 2022 Open House: Saturday, Mar. 5, 5-7 p.m. About the project: From Feb. 4, 2022 a group of 15 artists who gathered on Zoom in 2020 and 2021 have occupied Art Produce Gallery and considered what they are now, and how they move forward. "Making our practice public, we invite viewers to look in the gallery windows throughout the month while we make things, write words, share knowledge, chat, laugh, help each other and arrange the space." Participating artists: Michelle Montjoy, Ryan Bulis, Carrie Minikel, William Feeney, Brian Black, Bhavna Mehta, Joseph Perez-Green, Sheena Rae Dowling, Siobhan Arnold, Gilbert Neri, Richard Keely, Anna O'Cain, Tim Penney, Melissa Walter, Lynn Susholtz Related links: Art Produce on Instagram Art Produce on Facebook

Both of Quint's La Jolla spaces are currently full of Quint artists, with sculpture, photography, drawing and painting representing an impressive swath of time in contemporary art. Watch for the whimsical Tom Driscoll installation, an embroidered collage from Griselda Rosas, a mesmerizing Christopher Puzio sculpture and a recent acrylic monolith by Robert Irwin. There are 20 artists in total, including Jean Lowe, Ryan McGinness and Kelsey Brookes. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS (from "San Diego weekend arts events") About the exhibition: "Bounteous," a group show, will take over both La Jolla locations (7655/7722 Girard Avenue) from March 26 through May 21. The exhibition will be a vibrant conversation between many of the artists Quint Gallery has exhibited over the years, with styles ranging from California Light & Space, abstraction, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Artists: Nancy Blum • Kelsey Brookes • Mara De Luca • Roman De Salvo • Peter Dreher • Tom Driscoll • Manny Farber • Thomas Glassford • Tim Hawkinson • Robert Irwin • Gary Lang • Jean Lowe •Kim MacConnel • Lee Materazzi • Allan McCollum • Ryan McGinness • Patricia Patterson •Chris Puzio • Griselda Rosas • Derek Stroup Related links: Quint Gallery visiting information Quint Gallery on Instagram

The Swedish-born, New York City-based artist was famed for his gargantuan renditions of prosaic objects — a lipstick, a clothespin, a cherry perched on a spoon — installed as public art.

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.

New art on our radar this month includes: Rizzhel Javier at The Front, Mary Jhun at Thumbprint, Christopher Puzio at La Jolla Historical Society and more.