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There’s a new grant program in San Diego that aims to help close the racial wealth gap, and KPBS Race and Equity reporter Cristina Kim caught up with the first recipient. Plus, Comic-Con has canceled two in-person shows because of the pandemic, but today it returns to in-person events with what it is calling Comic-Con Special Edition. And, this weekend in the arts you can lose yourself in contemporary art, electroacoustic music and Palestinian poetry.

In The Quickening, author Elizabeth Rush grapples with what it means to have a child in the midst of a changing climate.

The Spanish artist dances along the border of tradition and modernity in his Tiny Desk performance.

In the mid-2000s, Be Your Own Pet's frenetic punk sneered at the trappings of adulthood. The group returns after a 15-year hiatus with Mommy, an album that builds on its oppositional beginnings.

MCASD’s focus on female artists continues in March 2023 with a career retrospective of acclaimed artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz. Conceptual artist Álvarez Muñoz draws inspiration from her lived experience as a resident of the United States-Mexico borderlands. Featuring over thirty-five artworks – including large-scale immersive installations, photographic series, and book projects – this major exhibition will highlight the artist’s playful, witty style, often characterized by her use of bilingual puns and mistranslations in both text and image. Ticket Information: Visit mcasd.org to find applicable admission prices and discounts, including a discount for San Diego and Tijuana residents. TIckets can be purchased online and at the museum. We do not have timed tickets, tickets valid all day on the date of your reservation. Click here to reserve your ticket today.

Rising cases of flu, RSV, and new COVID variants are raising concerns that the viruses could surge at once and stress hospitals. Then, California voters are being asked to enshrine reproductive rights into the state constitution in the upcoming election. We discuss the details of Proposition 1. Next, voters are weighing in on two sports betting propositions on the November ballot. And, political ads bombard the public with information about everything from sports betting to immigration. But who is responsible for making sure the content of those advertisements is factual? Finally, October is Filipino American History Month - and San Diego is home to one of the largest Filipino communities in the state of California. We take a look at the KPBS docuseries “Out of the Boondocks,” which features Filipino artists and creatives who discuss how the importance of their work ties into their cultural identities.

Join us in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego to shop local makers and artists with a drink in hand!! Find us on the plaza by Blue Water Seafood Ocean Beach, OB Surf Lodge and Wonderland Ocean Pub! 5083 Santa Monica Ave, San Diego, CA 92107 Products will be a wide variety of handmade goods such as jewelry, knit goods, home decor, metal working, prints, soap, paintings, candles, etc. No MLM or direct sales will be present. This event is FREE to attend! You only pay for the items you wish to purchase and the drinks you want to consume. This is a family friendly event, however please note alcohol will be present due to the nature of the venues. https://www.iheartindiemarkets.com/

In an immersive concert and theatrical experience built around Olivier Messiaen’s apocalyptic chamber masterpiece, Quartet for the End of Time, a mysterious visitor from another world arrives to give voice to a harrowing personal history. Conceived and created by Project [BLANK] Co-Artistic Director Brendan Nguyen, "The Tragedies of Space Travel" is an exploration of second-generation Vietnamese experience and the echoing ramifications of violence, displacement, and war. It employs “alien invasion” sci-fi tropes and otherworldly soundscapes as allegory for the perception of displaced refugees and immigrants. Created in collaboration with playwright Carolina Đỗ, visual artist Ash Capachione, sound artist Joe Mariglio and directed by Leslie Ann Leytham. Peter Dayeh - clarinet Peter Ko - cello Batya MacAdam-Somer - violin Brendan Nguyen - piano Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

The award winning Rob Thorsen Quartet will perform a variety of music which includes jazz, latin music, original compositions and more. The band includes bassist Rob Thorsen, pianist Alexander Anderson, vibraphonist Matt DiBiase and drummer Richard Sellers. Together they integrate many different music styles that contribute to their modern jazz sound. From Duke Ellington to Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis, the trio weaves together a unique sound that honors the jazz masters while inspiring a fresh approach to this great American art form. Bassist Rob Thorsen maintains a diverse and busy schedule in Southern California as a performer, educator, clinician and composer. After playing classical guitar, flute, saxophones, tuba and electric bass as a youth, he found his true voice in the upright bass. “When I began playing upright bass, the fact that I felt the sound as much as heard it had a profound effect on me. I was hooked for life.” A San Diego based musician, vibraphonist Matt DiBiase has performed his original music on multiple tours in the U.S. as well as internationally in Europe and the Middle East. California native Alexander Anderson is a forward-thinking pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger with a bent toward mixing 70s-influenced jazz and fusion with hip-hop and R&B. Alexander has multiple record releases to his credit and is also a prolific composer and arranger. Richard Sellers has been playing drums with countless groups and ensembles in a variety of styles, including straight-ahead jazz, avant-garde jazz, Brazilian, Latin, funk and hip-hop. Richard recorded with the Internationally acclaimed Mike Wofford/ Holly Hofmann quintet for their 2014 release “Turn Signal”

Widening the Embrace: A Reduced Carbon Footprint Concert (California-Korea, 2023) Widening the Embrace is the third stage in our collaboration, which began in 2016 with Changing Tides I and was followed at the beginning of the pandemic in February 2020 with Changing Tides 2: Requiem for the Earth. Our intention is to forge a path forward, balancing in sound as we collectively confront a morphing pandemic and undeniable climate crisis. In scientific and political fields today, the challenges facing humanity demand unprecedented levels of global, intercultural cooperation. As artists, we aspire to work in a similar spirit, drawing on the light-speed web of fiber optic nerves spread across our planet to create a trans-locational stage and activate it with new intercultural musical expressions. In collaboration with a team of visual designers and technologists, an ensemble of ten Korean and American improvisers split across our two sites will premiere new musical compositions that manifest our shared artistic affinities, in this latest collaborative effort to project our highest sonic aspirations. Musicians performing in Korea: Jean Oh (guitar) Aram Lee (daegum) Ju Hee Go (haegum) JoonSu Kim (singer) Donghyeok Kwak (modular synthesizer) Musicians performing in California: Michael Dessen (trombone) Wilfrido Terrazas (flute) Joshua White (piano) Mark Dresser (bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums) Visit: https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php?now=1&query_event_code=20230204-Telematics Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live UC San Diego on Facebook / Instagram