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When Alice Barnett returned from Europe and settled in early-20th-century San Diego, the city was a modestly sized but rapidly growing community of approximately 40,000 residents. Amid this evolving cultural landscape, she quickly emerged as a prominent composer, performer, and advocate for the arts. During this time, she divorced and became a single mother and sustained herself and her family through her musical endeavors before remarrying. Her influence was far-reaching: in addition to co-founding the San Diego Symphony Association, she taught at San Diego High School, delivered public lectures, authored program notes, and actively collaborated with fellow musicians and civic leaders. This lecture features performances of Alice Barnett’s compositions from this chapter of her life (some published by G. Schirmer, others preserved only in manuscript), offering a glimpse into the musical and professional world she helped to shape. About Dr. Katina Mitchell Dr. Katina Mitchell is a native of San Diego. She has sung with the San Diego Symphony; lautten compagney BERLIN; MicroFest, Los Angeles; Monday Evening Concerts, Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Volti, San Francisco; Bach Collegium San Diego, The Da Camera Society, Los Angeles; and more. A favorite engagement was performing with Ensemble Vocatrix in fully staged productions of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum in Los Angeles and Berkeley. Recently Mitchell has sung as both soloist and chorister with San Diego Master Chorale, Sacra/Profana, and the Schola Cantorum of St. James-by-the-Sea. Her work has been featured at the Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles and the Medieval History Center in Azincourt, France, and in media outlets including the BBC, NPR’s Life in Berlin, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2023, Mitchell began presenting her extensive original research on composer Alice Barnett, giving lectures with the San Diego History Center; the Western History Association, Los Angeles; National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), San Diego chapter, at San Diego State University; Palomar College; and Society for American Music, Tacoma, Washington. Katina holds degrees in music from Rice University and the University of Southern California (USC). She is a member of the music faculty at Palomar College, teaches voice at Grossmont College, and maintains a private studio. About Dr. Yewon Lee Dr. Yewon Lee is a frequently sought-after conductor and collaborative pianist on the operatic and concert stage. Prior to relocating to San Diego, Lee was Assistant Music Director of Opera at Baldwin Wallace University and Adjunct Professor at Kent State University. In the operatic world, she coached at Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater, National Opera Center, Aspen Opera Theater Center, and International Vocal Arts Institute in Israel, France, Italy, and Japan. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Lee received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Seoul National University, completed her Master of Music in vocal accompanying at Manhattan School of Music, and earned an artist diploma in collaborative piano from The Juilliard School. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in choral music at USC. Currently, she is a music director of the San Diego Festival Chorus and the San Dieguito United Methodist Church. She also serves as the Far South Representative for the California Choral Directors Association. Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/events/mitchell-25-0623 Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram and Facebook

Joseph Clayes III & Rotunda Galleries Harvest & gather: missed connections Harvest & Gather is pleased to present "missed connections", an exhibition that facilitates collaboration between artists who might have once worked together, but the stars did not align in their favor or their spirits could not quite connect. Each invited artist has selected another artist to exhibit with, thus fulfilling their missed connection at the Athenaeum. Moving beyond an exchange of glances but nothing more and the “you-smiled-at-me-on-the-subway-platform” prose of personal ads, Harvest & Gather seeks to allow the exhibiting artists a working opportunity to intimately connect with another artist’s work and practice. Artists are Deanna Barahona and Susan Aparicio; Katie Delaney and Elaine Fisher; Maria Antonia Eguiarte and Liz Nurenberg; and Stephen Rivas and A.R. Tran. Harvest & Gather is an experimental, nomadic curatorial project founded by mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn in 2023. With an emphasis on creating makeshift spaces for art anywhere at any moment, the project exists beyond traditional galleries and museums through pop-up shows in various locations. ARTISTS Deanna Barahona is a first-generation multidisciplinary artist from Southern California working in text, photography, installation, and sculpture. Barahona examines subcultures that emerge in Southern California’s integration process with materials referencing architecture, adornments, and symbols within the homes of the Latin American diaspora. Barahona’s work has been in exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Bread + Salt, San Diego; Island 83 Gallery, New York City; Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla; Bakersfield Museum of Art; Two Rooms, San Diego; and Residencia 797, Guadalajara. She is set to participate in a group exhibition at Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara in the summer of 2024 and a solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2025. Barahona holds a BA in visual arts from California State University, Bakersfield, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Susan Aparicio is a Southeast Los Angeles native, a daughter of Mexican and Honduran parents, and a visual artist experimenting in the mediums of stained glass, experimental video, and installation. Her stained-glass work explores worship, desire, and Latinidad-through-pop-culture-inspired imagery from the early 2000s to today, blending bling and beauty to make the fake feel real. Her works explore the complex relationship between reality and states of being, inviting viewers to reflect on their existence within our natural, digital, and consumer worlds. Her works have been exhibited at Leiminspace, Bellyman, LaPau Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, the California Museum, the Hudson River Museum, Texas Tech University, and Cal State Dominguez Hills, among others. Her work has been recognized by publications such as LVL3 Magazine and the Daily Bruin. Aparicio was a resident at Caldera Arts Residency and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE). She earned dual BA degrees in studio art and cognitive science from the University of Virginia in 2018. She then earned her MFA in art from UCLA in 2022. Aparicio is currently based in Pasadena. Katie Delaney (they/them) is a queer, non-binary artist based in Philadelphia. Their practice questions the role of the gender binary in generational trauma by creating work within a “mythspace” that transfigures traditional storytelling. They hold an MFA from the University of Delaware (’24) and a BFA in sculpture from Towson University (’20). Their work has been exhibited internationally at Galería Municipal de Arte, Valparaíso, Chile; virtually at the Alternative Art School, Vox Populi; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; throughout the DMV, ICA Baltimore; Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland; and The Hen House, Washington, D.C. Elaine Fisher received her BA in archaeology and ancient history from the University of Liverpool in 1996 and her MFA from the University of Gloucestershire in 2015. She continues her research independently and collaboratively in the areas of art, archaeology, and depth psychology, through place-based residencies and commissions, including B-side Festival; SLUICE Exchange, Berlin; and most recently at The Florence Trust , London. In 2022 she was invited to exhibit her COVID project Domestic Structures at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Group exhibitions include Fibres at AIR Gallery, Manchester, UK; Garden Party by Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.; and Flat Files at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore. In 2024 Elaine was nominated for a Castlefield Gallery Award for her entry in the Manchester Open Exhibition at HOME, Manchester. She currently lives and works in Manchester. Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza is a Mexican American artist raised in Mexico City and based in San Diego. She engages in gesture-based performance and object making. Eguiarte has shown in group expeditions in both Mexico and the United States, including at the ICA San Diego, Patio Trasero, Brea Gallery, NIXON, Proxyco NYC, Working Title with Project Blank, the New Wight Gallery UCLA, and Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual. Liz Nurenberg (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles–based artist. She received a BFA from Grand Valley State University (2003) and a MFA from Claremont Graduate University (2010). Liz is an associate professor in the Foundation Department at Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles. Liz was awarded a fellowship to Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency and a Helen B. Dooley Fellowship at Claremont Graduate University; she received a California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at such venues as the Holter Museum, Helena, Montana; Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts; Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles; HilbertRaum Gallery, Berlin; Galleri CC, Malmo, Sweden; and the Contemporary Calgary. Stephen Rivas is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Palmdale, California. Working across photography, video, sound, and writing, Rivas creates deeply personal, multilayered works that interrogate intersections of history, identity, and resistance. His work often adopts an autobiographical lens, utilizing multi-channeled projections to weave narratives that explore memory, love, death, joy, anarchy, and the fleeting nature of time within his family’s collective history. Central to Rivas’s practice is the critique of colonial narratives and systems of power. By uncovering the preexisting “threads” of resistance and resilience within his family’s past—what he refers to as “weapons against empires”—Rivas reclaims stories that challenge dominant historical frameworks. As systemic oppression persists, Rivas sees focusing on past resistance as a method of preserving memory and a strategy for imagining liberated futures. His work highlights the connections between historical uprisings and contemporary struggles, emphasizing the enduring relevance of resilience and decentralized resistance. Rivas’s installations invite viewers into a space where personal and political histories collide, emphasizing the importance of storytelling as a tool for survival and subversion. Rivas completed his BFA in 2019 at the California Institute of the Arts, where he began exploring themes of identity, migration, and memory. He later earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2023, further refining his interdisciplinary practice and conceptual approach. A.R. Tran was born in Monterey Park, California, in 1993 and moved to New York in 2011 to attend New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In 2015, he received his BA in Critical Race Theory and visual studies and was awarded the Finish Line Grant and Founder’s Day Award. That same year he was selected to participate in the Gallatin Arts Festival as a visual and performance artist. For more than five years, he worked in arts education and public programming for institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Mark Morris Dance Center and participated in a number of student shows at 205 Hudson Street. In 2020, he enrolled in the University of California, Irvine’s MFA program in art. There he developed his interdisciplinary art practice while taking PhD-level courses in Critical Race Theory and Black studies. In 2022, he was accepted into UC Irvine’s Pedagogical Fellowship program, was nominated for the Tom Angell Fellowship, and was named a Claire Trevor Society Scholar in Art. In spring 2023, he was awarded an Interdisciplinary Research residency at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) and his solo exhibition, entitled THE ROOT OF DESIRE IN VIOLENT AND I STILL WANT TO BE WANTED, opened at University Art Gallery in Irvine. The lecture will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for a members-only reception, and at 6 p.m. for a general reception. Seating is first-come; first-served. Priority seating will be given to Donor level members and above. Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/events/exhibition-2025-harvest-gather-panel Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram and Facebook

Harvest & Gather is pleased to present "missed connections", an exhibition that facilitates collaboration between artists who might have once worked together, but the stars did not align in their favor or their spirits could not quite connect. Each invited artist has selected another artist to exhibit with, thus fulfilling their missed connection at the Athenaeum. Moving beyond an exchange of glances but nothing more and the “you-smiled-at-me-on-the-subway-platform” prose of personal ads, Harvest & Gather seeks to allow the exhibiting artists a working opportunity to intimately connect with another artist’s work and practice. Artists are Deanna Barahona and Susan Aparicio; Katie Delaney and Elaine Fisher; Maria Antonia Eguiarte and Liz Nurenberg; and Stephen Rivas and A.R. Tran. Harvest & Gather is an experimental, nomadic curatorial project founded by mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn in 2023. With an emphasis on creating makeshift spaces for art anywhere at any moment, the project exists beyond traditional galleries and museums through pop-up shows in various locations. ARTISTS Deanna Barahona is a first-generation multidisciplinary artist from Southern California working in text, photography, installation, and sculpture. Barahona examines subcultures that emerge in Southern California’s integration process with materials referencing architecture, adornments, and symbols within the homes of the Latin American diaspora. Barahona’s work has been in exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; Bread + Salt, San Diego; Island 83 Gallery, New York City; Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla; Bakersfield Museum of Art; Two Rooms, San Diego; and Residencia 797, Guadalajara. She is set to participate in a group exhibition at Museo Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara in the summer of 2024 and a solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2025. Barahona holds a BA in visual arts from California State University, Bakersfield, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Susan Aparicio is a Southeast Los Angeles native, a daughter of Mexican and Honduran parents, and a visual artist experimenting in the mediums of stained glass, experimental video, and installation. Her stained-glass work explores worship, desire, and Latinidad-through-pop-culture-inspired imagery from the early 2000s to today, blending bling and beauty to make the fake feel real. Her works explore the complex relationship between reality and states of being, inviting viewers to reflect on their existence within our natural, digital, and consumer worlds. Her works have been exhibited at Leiminspace, Bellyman, LaPau Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, the California Museum, the Hudson River Museum, Texas Tech University, and Cal State Dominguez Hills, among others. Her work has been recognized by publications such as LVL3 Magazine and the Daily Bruin. Aparicio was a resident at Caldera Arts Residency and the Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE). She earned dual BA degrees in studio art and cognitive science from the University of Virginia in 2018. She then earned her MFA in art from UCLA in 2022. Aparicio is currently based in Pasadena. Katie Delaney (they/them) is a queer, non-binary artist based in Philadelphia. Their practice questions the role of the gender binary in generational trauma by creating work within a “mythspace” that transfigures traditional storytelling. They hold an MFA from the University of Delaware (’24) and a BFA in sculpture from Towson University (’20). Their work has been exhibited internationally at Galería Municipal de Arte, Valparaíso, Chile; virtually at the Alternative Art School, Vox Populi; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; throughout the DMV, ICA Baltimore; Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland; and The Hen House, Washington, D.C. Elaine Fisher received her BA in archaeology and ancient history from the University of Liverpool in 1996 and her MFA from the University of Gloucestershire in 2015. She continues her research independently and collaboratively in the areas of art, archaeology, and depth psychology, through place-based residencies and commissions, including B-side Festival; SLUICE Exchange, Berlin; and most recently at The Florence Trust , London. In 2022 she was invited to exhibit her COVID project Domestic Structures at Project 1628 in Baltimore. Group exhibitions include Fibres at AIR Gallery, Manchester, UK; Garden Party by Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.; and Flat Files at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore. In 2024 Elaine was nominated for a Castlefield Gallery Award for her entry in the Manchester Open Exhibition at HOME, Manchester. She currently lives and works in Manchester. Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza is a Mexican American artist raised in Mexico City and based in San Diego. She engages in gesture-based performance and object making. Eguiarte has shown in group expeditions in both Mexico and the United States, including at the ICA San Diego, Patio Trasero, Brea Gallery, NIXON, Proxyco NYC, Working Title with Project Blank, the New Wight Gallery UCLA, and Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual. Liz Nurenberg (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles–based artist. She received a BFA from Grand Valley State University (2003) and a MFA from Claremont Graduate University (2010). Liz is an associate professor in the Foundation Department at Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles. Liz was awarded a fellowship to Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency and a Helen B. Dooley Fellowship at Claremont Graduate University; she received a California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at such venues as the Holter Museum, Helena, Montana; Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts; Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles; HilbertRaum Gallery, Berlin; Galleri CC, Malmo, Sweden; and the Contemporary Calgary. Stephen Rivas is an interdisciplinary artist raised in Palmdale, California. Working across photography, video, sound, and writing, Rivas creates deeply personal, multilayered works that interrogate intersections of history, identity, and resistance. His work often adopts an autobiographical lens, utilizing multi-channeled projections to weave narratives that explore memory, love, death, joy, anarchy, and the fleeting nature of time within his family’s collective history. Central to Rivas’s practice is the critique of colonial narratives and systems of power. By uncovering the preexisting “threads” of resistance and resilience within his family’s past—what he refers to as “weapons against empires”—Rivas reclaims stories that challenge dominant historical frameworks. As systemic oppression persists, Rivas sees focusing on past resistance as a method of preserving memory and a strategy for imagining liberated futures. His work highlights the connections between historical uprisings and contemporary struggles, emphasizing the enduring relevance of resilience and decentralized resistance. Rivas’s installations invite viewers into a space where personal and political histories collide, emphasizing the importance of storytelling as a tool for survival and subversion. Rivas completed his BFA in 2019 at the California Institute of the Arts, where he began exploring themes of identity, migration, and memory. He later earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2023, further refining his interdisciplinary practice and conceptual approach. A.R. Tran was born in Monterey Park, California, in 1993 and moved to New York in 2011 to attend New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In 2015, he received his BA in Critical Race Theory and visual studies and was awarded the Finish Line Grant and Founder’s Day Award. That same year he was selected to participate in the Gallatin Arts Festival as a visual and performance artist. For more than five years, he worked in arts education and public programming for institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Mark Morris Dance Center and participated in a number of student shows at 205 Hudson Street. In 2020, he enrolled in the University of California, Irvine’s MFA program in art. There he developed his interdisciplinary art practice while taking PhD-level courses in Critical Race Theory and Black studies. In 2022, he was accepted into UC Irvine’s Pedagogical Fellowship program, was nominated for the Tom Angell Fellowship, and was named a Claire Trevor Society Scholar in Art. In spring 2023, he was awarded an Interdisciplinary Research residency at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) and his solo exhibition, entitled "THE ROOT OF DESIRE IN VIOLENT AND I STILL WANT TO BE WANTED", opened at University Art Gallery in Irvine. The exhibition can be viewed in the Joseph Clayes III and Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome Rotunda Galleries at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA 92037) during open hours, Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/events/exhibition-2025-harvest-gather-walk Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram and Facebook

Bad Nerves is coming to Observatory North Park on May 20th, 2025 with special guests Spiritual Cramp and Blair Gun. Visit: https://concerts.livenation.com/event/0B0062381BF552E9 Bad Nerves on Instagram and Facebook

Join Matrida Boazi, the golden voice of St. Luke's, for Jembe Yako, an evening of music in support of the Umoja Choir, connecting the Nyaragusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania with individuals and families across the diaspora. Experience moving performances and compelling multimedia as the community comes together to support this vital cause. The event will take place on Saturday, April 12, at 6 p.m. at St. Luke's North Park, 3725 30th St, San Diego. Suggested donation: $15 at the door. Don’t miss this chance to make a difference through the universal language of music Visit: Jembe Yako: An Evening of Music in Support of the Umoja Refugee Choir

This week's arts and culture show takes us to an event celebrating Black women who are paving the way in San Diego and across the country. Plus, a sit-down with San Diego’s new poet Laureate. Then, our Midday Movies critics share their hottest Oscar takes and more.

Wednesday, March 19 at 6 p.m. Film Forum Coronado Coronado Public Library 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118 (in the Winn Room) (619)-522-7390 Free Film and Discussion Adults Wednesday, March 19 at 6 p.m. "THE QUIET AMERICAN" (1958. 120 min. PG.) - Joseph Mankiewicz directs Graham Greene’s eerily prophetic snapshot of the U.S. meddling in Vietnamese politics in the turbulent 1950s. A world-weary British journalist (Michael Redgrave) and a liberal American aid worker (Audie Murphy) vie for the heart, mind and body of a Saigon woman (Georgia Moll). Largely shot on location in Saigon. FILM FORUM CORONADO is held in the Winn Room at Coronado Public Library, on the first and third Wednesdays, with a brief introduction before the film and a discussion afterward, led by Ralph DeLauro. FILM FORUM CORONADO is presented by Coronado Public Library, the Friends of the Coronado Library and Coronado Island Film Festival.

Looking for San Diego kids camps that spark creativity and learning? Fandory’s Summer Camps offer a variety of exciting programs for all ages, Sign up your kids at Fandory for an unforgettable Summer Kids Baking Camp! Where: Fandory Factory in Rancho Bernardo Who: Kids 4 to 10 years old Summer Camp: June 13 - August 8th Kids Summer Camp Weekly Baking Themes Week 1: June 16th - June 20th - Cookie Baking and Decorating Week 2: June 23rd - June 27th - Cake Pops & Cake Making Week 3: June 30th - July 3rd (4-day week) - Cupcakes Week 4: July 7th - July 11th - Chocolate Week! Everything Chocolate... Week 5: July 14th - July 18th - Muffins & Sweet Treats Week 6: July 21st - July 25th - Pastries & Scones Week 7: July 28th - August 1st - Cake Pops & Cookies Week 8: August 4th - August 8th - Brownies - Smores & Cupcakes Our program offers a fun and creative learning experience where children enjoy baking, fun indoor play, and arts and crafts. Enroll your child today for a memorable and enriching time! Friday is Fun Day - kids will make their own Pizza for Lunch. No need to bring lunch on Friday. Limited spots available! Register today. Please visit Fandory website for more info and to register. Visit: https://www.fandory.com/shop/summerbakecamp/11 Fandory Factory on Instagram and Facebook

The Shore Room at The Seabird Ocean Resort and Spa is set to host its first-ever Local Bartender Competition, bringing together top talent from the region for an exciting evening of mixology, entertainment, and spirited fun. The competition, proudly sponsored by Ilegal Mezcal, will take place in The Shore Room and on the Grand Coastal Terrace, featuring premium brands and interactive activations for guests to enjoy. The event’s theme—Reposado Night—will highlight three distinguished reposado tequilas and mezcals: • Ilegal Mezcal Reposado • Patrón Reposado • Cazadores Reposado Guests will have the opportunity to explore these refined spirits through specialty tastings and brand activations, all while cheering on their favorite bartenders as they compete for top honors. The evening will also feature lawn games, adding a fun and social element to the experience. Competition Details & Prizes • 1st Place: $250 cash prize + a complimentary hotel night at The Seabird Ocean Resort and Spa • 2nd Place: $150 cash prize + Bacardi Gift Bag • 3rd Place: Bacardi Gift Bag This dynamic event is open to the public, inviting locals and visitors alike to experience Oceanside’s vibrant cocktail culture. Whether you’re a cocktail aficionado or simply looking for an unforgettable night out, The Shore Room Bartender Competition is not to be missed! To learn more about The Shore Room visit The Shore Room Bar, Oceanside CA | The Seabird Resort or follow us on social media Facebook / Instagram

"I am deeply troubled by the false allegations regarding the management of the Kennedy Center," Deborah Rutter wrote in a statement.