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On view: Jan. 15-Mar. 12, 2022 Opening reception: Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Artist walkthrough: Saturday, Jan. 29. 2022 at 11 a.m. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. About the exhibition: Writer Jared Stanley and artist Matthew Hebert collaborate on the interactive sound installation La Jolla Reading Room. Composed of sculptures and sound recordings, the exhibition draws inspiration from the Athenaeum’s collection of over 2,000 artists’ books, as well as the tradition of library reading rooms, places set aside for silent reading and contemplation. The sculptures resemble a set of reading tables arranged in a maze-like pattern within the gallery, and recordings are composed of the voices of writers, artists, and book enthusiasts within the larger San Diego and La Jolla community—a collaged chorus of readers, thinking aloud about the experience of reading and interacting with artists’ books. Stanley and Hebert invited community members to visit the Athenaeum and spend about 45 minutes engaging with selected books in the library’s collection, after which they recorded brief interviews about their experience. Selections from the interviews are included in the installation, blended with the voices of others in the community to create a constantly shifting chorus. “Our fond wish is to have visitors enter a space which seems static, quiet and formal, but which upon entry becomes full of sound, a cacophony of voices filling the air with sounds, ideas, emotions, and tones, creating a loud library, a place where book bound language could be returned to the status of voices, revivifying tones, timbres, accents, and emotions.” –Jared Stanley Major support for this exhibition provided by the University of Nevada, Reno. About the artists: Jared Stanley is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, EARS (Nightboat Books, 2017), The Weeds, (Salt Publishing 2012) and Book Made of Forest (Salt Publishing, 2009), which won the Crashaw Prize for Poetry. His poetry and prose have appeared in many journals including Harvard Review, Triple Canopy, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day and in the anthology Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for the Anthropocene (Wesleyan, 2018). His awards include a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council and the Center for Art + Environment. Born in Arizona, Stanley grew up in northern California and now lives in northern Nevada, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno Matthew Hebert has been working under the studio name eleet warez since completing his undergraduate studies in the mid-90, a name borrowed from hacker culture suggesting the technical sophistication, improvisational spirit, and freewheeling appropriation that is essential to his work. Hebert creates work that deals with technology and its effects on the domestic environment and our sense of space and place, taking recognizable forms and layering new use and meaning onto them. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Berkeley Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco; California Center for the Arts, Escondido; Chicago Cultural Center, and Core77 in New York. He received his BA in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley; and his MFA from California College of the Arts. Hebert has taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, CalArts, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently Associate Professor of Art at San Diego State University. Related links: The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram The Athenaeum on Facebook

COVID-19 cases are once again on the rise in San Diego County, as are hospitalizations. Plus, this past weekend was still one of the busiest for flight travel, but it was met with trip cancellations as the coronavirus spread among flight crews. And, we revisit reporting by KPBS that showed that CalFresh regularly pushes out people who are still eligible for the extra money to help them buy food. Then, the director of UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute speaks about kindness and the impulse to be kind. Later, former North County Times journalist Brian Gushue discusses his new book about achieving his goal of attending 500 NFL games across the country. Also, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando spoke with Chad Patton, managing director of Material Things, which created the “NUNO: The Language of Textiles” exhibit at the Japanese Friendship Garden's Inamori Pavilion.

Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Not available on demand. The exhilarating soprano Lise Davidsen brings one of her signature roles to the Met for the first time as the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss's enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast also features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves.

CCAE Theatricals’ annual celebration of the sweet sound of Motown combines first class music with outstanding performers and an amazing band featuring the D. Ben-Jamin’ Horns under the direction of Duane Benjamin. Included are the the hits of Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes and more. Follow CCAE on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Soprano Dr. Maribel Ruiz-Velasco and pianist Gema García Grijalva will perform works by female composers from Europe, the United States, and Latin America. This intimate concert will give a closer look at the lives of these women artists through the lens of history and culture. Visit: https://coronado.librarycalendar.com/event/through-her-voice-songs-women-composers Dr. Maribel Ruiz-Velasco began her musical studies at a young age with Krzsystof Brzuza. She holds a BA degree in vocal performance and composition from UCSD, where she graduated cum laude. She studied voice with Mary Mackenzie, with whom she continued her graduate study receiving her MM degree in Vocal Performance from SDSU. She then had the opportunity to enrich her vocal pedagogy in Valencia, Spain where she studied with Susanna Puig while attending the Joaquín Rodrigo Superior Conservatory of Music. Upon her return to California, she received a DMA degree in Vocal Performance from Claremont Graduate University under the tutelage of Dr. Camelia Voin. Dr. Ruiz-Velasco has sung operatic roles with Riverside Lyric Opera and the Opera Street Festival in Tijuana, and has performed at the Spanish Music Festival in Granada, Spain; Museo Iconográfico del Quijote in Guanajuato, Mexico; and at the Villa Medici Giulini in Milan, Italy. Currently she teaches voice at USD and enjoys performing locally. Gema García Grijalva is a pianist with a broad range of professional experience as a performer, teacher, and community-outreach entrepreneur. Originally from Tijuana, Gema started her training as a collaborative pianist in 2006 and since then has been an active performer in the San Diego-Baja California region. One of her recent projects is Duo Lebhaft. Garcia Grijalva's performance experience extends from being a classical performer to a vocal and instrumental collaborative pianist. As a soloist she has participated in numerous recitals in Tijuana and San Diego since 2005. Her soloist experience also includes competitions such as “IV Bi-annual International Piano Competition” in Mexicali, Baja California, where she placed second on two occasions. She was also selected to perform at the Schlern International Music Festival in Völs am Schlern, Italy, where she had the opportunity to play in master classes given by internationally renowned piano professors, such as Erna Gulabyan, Tatiana Gerasimova, and Mark Fouxman. Garcia Grijalva's main areas of interest are educational philosophy, critical pedagogy, and collaborative performance. Her future projects include research in those areas, and the practical adaptation of critical educational theories in music education and music performance. She holds a BM in Piano Performance from the University of Baja California where she studied with Ella Korobtchenko, and a MM in Piano Performance from San Diego State University, where her mentor was Dr. Karen Follingstad. She resides in San Diego where she is a full-time Adjunct Instructor of Music. She also teaches young children at San Diego State University’s Community Music Program.

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The world is opening up again, and now’s the best time to dust off your travel journals and memories and learn about travel writing. Have you crossed the country on a motorcycle? Explored Tuscany as a wine expert? Have a great travel memoir to write? Award-winning travel writer/author, Lenore Greiner, will help you develop your area of expertise and choose your travel writing niche. Get practical advice on story angles, deciphering writers’ guidelines, pitching your work, and press trips for free travel. Plus, she’ll cover freelancing and digital opportunities, blogging, social media, authoring your travel memoir and 2022 travel trends. Includes a free workbook with 45 travel writing prompts, examples of travel articles and their structures, ledes, a sample writers guideline, a story pitching guide, and more. If you’re ready to tell your travel stories, then dive in with Lenore and sign up for this popular, engaging class. Please Note: This class will be held IN PERSON at our space in Inspirations Gallery (upstairs in Barracks 16, 2730 Historic Decatur Rd #204, San Diego, CA 92106). While masks are not required, they are encouraged. Thank you!

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From the gallery: Good Faith is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work from artist Justin A. McHugh. A Loss For Words is a reflection on everyday notions of intimacy, vulnerability and communication. Assemblages of found images, found objects, flowers and words meditate on themes of longing, nostalgia, faith and ephemera. From the artist, “...it is about the weight of language and the way we communicate with and interpret each other”. A Loss For Words opens Tuesday, January 10th with a reception from 5-9 p.m. Good Faith is located at 570 19th St, San Diego, CA 92102 in Sherman Heights. Open hours: Thursdays to Sundays, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., through February 5. Justin A. McHugh is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher working in San Diego. Related links: Justin A. McHugh on Instagram Good Faith on Instagram

NPR's Greg Myre has covered more than a dozen wars dating back to the 1980s. He says the conflict in Ukraine is the most documented war ever, providing a view we've never had before.