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Join us for an after-hours event and watch the Museum transform to host hands-on activity booths featuring science, technology, reading, engineering, art, and math (STREAM)! Date | Saturday, July 23 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Location | San Diego Children's Discovery Museum Purchase tickets here! Through hands-on activity booths and an endless amount of fun, children will learn about: -Paper chromatography -Toy engineering -The solar system with NASA Solar System Ambassadors -Snap circuits Plus, you won't want to miss our featured activities! -Escondido Fire Department's Fire Truck -Dr. Bronner's Magic Foam Experience Conducting science experiments is hard work! Be sure to enjoy Indian-fusion cuisine from Krishna's Kitchens Food Truck and a sweet treat from The Baked Bear! For further information on this event please visit: https://www.sdcdm.org/sciencenight

Join us as the City of Chula Vista hosts the South County’s largest Earth Day celebration at the free family- friendly 2022 South Bay Earth Day event! We will be showcasing many fun, sustainable activities, products, and services that will help you reduce your impact on the environment, save money, and live a greener lifestyle. Be inspired to be more environmentally friendly with topics that range from zero waste living to how to properly compost your own waste. This free event welcomes all ages, so gather friends and family to show Mother Nature some love this Earth Day! The event will feature the following activities for free: • Fix-it-Clinic – Have something that needs fixing—electronics, sewing, mechanical or otherwise—bring it to the Fix-it-Clinic where one of our experts will help you diagnose and fix the problem. • “Cutify” – upcycled shirts and bags and watch them go from boring to awesome! • Reuse and Repair Area – Learn all about ways to reuse, upcycle, repurpose, and repair before tossing something out at the Reuse and Repair Area. • Free Food Waste Kitchen Caddy – Make food waste collection easy, come by and pick up a FREE food waste collection caddy for your kitchen countertop. • Free Compost Giveaway – Replenish the soil health of your yard and garden, FREE compost will be available for residents to pick up. Load your own (bring a bucket or a bag; supplies are limited). • Artist Alley – Gift your eyes with the sight of beautiful art creations with environmentally safe art exhibits at the Artist Alley. • Bike Corral – Opt for your human-powered vehicle (your bike!) and check it in at our designated bike-only valet located on the northeast corner of the park. • Sustainable Vendors – Gain knowledge and browse products from 40+ environmentally conscious companies and community partners. Date | Saturday, April 9, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location | Memorial Park This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (619) 691-5122 or e-mail environmentalservices@chulavistaca.gov.

The Timken Museum’s painting of the early Christian hermit, St. Anthony the Great, by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (c. 1515-20) attracts more than the passing attention of some visitors, many of whom take time to assess the artist’s message. Savoldo’s portrayal of the hermit running from a world of darkness and evil toward a peaceful world of goodness and beauty is especially intriguing because the hermit is not just escaping the evil darkness; he is also looking back at it. With regret? Was he possibly reneging on his choice to escape evil’s clutches? This famous 4th century hermit, later considered the founder of monasticism, has inspired paintings by many artists. This docent-led talk will survey some of those portrayals and the commentary they have inspired. Speaker: Florence Gillman, Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies, USD Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Based on the belief that “Art is Everything”, attendees of all ages are welcome to explore hands-on activities in several disciplines including art, gardening, wellness, music and more. AnomaR is sponsored by 2Create, Inc. and The Art Center of Ramona, both 501(c)(3) organizations. Proceeds benefit The Art Center with grants made available to local high school art programs. Advance tickets for adults and children are $15 until June 6. Tickets purchased after June 6 will be $20. Children 6 years old and younger will receive free entry.

Become a Master Composter! The five-week Master Composter course provides training in the art and science of composting. The course includes lectures, guest speakers, demonstrations, and a field trip. Minimize your carbon footprint. Keeping food and yard waste out of the landfill reduces harmful methane gas emissions. Use this "waste" to create amendments for your garden. Compost use reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Reduce water use and increase water retention. Compost increases your soil's water-holding capacity and improves water retention. The Master Composter course provides training in the art and science of composting. The course includes lectures, demonstrations, and a field trip. The course covers the following topics: Traditional composting Compost bin building and troubleshooting (in teams!) Vermicomposting Bokashi Bugs in your compost pile Environmental impacts Much more! Master Composter certification requires attendance at all 5 classes, as well as 30 volunteer hours of related community service. Meet new people in this fun, hands-on course and develop your composting knowledge, all while serving your community! Class size is limited. This class will meet Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. : Week 1 - May 7 Week 2 - May 14 Week 3 - May 21 [No class on Memorial Day weekend] Week 4 - June 4 Week 5 - June 11 Residents of unincorporated San Diego County will receive preferential registration. All others will be placed on a waitlist and apprised of space available 1-2 weeks before the start of the course. SPECIAL OFFER! All participants will receive a free kitchen scrap container* after attending the first two classes. Class graduates will receive their choice of the following*: 1 Soil Saver traditional compost bin, or 1 Wriggly Wranch vermicompost bin. Hold your free spot: https://bit.ly/35qdoJo This course has been made possible through generous funding from the County of San Diego. In partnership with the Spring Valley Branch Library. *Limit 1 per household.

From the organizers: Memphis-bred, Grammy-nominated bassist/composer Stephan Crump is an active bandleader with fifteen critically-acclaimed album releases and numerous film scoring contributions. An exercise in profound vulnerability, Stephan’s solo performance explores his unique musical language through an expansive range of sonorities on the acoustic bass. It is a culmination of decades of work as a bassist, composer, and improviser. From his home studio in Brooklyn, Crump released monthly solo recordings from 2020 into 2021 for a fan-supported series via his Bandcamp page. The new album, "Rocket Love", is curated from this body of work. Known for transforming his instrument into a speaking entity of magnetic pull, Crump's focus on creative instrumental music has led to collaborations with many of the leading lights of his generation, most notably Vijay Iyer, in whose trio and sextet he played a dynamic, founding role. Stephan can also be heard as long-standing member of Jen Chapin Trio, Ches Smith Trio, Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet, Liberty Ellman Sextet, Secret Keeper (duo with Mary Halvorson), his own Rosetta Trio (with Jamie Fox, Liberty Ellman), his Rhombal quartet (with Ellery Eskelin, Adam O’Farrill, Tyshawn Sorey), Borderlands Trio (with Kris Davis, Eric McPherson) as well as co-led ensembles with Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Mat Maneri, and Okkyung Lee. Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

The Cereal Factory is an incredible pop-up Insta-museum dedicated to the celebration of all kinds of cereals from all things sweet through to a series of amazing sensory rooms. Relive your childhood as you climb a weetabix inspired staircase, splash about in a giant fruit loop inspired ball pit and spin the Wheel O'Cereal. Take a swing surrounded by corn flakes, dance inside a giant coco-pop bubble machine and pose for a cereal selfie in our rice crispy room. Visit the Cereal Garden where you'll be able to make your own cereal products brought to life with a whole new twist. Other attractions include a huge cereal-themed neon installation, ‘press for cereal’ button and cereal art by upcoming artists. The Cereal Factory is a truly unique experience for adults and kids alike. For the first time, there will be adults only nights on Thursdays and Fridays and a cereal-themed Café where you can indulge your senses even further with cereal cocktails. Date | Ongoing from Sunday, May 1 through Saturday, December 31 Location | TBA Get tickets here! Join the waitlist today. For more information, please visit www.thecerealfactory.com.

Be a part of our Refresh and React series and invest in the fundamentals shared by all artists, no matter if you are a seasoned pro or early on in your creative development. Join Robin Douglas for a two-day workshop to take a fresh look at your work by revisiting the basics and expand your repertoire of multiple painting techniques by using multiple layers, overlapping and transparent washes, impasto, glazes, hard edge and more inventive processes. With an emphasis on the study of color in nature, all supplies for your original artwork will be provided and artists of all levels are welcome. Date | Monday, March 7, 2022, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 1pm Location | Oceanside Museum of Art Purchase tickets here! $70-$100 For further information on this event please visit the website: https://oma-online.org/events/remarkable-painting-techniques/?ri=0!

This weekend in the arts: Mainly Mozart's All-Star Orchestra Fest begins; two new Park Social installations; "PROUD+" at The Studio Door; "Cinderella" at Moonlight Amphitheatre; Erika Torri at the Athenaeum; The Inflorescence and Sunday Cruise at Public Square and more.

Note: A previously announced opening reception scheduled for Jan. 8 has been canceled. The work will be viewable during regular gallery hours. From the gallery: About the installation: Quint Gallery’s ONE will begin 2022 with Roman de Salvo’s Electric Picnic Redux, originally created during a residency at San Diego’s Timken Museum in 2019 (pictured). Prompted to respond to works in their collection of European Old Masters, de Salvo chose Blindman’s Buff, a 1775 Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and focused on a tree on which a whimsical group of French aristocracy play games and lounge about. In Electric Picnic, de Salvo used common modular hardware to rebuild this tree as a metal sculpture surrounded by benches for viewers to become active participants in the main hall of the museum. In this iteration, Electric Picnic Redux, de Salvo has replaced those benches in favor of placing the sculpture on an oak log base, as well as removed lights which originally stood in for the leaves and blossoms on Fragonard’s tree. Taken by itself, the work reflects the artist’s long standing curiosity in the duality of material: creating the ornate out of the utilitarian, and imbuing natural, raw material with electricity and modularity. About the artist: Roman de Salvo’s public art can be seen throughout San Diego, with his most recent commissioned work at Mission Trails Regional Park. Titled Fountain Mountain, this permanent work is a functioning water fountain built into a boulder carved with trail-like channels around its surface. De Salvo’s work has also been featured at the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the 2002 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum, Insite 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico, and Giverny Garden Projects at the Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France. He lives and works in San Diego. Related links: Quint ONE on Instagram Roman de Salvo on Instagram