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Studio ACE is proud to present the first annual Valley Arts Festival (VAF), supported by a grant from The Conrad Prebys Foundation, with promotional sponsorship by Visit Oceanside. Like so many others, the festival was put on hold in 2020, allowing time for reflection and reinvention. We are pleased to announce the festival is making its official reemergence in 2021 as Valley Arts Festival, which will remain an annual celebration of arts and culture, now featuring different themes each year. To mark its official debut, Valley Arts Festival is pleased to present a celebration of Oceanside and its first peoples: the Payómkawichum (People of the West). The festival aims to help support and celebrate the indigenous population that lived on the land, now known as Oceanside. Valley Arts Festival will help educate the community on the beauty and strength of this amazing culture. A portion of proceeds from the festival will be donated to the San Luis Rey Mission Indian Foundation for enrichment programs. This free family-friendly festival will feature: • Native American flute music with Spiritual Storm • Native American blues music with Tracy Lee Nelson • Indian Fry Bread for purchase • Educational tables filled with historic cultural items and more! Date | Saturday, November 6 from noon to 3 p.m. Location | Heritage Park, Oceanside Free admission. Free parking. For more information please go to studioace.org/valley-arts-festival or call 760-730-5203.

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Get ready to eat, drink and be merry! The San Marcos Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the return of the San Marcos Holiday Market at North City for a third consecutive year where guests can partake in the festive winter holiday spirit. The beloved open-air market returns to North City on Sunday, December 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will feature over 100 local artisans and crafters. Guests will enjoy cheerful live music while shopping for unique holiday gifts, decorations, pre-packaged food, and treats, and indulge in a variety of delicious seasonal food and beverages. This event is for everyone to enjoy, even Santa Claus will be paying a special visit. The Holiday Market is free and is located at 251 North City Drive, off Hwy 78 & Twin Oaks Valley Road, near Cal State University San Marcos. For additional information please contact Melanie Jamil with the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce at (760) 744-1270 or melanie@sanmarcoschamber.com. SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

From the museum: Emphasizing iconic images by some of the most famous photographers from the 20th century to the present, this exhibition presents a broad sampling from the substantial holdings of local collectors Cam and Wanda Garner. This group of pictures, diverse in subject, style, photographic medium, and chronology, presents an occasion to reflect on photography’s role in history and society, and to consider its future trajectory. RELATED: San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Photography, art, electroacoustic music, Palestininan poetry and two local-style Christmas plays (KPBS arts segment) The exhibition is grouped thematically into three sections. The first, "Reflections on Nature," presents a variety of landscapes, including work by the acclaimed Ansel Adams and Minor White, and organic aesthetics. "Things as They Are" analyzes documents of the city, society, and conflict with familiar examples from Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. The final section, "Manipulating Reality," looks at expressions of abstraction and allegory in the medium from early 20th-century work by Frank Eugene and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, to the contemporary cinematic dreamscapes of Gregory Crewdson. NOTE: Originally installed in November 2020, but closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Masters of Photography: The Garner Collection is now reopening to the public November 20, 2021 – February 21, 2022. Related Links: Exhibition information Visiting and admission information SDMA on Instagram SDMA on Facebook

Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, "What Kind of Woman", which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Kate’s second full-length book of traditional poetry, And Yet, dives deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of her writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss. Taken together, these poems demonstrate the remarkable evolution of a writer and an artist working at the height of her craft, pushing herself and her poetry in a beautiful and impressive way. Intimate, evocative, and bold, Kate’s beguiling poetry firmly positions her in the company of Dorianne Laux, Mary Oliver, Maggie Nelson, and other great female poets of our time. Kate Baer is a poet based on the East Coast. Her first book, "What Kind Of Woman" (2020), was a #1 New York Times Instant Bestseller and featured in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue.com & The Chicago Review. Her second collection of poems "I Hope This Finds You Well" (2021) was also a New York Times Bestseller and featured in Entertainment Weekly, Goop, and Cup of Jo. Her work has also been published in Romper, Literary Hub and The New York Times. Her third collection "AND YET" comes out November 2022. Katie Manning is the founding editor of Whale Road Review and a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University. Her most recent collections are "Tasty Other" (Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award), "How to Play" (Louisiana Literature Press), and "28,065 Nights" (River Glass Books). Her poem “What to Expect” was the season three finale on the Poetry Unbound podcast. Kate Baer on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Lawmakers in Tennessee are advancing a bill that would restrict drag show performances in the state. This bill and others like it threaten the LGBTQ community as well as businesses, critics say.

Organizers said recent local discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community partly motivated the historic display of support.

The beloved singer-songwriter performed in front of more than 20,000 fans at an idyllic amphitheater in rural Washington state.

NOTE: The Powers New Voices Festival 2022 has been rescheduled for April 6-10, 2022. Reservations by phone. The Old Globe's Powers New Voices Festival 2022 is divided into two segments and takes place at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. The first, on day 1 (Friday, Apr. 8) features the Community Voices program and partnership with SoulKiss Theater. The second segment, Festival Series of New American Play Readings, takes place Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 9-10. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Ticket Services Department at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623). A line for standby seating will form 30 minutes before each performance of the Powers New Voices Festival. Based on ticket-holder attendance, those standing in the standby line may be seated. Seating is based on seat availability and is not guaranteed. Latecomers with tickets are also not guaranteed admittance. DAY 1: Celebrating Community Voices: An evening of two one-act plays from The Old Globe Friday, April 8, 2022. 7:30 p.m. The Powers New Voices Festival kicks off with "Celebrating Community Voices," an evening of short works created by San Diego playwrights through the Globe’s arts engagement programs Community Voices and coLAB. In collaboration with SoulKiss Theater, this evening will feature the one-act readings of "Game Night" by Queen Kandi Cole and directed by Bibi Mama and "And We Danced" by Miki Vale and directed by Jacole Kitchen. For Celebrating Community Voices, playwrights Ngozi Anyanwu and Liza Jesse Peterson served as mentors to Vale and Cole, respectively. "And We Danced" By Miki Vale Directed by Jacole Kitchen An exploration of the life and impact of Ruth Ellis, a Black, openly queer woman and LGBTQIA activist from the 1940s who created a safe haven and sustained advocacy for the Queer Black community of Detroit. "Game Night" By Queen Kandi Cole Directed by Bibi Mama A group of friends gather for a night of games but wind up digging into the complexities of their diverse backgrounds and belief structures post-pandemic during a chaotic and hilarious evening of libations and truth-telling. DAY 2: 'Regular' Saturday, Apr. 9, 2022 4 p.m. By Ngozi Anyanwu Directed by Patricia McGregor Black love. Is it a thing? And if so…. What is it in practice? Seriously… like in real life not in movies? What does it look like Sound like, Smell like across generations Across cultures Do we really want that old thang that our parents had? And by we I mean the Blacks. What if we could explore it like any other ideation of love? What if the way we talked about Black love was just, like ……. Regular? 'Exotic Deadly: Or The MSG Play' Saturday, Apr. 9, 2022 7:30 p.m. By Keiko Green Directed by Jesca Prudencio It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high schooler whose world comes crashing down with a terrible discovery: her family is responsible for manufacturing MSG, the poison spice getting all the kids hooked! Meanwhile, a cool new girl, Exotic Deadly, arrives from Japan, and she’s not playing by the rules. In this time-traveling adventure, Ami vows to save the world from MSG and realizes what she’s capable of, if she could just get off the ocean floor.... DAY 3: 'The Red and the Black' Sunday, Apr. 10 2022 4 p.m. By Keelay Gipson Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III You know that thing new couples do? Where they invite their other coupled friends to a weekend away to show off their new relationship? This play takes place in the Berkshires during one such weekend. And what was supposed to be a ritualistic coming together of friends spirals into something much different by the weekend’s end. A meditation on the rise of New Black Conservatism, The Red and the Black toys with the notion that all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk. Related Links: The Old Globe Arts Engagement on Instagram The Old Globe on Instagram The Old Globe Arts Engagement on Facebook The Old Globe on Facebook The Old Globe's COVID-19 policy

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