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This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Fashion, publishing, design and music at MCASD; pompom art; "The Ballad of Johnny and June"; Ravel's "Mother Goose"; "Mrs. Doubtfire"; a new art space; live music picks and more.

Voters in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky signaled support for abortion rights, even where it wasn't directly on the ballot, more than a year after the Supreme Court rolled them back.

Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' Nov. 8, 2022 election guide for the 49th Congressional District race.

In Kenya, someone with symptoms of dementia may not be able to get a diagnosis — leaving both patient and family with no idea of what is going on. A program is trying to change that.

The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center invites you to the exhibition Lumière de California with a public reception on Saturday, May 21 from 4:30p.m. to 7:00p.m.. The exhibition explores the light of California as captured by painters in nature by members of the California Art Club, the oldest plein air club in California. The plein air paintings will be on view from May 21 – June 24, 2022 in the museum. Lumière de California celebrates the unique light of California as expressed through forty-three artworks exploring the essence of morning light, afternoon sun, as well as twilight throughout the state. Sky, water and mountains interact to express the beauty of California. Artists in the exhibition include Brian Belfield, Scottie Brown, Tonya Burdine, Gloria Chadwick, Rick Delanty, Mark Fehlman, Roger Gordon, Laurie Hendricks, Carolyn Hesse-Low (artwork “Skies over Hwys” featured above), Michael Hill, Debra Holliday, Debra Huse, Rose Irelan, Chuck Kovacic, Lester Machado, Rich Magram, Brad Neal, Jon Olson, Kathryn Peterson, Robin Purcell, Daniel Raminfard, Jeff Remmer, Jeannine Savedra, Lisa Skelly, Joyce Trinh, Sharon Weaver and Jeff Yeomans. California Art Club members from around the state will gather for this exhibition including artists from San Diego, La Jolla, Laguna Beach, Long Beach, San Clemente, Newport Beach, Carlsbad, Escondido, Pomona, Poway, Los Angeles, North Hills, Crestline, Agoura Hills, Monrovia and Valley Village. The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center (BMCC) is located in South Bay San Diego along the Sweetwater River. From the mountains to the bay, the Sweetwater valley is an ideal location for plein air painting. Plein air painter Alfred Mitchell started the Chula Vista Art Guild over seventy years ago to document the flora and fauna of South Bay San Diego. The museum organizes a yearly exhibition celebrating plein air painting and through Lumiere de California we celebrate the artist and their ability to capture this spectacular light. The museum is located at 4355 Bonita Road in Bonita, CA. website: bonitahistoricalsociety.org

It's considered the world's most polluted megacity. The air is so bad that a new report estimates that on average each resident loses 12 years of life. Here's what they're doing about it.

The medical dangers of heat are real. But people often ignore public heat alerts, or don't know how vulnerable they are. A new alert system prompts clinicians to talk about heat with patients.

Vanguard Culture presents the ENVZN23: Urban Art Takeover, a visual and performing arts festival that will transform numerous warehouses, industrial spaces, and other urban areas of the Commercial Street corridor in Logan Heights. Two full city blocks will be activated with multi-sensory art interventions by creatives from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Visitors will experience live dance, puppetry, and theatre performances on warehouse loading docks, a fashion show by Fashion Week San Diego in an industrial storage lot, art installations with curated soundscapes by Tijuana-based multimedia artist MALU, a short film festival inside a crossfit gym, delicious food and drink by local vendors, dance performances along the trolley line and much more. ENVZN23 will respond to the urban landscape by integrating curated sound and theatrical lighting design throughout. ENVZN23 is designed as a recurring event and will return during the year-long celebrations of World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024 for an audience of thousands of design professionals, art patrons, and other culture-seekers from the San Diego Tijuana region and around the world. ENVZN23 will feature programming by more than 40 visionary artists and arts organizations from both sides of the border including Larry & Debby Kline, Perry Vasquez, Cat Chiu Phillips, Hayley Thomas, Jose Hugo Sanchez, Doris Bittar, Natalie Gonzalez, Malashock Dance, Fashion Week San Diego, San Diego Sister Cities Association, San Diego Filipino Cinema, Coronado Island Film Festival, San Diego Italian Film Festival, La Jolla Historical Society, Art of Elan, Disco Riot, The Frontera Project, ArtWalk San Diego, XoQue Art in Motion, Abordo Teatro, George Sarah, ConnectArte, Marilu Salinas, Mesa College Art Gallery, Hoverlay Augmented Reality, Baja Wine + Food, Westward Entertainment, and more. Schedule: 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. VIP Wine + Culinary Experience at the Soap Factory lounge. 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Art Exhibitions & Cultural Program This is an all-ages event. Food & beverages will be available for purchase. Location: This event has two entry points and runs between them with programming throughout the entire corridor of Commercial Street between 30th & 32nd Street. Lined with eclectic warehouses and empty lots, this corridor of Logan Heights is fast becoming a home for creative spaces, community gatherings, and trending local businesses. This event has two entry points and runs between them with programming throughout: The Soap Factory 2995 Commercial Street San Diego, CA 92113 AND The 32nd & Commercial Street Trolley Station San Diego, CA 92113

A longtime pastor says the question used to be how can the church change the culture? Now, it's how do they change the culture of the church? Ways range from gardening to food giveaways to fire pits.

The Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts is pleased to invite you to the Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023 at 5 p.m. at the Mosaic 113 Auditorium in the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood. RSVP NOW Abstract A flurry of articles appearing shortly after Black Panther’s release proffered different, even opposed, readings of its politics, all of which centered on its “villain,” Erik Killmonger. To understand the movie’s politics, it seems, one had to understand Killmonger — the pervading question was: Should Killmonger be regarded as representative, and if he is (or if he isn’t), what is he representative (or not representative) of? To think this through, though, one has to move beyond the script (what the movie says) to think about Black Panther as an aesthetic, phenomenological, and rhetorical experience (what it does). Identification is crucial to cinematic rhetoric, and performance is crucial to identification. T’Challa and Killmonger don’t just espouse ideological positions, they struggle to articulate or understand their place in the world, and Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan contribute mightily to our awareness of their struggles. Here and in his earlier roles, Jordan gives us gentle, fundamentally decent characters who can hardly catch a break, in stark contrast to the regality of Chadwick Boseman’s characters, who are confident, entitled. The first half of Professor Bukatman's talk will focus on these two performances and the ways they complicate simple dichotomies of meaning. Then, to fully appreciate Boseman’s contribution, Professor Bukatman will explore the body of Black superheroes historically, as well as the projection of presence that Boseman brings to the screen. The quest for role models that “look like me” usually refers to moral rather than physical strength; physical strength is generally valued as a manifestation of moral strength. But it’s possible to skip the “moral” part and still have something to identify with: a corporeal rather than a moral identification. There’s more at stake than “balanced” representation and moral positivity in the intersection of Black (and other Other) bodies with superhero bodies. There’s also the ability to display power in what might seem like the least radical of terms: the power to be seen, to be seen as you choose to be, the power to fight, the power to fight back, the power to imagine alternative ways of being, and embody new ways of belonging in the world. “As you can see,” T’Challa announces to Killmonger, “I am not dead!” Bukatman's talk will explore the stakes involved, ideologically and performatively, in that affirmation. Biography Scott Bukatman is professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His work has long explored the alternative bodies popular media has produced in droves in comedy, animation, musicals, and superhero media. His books include Hellboy’s World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins (University of California Press) and, most recently, Black Panther, part of the 21st Century Film Essentials series (University of Texas Press). Location: The Mosaic 113 Auditorium is located in the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts at UC San Diego (Mosaic Building). Parking: The closest visitor parking is located in the Scholars Parking underground parking structure. Weekend parking is $2/hour. Questions: Email surajisranicenter@ucsd.edu. By registering for this event you agree to receive future correspondence from the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, from which you can unsubscribe at any time.