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This fabulous holiday gift boutique show offers unique, affordable artful gifts in a wide variety of mediums including woodworking, glass, textile art, jewelry, greeting cards, functional and decorative ceramics, gourd art, ornaments, and more - all handcrafted by regional artists perfect for holiday gift giving. Nov. 6 – Dec. 24, 2021 Free Admission Hours: Monday - Saturday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Visit fallbrookartcenter.org or call (760) 728-1414 In Historic Downtown Fallbrook. Free plentiful parking behind the fallbrook art center and on-street. Fallbrook Art Center on Facebook + Instagram

The British-born vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose cool, soulful contralto helped define such classics as "You Make Loving Fun," "Everywhere" and "Don't Stop," died Wednesday.

Acrylic Pour Workshop (Live event), Friday, Nov. 12, 2021 from 2 - 4 p.m. Call it fluid art, liquid art or acrylic pouring. Enjoy the satisfaction of creating abstract masterpieces by letting pigment run amok. All material supplied. Instructor is Beverly Brock. Cost is $10/members; $20 for nonmembers. Supplies presented by the Marilyn Nass Creative Arts Fund. RSVP required Website: https://www.ljcommunitycenter.org Email: info@ljcommunitycenter.org Phone: (858) 459-0831 Visit La Jolla Community on Facebook

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

Xavier Foley is known for communicating his virtuosity and passion for music on the double bass, which is rarely presented as a solo instrument. Winner of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Paiko Foundation Fellowship, and First Prizes at Astral’s 2014 National Auditions, Sphinx’s 2014 Competition, and the 2011 International Society of Bassists Competition. Program: J.S. BACH:Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 (transposed for solo double bass) XAVIER FOLEY:Always on the Move for Double Bass and Piano VIVALDI:Cello Sonata No. 1 in B-flat Major, RV47 (transposed to G major for double bass and piano) XAVIER FOLEY:Lost Child Etude No. 11 “The Singer”Untitled Latin Paradise Date | Sunday, February 27 at 3 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! General seating starting at $51. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/xavier-foley or call (858) 459-3728.

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.

Note: Extended through Jan. 15, 2022. From San Diego Weekend Arts Events (KPBS segment): Quint Gallery meant it when they said they were transforming the "single, monumental work of art" model of the Quint ONE space on Girard. In this new show at that location, it's definitely now "many, small." This quick show to close out the year features works by 21 contemporary artists, including Kim MacConnel, Griselda Rosas, Kelsey Brookes, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Gary Lang, Adrien Couvrat and Thomas DeMello. There'll be sculpture as well as flat works, and all of it will be on the wee side. Details: On view through Dec. 31. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery will be closed on Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1. 7722 Girard Ave., La Jolla. Free. —Julia Dixon Evans From the gallery: To close out our 40th year, Quint Gallery is using the 7722 Girard Avenue gallery to show a large grouping of small works, including painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Artworks by: Michael James Armstrong / Stephanie Bachiero / Adam Belt / Nancy Blum / Kelsey Brookes / Adrien Couvrat / Mara De Luca / Thomas DeMello / Manny Farber / Judy Fiskin / Thomas Glassford / David Ireland / Sasha Koozel Reibstein / Gary Lang / Kim MacConnel / Lee Materazzi / John Millei / Sean Miller / Richard Allen Morris / Patricia Patterson / Griselda Rosas Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1. Related links: Quint Gallery on Instagram Visiting information

From the museum: Opening reception and artist talk: Saturday, Nov. 19 from 5:30-9 p.m. Cog•nate Collective’s interdisciplinary practice holds space for more inclusive forms of community as they explore trans-border territories that expand and contract with the movement of people and objects. In an ongoing body of work, the artists investigate the cultural production, circulation, and consumption that takes place in street markets and swap meets like the ones they grew up visiting on weekends with their families in Southern California and Baja California. These spaces of exchange foster social connection and sustain ties to home-lands near and far for immigrant neighborhoods and working-class communities of color. In Tianquiztli: Portraits of the Market as Portal, the artists inhabit the poetic space that links contemporary marketplaces along the border and pre-Columbian markets in Mexico. Tianguis, a word used for open-air markets in Mexico, is derived from Tianquiztli, meaning “gathering place” in Nahuatl (the language of the Mexica/Aztec people). Tianquiztli is also used to refer to the constellation commonly known as the Pleiades, whose clustered appearance gives the impression of a celestial marketplace. Inspired by the connection between the Tianguis and the stars, Cog•nate undertook a series of projects within marketplaces in the United States-Mexico border region and in Mexico City to underscore the ways that these spaces serve as a crossroads between the celestial and the terrestrial, the symbolic and the material, and the ancestral and our present everyday. These works reflect a vision of markets as spaces whose importance is not solely determined by their economic function, but by their role as a portal, a landscape, a paradigm, and a politics of collectivity we have inherited from our ancestors. One that is re-enacted and approximated to find joy and belonging in the face of social and economic alienation. The chaos, ritual, tenderness, nostalgia, harshness, and frenetic energy of the market are our teachers – what will we learn from them? Learn more about the exhibition and Cog-nate Collective here. Related links: ICA San Diego on Instagram ICA San Diego on Facebook

Elderberry Syrup is the most popular herbal cold remedy and it’s delicious too! Try Elderberry Syrup. Learn how to make elderberry syrup. Meet an Elderberry tree! Herbs are better together! Learn how to make a simple herbal cold care tea blend. Having both of these classic herbal preparations in the cupboard will help you feel better during the winter season. Includes: Elderberry Syrup Demonstration Meet an Elderberry tree at Wild Willow Farm Learn the most common types of Elderberry Trees Demonstration of Elderberry Syrup + Recipe with variations Traditional uses of Elderberry Syrup Take home a small jar of Elderberry Syrup Cold Care Tea Blending Teas are a wonderful way to feel better when you have a cold. Learn a classic cold care tea blend Taste the tea and learn to notice how your body responds to herbs. Learn about the synergy that happens when herbs are blended together Traditional uses of teas for colds Take home a small bag of Cold Care Tea This class is taught by Cindy Saylor, a local herbalist.

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