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Mondays, November 14, 21, 28, Dec. 12 from 5-7 p.m. No experience necessary. Ages 14+ welcome! In this Painting the Figure and Optical Illusions course, students will learn how to: - create expressive figurative stencils using masking tape and X-Acto knives; - develop their understanding of painting compositions, geometric patterns and color schemes; and - make mind-bending optical illusions that conceal hidden messages. Over the course of the 4 weeks, we will work towards producing a convincing, vibrant and thought-provoking painting that includes all of these elements. This class is a special course created by and taught by our current artist in residence, Suley, through San Diego Craft Collective’s Fellowship program. • Scholarships available • Homeschoolers welcome • Military and sibling discounts

Join The Hive and Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival for an experiential walking tour through the city of Shushan – filled with live dance, music, and merriment as we bring the ancient voices of the Purim story to life. Don’t miss an entertaining afternoon, including original performances from San Diego Ballet and vignettes curated by the San Diego Repertory Theatre! Admission: Pay-What-You-Can, valued at $18/person Tickets must be purchased online prior to event. Special ticket price for the last showing! Ticketing Website: https://leichtag.org/event/stroll-thru-shushan-a-purim-promenade/ Visit thehivesd.org or email info@thehivesd.org for more information.

Help us give a great big welcome to the students from the San Diego's Youth Symphony's Ovation-level program. This group of highly-experienced young musicians has earned a reputation as one of the nation's finest youth orchestras. Comprised of roughly 50 musicians (ages 14-18), students will perform under the leadership of SDYS' new Artistic Director, Sameer Patel (former Associate Conductor San Diego Symphony). Bring your entire family and all your friends to experience these wonderful performers!

Drawing from experience and self-directed research, Rayyane Tabet explores stories that offer an alternative understanding of major socio-political events through individual narratives. Informed by his training in architecture and sculpture, his work investigates paradoxes in the built environment and its history by way of installations, interventions and performances that reconstitute the perception of physical and temporal distance. For more information, please visit here.

The SD Master Chorale proudly presents the world premiere of Marcos Balter's original Portuguese version of "Livro das Cores / Book of Colors," commissioned in celebration of the Chorale's 60th season. There will be a 4:00 p.m. pre-concert talk about this new a cappella creation by the up-and-coming Brazilian composer, who was on the faculty of UC San Diego before becoming the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University in New York City. Balter was honored in January as one of the Washington Post's "22 for '22: Composers and performers to watch this year." 50 voices from the SD Master Chorale, conducted by Dr. John K. Russell. Portions of this evening's program (by Brahms, Lauridsen, and others) will have piano accompaniment by Bryan Verhoye. Ticket Prices: Adult : $25 Senior 65yrs+: $20 Student 13yrs+: $15 Active Military: $15 Child <13yrs: Free

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

From the gallery: Join us Oct. 29 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. for a very special one-day only Book Release and Exhibition celebrating our good Friend and Artist Andrew Alcasid @andrewalcasid This Special Exhibition is the launch of the 2nd Publication of Bread & Salt Press-Andrew Alcasid: BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) The Exhibition is meant to act as a fundraiser for Andrew and will exclusively show the 138 original framed watercolor paintings which make up the BMT publication with an essay in the book from Aubrey Mejia @fibonacciflorals This Book is limited to 138 copies and will only be sold with the purchase of one framed original Watercolor from the book.all the books are signed and numbered by the artist The book is printed on high quality paper in the US with a letter-pressed Linen cover We hope you join us in making this fundraiser a huge success Excerpt from the Essay in the book by Aubrey Mejia- The incessant mechanical whirring. The rhythmic clicking of machinery turned off and on. The cold and clinical air and the faint scent of disinfectant. A small, plastic cup of freshly cubed watermelons. In September and October of the year 2020, fires, carried by the Santa Ana winds, swept over and ravaged the California hillsides during record breaking heatwaves. Meanwhile, a global pandemic kept millions of citizens around the world locked in their homes. Alongside this, Andrew Alcasid sat in his own kind of isolation in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit at the Jacobs Medical Center at the University of California, San Diego. Related links: Bread and Salt on Instagram Andrew Alcasid on Instagram

Sunday, Aug.7, 2022 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Discover how two American composers are inspired by their respective Brazilian and Indian immigrant roots with influences that include a Brazilian martial art dance "fought" to music and Indian scales and rhythms.

From the gallery: Please join BEST PRACTICE on Saturday, Oct. 23 from 6-8:30 p.m. in the Brick Room at Bread & Salt, 1955 Julian Avenue 92113 for our first art auction fundraiser. Funds raised at this event will go towards some exciting future programming. This Fall marks our five year anniversary — thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way. We're in disbelief that opening a small bulletin-board gallery has led us to this point. We are grateful to the following artists (and to Mark Quint too) for the contribution of works to the auction: Brody Albert, Andrew Alcasid, Trevor Amery, Robert Andrade, Farshid Bazmandegan, Jennifer Anne Bennett, Lyndsay Bloom, John Brinton Hogan, Kelsey Brookes, Jessica Buie, Alida Cervantes, Andrea Chung, Kate Clark, Andy Cross, Anna Delgado, Nicole Deline, Thomas Demello, Tom Driscoll, Patrick Dunford, Corey Dunlap, Victoria Fu, Kaori Fukuyama, Anya Gallaccio, Kim Garcia, Sofia V. Gonzalez, Cristobal Gracia, Marina Grize, Matthew Hebert, Gosia Herc, Audrey Hope, Sarah Hotchkiss, Janelle Iglesias, Farrah Karapetian, Yasmine K. Kasem, Richard Keely, Bill Kelly, Alexander Kohnke, Jason Lane, John Oliver Lewis, Thomas Macie, Keaton Macon, Jessica Mccambly, Dominic Miller, Nina Montejano, Michelle Montjoy, Lorena Mostajo, Nikko Mueller, Mike Mulno, Mauricio Muñoz, J Noland, Kathryn O’halloran, Noé Olivas, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, Scott Polach, Matt Rich, Andrew Roberts, Barbara Sexton, Mindy Solis, Eva Struble, Walter Sutin, Joshua Tonies, Perry Vasquez, Evelyn Walker, Melissa Walter, Allison Wiese and Joe Yorty. Our current exhibition, Alida Cervantes' "El desastre que dejaste," will also be open the evening of the auction. About Best Practice: BES PRACTICE was founded by Joe Yorty and Allie Mundt in 2016. Situated in the historic Logan Heights neighborhood of San Diego, BEST PRACTICE is a not-for-profit art gallery that promotes artists and curators whose work stimulates discourse. Our programming is rooted in the belief that compelling art poses more questions than answers, and that dignity, diversity, and equity are crucial to this commitment. For its first two years, BEST PRACTICE existed at two locations in San Diego — within an institutional glass-enclosed bulletin board housed within the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History at the University of San Diego, and on a Sony Trinitron video monitor installed at Helmuth Projects which screened video works to the street around the clock. In 2019, BEST PRACTICE opened its first gallery space on Kearney Avenue in Logan Heights where more than a dozen exhibitions and events took place. BEST PRACTICE relocated three city blocks in 2021 to its current space at Bread & Salt at 1955 Julian Avenue.

February is the designated month to celebrate and honor African Americans, and SDSU has a loaded calendar of events to celebrate African Americans and their contributions to our society. The Black Resource Center, Africana Studies, Afrikan Student Union and various Black student organizations have planned robust and educational programming this year with campus and community partners. This month’s events focus on local advocacy, issues related to overcoming colorism and racism, as well as our usual programming to empower Black students. Our Black History Month events list includes: African American Mentoring Program | Tuesday, February 15 at 11 a.m. AAMP seeks to enhance graduate students' professional growth, self-awareness, self-confidence, cultural responsiveness, and historical presence. Click here for more information. Protest Music: Creative Writing Workshop | Wednesday, February 16 at 4:30 Participants will review a range of music including selections from Billie Holiday to Kendrick Lamar and create their own poetry inspired by Black History Month. Click here for more information. Stacy Dyson Poetry Event | Thursday, February 17 at 5:30 p.m. Poet, Stacy Dyson, is the featured artist for this event. SDSU students will also have the opportunity to share spoken word and other open mic artistry. Movie Night: "Dark Girls" | Thursday, February 17 at 7 p.m. Students are invited to the Black Resource Center to watch a movie and have a discussion on colorism within the black community. SDSUs Women's Basketball Game | Saturday, February 19 at 1 p.m. "Together We Rise for Black History." This basketball game will have a special halftime show featuring performances to honor Black History Month. Paint Taks | Monday, February 21 at 6:30 p.m. Paint Talks is a space to connect with the community and express yourself through art and discussion. Blackness is Queerness | Tuesday, February 22 at 2 p.m. Come paint with us! Students will have the opportunity to paint a character/trans icon from the show, POSE, and learn about important Black, queer figures. The SDSU Black History Month events and workshops are free and open for SDSU Students and Staff. For more information, please visit sacd.sdsu.edu/black-resource/black_history_month or call (619) 594-5200.