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They walk on wind, they breathe, they hunker down in the wind, robots without batteries, chips, just a system of levers highly attuned to the environment they inhabit. This course explores the mechanics and philosophy behind Theo Jensen’s “Strandbeests” and other artistic creations that interact with the elements. Far from just a show and tell this course offers materials, knowledge, and space to support design and construction of these creations. This is an in-person workshop. 3rd Grade to 5th Grade

Note: This exhibition has been extended. Gallery hours for the final week are Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. San Ysidro's The Front Arte & Cultura celebrates their 15th anniversary this October. As an art space and event venue, The Front has hosted established and emerging artists from the border region and beyond with a broad range of genres, disciplines and formats, steadfastly exploring identity, place, history, the future, social justice and community. To commemorate the anniversary, they'll fill the month with an exhibition (on view through January 13, 2022) plus receptions, performances from NORTEC: Bostich and Fussible, workshops, panels, film screenings and more. The exhibition opens Oct. 7, with a reception on Oct. 11 from 5-8 p.m. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From the gallery: Casa Familiar has the pleasure to invite you to the commemoration of The FRONT Arte & Cultura’s 15th Anniversary Art Exhibition: El Devenir / Becoming El Devenir / Becoming This exhibition intends to contemplate the past and the future in the same blink of an eye. We accept and place ourselves in that constant process of becoming something else, without completely ceasing to be what we already were and what we already are. The exhibition finds in the values of heritage, tradition, social justice and community a foundation upon which to explore the poetics of the past and present, those that serve to build our own future, our own becoming. This selection of artists and their works reflect upon multiple temporalities, subjects that represent the vision of Casa Familiar and The FRONT, as an art space for the community. These are topics that in this, our 15th anniversary, we honor and respect. They represent matters that convince us even more, that our mission as cultural agents is of utmost importance to our community. The commemoration will also include a special Dj set concert by grammy nominated electronic Tijuana band: Nortec, Bostich + Fussible, (tickets to this concert will be free but limited), as well as a panel discussion with former directors of the gallery, workshops, tours of the exhibition, and the premiere of a retrospective video about the gallery. Participant artists: Marcos Ramirez Erre (TJ). http://marcoserre.com/bio/ Rafael Lozano Hemmer (MEX – CA) https://www.lozano-hemmer.com/bio.php Rizzhel Javier (SD) http://www.rizzheljavier.com/about-rizz Sama Alshaibi (IRAQ- AZ) https://www.samaalshaibi.com/bio Tania Candiani (MEX) https://taniacandiani.com/en/about/ Important dates / Parallel Activities -Exhibition Opens – Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. –Exhibition Opening Reception + Anniversary Commemoration Oct. 11 from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. –NORTEC Bostich + Fussible Dj set Concert Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. (Limited tickets available Oct 1st) -Panel Discussion – The Front Arte & Cultura: Art as the voice of a community, with the participation of Leticia Gomez Franco, David Flores & Monica Hernandez. Moderated by Francisco Morales Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. –Workshop imparted by Rizzhel Javier – Back + Forth: Photo Workshop Nov. 12 from 4 – 8 p.m. –Exhibition tour lead by curator and gallery director Francisco Morales- Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. -Workshop imparted by Sofia Limon – Ceramics: Tradition and Utilitarianism Nov. 19 – 20 at 6 p.m. -Video screening -The FRONT Arte & Cultura retrospective video Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. -Exhibition Closes Jan. 22, 2022

From the organizer: Steinway Artist Susan Merdinger presents her program Four Centuries of Variations, featuring stunning piano works by Beethoven, Schumann, and local award-winning composer Aaron Alter, as well as Franz Liszt's ever popular Paganini Etude No.6 based on the 24th Violin Caprice. A Two-time Gold Medalist of the Global Music Awards and Winner of the American Prize, Merdinger will enhance her performance with commentary on the genre of variations from Baroque to Modern times. Follow on social media: Facebook + Youtube

This 75 minute class takes a deeper focus of Musical theatre dance. Students should have a basic understanding of dance technique. Class will focus on developing artistry, picking up choreography, and and fun energetic appreciation of Musical Theatre Dance. Class will include a physical warm up and different dance combinations. This class is open to both teens and adults, must be 16 to join. Some exceptions considered, email info@teatrosandiego.org with any questions! Drop ins accepted, registration encouraged: https://classbug.com/businesses/3400/offerings

William "Tayari" Howard was also honored for decades of community service.

NOTE: Extended through Jan. 8, 2022. The 2021 San Diego Art Prize recipients are Beliz Iristay, Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite and Perry Vasquez. To commemorate the prize, the recipients will show new work together in a group exhibition at Bread and salt gallery, opening Oct. 9 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. RELATED: Artist Beliz Iristay's 'Movable' Sense Of Home RELATED: Hugo Crosthwaite: A Life In (Stop) Motion RELATED: Panca's 'El Más Allá' Opens At The New Children's Museum RELATED: The California myth of artist Perry Vasquez Opening reception: Saturday, Oct. 9, 5-8 p.m. Bread and Salt gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. From the KPBS/Arts newsletter, Oct. 7, 2021: This weekend, the 2021 San Diego Art Prize exhibition opens at Bread and Salt in Logan Heights, with work from prize winners Panca, Hugo Crosthwaite, Perry Vásquez and Beliz Iristay. The prize has been around since 2006, dreamed up by the San Diego Visual Arts Network, primarily using a mentorship model with two outstanding emerging artists linked with two established artists to create work together. In 2020, the split between emerging and established was set aside, and the four finalists that year (Melissa Walter, Kaori Fukuyama, Alanna Airitam and Griselda Rosas) all agreed to share the honor rather than wait for one winner to be announced, setting the new precedent. I've been following each of the four 2021 artists, and my most recent feature is on Beliz Iristay, who calls Mexico, San Diego and Turkey home — read it here. You can also learn about the way Panca draws on myth and her Tijuana street art roots to invent her own disruptive, vivid and weird narratives. Or read about the way Crosthwaite plays with folklore in his murals and how he uses stop-motion animation to bring portraits, drawings — and his process — to life in my feature here. Artist Perry Vásquez is also having a big month — in addition to showing works in the Art Prize exhibition, he will also open a solo show at Sparks Gallery, "Oasis." All told, he'll be throwing some 75 to 80 works into the world this month alone. I'm especially fond of Vásquez's massive palm tree paintings, including some of them on fire (timely!). He told me that in painting these trees, they become almost sentient. "The format suggests a kind of human-type scale, the anthropomorphic quality. So I feel like I'm painting portraits. I feel like they're very individual," Vásquez said. Watch for my feature on his work next week. Each artist has been busy installing works at the gallery, including a mixture of new works and murals plus older faves we may have seen before. At Saturday's opening reception, stick around for a performance by The Color Forty Nine. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Sign up for the KPBS/Arts newsletter here.

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