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The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition is designed to discover promising young opera singers and assist in the development of their careers. It has been sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council since 1954, including members and hundreds of volunteers from across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Some of today’s greatest singers got their start in the auditions, including Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Stephanie Blythe, Eric Owens, Lawrence Brownlee, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Ryan Speedo Green, and Nadine Sierra. Please join us for the 2022 San Diego District Auditions! Date | Saturday, January 22 at 10 a.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center This is free event, no registration required. A donation is respectfully requested. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/met-opera-sd-auditions or call (858) 459.3728.

Members of the Writers Guild of America are asking for a larger piece of the streaming platforms' pie. The WGA said picketing would begin Tuesday afternoon.

The Media Arts Center of San Diego helps elementary school students learn about movie making during their spring break.

Stream now with the PBS App! Join award-winning singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé as she discovers her grandparents’ remarkable stories of wartime courage, spanning World War II, the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya, and the fight for independence in Zambia.

Do you own a t-shirt that you really love but is now too old to be worn in public? Do you want to learn a new skill to upcycle your clothes and textiles and give them a second life? Join us for a two hour FIX-IT! Clothing Repair & Reuse Workshop organized in partnership with Julian Pathways on October 12, 2022 from 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM in Julian Elementary School! This in-person workshop will share information on the multicultural significance of quilting and teach you how to make a quilting square with scrap material. Learn the sustainable and artistic skills of sewing, mending, and upcycling. RSVP is required. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Encore Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! On this eight-episode documentary series, David Rubenstein explores America’s 400-year history through a close examination of iconic national symbols: indelible artifacts, places, and archetypes. This week: Learn how a real estate advertisement erected in 1923 became an international symbol of fame, fortune, and the American dream.

The San Diego Latino Film Festival is at a new location with an expanded focus. The two-week event now goes beyond film and celebrates Latino culture in other visual arts.

Cinema Junkie is on a season break but serves up this Bonus Podcast on the bold visionaries behind "Mad God" and "Neptune Frost." Host Beth Accomando speaks with stop motion effects genius Phil Tippett about the 30-year journey to bringing his magnum opus "Mad God" to the screen. Then she talks with poet Saul Williams and Rwandan filmmaker Anisia Uzeyman who created the Afrofuturist musical "Neptune Frost."

Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy.

Scientists have decoded streams of words in the brain using artificial intelligence and the data from MRI scans.