Search results for

Supporters of Friendship Park marked the 51st anniversary of its inauguration on Saturday.

Millions of elderly Ukrainians have remained behind since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. The country has the highest proportion of elderly affected by war.

Country music singer Jana Kramer will perform live at The Observatory on Friday, November 18 at 8 p.m. Jana Kramer: Facebook Twitter Instagram

This weekend in the arts: Bookish sound art at the Athenaeum, fiber art at CCAE, Roman de Salvo at Quint ONE, blues at Panama 66, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Michelangelo and Van Gogh get immersive.

Alora Young is the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut poetry collection Walking Gentry Home is a memoir written in verse.

For the better part of a decade, Nicki simply existing as Nicki felt like a radical act. Along the way, things changed: rap, the internet, fandom, feminism. Maybe Minaj did, too.

Ariana Brown is a queer, Black, Mexican American poet with 13 years of experience writing, performing and teaching poetry. Her work focuses on Black relationality, queer kinship and imagining a world where Black girls are free. She is the author of the poetry collections “We Are Owed” (2021) and “Sana Sana” (2020). She is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion who owes much of her practice to performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. Drawing on her lived experience and her research, Brown will trace her attempts to recover Black girlhood not just for herself, but for other Black girls too. Combining storytelling, poems and dialogue, this artist talk is an opportunity to hear from Brown about how her identities and politics shape her writing. The event will take place online via Zoom. Follow on social media! Twitter + Instagram

The Ukrainian springtime tradition of intricately decorating eggs has taken on new urgency during the war with Russia. Now, people are using this art to fundraise and bring awareness for Ukraine.

This exhibition will be on view Sept 18, 2021 - Jan. 30, 2022 at San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common. Opening reception: Saturday, Sept. 18 from noon to 2 p.m. The opening reception will be hosted on the 9th floor Valeiras Sculptural Garden. Light refreshments will be served. About the exhibition: Clara E. Breed directed the San Diego Public Library for 42 years as a public servant advocating on numerous fronts, including the promotion of youth services, championing a child’s right to read by encouraging international and multicultural collections, undertaking an unprecedented expansion of the City’s Library system, and most significantly, advocating on behalf of the hundreds of Japanese American families that were incarcerated due to Executive Order 9066. Breed was ahead of her time in her interest to promote cultural understanding and fight prejudice. Her steadfast commitment and activism broadens our insights about the role libraries play in working toward a more equitable, diverse, and inclusionary future. "Call to Serve: Clara E. Breed & The Japanese American Incarceration" is co-organized by guest curators Susan Hasegawa, Linda Salem, and the San Diego Public Library. This exhibition was made possible by a collaboration between the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, the Japanese American National Museum, the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego, San Diego State University, and Simmons University Archives. Stay Connected with the Library's Visual Arts Program by visiting https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/visualarts

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Lisa Hanna, a member of Jamaica's parliament, about how Jamaica's relationship with the monarchy may change after Queen Elizabeth II's death.