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Florida's Most Traditional Community Festival for 14 years is hitting San Diego! Take a journey into Brazil’s art, culture and tradition featuring international musical acts, Samba dancers, kids rides, exhibitors and a taste of Brazilian cuisine. Get ready to vote for the Community Awards. Tix start at $20. Visit: https://www.theheartbeatfoundation.org/event-details/17th-edition-brazilian-festival-san-diego

Los votantes de la ciudad de Nueva York eligieron a Zohran Mamdani como alcalde el martes, tras un vertiginoso ascenso del legislador estatal de 34 años, quien se convertirá en el alcalde más liberal de la ciudad en generaciones.

Los votantes de California aprobaron el martes nuevas delimitaciones de los distritos congresionales, otorgando una importante victoria a los demócratas en la batalla de redistribución de distritos que ayudará a determinar qué partido ganará el control de la Cámara de Representantes federal en 2026.

EXPO is a two-day event series at The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego built to showcase the best of Publishing, Design, Music, and more within San Diego and its neighboring communities. At its core, EXPO is an exchange of ideas, networking, and collaboration meant to encourage meaningful connection, and it is guided by MCASD’s mission to inspire expansive thinking and an inclusive world through contemporary art. Through this unified mission, EXPO fosters collaboration, celebrates creativity, and promotes inclusivity within our neighboring communities and bi-national region. This is an all ages and free event hosted at MCASD with Mortis Studio. RSVP is recommended but not required. Member Hours: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Members, enjoy an exclusive preview each day! Be the first in to browse all EXPO 2025 vendors and commemorative merch from The Shop and enjoy refreshments, 10% off from select vendors, and a chance to win a $700+ giveaway bundle of EXPO-exclusive items. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

Learn to weave a bread basket! Saturday, July 19, from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Basketry is an ancient art, practiced by many peoples and cultures. Traditional basket makers used readily available materials, such as sweet grass, pine needles, willow, and thin strips of ash or oak. Marsha teaches Appalachian-style basketry which is a functional form of basketry used for everyday activities. Thus, the basket names often reflect their functions, such as Market Basket, Egg Basket, Herb Drying Basket, and others. Wow your friends and enhance your table with a hand woven Bread Basket. This basket is suitable for beginning basket weavers and includes basic weaving skills that you can use for many future projects. You’ll have a choice of colors for the center section and top off your creation with real leather handles. The Bread Basket measures 12” long x 5” wide and 5” high. No experience necessary. Ages 18+ welcome. Students: Please bring sturdy scissors and an old towel if you can! • Military, first responders and sibling discounts. • Scholarships available. • Homeschool funds accepted. • If this class is full, join the Interest List to be notified. • If you would like to be notified of future offerings, join the Interest List to be notified when new dates or spaces are available. San Diego Craft Collective on Facebook / Instagram

Join San Diego based author Calvin Naraghi for a special meet and greet and book signing. Calvin will be signing copies of his gothic horror thriller "The House Rules," a recent bestseller in suspense and science fiction. Praised for its slow-burn suspense with the pace of a thriller, Naraghi's debut invites readers to enter Blythorne manor, where secrets hide behind every corner and horrors below every floorboard. Come chat with the author, grab a personalized copy, and learn about the upcoming sequel, "The Family Rites", set to release this fall. Visit: https://www.instagram.com/calvinnaraghi_writer/ Calvin Naraghi on Instagram and Facebook

DISCO RIOT presents "S P A C E Rising Showcase," the final presentation from Resident Artists Milana Aernova, Lauren Ai Ling Lee, Ilyana Hughes, Erik Izaak, and Niza Galindo. Through a 10-week artist residency process in collaboration with DISCO RIOT’s community partner Malashock Dance, our selected Resident Artists delved into research and development of new works. Join us for the culminating event for this process to see what their creative research and exploration has yielded. Tickets are $15 for artist/student/low income and $25 for general admission. DISCO RIOT on Facebook / Instagram

Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

Premieres Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Revisit the Oscar-winning story of Maya Lin, the young architect behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial whose design was met with widespread controversy and public attacks. At the intersection of art, politics, and creativity, she remained steadfast in her personal vision.

The Library's Autumn Concert Series takes place on Fridays from September 5 to October 31. Each concert will begin at 1 p.m. in the Winn Room. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to the performance. On September 19, we will have Vania Pimentel on the piano. Concert pianist Vania Pimentel, born and raised in Brazil, has been promoting Brazilian music in creative recital programs. She has a BA in Music and another BA in Philosophy from Brazil, KA graduate artist diploma from Germany, Masters in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, and DMA from the University of Houston. Her doctoral dissertation was on Brazilian toccatas, and her CD “Brazilian Toccatas and Toccatinas” was praised by the Brazilian Academy of Music and newspaper critics in Rio de Janeiro in the year of 2000, five hundreds years of Brazil’s discovery by the Portuguese. Dr. Pimentel became a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and worked as an assistant teacher at the Moores School of Music and the Texas Music Festival. In Brazil, she had worked for 14 years as a piano professor in Curitiba, PR. Her first award at a piano competition was at the age of seven in Rio de Janeiro. Her top awards are from J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Paris (1984), and Jaen Competition in Spain (1982). Dr. Pimentel lived in Italy from 2005 until 2009, and performed at the series Pianomaster in Gravedonamon Lake Como, and chamber music at the Blaue Blumen concerts in Frankfurt. Afterwards, she lived in San Diego until 2022. She performed recitals at Palomar College, Fallbrook Library, Coronado Library, Encinitas Library, the Athenaeum, Carmel Valley Library, and chamber music in Temecula: Classics at the Merc. She performs frequently in Brazil, and has given masterclasses at many universities there. In 2020, she performed and taught at the 37th Music Workshop of Curitiba, in Paraná state. Last year she presented a solo recital during the Music Week of Lapinha, PR, and last April at the Chapel Santa Maria in Curitiba. Currently she lives in Miami. Visit: https://coronado.librarycalendar.com/event/autumn-concert-series-hold-34513