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TwainFest kicks off a virtual festival, plus stories inspired by art at Lux Art Institute, youth actors present a classic, a poetry workshop with Gill Sotu and the Spreckels Organ Society continues their weekly webcasts.

Don't miss these new and notable works of art in San Diego this month from Cataphant, Akiko Surai, Roberto Salas, Kelsey Brookes and Johnny Nguyen.

Art Show, Marketplace Open To Public Through Sunday

Scottish author Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, in 2020. His latest work is a suspense story wrapped around a novel of acute psychological observation.

The Puerto Rican artist returns with a new album, her first since protests galvanized San Juan and beyond in 2019.

About the event: Continuum is a unique evening of tag-team improvisation. Four musicians begin improvising. At repeating intervals, one musician is replaced at random with one of twelve other players. The other players continue to improvise while one of them leave and a new performer joins the group. This continues until all the musicians have performed. About the artists: David Borgo: saxophones Joe Cantrell: electronics Sean Francis Conway: multi-instrumentalist Nathan Hubbard: drummer Nick Lesley: drummer Batya MacAdam-Somer: violinist/vocalist Jonathan Piper: tubas/electronics Lexi Pulido: vocalist Pedro Sollero: electronics Ariana Warren: clarinets Chris Warren: electronics Tickets are sliding scale ($5-$20+), sold at the door Related links: Project [BLANK] on Instagram Project [BLANK] on Facebook

Manzanita Concerts presents string quartet Quartet Nouveau, performing an all-Mozart program. Free-will donations support the artists. Quartet Nouveau has earned a reputation throughout San Diego as an exciting, emerging group known for their energizing and deeply emotional performances. As a group, they take great interest in their concert programming and have a wide range of composers in their repertoire including Vasks, Glass, Piazzola, Shostakovich as well as Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann. For the past 3 years, Quartet Nouveau has hosted a composition competition with applicants from across the world. Come see them perform on Sunday, March 13 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Mission Trails Church.

Vocalist Robin Adler and her husband, guitarist Dave Blackburn are in their fifteenth year of leading their band Mutts of the Planet, who perform a show based entirely around the music of the great Joni Mitchell. Mitchell’s extraordinary career has spanned over forty years and has freely traveled across numerous musical frontiers during that time, including folk, through radio-friendly pop/rock and further, into jazz. Her long and diverse career has provided fertile ground for Mutts of the Planet to create a fascinating show that draws from all of Joni Mitchell’s artistic phases. Date: Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 2pm Location: Encinitas Library Cost: Free

Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! This special edition of GREAT PERFORMANCES celebrates and spotlights the performing arts despite the closures and challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly half of Europeans died from the plague. Now a new study shows a protective gene mutation that survivors passed on to help with future outbreaks might cause other problems.