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From the museum: In his new site-specific commissioned installation, Primordial Refuge, local artist Aaron Glasson explores the concept of home in another climate reality. With climate change being a pressing issue that impacts people all over the world, Glasson’s thought-provoking show provides innovative solutions for how homes could adapt to fluctuating weather conditions. Featuring sculpture, installation, and painting, the exhibition offers visitors a unique way to engage and contribute to the continuing discourse about climate change while considering the role of art in today’s world. Related Events: Opening Reception and Artist Talk: June 3, 2022, 5:30-8:30 p.m. ICA / North Campus in Encinitas Intersectional ecological library: As part of this exhibition, Glasson will build an intersectional ecological library for our community! Want to be part of this project? Contribute to the site-specific installation! We are currently accepting books, zines, and children’s books for this next regional artist display. Lend or donate your books to share with our community, the following themes are welcome: Subjects of ecology, environmental science, climate change, conservation, environmental science, sustainability, nature, natural history, Southern California and Northern Baja eco-systems, human migration, shelter, survival skills, plant and animal identification, spiritual beliefs, or storytelling related to the natural world. Please contact Roxana Lopez at roxana@icasandiego.org to arrange drop off and pick up after the exhibition. About the artist: Aaron Glasson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations, vibrant murals, paintings, illustrations, and films explore our relationship to the natural environment, community engagement, and education. His recent body of work takes into consideration his legacy and impact on the world as an artist. Using only natural and biodegradable materials his abstractions question the role of art as it relates to sustainability. Related links: Aaron Glasson on Instagram ICA San Diego on Instagram Visiting information

The new LEGO Ferrari Build and Race has arrived at LEGOLAND California Resort. Featuring a life-size LEGO Ferrari F40, Build and Race puts you in the driver’s seat as you make your way through the “garage” to the “racetrack” using your creativity and imagination to build, test and race your own LEGO Ferrari. Build and Race features three zones. A LEGO pit crewmember will greet you as you enter the attraction, sharing Ferrari fun facts, race history, and showcasing themed LEGO race gear and awards. Once inside the garage, you’ll have the opportunity to sit in a life-size LEGO Ferrari F40 model and have your photo taken. The journey continues as you build your own LEGO Ferrari car to race at one of three racetracks. Each track offers different obstacles, challenges and a chance to clock in the fastest time. A DUPLO build zone offers younger guests the chance to drive their imagination and design their own creation out of bigger bricks as well! Get tickets here! Single-day park admission: $90 Multi-park admission: $100 Annual pass: $180 The LEGO Ferrari Build and Race experience is included with park admission. For more information, please visit legoland.com/california/things-to-do/theme-park/rides/lego-ferrari-build-race or call (888) 690-5346.

Join us for this illuminating lecture “Hello Modern Art, Meet Antique Quilt” given by Visions Art Museum Scholar in Residence, Teresa Duryea Wong. Teresa's lecture will draw on early American quilters influence on Modern Art. Date | Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 11am Location | Virtual Link Purchase tickets here! $15 For further information on this event please visit website: https://visionsartmuseum.org/classes/

A pop critic looks at two benefit shows in Nashville that put a rainbow-hued spotlight on the way a buzzword like "visibility" can become more than symbolic, especially in moments of crisis.

Filipino-British singer-songwriter beabadoobee will perform her Beatopia Tour live at Humphreys Concerts By The Bay, sharing the stage with Luna Li & Wallace. Date | Tuesday, April 26 at 7 p.m. Location | Humphreys Concerts by the Bay Get tickets here! General admission is $30. Standing only. For more information, please visit humphreysconcerts.com/schedule or call (619) 224-3577.

Direct from the Czech Republic, Pavel Šporcl, is a top Czech violinist with an impressive international and domestic reputation. His twenty solo CD's, numerous collaborations with the world's orchestras, dynamic stage presence, impressive classical background including Prague's Academy, and American teachers Itzhak Perlman, Eduard Schmieder and Dorothy DeLay, makes him the most admired and most sought after Czech violinist. Enjoy an impressive program of Bach, Schnittke, Kreissler, Milstein and more! The program will be complemented by dynamic short content comments delivered by the producer, Marketa Hančová. You will also have an opportunity to admire the beautiful sound of Pavel Šporcl's blue violin made by the fourth generation of an excellent Czech luthier family Spindel; join us to marvel at the virtuosity and artistic presentation of an attractive solo violin program. Let us make our ordinary Wednesday into an extraordinary one by enjoying beautiful inspiring music in a historical cozy theater! WHEN: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 7 p.m., doors open at 6.30 p.m. WHERE: Point Loma Assembly, 3035 Talbot St., San Diego, 92106. You are welcome to park in the bank parking lot across the Street from the Hall. BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/top-czech-violinist-pavel-sporcl-tickets-300907712067 Note that tickets bought online have no fees attached. You can also reserve tickets at marketa.hancova@gmail.com or text/call 619 788 7428 Ticket: $25 / Full time students $15, children 12 and under are free

An orchestra transformed into a trio, a string orchestra to a septet, and a quartet to a string orchestra—these powerful works not only transform themselves but transport the listeners. The merry pranks of Till Eulenspiegel are followed by the stirring postwar elegy of Metamorphosen in two of Strauss’s most ingenious works, and we close the festival with Schubert’s dramatic and powerful String Quartet re-envisioned by Mahler as an even more dramatic and powerful symphonic work, performed by an all-star string ensemble. Join us for the closing event of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest, with a prelude performance by Pelia Quartet at 6:30 p.m. Date | Friday, August 26 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performance Hall Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $53 to $113. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/metamorphosis or call (858) 459-3728.

The entire world has witnessed the impact of Karol G and her unique way of bringing her avant-garde style to the evolution and growth of Latin music around the globe. After captivating hundreds of thousands of fans with two successful shows at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the multi-platinum global superstar announced her new “$trip Love Tour”. Colombian superstar Karol G is coming to San Diego for her brand new $trip Love Tour! Date | Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 at 8 p.m. Location | Pechanga Arena San Diego Purchase tickets here! $44.50-$184.50 For further information on this event please visit: https://pechangaarenasd.com/event/karol-g-10-13-22/ Karol G Social Media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

The Planets is a lightly immersive music, dance, and theater event in which audience members and performers are all equally present and interwoven throughout the playing space. The Knights and Dance Heginbotham guide the audience through our local celestial environment. Focusing on each planet, Gustav Holst’s masterpiece propels us from the fiery worlds at the core of our solar system to the icy bodies slowly orbiting in the far distance. The culmination of this tour brings our eyes and ears to rest on the one planet Holst excluded from his composition: the pale blue dot. Prelude interview with Eric Jacobsen and John Heginbotham hosted by Leah Rosenthal. Date | Saturday, August 20 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday, August 21 at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Location | The JAI at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! General admission is $78. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/the-planets or call (858) 459-3728.

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