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Please join us for this unique event presented in collaboration between the UC San Diego Stein Institute for Research on Aging and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. This event will feature a thought-provoking panel discussion on the intersection of art, aging, and the museum experience, followed by a guided tour of the Museum and a reception. The panel will showcase the meaningful work being done by both organizations, supported by the Vitality Arts Program, to explore how art can engage, empower, and enrich the lives of older adults. Our Panelists: Kathryn Kanjo is The David C. Copley Director & CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Concurrent with her appointment to Director in 2016, the Museum launched a major expansion that quadrupled the gallery space. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the expanded campus reopened to the public in April 2022. Kanjo served as Executive Director of Artpace San Antonio (2000-2006), and Director of the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2006-2010). She returned to MCASD in 2010 as Chief Curator and Deputy Director Art and Programs, organizing exhibitions of Isaac Julien, Ed Ruscha, and Jack Whitten, among others. Kanjo serves as the President of the Board at the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. She received her M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Southern California and her B.A. in Art History and English Literature from the University of Redlands. Khai Nguyen, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine doctor and geriatrician who specializes in caring for older adults. He provides primary care to patients, with an emphasis on health maintenance, disease prevention, treatment of acute and chronic illnesses and preservation of function. As a geriatrician, Dr. Nguyen aims to keep seniors healthy and high functioning as they transition through the stages of aging. His expertise includes providing therapeutic and rehabilitative care for conditions or health concerns that are common among the elderly such as frailty, falls, incontinence, memory and cognitive problems, and medication-related side effects. He also has expertise in end of life care and advance care planning. Dr. Nguyen is clinical services chief of senior medicine at UC San Diego Health, where he oversees efforts to help ensure quality patient care and provides leadership management of clinical functions and staff. As a former instructor in the Division of Geriatrics, Dr. Nguyen has taught internal medicine residents and geriatric medicine fellows at UC San Diego School of Medicine. He has coauthored numerous abstracts and was a speaker at the 2015 annual meeting of the National Association of Managed Care Physicians. Prior to joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Nguyen was the medical director of VITAS Healthcare and Hospice. He was also a geriatric home-based primary care physician at VA Healthcare System San Diego, and a physician in the Department of Continuing Care Services at Kaiser Permanente San Diego. Dr. Nguyen completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and a residency in internal medicine at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla. He earned his medical degree from University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont. Dr. Nguyen also holds a master's degree in health policy and certification in health finance and management from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He holds the hospice medical director certification (HMDC) credential. Dr. Nguyen is a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Our Moderator: Danielle K. Glorioso is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience in aging, community health, and clinical research. Since joining UC San Diego in 2001, she has taken on a leadership role as the Executive Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and the Stein Institute for Research on Aging. In this capacity, Ms. Glorioso oversees a wide range of operations including strategic planning, organizational development, community outreach, training, philanthropy, communications, and marketing. She is also a certified therapist in prolonged grief disorder, specializing in manualized interventions. One of her major accomplishments includes leading the research and development of a licensed, evidence-based six-week program designed to enhance resilience, compassion, and self-compassion among older adults. This intervention, which has undergone nearly a decade of research, has been tested and validated in various community settings, including among older adults in group and individual settings. Through her work, Danielle has made significant contributions to improving the mental health and well-being of older adults. Visit: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/2b3wc5a/lp/10521547-ca62-42c7-8d70-dfffbb172f2c MCASD on Instagram and Facebook

Music by Virtuoso Pianist/Composers for Piano and Cello Victor Asuncion, pianist Paul Tseng, cellist Music by virtuoso pianist/composers Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, who wrote for and performed with virtuoso cellists Internationally acclaimed pianist Victor Asuncion teams up with San Diego Music Society’s artistic director and cellist Paul Tseng, for a concert featuring music for piano and cello, featuring the epic sonatas for piano and cello by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. Victor Asuncion Hailed by The Washington Post for his “poised and imaginative playing,” Filipino-American pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion has appeared in concert halls in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Spain, Turkey and the USA, as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He played his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Manila Chamber Orchestra, and his New York recital debut in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 1999. In addition, he has worked with conductors including Sergio Esmilla, Enrique Batiz, Mei Ann Chen, Zeev Dorman, Arthur Weisberg, Corrick Brown, David Loebel, Leon Fleisher, Michael Stern, Jordan Tang, and Bobby McFerrin. His recordings include the complete Sonatas of L. van Beethoven with cellist Tobias Werner, Sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff with cellist Joseph Johnson, the Rachmaninoff Sonata with the cellist Evan Drachman, and the Chopin and Grieg Sonatas, also with cellist Evan Drachman. He is featured in the award winning recording “Songs My Father Taught Me” with Lynn Harrell, produced by Louise Frank and WFMT-Chicago. Mr. Asuncion is the Founder, and Artistic and Board Director of FilAm Music Foundation, a non-profit foundation that is dedicated to promoting Filipino classical musicians through scholarship, and performance. Paul Tseng Paul Tseng (cello) has performed as a soloist, recitalist, orchestral, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and South Africa in concert halls such as Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Cairo Royal Opera House in Egypt, The Royal Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan. Paul is the second cellist ever to be awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University). There he specialized in the cello music of Prokofiev and studied with Stephen Kates, Samuel Sanders, and performed with Earl Carlys and Ruth Inglefield. He has served as principal cellist of the Millbrook Orchestra in WV, the Gettysburg Symphony, and assistant principal cellist of the Maryland Symphony under the baton of Barry Tuckwell. He also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the Julliard School. He has held various faculty positions in New York, Maryland, West Virginia, New York, and Washington DC. In recent years, he has performed cello concertos by Elgar and Dvorak with the Mira Costa Orchestra and concertized as recitalist and chamber musician throughout Southern California. Paul is a founding member of the Logos Trio and the artistic director of the San Diego Music Society, which presents the Music by the Sea Concert Series in Encinitas, and the Intimate Classics Concert Series at the California Center for the Arts Visit: https://artcenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0FUe000000vHXBMA2

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Experience a Divine Light healing, performed in a supportive group setting, as you are guided through a highly effective technique to receive spiritual energy to heal and transform your life. Whether you are seeking physical, mental or emotional transformation, Divine Light healing is a full-spectrum aura therapy. Each month, we will offer insights into the spiritual healing principles with the aura and Divine Light. Participants will be organized into small groups and receive a direct Divine Light healing from our trained spiritual healers. Plus there is a special healing offered on the nervous system to release stresses and tensions. The aura is key to healing, because it is the place where you generate the spiritual energy to manifest health. Drawing on a 4,000 year mystical tradition, these techniques were developed by Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis and built on the clairvoyant experiences of Barbara over five decades. They are taught in their award-winning book The Healing Power of Your Aura which has been endorsed by medical luminaries C. Norman Shealy and Dr. Richard Gerber. “Spiritual energy is the single biggest key to building and sustaining health, because it connects you to your source of health.” Barbara Martin & Dimitri Moraitis – The Healing Power of Your Aura The SAI Faculty come from diverse backgrounds, yet have a common goal to share with others the metaphysical wisdom offered at the Institute. Teaching certification requires a minimum of seven years or more of practice and study. They have been trained by the Institute’s founders and are continuing their advanced studies at SAI to further their spiritual growth and service. Learn how to Meditate with Divine Light to Accelerate Your Spiritual Growth with the 'Change Your Aura Change Your Life' course Visit: Group Divine Light Healing Night Spiritual Arts Institute on Instagram and Facebook

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