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Monday - Wednesday, March 31, April 1 & 2, from 9 a.m. – Noon Ages 4-6 welcome! Taught by artist educator Yael Kent, your preschool age child will explore crafts across various mediums, including paper craft and a fun, magical homemade bubble-making activity. We will explore through sensory activities, crafts and stories while developing fine motor skills. Littles learn best by doing and playing. We practice handwork and workplay. We “play” with natural objects and materials! Each project is planned so that children build skills while satisfying their need to explore. Projects are safe, non-toxic, earth friendly, and full of creativity. It’s important that your child bring water in a refillable bottle and a snack (no candy or peanut products please) in case they are hungry or thirsty during this time. In addition, if your child is enrolled in a nearby camp elsewhere in Liberty Station in the afternoon, and their camp begins as ours ends, we are happy to walk your child to their next camp. Drop-ins are welcome! Is your child curious about craft & not able to attend all three days? We welcome trying things out. • Military, first responders and sibling discounts. • Scholarships available. • 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.

Tanya Aguiñiga is the 2024 Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego. Tanya Aguiñiga was born in 1978 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. An artist and craftsperson, Aguiñiga works with traditional craft materials like natural fibers and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community. She founded AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. She was recently awarded the Latinx Art Forum: Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022), Heinz Award (2021), and an Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities (2018). Her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, LACMA, Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt and Renwick Museums, and the Museum of Art and Design among others. Visit: https://visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20241101_tanyaaguiniga.html Tanya Aguiñiga on Instagram and Facebook

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego is hosting its 4th Annual Arts and Culture Festival on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, from noon to 3 p.m. This free event will feature a variety of live performances, including music from band ensembles, singers, dancers, actors and poets. Attendees will enjoy a vibrant showcase of Torero talent, with refreshments provided throughout the event. Reserve your spot today!

(It’s) FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE! Improv Theater with PseudoRandomNoise! Improvisational Theater at Its Finest! Every 2nd and 4th Friday @ 7 p.m. Featuring SoCal’s premier highly audience interactive improvisational theater troupe PseudoRandomNoise in its return to Temecula and our very special guest - YOU! You write! You direct! You STAR! Maybe even sometimes with other special guests! Unique Shows Each Night from one of our four HIT shows (VS! Game Night! IMPROVacations! Sketchy!) which erupts for a hilarious and engaging night that’s always different! Make it EASY to enjoy AND support improvisational theater...be a PART OF IT with PRN and FNL EVERY OTHER FRIDAY! Make Some Noise! Tickets are $20 or $35 for 2 at https://tickets.temeculatheater.org/?category=35 or at The Merc via (866) 653-8696. Want to know what's planned for PRN shows now and in the future - and how to become a NOISEMAKER? Please join our mailing list at info@pseudorandomnoise.com and learn more at www.pseudorandomnoise.com! Courtesy of PRN Productions and Your Local Sponsors! Pseudo Random Noise Improv on Facebook / Instagram

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Spread some holiday cheer at the La Jolla Christmas Parade & Holiday Festival. A wonderful Christmas parade lures people from all around to the sidewalks of downtown La Jolla. You'll see floats, marching bands, community groups, drill teams, vintage vehicles, horses, Santa Claus and yes ~ a camel. Church bells peal with a fly-over. There is also a Holiday Festival called Santa's Village. It features Santa visits for children, arts-and-crafts, games, music, and face-painting. Visit: https://www.ljparade.com/ LJPARADE on Instagram and Facebook

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Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. January 25 (1 Day, 5 total hours of instruction) On Location at La Jolla Cove and La Jolla Studio The School of the Arts welcomes LA-based artist Tomory Dodge leading a one-day plein air workshop. Tomory and the class will begin the day at the La Jolla Studio and then walk down to the Cove to paint. (If accessibility is an issue, students are welcome to drive down to the Cove). Tomory will focus on exploring tension within a painting—by pushing the boundaries between representation and abstraction—as well as three-dimensional (3D) space and the physicality of the materials used to paint. Materials: Portable easel; four 8” x 10” or 6” x 8”, good quality canvas boards; half-dozen brushes, white bristle flat or filbert, sizes 2, 4, and 6. One medium-size steel palette knife; small, pointed round brush for detail, sizes 2–4. Paper towels; odorless turpentine; small jar for turpentine, painting medium (Galkyd, Liquin, etc.); wood palette; oil paints: Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Lemon, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Permalba White, Raw Umber, Cadmium orange. Sun hat. Max students: 12 Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/classes/1 Tomory Dodge on Instagram

The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

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