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World Bee Day is May 20! Visit Geisel Library’s Seuss Room at noon for a lecture about the native bees of San Diego by Jess Mullins, a PhD student in the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Department. Also presented during this World Bee Day program will be a live performance of Renaissance composer Charles Butler’s “Bee Madrigal” featuring singers Libby Weber, Helen Mout, Brad Fox and Scott Paulson. Of note, madrigal composer Butler (1571 –1647) was also an important beekeeper of the era. Immediately following the bee lecture and madrigal performance, join our lecturer Jess Mullins, bee historian Joe Bray and exhibit curator Scott Paulson for a tour of the Library’s World Bee Day exhibit, just steps away in the lobby of Geisel Library at The Nest, where refreshments will be served and a D.I.Y. bookmark-making activity (on a bee theme) will be enjoyed. This marks the Library’s 10th year of springtime bee outreach, inspired by the carefully prepared specimen cases gifted to the Library in 2014 by James Hung, when, as a campus PhD student, he oversaw several years of major field research in San Diego’s native bees. For more information visit: library.ucsd.edu

Join Dance It Out this Mother’s Day to celebrate and dance with the magical Mamas in our lives! Hosted, DJed, and facilitated by DJ Clairevoyant and Kira Olsson. All ages are welcome to join in the fun; babies are strongly encouraged to wear headphones. Dance It Out is a conscious dance experience that provides a safe space for free dance, alongside facilitated movement. Dancers are encouraged to connect with their bodies, to let the music move them, and to groove as themselves in community with others. This is a sober event where all bodies and abilities are welcome and celebrated.

Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss.

Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid ongoing military operations against Hezbollah.

The sale must be approved by a bankruptcy judge. Proceeds will go to paying down the $1.5 billion debt that Jones owes families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who won two defamation suits against him.

A local nonprofit is teaching seniors how to fall safely or not at all.

Groups that connect elders and teens — both in real life and online — have a new sense of urgency in the loneliness epidemic.

Groups trying to reduce overdose deaths and the spread of infectious diseases are using vending machines to get clean needles, pipes, wound care kits, Narcan and other safety supplies to drug users.

Patrick Radden Keefe's 2018 bestseller, Say Nothing, looked back on The Troubles in Northern Ireland — including the lives of IRA members and a decades-old unsolved murder. It has been adapted as a nine-episode FX series.

Australia plans to require social media platforms to act to prevent online harms to users such as bullying, predatory behavior and algorithms pushing destructive content, the government said Thursday.