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If you’ve ever wondered what that bright yellow bird is, who's singing that beautiful song, or what made those rows of little holes in a tree, then join us for an introductory presentation about birds and bird identification. We’ll cover a variety of ways to observe birds, including physical characteristics, behaviors, and their habitats. We’ll also share some of the best birding apps to help you identify birds wherever you go. After a one-hour presentation, you’ll get to try out your new skills by birding at some of Volcan Mountain Foundation’s most beautiful trails. Cost: $12 per person Visit: https://volcanmt.org/events/event/nature-education-series-birding-101-sunday-june-8-2025

The San Diego author’s new novel moves between grief, intimacy and identity, drawn from their own experience as a Division I athlete.

The world is opening up again, and now’s the best time to dust off your travel journals and memories and learn about travel writing. Have you crossed the country on a motorcycle? Explored Tuscany as a wine expert? Have a great travel memoir to write? Award-winning travel writer/author, Lenore Greiner, will help you develop your area of expertise and choose your travel writing niche. Get practical advice on story angles, deciphering writers’ guidelines, pitching your work, and press trips for free travel. Plus, she’ll cover freelancing and digital opportunities, blogging, social media, authoring your travel memoir and 2025 travel trends. Includes a free workbook with 45 travel writing prompts, examples of travel articles and their structures, ledes, a sample writers guideline, a story pitching guide, and more. If you’re ready to tell your travel stories, then dive in with Lenore and sign up for this popular, engaging class. San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

All are invited to join us at Sparks Gallery at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday June 29 for a casual coffee conversation with Southern California mixed-media artist and educator, Kathleen Kane-Murrell and explore her latest exhibition, "Chasing Shadows." Kathleen is a charm of the Californian art world and has dedicated herself to education and the cultivation of art, establishing the award- winning children’s art program, Fine Artists™. She will be discussing her journey of creation and inspirations, particularly for her exhibition "Chasing Shadows" which is showing at Sparks Gallery in the Gaslamp District until July 6. Inspired by a childhood memory of Peter Pan, Kathleen Kane-Murrell’s "Chasing Shadows" explores the ephemeral nature of light and form. Using suspended plexiglass, she creates layered, shifting compositions where shadows become an integral part of the artwork—always present yet often overlooked. In a fast-paced world that demands quick judgments, Kane-Murrell invites viewers to slow down, engage in deep looking, and discover the quiet beauty in the fleeting. Her work is a meditation on time, transformation, and renewal, offering a space for contemplation and discovery. Visit: sparksgallery.com/ Sparks Gallery on Facebook / Instagram

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Join Cami Árboles for a night of art, music, and dance! Enjoy a night of art and dancing fueled by the artistry of Los Angeles-based artist Cami Árboles and inspired by current exhibition "Women in Focus." This powerful exhibition demonstrates the pivotal role women have played in photography since its invention in the 1830s, showcasing diverse perspectives on identity, autonomy, and representation. The night will feature a captivating performance that brings together yoga, flexibility, and dance combined with opera singing to showcase the power and versatility of the female form. Árboles’ performance piece draws directly from the themes of "Women in Focus," reimagining them through embodied gestures that speak to resilience, sensuality, and the multiplicity of womanhood. Come for the live performance, stay for the full experience. Enjoy a drink from the cash bar, take a stroll through the exhibition, and stay to dance and let loose with music by DJs. Cami Árboles is a multidisciplinary artist and movement educator born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Yale University, where she studied and trained extensively in classical voice, opera, and live performance. Her background in vocal performance and physical theater deeply informs her current work, which explores the body as a site of ritual, resistance, and transformation. Árboles is the founder of Mind Body Spirit Collective (MBSC), an international movement platform centering pole dance, yoga, and somatic healing through community. Cami draws from diverse disciplines to create immersive, embodied experiences about womanhood and the female form. Visit: https://www.sdmart.org/event/sdma-cami-arboles-body-frame/ Cami Árboles on Instagram / TikTok

The head of a nonprofit that helps resettle Afghans in the U.S. reacts to a new travel ban targeting the country. The San Diego City Council considers changes to library service as it approaches a final vote on budget cuts. And, a concert happening this weekend will benefit San Diego’s Little Saigon district.

A performance about aging and the weight of being human. Performed by Esther Gamez-Rubio, Martha Rolón de la Peña, Wilfrido Terrazas, and Ivan Trujillo. This extended collaborative work explores the evolving nature of the body—how it ages, expands, and transforms. Inspired by the writings of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, the performance unfolds as a corporeal meditation on identity, form, and the limits of physical being. Each performer—including Gámez Rubio, Martha Rolón de la Peña (clarinet/saxophone), Iván Trujillo Luna (trumpet), and Wilfrido Terrazas (flute)—offers a solo improvisation before coming together in a final group performance that blends sound, movement, projection, and textile. The result is part concert, part ritual: a deeply felt and intimate encounter with the body—its beauty, its strangeness, and its constant transformation. Visit: https://www.projectblanksd.org/salty-series/#esther Project [BLANK] on Instagram and Facebook

Is social media making kids depressed? It is a question many parents and researchers have been asking in recent years. A new study has found a connection between social media use and an increase in depressive symptoms in children.

St. Teresa of Calcutta Villa in the East Village has three elevators that residents rely on.