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Cristian Fatu is an award-winning concert violinist and violin teacher based in Orange County. Currently he is teaching violin at the Orange County School for the Arts and Orange County Music and Dance. He is also a substitute musician for Pacific Symphony and LA Ballet as well as a freelancer in the studio recording industry. He has performed in many TV and film productions as well as recordings with diverse artists in the iconic Hollywood studios such as Capitol Records, Fox Studios, Warner Brothers Studios and others around town. Between 2014- 2018 he was the first violinist of the Montclaire String Quartet, Adjunct Faculty at the West Virginia State University and concertmaster of the Charleston Chamber Orchestra. Since 2013 he is a member of the Violin Society of America Oberlin Acoustics Workshop where he explores the physics of string instruments with fellow musicians, scientists and violin makers. Cristian holds a Bachelor’s degree from the National Music University of Bucharest, a Master’s and an Artist Diploma from Park University, MO where he studied with Ben Sayevich. His teachers and coaches include Gil Shaham, Stefan Gheorghiu, Eric Rosenblith, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Gabriel Croitoru and Vladimir Spivakov, to name a few. Evangeliya Delizonas-Khukhua – Born in a family of musicians in 1992, Evangeliya discovered the piano at the early age of three. She gave her first concert with Moscow Chamber Orchestra when she was five. In 1998, she entered the prestigious world school for gifted children Moscow Central Music School of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a student of Professor Tamara Koloss. Evangeliya is a member of the International Vladimir Spivakov Charity Foundation. Being part of that society, she has been performing in the best venues in Moscow, including all the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow International Performing Arts Center, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall at the Moscow Philharmonic, Armory Chamber of Kremlin, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow State University, Beethoven Concert Hall in the Bolshoi Theatre, The International Arts Center of the Roerich Moscow Museum. She has been employed as collaborative pianist at the Moscow State Bolshoi Ballet Academy of Choreography and as accompanist at the Vocal Department of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her experience in United States includes Piano Instructor position at Kansas City Academy for Music, Kansas City School of Music, Vienna Music Institute in Irvine (CA), and Choral Accompanist position at Christ Episcopal Church in St. Joseph, Missouri and in Los Angeles, California. For more information visit: artcenter.org

Ukraine's domestic arms manufacturers bristle at the notion the country relies entirely on military aid from the U.S. and Europe. The country's weapons development and production, they say, is robust.

A Viking replica ship capsized several days into its journey from the Faroe Islands to Norway. Five crew members survived, but researcher Karla Dana, 29, drowned. She was the lone American on board.

Design and create your own fabric through a block printing technique, and use this fabric to build a one-of-a-kind tote bag. In this workshop you will carve into linoleum blocks to create your own stamp. You will then use this stamp to print directly onto fabric creating a unique printed textile. Finally, you will learn to sew your own tote bag using this fabric. Students will have a small period of time for a snack/lunch break while their prints dry, so please feel free to bring something to eat and drink outside, if you’d like. This class is appropriate for ages 14 years and older. All materials included. • Scholarships available • Military and sibling discounts

Scholar, historian, artist and raconteur Nell Irvin Painter is the author of The History of White People and Old in Art School. Her latest book is an insightful addition to her canon.

A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.

The San Diego Community College District broke ground on its future affordable student housing building on the campus of City College.

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Under the plan, the European Union will send as much as $3.25 billion in profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to help finance its military and reconstruction efforts.

When a shortfall of several hundred thousand dollars almost derailed new homeless housing in Bakersfield, the savior that swooped in to salvage the project wasn’t an affordable housing nonprofit, state housing grant or other traditional source.