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Get ready for Valentine’s Day as world-renowned troubadour, poet and international touring and recording artist, Gregory Page, visits the Coronado Public Library for an afternoon of his timely and timeless original and re-imagined love songs. Please join us to experience the brilliant, romantic, nostalgic and evocative songbook of this true artist who captures his world travels (and our hearts) through the lens of music.

The campus, along César E. Chávez Parkway, is one of several institutions, parks and public spaces in San Diego County being considered for renaming following a New York Times report that Chávez allegedly sexually assaulted female followers as young as 12 in the 1970s and raped United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95, in 1966.

The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.

Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on "Grey's Anatomy" and "Euphoria" and who later in life became an advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53.

During his first Christmas Day message, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the suffering in Gaza, Yemen and among migrants, and called for peace in troubled regions like Lebanon, Ukraine and Syria.

Get ready for a full-throttle dance party where human creativity and machine intelligence collide. Headlining the night is Deep World, a new live audiovisual/AI performance by VJ Übergeek, the long-running performance persona of artist Amy Alexander, joined by DJ monocromo. Picking up where Übergeek’s legendary CyberSpaceLand series (2000–2015) left off, Deep World blends club energy with theatrical spectacle, part live text improv, part VJ set, and part video game. As Übergeek converses with a custom-trained AI built on the words of writers and thinkers who have navigated crisis, the dialogue drives a pulsing, immersive cathartic rave. The party kicks off with high-energy, algorithmically generated sets by Joe Cantrell and Matty Terrones & Victor Castañeda, priming the dance floor with worlds of sound, light, and automation. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

Sound artist Marguerite Brown opens the evening with an exploration of the electric guitar as a celestial body, using planetary tuning forks, custom hardware, and extended performance techniques to reveal new resonances and cosmic frequencies. Her work invites listeners to consider sound as both vibration and matter, connecting the earthly and the astronomical. Following Brown, the bi-coastal quartet MOONS —Judith Berkson, Laura Cetilia, Katie Porter, and Christine Tavolacci — presents a set of new compositions born from years of collaboration in experimental music. Their performances traverse chamber textures, electroacoustic landscapes, and subtle improvisations, creating music that is intimate, exploratory, and richly detailed. Together, Brown and MOONS offer an evening that bridges the cosmic and the deeply intimate. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Michael Ballard invites audiences into a surreal, participatory world where performance unfolds in response to those present. Through playful instructions, poetic imagery, and unpredictable transformations, Ballard blurs the line between witness and participant—offering a choice to step into the action or simply observe. Project [BLANK] on Facebook / Instagram

A West Coast Premiere A Hybrid Staged Reading - One Night Only "White Privilege" by Malaina Moore is a powerful and provocative theatrical examination of race, privilege, and systemic injustice in America. Structured as a series of intersecting vignettes, the play gives voice to both the ignorance that sustains oppression and the lived realities of those most harmed by it. Through satire, raw testimony, historical reckoning, and searing dialogue, "White Privilege" dismantles the myths of “colorblindness,” exposes the violence of cultural appropriation and gentrification, and confronts the generational trauma of anti-Black racism. By weaving together classroom dynamics, therapy sessions, media narratives, and direct address to the audience, Moore forces us to question not only what privilege is—but how it operates in daily life, institutions, and history. At once deeply personal and urgently political, "White Privilege" is a necessary work of theatre that challenges audiences to move beyond denial and toward accountability. Contains strong language, racial slurs, and themes of systemic racism, police violence, and trauma. OnWord Theatre acknowledges that we create on the unceded land of the Kumeyaay people, who have nurtured this region since time immemorial. We are honored to offer complimentary attendance to all First Nations people to ANY performance with proof of ID. Please contact info@OnWordTheatre.com to reserve tickets. OnWord Theatre: Website / Facebook / Instagram

6 p.m. » Piano Concert “A French Emotional Journey” starring Aleck Karis 7 p.m. » Closing Reception After the concert, mingle with festival guests and participants in a welcoming and elegant setting. Join the Alliance Française of San Diego (AFSD) and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library from October 2 to 4, 2025, for the inaugural San Diego French Literature and Arts Festival—a vibrant three-day celebration of Francophone literature, film, and the arts. Organized by the Alliance Française San Diego in collaboration with esteemed partners including Gallimard, Villa Albertine, and the Athenaeum, this cultural event promises inspiration and discovery. Open to all, the festival brings together Francophone authors, educators, artists, and students for a rich, immersive experience across San Diego. We are proud to welcome acclaimed author Éric Fottorino as our Literary Guest of Honor, and Ann Craig as our Honorary Patron alongside a distinguished lineup of local and international voices. On October 4, Aleck Karis will perform “A French Emotional Journey,” a piano concert in the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Music Room at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, which will be followed by a reception. Aleck Karis has performed recitals, chamber music, and concertos across the Americas, Europe, Japan, and China. As the pianist of the new music ensemble Speculum Musicae he has participated in over a hundred premieres and performed at major American and European festivals. His appearances with orchestra have ranged from concertos by Beethoven and Chopin to those of Stravinsky and Carter. His ten solo discs cover repertoire from Mozart to the present, most recently Debussy’s Études and Children’s Corner suite on Bridge, and Beethoven’s sonatas Opus 2, no. 1 and Opus 106 (Hammerklavier), on Roméo. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the UC San Diego music department. His newest recording is available on Romeo Records, featuring Beethoven’s sonatas Opus 2, no. 1 and Opus 106. Tickets include the concert and the reception. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram