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We learn and practice traditional dance steps from the West Africa region and diaspora, set to live percussion. Find us just east of the skate park. Plenty of free parking.

Saturday, January 14 from 12-4 p.m. No experience necessary. Ages 14+ welcome! In instructor Jeanine Ertl’s class, students will weave together in a space of colorful creativity and openness. She will provide instruction on weaving, a warped lap loom and a rainbow of recycled sari silk ribbon and yarn fibers to ignite your imagination. And we’ll weave together, learning and playing with the basics of the process from start to finish, each creating a unique handwoven that can be hung or draped, according to your desires. Please feel free to bring any items you may want to incorporate into your weaving, like interesting fibers, foraged and gathered natural objects, shells with holes, beads, etc. you may want to incorporate into your weaving. Each Weaver will complete a one-of-a-kind Handwoven Wall Hanging. In addition, if you find that you’re in love with the practice, you will have an option to purchase the loom you are working with, as well as additional fiber and tools to continue at home. I’ll have tea and water on-hand, as we explore mindfully making in a space of creativity & harmony with others. • Scholarships available • Military and sibling discounts Social Media Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

On Tuesday, January 10 at 7 p.m. the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick's, will host Matthew Black as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II. This event is open to the public, seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Guaranteed preferred seating is available with purchase of Operation Underground through Warwick's Bookstore. Please visit here or call them at 858-454-0347 for more information. Matthew Black is a labor and crime historian who was recruited by James P. Hoffa's office in 2016 to author Dave Beck - A Teamsters Life. Black has also worked as a staff writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune and has written articles for Alaska Airlines magazine. He has published dozens of articles on History101, where he has individually brought some 42 million readers to his work. Born and raised in Seattle, he is a graduate of the University of Washington with an honors degree in history. While he travels the country and the world at a feverish pace in search of stories, he calls San Diego home, where he lives with his wife and daughter. About "Operation Underworld": In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the U.S. Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it. Naval intelligence officer, Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Haffenden was prepared to make a deal with the devil–the man who put “organized” into organized crime. Even from his cell in Dannemora State Prison, former Public Enemy #1, Charles “Lucky” Luciano still had tremendous power. Luciano was willing to wield it for Haffenden. But he wanted something in return—Luciano’s contacts in Italy to track the Nazis’ movements. "Operation Underworld" is a tale of espionage and crime like no other, the unbelievable, first-ever account of the Allied war effort’s clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. Government to protect New York, vanquish the Nazis by taking the fight to the enemy in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily. It was an ingenious strategy carried out by some of history’s most infamous, improbable, and unsung heroes on both sides of the law. It was a Faustian bargain that brought homefront enemies together but, as journalist and crime historian Matthew Black reveals, one that ultimately succeeded in helping the Allies win World War II. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

January 14, 21, 22, 28, & 29 from 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. No experience necessary. Ages 18+ welcome! Make your own Bass or Electric Guitar with bass builder and musician, Allan Corona. This course is designed to walk students through the steps of constructing their own electric and bass guitars, including using templates to cut the body from a blank. Students are guided through the use of routers and drills to remove material for fitting the components. Students learn to safely use the machinery and tools required to complete their own instrument. Students learn how to solder the components, install pick guard, strings and all parts needed. We will show how to finish your guitar and install all components so it’s ready to play by the end of the workshop.Materials are provided. This class is open to all levels, but taking Intro to the Woodshop first is recommended. Please note: This workshop takes place indoors. Depending on finish choice, students may need to come back outside of the 5 weeks for one or 2 visits to add coats of finish. We’ll work with you. We’re very flexible! • Military discounts Social Media Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

On Friday, January 13, 2023 at 1 p.m., Sean Gaskell will give a performance and educational demonstration on the kora, an ancient 21-stringed harp from West Africa. He will feature traditional songs that are the heart and soul of the kora’s musical repertoire. Sean Gaskell first heard the kora performed live in 2006. That performance by Kane Mathis, who would become his first teacher, inspired him to immerse himself in music of the kora and travel to its homeland in West Africa. The kora is traditionally played by oral historians known as Griots, often called Jalis or Jelis. Many songs tell story of war, hardship, love and loss all while presenting the history and fabric of Mande society, of which the instrument originates. Visits to Brikama, Gambia, West Africa provided Gaskell the opportunity to study the kora under the instruction of Moriba Kuyateh and his father, the late Malamini Jobarteh. Gaskell has presented adult, youth and family programs at over 350 libraries and a multitude of k-12 schools, colleges, universities and assisted living facilities throughout the United States and Canada. You can register for the event through here! Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

This workshop teaches the basics in Stained Glass. No previous glass experience is needed. During the workshop, students will complete a small project using glass they select from a variety of colors and textures. Different patterns are available to choose from. Students will learn how to handle glass, cut and grind glass, apply copper foil, and solder pieces together. Glass is included in the class price and all tools are supplied. Material fee: $10 payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop. No experience necessary. Ages 14+ welcome. • Scholarships available • Military and sibling discounts Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

From The Book Catapult: The Book Catapult is pleased to welcome back GennaRose Nethercott for her debut novel, Thistlefoot on Sunday, January 8 at 5:00 p.m.. Like her previous event at TBC in 2019, the event will feature an intricate shadow-puppetry crankie box which animates segments of the text through scrolling, panoramic hand-cut paper images! In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore - a debut novel about the ancestral hauntings that stalk us, and the uncanny power of story. The Yaga siblings - Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist - have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited - only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home in Russia - but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide - erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future. An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is an immersive modern fantasy saga by a bold new talent. GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and whether authoring novels, poems, ballads, or even fold-up paper cootie catchers, her projects are all rooted in myth—and what our stories reveal about who we are. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order for strangers on an antique typewriter with her team, the Traveling Poetry Emporium. She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery. Thistlefoot is her debut novel. (Seen here, GennaRose and her "crankie box" for Thistlefoot.) Related links: The Book Catapult on Instagram

From The Old Globe: Our second annual Lunar New Year AXIS Event is happening on Monday, January 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the Globe's outdoor Copley Plaza in beautiful Balboa Park! Come join us for a family-friendly event as we ring in the Year of the Rabbit with cultural performances by local artists. 5:30 p.m. Welcome!5:41 p.m. Lion dance presentation by Southern Sea 5:47 p.m. Traditional Vietnamese music performance by Lac Hong student 5:55 p.m. Cultural dance performance by Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement 6:01 p.m. Musical duet performance by Lac Hong students 6:06 p.m. Kid Hip hop dance performance by Lac Hong students 6:16 p.m. Traditional/pop Vietnamese music performance by singer Nhu Y Le 6:25 p.m. Fashion show demonstration by Hùng Sử Việt 6:39 p.m. Traditional and pop Korean music performance by singer Sharon Choi 6:50 p.m. Martial arts demonstration by Three Treasures (Kung Fu/Tai Chi, Lion dance workshop) 7:12 p.m. Adult cultural dance performance by Hùng Sử Việt 7:28 p.m. Dragon dance presentation by Southern Sea This is a free event and no reservations are required. Related links: The Old Globe Arts Engagement on Instagram The Old Globe Arts Engagement on Facebook

Darshan with Her Holiness Sai Maa: Experience an intimate moment with an enlightened master whose powerful presence embodies pure divinity. Darshan is always free, a gift for our expansion. H.H. Sai Maa’s divine presence brings you into communion with your own spiritual essence and gifts you with a healing grace that will always be with you. All are welcome to Darshan. Darshan is not associated with a religion, rather it is a blessing of Divine Light given by an Enlightened Master. Darshan (in Sanskrit meaning ‘sight,’ as in beholding a vision) is an experience that awakens and empowers our divine self and unveils our highest reality. Darshan is an intimate experience of divine presence brought about through a moment shared with an enlightened master. In this moment, the enlightened master looks upon us, seeing only our divinity and wholeness, and calls it forth… and leads us from darkness to light. Darshan with divine master H.H. Sai Maa is an intimate and reciprocal experience that is unique to each one of us. When we receive Darshan, H.H. Sai Maa receives our love and gratitude, and offers us a divine blessing which transmits love and light energy within us. To experience Darshan with H.H. Sai Maa is to be seen as divinely beautiful… it is to receive a healing grace that enlightens us and remains with us always. H.H. Sai Maa will be available to personally bless all those who come to Darshan. Parents with children will be invited to go first. There is no charge for Darshan. Please register here and bring all those whom you love.

The 148-day Hollywood writers strike ended just after 12:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday, thanks to a new three-year deal the Writers Guild of America made with major Hollywood studios.