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Jan. 8, 9 & 10, 2026 Concerts Begin at 7:30 p.m. Doors Open at 7 p.m. The annual soundON Festival returns! Presented by San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, this year’s lineup showcases cutting-edge contemporary music by a global roster of composers, along with music by friends of the festival, such as Juan Campoverde Q. Authors like Roberto Calasso, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Robert Graves impress upon us the vitality of a grammar of mythologies, not just as fantasy, but as a way of contemplating our own nature, identity, and destiny. Sometimes we create our own myths—stories in our consciousness that stand the test of time—that inform our beliefs, attitudes, and values. The territory spanned by the corridor of our existence may be bordered by history on one side and myth on the other. Through three nights of captivating music, the 18th edition of the soundON Festival will travel this enigmatic terrain. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

Join us for an opening reception for "Lightwall," an interactive installation that explores perception, presence, and the evolving relationship between humans and responsive technologies. Developed by artist Rita Sus in collaboration with technologist Zach Rattner and students from California State University, Fullerton, "Lightwall" integrates kinetic sculpture, custom electronics, and artificial intelligence to create an environment that responds in real time to visitors’ movement and sound. As audiences engage with the installation, shifting light patterns and rotating prisms generate continuously changing visual conditions, positioning the viewer as an active participant in the work. The opening reception offers an opportunity to experience "Lightwall" firsthand and to engage with a project that reflects the Museum’s commitment to presenting contemporary art at the intersection of art, technology, and education. This event is free and open to the public. California Center For The Arts, Escondido on Facebook / Instagram

February 7 – March 8, 2026 Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage Old Globe Theatre Conrad Prebys Theatre Center World premiere: "Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler" In a new version by Erin Cressida Wilson Directed by Barry Edelstein Film, television, and stage star Katie Holmes (Broadway’s "Our Town," Off Broadway’s "The Wanderers") brings to life a landmark role in one of the defining masterpieces of world drama. Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon—and the cracks in their marriage are already showing. Bored and restless, Hedda tries to control those around her. But as her schemes tighten, her own world begins to unravel. Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, reuniting with Holmes in a vivid new version by Erin Cressida Wilson ("Secretary," "The Girl on the Train"), brings a fresh and emotionally charged lens to this Ibsen classic. "Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler" is supported by Presenting Sponsors Jean and Gary Shekhter, Lead Production Sponsors Elaine Bennett Darwin, The Sheryl and Harvey White Foundation in honor of Harvey White, and The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund, Production Sponsor Darlene Marcos Shiley, and by Lead Artist Sponsor George C. Guerra (for Katie Holmes as Hedda Gabler). The Old Globe is funded in part by City of San Diego Cultural Affairs. The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities. Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at Noon. You can secure your seats now with a season subscription, which offer discounts and exclusive benefits. Click here for more information. BOX OFFICE PHONE: (619) 234-5623 The Old Globe on Facebook / Instagram

Want to learn something new in the new year? Check out these deep-dive books from 2025 — nonfiction that will lead you to fresh discoveries about big tech, true crime and the ground beneath our feet.

Open Studio: Farshid Bazmandegan Saturday, January 10, 2026 | 5 p.m. — 7 p.m. Location: CH Visual Art Studio (In the Administration building across from the Museum) The California Center for the Arts Museum invites the public to a culminating open studio with Farshid Bazmandegan, marking the conclusion of his 2025—26 artist residency. This open studio offers visitors an opportunity to engage with Bazmandegan’s research, materials, and work in progress, providing insight into an evolving practice shaped by memory and displacement. During the residency, Bazmandegan has been developing a new body of work rooted in a childhood memory of a painting of a black horse that once hung in his family home in Iran. Through sculpture and digital media, he explores fantasy as a method for navigating exile and imagining return. The works on view during the open studio represent an active phase of inquiry rather than a finished presentation. Bazmandegan will continue to develop this project over the coming year, with the completed body of work to be presented as part of the 2025–26 In Studio Artist Residency exhibition, opening June 5, 2026. Farshid Bazmandegan on Instagram

Philip Petrie and Jim Richerson have been in dialogue about art and museum installations for over 30 years but this is the first time these two artists have exhibited together. Both are interested in ambiguities of meaning and form and how these ambiguities can yield new meanings. Richerson, a sculptor, has created a whole series of works around the word “if” which play with scale and materials (including mirrors) to express the possibilities implied in that word. The pieces are concrete and formally precise but suggest a slippage in terms of identity and, with that, humor. Petrie’s black and white drawings are part of a series he calls “Epic Fail” which reference our troubled times. He tackles political, religious, and personal elements which are translated into dream images that are dark, surrealistic, and abstracted. Showing together both artists hope to point out similarities and differences between the works which deepen the viewers’ experience and reference the particular hinge moment that we live in. Gallery Hours: Thursdays 2-5 p.m. and Saturdays 2-5 p.m. and by appointment Opening Reception: Sat. Jan. 17 2-5 p.m. Closing Reception: Sat. Feb. 28 2-5 p.m.

A 2025 survey found that 44% of students in the San Diego Community College District are food insecure, meaning they lack access to nutritious food.

El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump informó el lunes que financiará parcialmente el Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (SNAP por sus iniciales en inglés), después de que dos jueces determinaron que se requiere que el programa de ayuda alimentaria más grande del país se mantenga en funcionamiento.

The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lives on.

En el episodio de hoy seguimos a Laura Pavón, una integrante del equipo en uno de los albergues más activos de Tijuana, la Casa del Migrante. Laura comparte su trayectoria hacia Tijuana y habla sobre los momentos decisivos que la motivaron a querer ayudar a los migrantes a encontrar un nuevo hogar.