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The Real Word is a panel comprised of courageous individuals who currently live or have lived in foster care, and who now speak both locally and nationally about life in the dependency system. At their presentations, Real Word panelists are open and forthright about their experiences. Date | Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Location | Virtual Register here! They share what it’s like to move from home to home, how it feels to be separated from siblings, and how they coped in the face of adversity. Panelists will inspire, humble, uplift, and move you as they share their personal stories and describe how the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program has made an impact on their lives as foster youth. For further information on this event please visit the website: https://www.speakupnow.org/news-events/real-word/

Distinction Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening reception of “The Resilient Edges", a solo show by Escondido beloved artist Kelly Vivanco. Vivanco has become one of the most sought after and collected artists with a global collection base and following. Vivanco draws from the real and imagined world to populate her works with a host of playful and curious characters. She takes inspiration from vintage photographs, children's literature and the oddness of her dreams. Shehas exhibited in solo and group shows across the U.S. including California Center for the Arts Museum, The Portsmouth Museum of Art, Thinkspace, SURU, Gallery 1988, Subtext, Rotofugi, Flatcolor, 323 East, London Miles, Art Basel and Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts. Kelly Vivanco's art is available for sale and is collected in the U.S. and abroad; and her daily comic, Patches, has a world-wide following. She currently resides in Escondido, California.

Come see the performance at Belly Up Tavern on August 19, 2022. The doors open at 8:30 p.m. and the show starts at 9:00 p.m.. Ticket Price: $23 advanced / $26 day of show / $41 reserved loft seating (available over the phone or in person at out box office) Genre: tribute

Xi Jinping's allies and loyalists are expected to be installed in other key posts in the coming days, completing a sweeping power grab in China.

The match organizer and the security chief were handed down prison sentences Thursday in connection with a 2022 stampede that killed more than 130 people following a match in East Java.

Get ready for the perfect start-of-summer party! Don't miss Channel 93.3 Summer Kick Off music festival, featuring some of the hottest stars of the moment: Five Seconds of Summer, Becky G, Charlie Puth, Tate McRae, and Gayle! Date | Friday, June 3 at 5 p.m. Location | Gallagher Square at Petco Park Get tickets here! General admission: $52 VIP admission: $91 For more information, please visit channel933.iheart.com/calendar/event/624c56432f41b95d8c82b081 or call (855) 570-1933.

What creative genius’ work has permeated the culture and had more influence than that of the Bard himself? Join us for the intermission-free "Under the Influence: Shakespeare's World" event as we enjoy music from Shakespeare’s time and hear some of his most famous words composed into song. Following Korngold’s popular incidental music for the comedy Much Ado About Nothing, composed in 1920, we conclude with Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio, which came out of sketches for an opera based on Macbeth that he never completed. Stay after the concert for a special event in the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd to enjoy more music and a feast featuring the best of San Diego’s culinary and craft cocktail scene! Date | Wednesday, August 3 at 7 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $43 to $93. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/shakespeares-world or call (858) 459-3728.

The Baroque period contains riches that inspired composers above any other. We begin with J.S Bach’s immortal concerto for two violins, and continue to explore some of the most captivating pieces of his era and beyond, with C.P.E. Bach’s (his son) Cello Concerto, Biber’s brilliant and irreverent Battalia, a commentary on the Thirty Year War that engulfed Europe at the time, and Grosso Mogul, Vivaldi’s fiery and dazzling concerto. Date | Sunday, July 31 at 3 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/beyond-bach or call (858) 459-3728.

Interdependent yet independent, these selections explore the musical concept of counterpoint—the relationship between two or more musical lines or voices, used by composers spanning the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century. The evening includes the world première of a multimedia version of Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint, commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, the Synergy Initiative, and Lincoln Center, which will feature clarinetists from all of the Lincoln Center performing ensembles. Date | Saturday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/point-counterpoint or call (858) 459-3728.

The opening concert for La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2022 brings together compositions written in collaboration with multiple composers or played by multiple performers on the same instruments all performed by some of the most brilliant chamber musicians of our era. A series of Romantic-era variations culminates in two stunning quartets, Bacewicz’ Quartet for Four Violins and Czerny’s Quartet for Four Pianos, with four of the finest pianists in the world—Garrick Ohlsson, Inon Barnatan, Joyce Yang, and Wynona Yinuo Wang—on stage at once. With prelude interview with Inon Barnatan hosted by Leah Rosenthal at 6:30 p.m. at the The JAI. Date | Friday, July 29 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $53 to $113. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/opening-night-side-by-side or call LJMS at (858) 459-3728.