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WEDS@7 presents incandescent tongues Susan Narucki, soprano and Donald Berman, piano Soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman continue their exploration of the songs of women composers in a concert to be presented on March 8, 2023, at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at the UC San Diego Department of Music. The duo's recording of songs by women composers, "This Island," featuring songs by Nadia Boulanger, Marion Bauer, Henriette Bosmans, Elizabeth Claisse and Irene Fuerison, was released by London's AVIE Records in February 2023. The upcoming program features works by two illustrious living composers, Tania Leon and Judith Weir as well as little known works by African American composer Margaret Bonds, French composer Elizabeth Claisse, and more. Although written in a wide array of compositional styles, each composer has an uncommon sensitivity to the fusion of text and music, and exceptional skill in writing for the combination of voice and piano. British composer Judith Weir's "The Voice of Desire," a song cycle written in 2003, is a series of conversations between humans and birds, in which, according to the composer, "the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint than their human hearers." With texts by John Keats, Thomas Hardy Robert Bridges and a setting of Yoruba Poetry translated by Ulli Beier, Weir's luminous, intricate writing for the piano provides a perfect framework for vocal writing of immense variety and uncommon skill. Cuban-born American Tania Leon was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize and honored at the Kennedy Center. Her music is characterized by its rhythmic vitality, bold use of instrumental timbre and color and inventive and expressive vocal writing. The Atwood Songs, with poems by the well-known novelist Margaret Atwood, are by turns exuberant, irreverent and wistful. Margaret Bonds is best known for her settings of texts by Langston Hughes; our program will present four little known setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In addition, Elena Ruehr's exquisite piano solo, Erinnerung, and selections from "This Island" will complete the program. Ticketing information: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7 p.m. Conrad Prebys Concert Hall Purchase Tickets: music.ucsd.edu/tickets General Admission: $15 UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 Students: Free with ID Livestream: Watch Livestream: music.ucsd.edu/live Social media: View this event on Facebook

Introduced by musicologist Kristi Brown-Montesano- F. HANDEL: Sonata for two violins & piano in G minor Op 2 MO7- G. ONSLOW: String Quintet No.30 in E minor Op 74- W. MOZART: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor K466 (Arranged for piano & string quintet). Featuring Ambroise Aubrun, violin, Hwieun Kim, violin, Jonah Sirota, viola, Allan Hon, cello, Aaron Blick, double bass, Vijay Venkatesh, piano.

Free admission From the gallery: "Crossing the Line" features the artwork of 29 artists whose work considers the notion of boundaries and borders. The exhibition brings together a range of media and individual artworks articulating a breadth of concepts weaving together narratives that touch on communication, the duality and perception of borders, identity, and migration. Whether interpreting these ideas in relation to material or process, social and cultural expectations, or socio-political factors, the work in this exhibition represents expansive approaches and perspectives. Crossing the Line is organized by the SDSU Art Galleries. The exhibition is juried by Guusje Sanders and Alexandro Segade. Crossing the Line and related events are sponsored by the School of Art and Design and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts. Featuring work by current faculty and alumni of the School of Art and Design: Juan Cabrera, Claudia Cano, Remi Dalton, Yvette Dibos, David Fobes, Natalie M. Godinez, Christian Garcia-Olivo, Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Meredith Habermann, Matthew Hebert, CJ Heyliger, Zac Keane, Neil Kendricks, Aleya Lanteigne, Rianne Elyse Magbuhat, Chaz Martinsen, Jennifer Moore, Caitlin Petersen, Luciano Pimienta, Kerianne Quick, Michael Rybicki, Sage Serrano, Aren Skalman, Kline Swonger, Kelly Temple, Christiana E. Updegraff, Mary Cale Wilson, Tessie Salcido Whitmore, Tyler Young On view March 7 – May 4, 2023 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Thursday from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. and by appointment Related events: All events are free and open to the public Opening Reception with Artists: Thursday, March 2 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. University Art Gallery For more information about the exhibition, events or parking, please contact the SDSU Art Galleries at artgalleries@sdsu.edu or 619-594-5171. Directions and parking: For SDSU campus interactive map, click here. Once parked, you can use the “wayfinding” tool in this map from your parking spot to the “SDSU Art Gallery” to find your route. Visitors may pay to park in Parking Structure 12 in any Student/Visitor space on levels 3–8. Parking passes can be purchased on level 8 in person. Once on campus, visitors may also purchase passes with the Pay by Phone app or calling 1-800-515-7275 (use the code 28512 for Parking Structure 12). University Art Gallery School of Art + Design Art North Building 4th-Floor Courtyard 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 619-594-5171

Some say prefabricated housing may be part of the solution in decreasing housing prices and increasing supply. And, San Diego’s Sanford Stem Cell Institute has rocketed stem cells into space a third time -- hoping to learn more about how human cells age. Then, John Waters returns to San Diego for his new Christmas show.

On Monday, Feb. 13, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego hosts a media and public open house from 10 a.m. to noon to promote the launch of EPCAPE, a year-long study of clouds and aerosols that will be conducted from Scripps Pier and Mount Soledad. The project is led by the federal Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility and Scripps Oceanography scientists. The chief scientists from Scripps - Lynn Russell and Dan Lubin -, as well as Gerald (Gary) Geernaert, DOE Director, Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division and other DOE officials, will be in attendance. Researchers will launch an instrumented balloon at 11 a.m. that will produce data of atmospheric conditions as it rises. Members of the public are welcome to explore the pier and the science taking place. Visit: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/events/scripps-oceanography-host-public-tour-pier-site-marine-cloud-experiment Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Facebook / Instagram

Massive crowds descended on downtown Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Protesters' messaging at the event centered on calls to end U.S. aid to Israel and for a cease-fire.

A rule change that could award the former president all of the state's Republican primary delegates comes in advance of a GOP debate at the Reagan Presidential Library near Los Angeles, which Trump will not attend.

As part of our week of coverage focused on climate solutions, we pulled together some of the moments of success and progress, small and large.

Shelter to Soldier (STS), a San Diego nonprofit that adopts dogs from local shelters and rescue organizations and trains them to become psychiatric service dogs for post-9/11 veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injury and/or Military Sexual Trauma, will hold its 4th annual “Saving Lives, One Swing at a Time” golf tournament on Friday, April 21, 2023 at the Championship Oak Glen Course of Singing Hills Golf Resort at Sycuan, located at 3007 Dehesa Road, El Cajon, CA, 92019. Presented by UNITE, the tournament will begin with a shotgun start at 12 p.m. Golfers will enjoy a boxed sandwich lunch, complimentary beer and seltzer thanks to sponsor Mike Hess Brewing Co., and spirit tastings and Arnold Palmers courtesy of Black Market Spirits on course. Participants will receive an event hat, polo shirt, swag bag and enjoy a dinner buffet following the tournament. For more information about event sponsorships and to register, please click here. Other event sponsors include Subaru USA, Sycuan Casino Resort, Christian Brothers Emergency Building Services, San Diego Sockers, Raising Cane’s and Pressed. Stay and Play options for the weekend are available by reservation and additional cost through Sycuan Casino Resort. Shelter to Soldier has developed a unique psychiatric service dog training program to provide veterans with an alternative method of coping with trauma and MST. According to the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, an average of 17 US veterans and one active-duty military personal commit suicide every single day. More than 500,000 servicemen and women are living with invisible wounds, often including Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS) and 320,000 are experiencing debilitating brain trauma (ref: Wounded Warrior Project). Shelter to Soldier has answered the call to help veterans in need through their independent, non-profit program, funded solely by private/corporate donations and grants. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Festival kicks off Thursday with 130 films from 30 different countries.