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South Bay Earth Day returns to Bayfront Park! Update: Chula Vista’s South Bay Earth Day celebration now features a new, free, headline performance by genre-bending band Ozomatli! This celebration will feature a host of family-friendly activities, workshops, exhibits, vendors, art, food and drink, nonprofits, how-to and all-day entertainment featuring a nationally recognized, surprise headline recording artist. In addition to celebrating our precious, fragile planet and its bounty, South Bay Earth Day will engage and motivate visitors to choose environmentally friendly products and lifestyle choices, learn and practice, sustainable and mindful habits. Highlights of the zero-waste, day-long activation will include: · Fix-it-Clinic. Repair extends the life and reduces the environmental footprint of devices, furnishings and objects. Have something that needs fixing from lighting and gadgets to small electronics and mechanical devices? Bring them in! Mend your favorite outfit. Repair road and mountain bikes. One of our experts will help you evaluate, diagnose and fix it if they can. · Tie-Dye Workshop. Upcycle your plain (light-colored) garments and fabrics into original, colorful creations. · Live Entertaiment. All-day performances include Dreaming of You—Ultimate Selena Tribute, and a surprise marquee headliner to be announced. · Over 50 Green Vendors: everything sustainable and eco-conscious, from home furnishings to jewelry and apparel to garden gadgets, as well as exhibits and booths from local nonprofits, including Chula Vista Water Sports and Ocean Connectors with The Kayak Café; Citizens Climate Lobby; Living Coast Discovery Center; MAAC Project; SanDiego350; San Diego Community Power; and Creation Care Ministry. · Artist Alley. Enjoy the sight of beautiful art creations with environmentally safe art exhibits at the Artist Alley. There will be at least three live painters on-site, and many artists will be present to talk about their works. Some items will be available for purchase. · Kid Zone: Paint or decorate free (one per household) kitchen waste caddies! Make piñatas out of recyclables! Visit live animals and learn about conservation in the Living Coast Discovery Center! Interactive sorting games! Coloring! Conservation corn hole! · Food Trucks. The San Diego area’s most diverse array of food truck options. · Compost Giveaway. Learn about the benefits of compost and take a small sample home. · Free Bike Valet South Bay Earth Day on Facebook / Instagram With nearly 280,00 residents, the City of Chula Vista is a state leader in sustainability awareness and activity. The City has been at the forefront of sustainability since rolling out its citywide recycling programs in 1993, joining the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1997, and publishing its first Climate Action Plan in 2000. The City also developed an Operations Sustainability Plan and a Waste Reduction Strategic Plan, or Zero Waste Plan, that considers “People, Planet, and Prosperity” as the “triple bottom line” to achieve social, environmental, and economic sustainability and a green local economy and community.

This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 20 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you. Open Studios coincides with the opening of Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy at the Mandeville Art Gallery!

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming program, Celebrating Women in the Arts with soloists of Musica Vitale, Michael Sokol, Lisa Parente, and Julia Rahm, and our guest instrumentalists, violinist Nonna Alakhverdova and pianist Olena Galytska. You will hear vocal and instrumental works by women composers: Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach, Lori Laitman, Hildegard Von Bingen, and others. Dr. Bill Propp and Penny Hawkins will provide insightful commentaries and fun stories to complement our program. Musica Vitale on Facebook / Instagram

Director: Gabriel Axel Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 1987 Language: Danish Starring: Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Stéphane Audran Burke Lectureship Revival Film & Discussion Series (April – June, 2024) The Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society presents the Burke Revival Film Screening & Discussion Series. The program probes religion & society themes imbedded in significant films. Images in these films exemplify the mission of Burke in ways that contrast and compliment the keynote Lectures. Moving images are the new Lingua Franca of our times and instill in our communications much demanded new avenues of perception. Film screenings are in the Digital Gym Cinema located at UC San Diego Park & Market location. Film introductions & special presentations following each film will be led by Rev Scott Young, a Wesley Foundation (UMC) Campus Minister/Religious Advisor at UCSD. He is a member of the Center For Ethics and Spirituality and a Burke Lectureship Board of Governors member. He has taught Cinema Studies at Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles Film Study Center, and UCLA FIAT LUX program. He was a Co-Founder and Director of The City of Angels Film Festival in Hollywood. He was a Juror at the Berlin International Film Festival. His non-profit Culture Connection is co-sponsoring the Long Beach Tiny Film Fest. Synopsis: Beautiful but pious sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) grow to spinsterhood under the wrathful eye of their strict pastor father on the forbidding and desolate coast of Jutland, until one day, Philippa’s former suitor sends a Parisian refugee named Babette (Stéphane Audran) to serve as the family cook. Babette’s lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family’s dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines. For more information visit: digitalgym.org Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

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S P A C E Pro Showcase is a final presentation of our 2024 S P A C E Pro Studio Residency program with Resident Artists, Cecily Holcombe, Victor De La Fuente, and Greta Nuñez. Through a 10-week artist residency process at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, our selected Resident Artists delved into research and development of new works. Join us for the culminating event of this process, to see what their creative research and exploration has yielded. Tickets are $15 for artists/students and $25 for the general public. April 19 & 20 7 p.m.