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Sunday, October 23, 2022, 1PM to 4PM PST Poem-Making With Jim Moreno, A Virtual Poem-Making Class Online via Zoom This three-hour class for beginning or seasoned poets will utilize the art of poetry to examine the existential background to the political foreground of the Mid Term election that is almost one month away. Poets like Robert Bly, Joy Harjo, Sonia Sanchez, Rumi, Yehuda Amichai, Yusef Komunyakaa and others will help us find humane solutions for our vote. Quotes from the likes of John Lewis, John Kennedy, Malala, and others will frame a portrait of sanity & fact to counter the Big Money mass media montage of misinformation, misdirection and mendacity that currently plagues our nation. This class will be taught in two 90-minute segments divided into quotes, film clips, poems, and stories from Jim Moreno’s experience as an artivist (artist and activist) in writing, teaching, and performing. Beginning and seasoned participants are welcomed to the Container of respect and safety that are the foundation of Moreno’s classes. If you are looking for a critique group, this is not the class for you. This is a write from your heart poem-making class. Are we sick and tired of the mass media bombardment going on for months yet? An out of state Big Money push trying to manuever our minds to vote yes when the truth of the candidate, the proposition, the issue, the theme, invites a simple no, a no vote, a realization of the background to the phony foreground of actus reus (“guilty act”), mens rea (“guilty mind.”) by the perpetrators of the mask hiding the truth. We now live in a world where women are ordered how to dress, ordered not to have a choice about how or when to not give life. We live in a country where combat machines may be used in our children’s school to end their lives. And the experts in segue shift the issue to more police; more police in our schools, more police in the streets. More scrutiny means less accuracy for the common sense solutions. Sign up using the above link to pay the fee. Jim will then e-mail the class syllabus to you after Writers Ink forwards your e-mail address to him the day before the class on Saturday, October 22. You will receive your class syllabus with a bibliography. You will also receive the Zoom ID link to this class when you receive your syllabus. Join Mr. Moreno for this class which resonates with belonging, dignity and respect for all cultures and colors of skin. You will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the start of class. Be sure to check your Spam/Junk folders just in case! If you sign up less than 24 hours before the start of the class, please email Kristen at programs@sandiegowriters.org for your link. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Comic-Con is back in full swing after a three-year delay.

U-Visa requests from immigrants are being denied at a high rate by the San Diego Police Department. In other news, local organizations hosted a healthcare fair for people experiencing homelessness. Plus, the deadline to apply for college loan forgiveness is approaching.

The Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in central Belize is a unique landscape in the Maya lowlands. It is largely defined by a series of granitic upwellings that produce nutrient leached soils that are poor for farming, but the region is bordered by cave-filled limestone hills. Because of the poor soils, the ancient Maya were thought to have never lived there, but it was the source of many important economic resources, especially granite for making grinding stones. Research in 1928 demonstrated that the ancient Maya used at least some of the caves for ritual purposes, but where the participants came from remains unknown. In 2018, Dr. Jon Spenard initiated his Rio Frio Regional Archaeological Project (RiFRAP) to address that question. Either the caves were long-distance pilgrimage destinations, or there were here-to-fore yet undocumented Maya sites in the region. The answer is the latter. In this talk, Spenard presents on the recently documented ancient Maya site of Nohoch Batsó and the nearby Buffalo Hill quarries, a multi-component granitic rock quarry and ground stone tool manufactory. This event will be held on Zoom. About the Speaker Jon Spenard is Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University San Marcos. He earned his Ph.D. from University of California Riverside and his M.A. from Florida State University. He has conducted social landscape archaeological research in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico where he has largely focused on ancient Maya cave ritual practices. In 2018, he started his Rio Frio Regional Archaeological Project, or RiFRAP, the first long-term study of the Mountain Pine Ridge in Belize. The initial focus of that project was several cave sites in the Rio Frio valley that were documented 90 years earlier but not studied since. Since its inception, the scope of the project has expanded to a broader study of the many ways past Maya people interacted and lived in a landscape unique in the Maya lowlands. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

The sudden cave-in of part of the busy East Coast highway created an immediate traffic nightmare for drivers. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro issued a disaster declaration.

Since the fire residents have gotten multiple calls from realtors offering to buy their land. Activists want a role in planning, to keep developers from pushing out those who call Lahaina home.

The Department of Homeland Security suspended the Remain in Mexico policy. In other news, the Carlsbad Police Department is creating a Community-Police Engagement Commission. Activists see problems with the effort.. Plus, pickleball players in San Diego find themselves in quite the pickle over where they can play.

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s proposal to build housing on top of new or renovated public facilities is far away from happening. In other news, the county board of supervisors unanimously approved an emergency measure aimed at decreasing overdose deaths in San Diego County jails. Plus, a shortage of Colorado River water is expected to hit some Southwestern states hard.

Art Scene West Gallery, in Solana Beach, announces an exciting event open to the public, the Black Friday “Performance Art” Weekend Event & Holiday Art Show Opening. The Black Friday Weekend Event will feature a live performance art show on Black Friday, 11/25/22, 12 noon - 4 p.m. (only!) by internationally renowned artist Hugo Rivera. Hugo will create one of his large-scale paintings from start to finish in a mesmerizing outdoor creative performance of four hours or less. This artist knows how to creatively sling paint! There will be live music and refreshments on Black Friday and refreshments as well during the rest of the weekend event. Canvases painted by Hugo will be exhibited in our courtyard as well as canvases painted by Esau Andrade, Mexican surrealist. Hugo Rivera is an internationally renowned Mexican American contemporary figurative artist, born and raised in Guadalajara, who came to California to pursue his career. Formally educated as a civil engineer in Mexico, Hugo began painting murals anywhere he could in his spare time as a college student. He painted his first big mural on his bedroom wall, an impression of the cover of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album, which was the start of his passion to paint on big surfaces. In the U.S., Hugo began painting murals in the Huntington Beach area for private clients in their homes, restaurants, and churches. In 2000, Hugo opened his own gallery in Laguna Beach, where he now lives with his wife and son. Hugo’s work has won awards at nationally prestigious juried fairs, including the Indian Wells Art Festival, the Malibu Art Festival, the La Jolla Festival of Arts, the Beverly Hills Art Festival, and the Sawdust Art Festival, and he has been honored with a permanent exhibition of his artworks at Museum Vladimir Cora in Nayarit, Mexico. Hugo’s large-scale paintings are now in private and corporate collections worldwide. Hugo has developed a reputation as a performance artist over the years because he works very rapidly with his brushwork and can easily create a large scale figurative painting within four hours or even less, from start to finish. Esau Andrade is a prominent Mexican contemporary surrealist painter. Born in 1963 in Tepic Nayarit, Mexico, Andrade started drawing at the age of three and his passion for art eventually led him to attend La Escuela de Artes Plasticas de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Strongly influenced by two of the giants of Mexican fine art, Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo, Andrade developed his own creative style, and his soul is reflected in his symbolic paintings reflecting his childhood, his dreams, and the cheerful universe that characterizes Mexican culture. Andrade was recently honored with an exhibition of his artworks at a in Berne, Switzerland. Follow Art Scene West on social media: Facebook & Instagram