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In Port Sudan, Jeddah, Aswan and Cairo, people have sought safety from the fighting in Khartoum. After making difficult decisions and journeys, the biggest challenges for many are only beginning.

Turkey's presidential election is headed to a runoff on May 28. The outcome, in this key NATO nation, has implications for the West. President Biden has said he hopes "whoever wins wins."

In lieu of our regularly scheduled Thursday storytime, we will host an incredible animal show with Zovargo starting at 11 a.m. Get ready for some close encounters with adorable and surprising live animals. This program will be held outdoors in our Community Room. Visit: https://www.zovargo.org/sandiegolibraryanimalshow Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Brandon Van Grack, who led the Justice Department's probe into Edward Snowden, says the priority has to be finding the source of the leak and ensuring there aren't any more coming.

Who is inside the sacred circle, and who is out? And who gets to decide? How do various religions, philosophies, and wisdom traditions frame these vital questions? Join us as we explore this ancient and timely challenge. Speaker: Professor Peter Bolland Following the presentation, you are invited to stay for optional lunch and conversation. Cost for Lunch: $12 Follow on social media! Facebook + Twitter

The Flemish Baroque refers to art created in the Southern Netherlands under Spanish control during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Hapsburgs ruled present-day Belgium, then known as the Spanish Netherlands or Flanders, which was its most prosperous province. Philip II controlled this region in tandem with the Catholic Church. The Catholic influence and precepts oppressed many in the Netherlands at this time as they were predominantly Protestant. By 1609, the Dutch Protestants achieved their independence from their southern counterparts in Flanders and became an independent republic. The Spanish Netherlands thus remained a categorically Catholic region. It provided the Flemish artists living there with many opportunities to create work with church or private commissions. Antwerp emerged as the leading cultural nexus beginning in the first first decades of the 17th century. Prominent artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens worked primarily in this coastal city. Stylistically the art which emerged from this area was confident, energetic, magnificent, and at times theatrical. This docent-led talk will explore the work of these painters and others, and highlight their contributions to genre, portrait, still life, and religious art. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Records show staffers for local officeholders use the encrypted messaging app Signal. Experts say this circumvents California’s public records law.

The conflict has devastated health care: attacks on hospitals, threats against medical staff. Three Sudanese-American doctors share stories from their colleagues — and map out a plan for the future.

Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter has many friends at the Timken Museum of Art after the delightful summer she spent here in 2015, thanks to a generous loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. As evident in that masterpiece as well as in other of his works, including the recently (and dramatically) restored Woman Reading a Letter before an Open Window from Dresden, this seventeenth-century Delft master had a life-long fascination with the subject of women and letters. This lecture will examine how Vermeer captured, in quiet and subtle ways, the emotional impact for women of receiving a letter from an absent loved one. Agenda: 4:30 - 5:30 - Wine and Charcuterie Reception 5:30 - 6:30 - Lecture Tickets $45 - Members/ $65 - Non-Members Cocktail Attire About the Speaker Dr. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. is Senior Advisor to The Leiden Collection. He was previously curator of Northern Baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Professor of Art History at the University of Maryland. He organized over forty exhibitions at the National Gallery, including Anthony van Dyck, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits, Jan Lievens, and Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting. He also helped organize exhibitions at other institutions, among them Vermeer: On Reflection at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. Among Wheelock’s many publications are catalogues of the National Gallery’s Dutch and Flemish paintings. He also edited the on-line catalogue of The Leiden Collection. Follow on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Enjoy a La Jolla Art Association art demonstration with featured artist: Julie Sanderson illustrating "Painting on Silk." The La Jolla Art Association members include local artists representing a variety of media from oil to watercolor, acrylic, digital and more. These artists have been exhibiting their art and hosting receptions at the LJCC for nearly a decade. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 from 4-6 p.m. Free/open to all Register, visit: www.ljcommunitycenter.org/art-receptions La Jolla Community is on Facebook