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Ariana Brown is a queer, Black, Mexican American poet with 13 years of experience writing, performing and teaching poetry. Her work focuses on Black relationality, queer kinship and imagining a world where Black girls are free. She is the author of the poetry collections “We Are Owed” (2021) and “Sana Sana” (2020). She is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion who owes much of her practice to performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. Drawing on her lived experience and her research, Brown will trace her attempts to recover Black girlhood not just for herself, but for other Black girls too. Combining storytelling, poems and dialogue, this artist talk is an opportunity to hear from Brown about how her identities and politics shape her writing. The event will take place online via Zoom. Follow on social media! Twitter + Instagram

For more than 20 years, Poway OnStage has partnered with the world-renowned Missoula Children’s Theatre to present its annual Musical Youth Theater Camp. Children K-12th grade will audition, rehearse and stage a full-scale musical performance in just six days! This year, local young thespians will perform an all-new version of the classic tale "Rumplestiltskin." Auditions and participation are free and open to the public as they are supported by Poway OnStage’s donor supported Arts in Education Initiative. Auditions will be held on Monday, March 6 at 4 p.m. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

California lawmakers are vowing to fast-track a handful of new gun restrictions in the wake of the Texas school shooting. Meanwhile, San Diegans have seen their power bill rise in recent years. The latest San Diego Gas & Electric budget request is calling for those rates to go up even more. Plus, California lawmakers are working on a new bill that would ban expelling and suspending preschool children–a practice that disproportionately impacts Black children.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Richie Furay is an American music luminary. Celebrated for pioneering the Country-Rock sound as founding member of the genre defining groups Buffalo Springfield, Poco and the Souther-Hillman-Furay band, his hits include “For What It’s Worth,” “Heart of the Night,” “Pickin’ Up the Pieces.” Backed by Poway OnStage favorites the Back to the Garden band, this promises to be the “must see” show of Poway OnStage’s 2022/2023 season. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

The San Diego City Attorney's Office sued automakers Hyundai and Kia on Friday for allegedly failing to equip their vehicles with sufficient anti-theft technology, which the city says contributed to a recent uptick in car thefts throughout San Diego.

Police are investigating the death of the singer for the boy band Astro, but have so far found no signs of foul play, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Come watch the San Diego Gulls on November 5th at 7 P.M. at the Pechanga Arena. Come cheer on the Gulls! Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

South Korean DJ and record producer Peggy Gou will perform live at Soma on Sun, Nov 27 at 9 P.M. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

The San Diego Watercolor Society proudly presents “Grey Matters, an Art Exhibition,” juried by award-winning artist, Drew Bandish. The water-based media exhibition runs Aug 4-27, 2022 at our Gallery in The ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. The Opening Reception is Friday, Aug 5, 5-8pm with over 95 ready-to-hang original paintings plus refreshments and the fellowship of other art enthusiasts. The Gallery is open Thursday - Sunday, 11a.m. – 3 p.m. The paintings can also be viewed and purchased online. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Curator Gallery Walk-Through for The Shape of Color, the Weight of Light. San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery hosts this exhibition of pictorial and sculptural investigations on color, light and texture, featuring recent artworks by San Diego-based artists Christian Garcia-Olivo, Kaori Fukuyama and Melissa Walter. The advent of Modernism inspired artists to explore abstraction and in the 20th century painters were motivated to pursue explorations with a variety of media in order to capture both the material and the immaterial. Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, physically vigorous in form and action, can be contrasted with the ethereal rigor of perceptual light works by the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 60s and 70s; and to the interest on phenomenology of some conceptual art. The three artists whose works are assembled together in The Weight of Color, The Shape of Light, delve into these legacies; there’s a push and pull of the picture plane, a celebration of both organic and synthetic pigments while surface and materials are manipulated in novel and unexpected ways. Hear from Alessandra Moctezuma, curator and gallery director. SD Mesa College: Facebook Instagram