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ART
Woulda, coulda, can
San Diego could be right up there with New York in producing cutting-edge art if only we would connect with our universities and colleges. The way things stand, though, there might as well be a gigantic glass encasement—think The Simpsons Movie—surrounding the campuses. But this week is special. Non-scholastic folks are invited to three campuses to check out the creative goings on:
UCSD’s Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts Major (ICAM) seniors tie together computer science, art and cultural theory with interactive games, multi-user audio tables, music videos, installations and more Thursday, March 13, through Sunday, March 16, at the Calit2 Auditorium and the second floor of Atkinson Hall. A reception for LIVE, as in Live Interactive & Visual Exhibition, will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 15. www.icamshow.info.
David Bacon will open Living Under the Trees, his new series of photographs documenting the daily lives of indigenous Mexican farm workers in California, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the San Diego Mesa Art Gallery, 7250 Mesa College Drive. Bacon, author of Children of NAFTA and a longtime activist who makes sure to take his camera with him into the heart of controversial issues, from labor struggles and education to the border and the war, will give a talk at the gallery at 9:30 a.m. Monday, March 31. www.sdmesa.edu/art or 619-388-2829.
The Grossmont College Hyde Art Gallery will host A Fine Arts Affaire 3, at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 16. Preview the art through March 13. Then, at the main event, enjoy wine provided by local wineries, food by local restaurants and live music while bidding on the art. Proceeds will benefit the college’s art programs. $25. 619-644-7109.
MUSIC
The man
Officially, Scott Paulson is the outreach coordinator at the UCSD Arts Libraries and the pit director of the Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra. Unofficially, Paulson is the UCSD carillon keeper, paper theater master, proud owner of a huge toy piano collection and a musician able to play many strange and unusual instruments. Paulson will be all over the place this week. At 8 p.m. Thursday, March 13, he’ll be at Porter’s Pub at UCSD with the Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra providing the live musical score featuring mostly music written by women for a screening of silent films starring mostly women (March is Women’s History Month). Tickets cost just $10 and can be purchased at www.artpower.ucsd.edu. Then, Friday, March 14, Paulson will finish up a mini-tour with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, playing a new Theremin concerto written especially for him by composer Linda Kernohan, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Ave. in Bankers Hill. $20-$55. www.sdco.org.
Jewish jazz: While its film festival is condensed into 11 days of nonstop screenings, the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center’s ninth annual Jewish Music Festival is a different beast altogether. In this case, the events are spread out over the course of almost five months, ensuring that music fans can get their fix all the way through summer. Kicking off this year’s festival is a performance from Israeli-born, New York-based Latin jazz trombonist and euphonium player Rafi Malkiel. Malkiel plays with the confidence of a musician beyond his 35 years, leading his all-star group through a series of improvised and composed pieces. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll find out what a euphonium is. The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 17, at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theater, Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center’s Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla. $19. www.lfjcc.org.
COMMUNITY
Getting greens
Gardens are good for the soul. Development in Gardening (DIG) knows that and has set out to build vegetable gardens in HIV/AIDS hospitals and orphanages in cities in developing nations. From 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 15, DIG will tell you a bit more about its urban gardens and work educating outpatients, caregivers and hospital staff about the nutritional value of gardens at a fund-raising event at Hawthorn’s Restaurant Lounge, 2895 University Ave. in North Park. The $25 suggested donation gets you light hors d’oeuvres, drinks and the chance to participate in live and silent auctions. www.developmentingardening.org.
SPEAKERS
Blood and Gore
We’re digging on the slogan for the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice’s Saturday, March 15, protest to mark the five-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: “Healthcare, jobs and education, no more war and occupation.” Rhymes nicely, no? Commit it to memory and head down to the corner of Fairmount and University in City Heights at noon for the Five Years of War and Look at the Cost rally. At 1 p.m., the group will march to Teralta Park (40th and Orange), where the featured speaker is none other than Gore Vidal, the celebrated novelist, screenwriter and political commentator who, over the past few years, has focused his attention on the Bush/Cheney administration with books like Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia. www.sdcpj.org.
DANCE
Wonderland?
Shhhh. What you’re about to read is rather underground and sorta secret: Patricia Rincon and friends are busy putting together The Myth Project II, collaborative, site-specific, multi-media performances that delve into the myths of the iconic American dream. At 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 15 and 16, leave the confines of your own white picket fence and head to The Warehouse, an unpublicized venue in Barrio Logan for the first in a two-weekend-long show. Go to www.rincondance.org for directions, and say “white rabbit” when you get to the door.
FASHION
Boutique walkabout
A lot of the boutique owners in North Park know and actually like each other. Seriously, it’s kind of strange considering the fact that, technically, they’re in competition with one another. But, thankfully, the owners are evolved enough to recognize the greater good: community. Saturday, March 15, from 4 to 8 p.m., MESH, Material, Mimi & Red, Kate Ross Shoes, Overload Skateshop, The Rubber Rose and Pop Boutique will bond together for Pay it FOURward, a boutique walkabout featuring in-store DJs, sales and more with part of the day’s proceeds going to Bienstar, a local nonprofit offering HIV testing and outreach. www.myspace.com/meshsd.
