Sunday, April 23, 2017 10AM to 12:30PM
Cost: $85, includes all supplies for 2-3 accessories.
Limited tickets available, purchase your ticket via link
http://sparksgallery.com/shop/living-jewelry-workshop-by-adorations-botanical-artistry
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2017 – SIX TO NINE PM
Free to attend, but RSVP is required for this event.
RSVP here: http://sparksgallery.com/events/sparks-gallery-two-year-anniversary-celebration
Please join us to celebrate Sparks Gallery’s Two Year Anniversary with wine, small bites, performances, and music. Free to attend but RSVP is required for this event.
Figurative Sculpture: Then and Now
Saturday, February 25, 2017 2PM to 4PM
Free Event - No RSVP Required
Speakers:
Roxana Velasquez (San Diego Museum of Art, Executive Director)
Vanessa Francoise Rothe (Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, West Coast Editor)
Eugene Daub (NSS Fellow)
Richard Becker (NSS Elected Member)
Sunday, March 5, 2017 from 3pm to 5pm
Free event - No RSVP required
Visitors to the gallery will be able to talk with the artists from the National Sculpture Society and ask questions about their technique and style as they discuss their works on view in "Southern CA Sculpture / A Group Show".
https://www.facebook.com/events/1311753482233092/
http://sparksgallery.com/events/artist-talk-southern-ca-sculpture
Presented by the Choral Consortium of San Diego, this free all-day choral festival on March 25, 2017 will take place at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in beautiful Balboa Park, with 22 San Diego area choirs each performing individually and all 1000 singers gathering together mid-day for a massed sing under the direction of Dr. David Chase.
Saturday, May 13, 2017 11am to 5pm
Free event - No RSVP Required
Join us for a one day only Summer Bazaar at Sparks Gallery featuring new jewelry & small works by local artists, just in time for Mother's Day and graduation gift shopping.
Special features include Palm Readings by represented artist Alexander Arshansky & exclusive offers on delicious eats at Cafe Sevilla & Cute Cakes - our neighbors in the Gaslamp.
Holiday Bazaar and Open House at Sparks Gallery
Please join us for an evening filled with festivities at Sparks Gallery on Thursday, December 8 from 5-9pm.
Free event - No RSVP required
For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1450045021689593/
An Evening with Artist Alexander Arshansky
Thursday, December 1, 2016 from 6:30pm to 8pm
Free event – No RSVP required
Alexander Arshansky will perform a live painting demonstration on Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 6:30pm. Visitors to the gallery will be able to talk with the artist and ask questions about his technique and style and his current exhibition “Stories Within” on display at Sparks Gallery through December 30, 2016.
A brand new event open to the whole military community! Creative Arts Collective invites participants from any therapeutic arts program to share their art, talents, and skills. • Show your artwork • Perform music, improv, or theater • Find inspiration • Learn about other art therapies • Connect with your peers • Participate in a drum circle Soldiers Who Salsa will be making a special appearance to lead a dance demonstration!
// Opening Reception Saturday, March 11, 2017 from 6PM - 8PM
// Exhibition on view MAR 11 – JUN 11, 2017
FREE EVENT – RSVP is required for the opening reception via: http://sparksgallery.com/exhibitions/exhibition-li-huai-a-solo-show
Your ticket includes access to delicious samplings by six amazing chefs, live dance performances, and wine samplings from Baja Wine + Food. Additional beverages available for purchase.
OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2016 – SIX TO NINE PM
// Exhibition on view OCT 30 – DEC 30, 2016
Please email [email protected] to preview the show catalog.
Opening reception wine sales to benefit California Veterans Legal Task Force (http://www.cvltf.org/)
Guests who RSVP receive one free drink ticket
FREE EVENT – RSVP is required for the opening. Please use the link in the tickets section above.
Live Painting Demonstration - Physique Exhibition
Thursday, October 13, 2016 from 6pm to 8pm
Free event - No RSVP required
An Evening with Artist Daniel Dust
Thursday, October 6, 2016 from 6pm to 7:30pm
Free event - No RSVP required
The 30th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition Celebrates 3 Decades of Art & Artists in Emeryville!
Join us for coffee/tea
and conversation at
CDEA MEMBER-LED
BREAKFAST MEETINGS
as we celebrate
National Arts in Education Week 2016!
N O R T H E R N C A L I F O R N I A
BERKELEY
Date Saturday, September 17, 2016
Time 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Host Jessy Kronenberg
Place Au Coquelet Café Restaurant
2000 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704
First Fridays is a monthyl event that takes place in Long Beach, CA every first Friday of the month. The mission of First Fridays is to promote economic development with in the city while providing local artists with a platform to showcase their art to the community.
Arts For The Schools presents GuGu Drum Group, a theatrical music group hailing from Shanghai. GuGu Drum Group tells ancient Chines fables and tales through theatrical drum vignettes. Their high-energy dance and music combine with their traditional and fantastical Chinese costumes to enchant people of all ages. Come for the art, stay for the fun!
Arts For The Schools presents Gaelynn Lea, the winner of the 2016 NPR Tiny Desk Concert competition. Outperforming more than 6,100 other entries, Gaelynn’s beautiful lyrics and violin captured the hearts and ears of all of her judges. Gaelynn combines popular folk and rock sounds with traditional Celtic and American fiddle to produce a sound all her own. As a sufferer of Brittle Bones Disease, Gaelynn uses her music and its success as a platform to advocate for people with disabilities and to promote positive social change.
Arts For The Schools presents VersaStyle, the LA-based dance ensemble with moves that inspire and awe. Watch them combine hip-hop, salsa, and more into one incredible act that proves the importance of crossing racial and socio-economic boundaries through the common passion of their art.
Arts For The Schools presents The Cashore Marionettes. Bring the whole family for a night of spectacularly real puppet mastery, with stories that touch both children and adults alike. The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta calls it “A wonderful world of breath-taking magic.” Come watch Joseph Cashore perform the art he has been perfecting since age 11 and marvel at the real emotions these beautiful puppets illicit.
Arts For The Schools presents Fémina in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Fémina is a trio of female Argentinean singer-songwriters. Their show-stopping harmonies mix with cumbia, rumba, reggae, funk and more to create a beautiful (and catchy) sound.
A Step Beyond begins classes during National Arts in Education Week. Students whose families live below the poverty line receive free after school dance, academics and family services. Currently, A Step Beyond serves seventy students in the Escondido and San Marcos neighborhoods.
We invite you to Arts For The Schools' first annual fundraiser that combines the festival culture of our lively region with a unique new competition event that promotes community involvement. Join us for food, drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), live entertainment, local artisans and vendors, and a competition that requires teams to build and race their own wooden boat built by hand (no power tools allowed!). Bring the whole family for fun a day on the beach.
All proceeds go towards Arts For The Schools' arts education programming.
The finale concert for the summer choral festival will be held on Saturday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s by the Sea in Pacific Beach. This concert will feature the participants of the festival and the repertoire they will work on over the course of the three days.
Friday, August 5 at 8:00 p.m. will be the season premiere concert for the San Diego Pro Arte Voices—the choir-in-residence for the San Diego Summer Choral Festival. Performing alone, and together with the Festival Faculty, the Pro Arte Voices will present exciting repertoire from the choral canon as well as emerging living composers. Highlights of this program include the Bruckner Motets, Giles Swayne Magnificat, Charles Ives Psalm 90, and an African piece called Indodana.
The showcase concert for the San Diego Summer Conducting Workshop will be held on Tuesday, August 2, at 8:00 p.m. in Smith Recital Hall at SDSU. This concert features the Conducting Fellows, chosen from a pool of applicants from around the country.
Michiko Sodo Kinoshita, a well-respected expert in tea ceremony and an artist in Teatime, will present a traditional Japanese Tea ceremony for participants. Ceramicist Marc Lancet will discuss his tea bowls on display in Teatime, which are often used for tea preparation, and talk about his process of throwing and firing. RSVP to 530-758-3370 by May 21st, 5pm to reserve; a limited number of seats are available.
The practic of making tea, shared by many cultures across the globe, is an ancient tradition. Central to the preparation of tea leaves is the cup, bowl, or tea pot, in which the tea leaves are held. The exhibit displays fine teaware crafted by contemporary ceramic artists from California, Japan, Germany, and China, among other places near and far. Participating ceramicists include Shimo, Marc Lancet, Natasha Dikareva, Barbara Sebastian, Lisa Jetonne, Heidi Bekebrede, Sodo Kinoshita, Sabine Turpeinen, Jan Schachter, Fred Yokel, Julia Feld, Melissa Woodburn, and Debbie Moore Yip.
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