Stroll through eight gorgeous private gardens in Central Davis on the Pence Gallery's Annual Garden Tour. Enjoy bidding on items at our extensive silent auction, sample refreshments, and watch painters Rebecca Ryland, Marlene Lee, Pete Scully, Deborah Hill, Mary Neri King, Naomi Bautista, Hannah K. Hunter, Karen Fess, and Adele Shaw create landscapes right before your eyes. Learn how to lower your water use through innovative landscape designs.
Please join us to learn more on how arts are used for healing. For more details, visit: https//eventbrite.com/e/stanford-health-care-arts-in-health-california-conference-saturday-march-19-2016-tickets-20531327754
FREE EVENT - NO RSVP REQUIRED
David Fokos will discuss his process and inspiration for his artwork on display at Sparks Gallery (his solo show exhibition runs through April 3, 2016). In conjuction with the artist talk, Gabe Selak from the San Diego History Center will be presenting stories of historic local authors and their literary contributions.
Beverages and appetizers 6pm
Talk will begin at 6:30pm
The San Diego Pro Arte Voices is taking audiences from the beginning of creation to the end of life in their upcoming spring concert, Beginning to End. This concert will feature Aaron Copland's illustrative work, In the Beginning, and Heinrich Schütz's incomparable Musikalische Exequien (requiem). Also on this program will be the world premier of An English Requiem, by local composer and SDSU Faculty Emeritus, Martin Chambers.
The San Diego Pro Arte Voices is taking audiences from the beginning of creation to the end of life in their upcoming spring concert, Beginning to End. This concert will feature Aaron Copland's illustrative work, In the Beginning, and Heinrich Schütz's incomparable Musikalische Exequien (requiem). Also on this program will be the world premier of An English Requiem, by local composer and SDSU Faculty Emeritus, Martin Chambers.
The Pro Arte Voices assembles to put on a special concert of the rarely performed Membra Jesu Nostri by Dietrich Buxtehude. This work will be performed by the Faculty of the San Diego Summer Choral Festival: soprano Jennifer Paulino (San Francisco), soprano Katie Walders (San Diego), mezzo-soprano Angela Young Smucker (Florida), tenor John Russell (San Diego), and baritone Patrick Walders (San Diego Pro Arte Voices Artistic Director).
The third of several Americans for the Arts New Community Visions Initiative events where participants representing many sectors gathered to dicuss the future of communities and the role of the arts within in them took place in San Jose, CA.
Exhibition: David Fokos “The Book Pages Project” - A Solo Show
// Exhibition on view February 5 – April 3, 2016
// Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 2016 8pm-10pm
RSVP required for opening night – RSVP via this page: http://sparksgallery.com/exhibitions/david-fokos-solo-show-the-book-pages-project
This is a unique opportunity to view an exhibition of art created by post-911 combat veterans and be a participant in our first Combat Veteran Panel Discussion.
This panel, composed of five combat veterans who have served multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, will enlighten and inform you about the issues facing service members and veterans as they transition home from war. The moderator for the discussion is Jack Lyon, a highly decorated Vietnam Marine platoon commander and veteran advocate.
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a 24-legged brass beast whose eastern funk groove has torn up halls and festivals across the planet.When Fanfare Ciocărlia - from the "hidden" village of Zece Prajini in north-eastern Romania - take the stage, the crowd is immediately immersed in the music, and respond to the fierce Balkan funk by turning concerts into parties. The Gypsies may only speak their local Romany dialect but their music speaks an international language.
Multiplex Dance is known for their highly-athletic and acrobatic movement style and edgy, cyber aesthetic. As the founder, Chad Michael Hall’s obsession with computer technology, electronic music and science-fiction drive him to create dances that integrate live dancing with digital media. Chad Michael Hall is joined by seven dancers committed to creating and performing original pieces in this unique brand of Techno-Industrial Dance.
Las Cafeteras create a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Their Afro-Mexican rhythms, zapateado & inspiring lyrics tell stories of a community who is looking for love & fights for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. A remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, Las Cafeteras add Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone and a wooden platform called the Tarima.
Solo actress Anu Yadav weaves a tale of nine-year-old Meena who wishes her mother could afford the medicine she needs, and of the Hindu God Lord Krishna who pleads for Meena's help in his war against the Worry Machine. Meena's Dream creates a fantastical world through storytelling and live music, from South Indian classical to indie folk.
Artist Talk: Photographing San Diego
Thursday, November 5, 2015 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free Event – No RSVP Required
“San Diego Landscapes” exhibit photographers Jon Barnes, Kent Askew, Minghua Nie will discuss their work, changes in technology and styles of work, and much more.
For more event information, via email [email protected], by phone (619) 696-1416 or via our Facebook event page
Artist Talk: Gail Schneider
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 from 6:30pm - 8pm
Gail Scheinder will discuss her process, inspiration and her current installation on display at Sparks Gallery through November 7, 2015.
Ryman Arts Big Draw LA flagship event, Make Your Mark in the Park, takes place right in front of the Los Angeles City Hall in Grand Park. A fun-filled, creative afternoon, we will celebrate the act of drawing by welcoming thousands of Angelenos to draw together. With many participatory drawing activities lead by Ryman Arts students and faculty, Grand Park will be transformed into a giant experimental drawing studio. Free and fun for all ages! You can draw for hours with 10 drawing booths, and enjoy lunch from delicious food trucks when you are ready to take a break!
Humanities West begins its two-day lecture series for the 2015-2016 season with a journey to the Dawn of the Italian Renaissance (1275-1400). Designed to entertain and educate, this unique lecture/performance program brings together distinguished scholars, along with acclaimed Bay Area musicians to celebrate the art, architecture, literature and music of the early Italian Renaissance.
The Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition is a month-long show, sponsored by Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Inc., featuring artwork created by more than 100 artists and craftspeople, both established and emerging, who live or work in Emeryville. The work includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, ceramics and textiles. Now in its 29th year, the Annual Exhibition again expands its celebration of the arts to include poetry readings with Emeryville Poet Laureate Sarah Kobrinsky, and dance performances by Nancy Karp + Dancers.
The REEF and Ryman Arts team up for The Big Draw LA, a fun-filled, creative celebration of the act of drawing. The annual drawing festival brings together families, seniors, art lovers, people who like to draw and those who think they can’t, to participate in an array of hands-on, collaborative drawing activities.
PBS SoCaL and La Plaza de Cultura y Artes invite you to a festival style gathering from 4:00PM to 9:00PM for the Los Angeles premiere of the new PBS film “On Two Fronts: Latinos & Vietnam”. This event is hosted in celebration of the distinguished service of our military personnel and their families.
Guests are invited to bring picnic setups and low back chairs to watch “On Two Fronts: Latinos & Vietnam” on the grass of La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, under the stars. The film starts at sunset.
Beautiful dancers, exotic and colorful costumes, virtuoso world-touring musicians, seductive flamenco dancing, ethereal Indonesian orchestration, rockin' West African beats, soaring Klezmer violin, mysterious and enchanting tribal dances, sublimely poetic Persian classical music and dance, eloquent and transporting trans-cultural jazz, theater-shaking Japanese Taiko drums and an extravagant Bollywood finale by San Diego Civic Dance Arts will sonically, visually and somatically take you to worlds you have never been to.
The 5th Annual Harmony & Motion International Music and Dance Festival celebrates the cultural diversity of San Diego as part of the Balboa Park Centennial
The 5th Annual Harmony & Motion International Music and Dance Festival celebrates the cultural diversity of San Diego as part of the Balboa Park Centennial
The 5th Annual Harmony & Motion International Music and Dance Festival celebrates the cultural diversity of San Diego as part of the Balboa Park Centennial
We are calling together arts educators to kick off
National Arts in Education Week!
Arts for All invites you to an evening of drinks, conversation and networking. We look forward to coming together as we celebrate the start of the 2015-2016 school year.
Monday, September 14, 2015
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Jay's Bar
4321 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles,CA 90029
(Private lot and street parking are available)
Saturday, September 26, 2015
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, University of California
Berkeley, CA
Please join us for an evening of live music, art, and good company on August 13th from 6:30 -8:00pm. Join us to help fund our next Veteran Mural Project that will be installed on Adam's Avenue in Normal Heights. The mural will be created by a group of active-duty service members guided by Elizabeth Washburn and a veteran artist.
FNAM and UC Irvine announce ShowSearch, a national search for the best musical by young writers
The Festival of New American Musicals and the University of California, Irvine announce the launch of a nationwide search for new, short musicals created by writers between the ages of 14 – 23. The Festival produced a pilot of ShowSearch in 2013 in Los Angeles. Its success in attracting creative responses from young writers representing over 40 states has led to this new cooperative relationship between FNAM and UC Irvine Department of Drama.
Three composers from the Germanic-Austrian school and Icelandic horn soloist Joseph Ognibene bring the 2014/15 concert season to a rousing finale. Selections include Moozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
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