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San Diego weekend arts events: 'Working Title,' kelp art and more
Top picks
‘Working Title’
Visual art, Dance, Music
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Project [BLANK]’s annual interdisciplinary art and performance takeover of a sacred space is back! “Working Title” will transform St. Paul’s Cathedral in Banker’s Hill over the course of three nights, featuring musical performances and visual art installations and activations in nearly every available space in the church (including, I’m told, the restrooms).
Project [BLANK]’s artistic director Leslie Ann Leytham and co-curator Diana Benavidez have brought together more than 40 artists and performers this year. Visual artists include Cat Gunn, Claudia Cano, India Thompson, Yasmine Kasem, Nick Lesley, Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio and many more. Musicians include Akari Komura, Zane Shrem-Besnoy, Jesus Cervantes and Odessa Uno, Kosuke Matsuda and more.
Courtesy of Project [BLANK]
On contemporary visual artists and contemporary musicians working together: “I think we’re all interrogating our world around us and in similar ways. We’re asking kind of similar questions about space or time, or the body,” Leytham said.
Each evening has a different lineup of musical performances; scheduled here.
Details: Event link. 6-10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Jan 11-13. St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Ave., Banker’s Hill. $15-$25.
Amel Janae: ‘Under My Skin’ / MCASD Play Day
Visual art
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will host a pop-up activation in the Axline Court during Free Second Sunday, featuring artist Amel Janae. Janae will install her immersive work and also perform a DJ set.
The museum is free on Sunday for all visitors, with family-friendly activities inspired by color field artists like Helen Frankenthaler, where kids can create their own painting on a canvas. There’s a kid-friendly tour at 10 a.m., with stories and music through 1 p.m.
Details: Kid-friendly “Play Day” runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; “Under My Skin” pop-up is 1-4 p.m. Free museum admission from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MCASD, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Free.
‘Ebb and Flow’
Visual art, Science
Scientist and artist Oriana Poindexter has curated a special kelp-art exhibition at the UC San Diego Geisel Library. “Ebb and Flow” is a sister exhibition to another kelp-art exhibition involving Poindexter, “Hold Fast,” which will open at the Birch Aquarium on Feb. 8.
Artists Julia C R Gray, Dwight Hwang, Marie McKenzie and Poindexter will show artworks alongside vintage seaweed pressings from Virginia and Ellen Browning Scripps plus more recent pressings from Scripps Institute of Oceanography scientists. The exhibit, housed in Geisel’s main exhibition space and in The Nest area near the entrance, focuses on the diversity of the region’s giant kelp forests over the last 130+ years. An opening reception is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Jan. 25.
Details: Event link. On view Jan. 12 through Apr. 21. Exhibition gallery is open during main Geisel Library hours, 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Geisel Library, 9500 Gilman Dr., UC San Diego. Free.
‘Intimate Apparel’
Theater
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s 2004 play, “Intimate Apparel,” is about Esther, a Black seamstress who moved to New York in pursuit of the American Dream. There, she sews undergarments, or “intimate apparel” to a wide-ranging clientele appreciative of her craftsmanship, trust and discretion — from the upper class to prostitutes.
Aaron Rumley
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North Coast Rep
The story is based on Nottage’s own great-grandmother, and follows Esther as she falls in love and finds the world she has built for herself turned upside down. North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production is directed by Jasmine Bracey with Nedra Snipes as Esther.
Details: Event link. On stage Jan. 10 through Feb. 4. Lower-cost previews are Jan. 10-12. This week’s performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Saturday (sold out); and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr., Solana Beach. $44-$60.
Live music picks
Thursday: Daring Greatly and Anthony Cullins at Belly Up (rock/blues); Neil Hamburger and Major Entertainer at Casbah (comedy/music); Badlands, Hardcastle and Jettee at Soda Bar (rock/indie).
Friday: Slaughter Beach, Dog and Sun June at The Observatory (rock/indie pop); Golden Rule Hip-Hop Night with Ric Scales at Winston’s (hip-hop).
Saturday: Pity Party (Girls Club) at SOMA (indie); Poncho Sanchez and Gaby & La Buena Onda at Music Box (Latin); Lagrimas, Se Vende, Agonista and Corrupt Vision at Che Cafe (punk); Tommy Castro & The Painkillers and Kid Ramos at Belly Up (blues/rock); R&B Block Party MLK Weekend at Quartyard (R&B); Hot Club of Bird Park at Black Cat Bar (swing); King Thieves, Matthew Hall & The Mail Room and more at Pour House (indie).
Sunday: Fundraiser for Jamie Shadowlight at Music Box (singer/songwriter); Max Look & The Tomorrow Band, Emma Noren and Daddy at Soda Bar (indie); MLK Jazz Festival with Will Donato, Rebecca Jade and more at Humphreys Backstage Live (jazz); New Aesthetic, Winterhaven, Prefect and Flailing Idiot at Pour House (all ages, pop-punk/indie).
Monday: Memorial for Otto Valentine featuring The Schizophonics, The Creepy Creeps, Owl Be Damned, Scary Pierre and Basket at Casbah (rock).
More arts and culture events
Jeremy Daniel
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Broadway San Diego
‘The Wiz’ | Theater
This touring production of “The Wiz” is a pre-Broadway tour of the Broadway revival. It’s been 40 years since “The Wiz” was officially on Broadway and it is slated to reopen there later this spring. The musical, by William F. Brown with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, retells the classic story of “The Wizard of Oz” with soul, gospel, funk and rock music, through the lens of contemporary Black culture. On stage through Sunday, Jan. 14. San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., downtown. $44+. Event details.
Chitra Gopalakrishnan: ‘Mirror’ | Visual art
San Diego artist and designer Chitra Gopalakrishnan will open a solo exhibit, “Mirror.” Gopalakrishnan’s work is powerful, vivid and at the intersection of intensely personal and approachable. The Rose Art Gallery, on the Francis Parker School campus, is open to the public for the Jan. 11 opening reception, and then for appointments during gallery hours by emailing the curator here. 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11. The Rose Art Gallery, 6501 Linda Vista Dr., Linda Vista. Free. Event details.
Sean Mason Quartet | Music, Jazz
Pianist and composer Sean Mason just released his debut album, “The Southern Suite” last fall. He’ll perform this weekend with his quartet in the JAI cabaret-style performance space at the La Jolla Music Society, their first performance in San Diego. 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 14. The Conrad, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla. $68-$83. Event details.
Natalja Kent: ‘Light Waves’ and Nick McPhail: ‘Place’ closing weekend | Visual art
Two side-by-side exhibitions will close this weekend at the Oolong Gallery Annex, a temporary warehouse-style space. Los Angeles-based visual artist Natalja Kent’s aluminum-mounted chromograms — colorful light imprints — and sculptures are in one space, while striking paintings of architecture, streets and other unassuming scenes by Nick McPhail are on view in an adjacent room. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday or by appointment. Oolong Gallery Annex I, 687 Second St., Encinitas. Free. Event details.
Tiffany Bociek: ‘Enduring Exuberance’ and SD Art Advisory X Sparks | Visual art
UC San Diego alum Tiffany Bociek’s encaustic, or wax, paintings play with light, color, scale, nature and memory. The exhibition includes three series of her work, inspired by the artist’s ancestors and past, present and future. Also on view at Sparks is a collaboration with SD Art Advisory and artist Alexander Rojas Salazar, which opens the same day. 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13. Sparks Gallery, 530 Sixth Ave., downtown. Free. Event details.
A man in the Mission Bay Park community of San Diego was fatally struck Sunday morning by a hit-and run vehicle, authorities said.
The victim was also struck by a second vehicle and that motorist stayed at the scene to cooperate with officers, the San Diego Police Department reported.
The initial crash occurred at about 2:20 a.m. Sunday in the area of West Mission Bay and Sea World drives.
The pedestrian was in the southbound lanes of the 2000 block of West Mission Bay Drive when he was struck by a silver vehicle also in the southbound lanes. That vehicle fled the scene, continuing southbound, police said.
A 28-year-old man driving his vehicle southbound ran over the downed pedestrian.
“That driver remained at the scene and is not DUI,” according to a police statement. “The pedestrian was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
Anyone with information regarding the initial crash was urged to call Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.
San Diego County is known for having wet, cold weather in February. But it had numerous hot spells this year. And when the month ended on Saturday a high pressure system produced heat that broke or tied temperature records in nine communities from the desert to the sea, the National Weather Service said.
The most notable temperature occurred in Borrego Springs, which reached 99, five degrees higher than the previous record for Feb. 28, set in 1986. The 99 reading is also the highest temperature ever recorded in Borrego in February.
Escondido reached 95, tying a record set in 1901.
El Cajon reached 92, three degrees higher than the record set in 2009.
Ramona topped out at 88, five degrees higher than the record set in 2009.
Alpine hit 88, four degrees higher the record set in 1986.
Campo reached 87, four degrees higher than the record set in 1999.
Vista hit 86, four degrees higher than the record set in 2020.
Chula Vista reached 84, one degree higher than the record set in 2020.
Lake Cuyamaca rose to 76, four degrees higher than the record set in 1986.
Forecasters say the weather is not likely to broadly produce new highs on Sunday. Cooler air is moving to the coast, and on Monday, San Diego’s high will only reach 67, a degree above normal.
OCEANSIDE — The Frontwave Arena scoreboard showed 23 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. Up 16, Francis Parker’s win over Westview High School for the CIF San Diego Section Open Division girls basketball championship was secure.
“No, no, no!” Parker head coach Courtney Clements screamed to freshman guard Jordan Brown, telling her there was no need to score.
So Brown walked the ball up the floor, from the backcourt, across midcourt, a 1,000-watt smile etched across her face.
With no Wolverines defending her, Brown dribbled from side to side across the logo. Then, a fraction of a moment before the final buzzer sounded, Brown flung the basketball high toward the rafters, then was engulfed by teammates.
The job was complete. Parker’s first Open Division title in program history was secure, the final reading 66-50 on Saturday night.
Of those final seconds, said Brown, who scored 23 points. “It was a surreal moment, knowing we worked for this all year long. It’s amazing.”
One reason it was amazing was because the top-seeded Lancers (21-7) were a decided favorite, but were stressed by the sixth-seeded Wolverines (20-9). Led by UC Santa Barbara-bound senior guard Sarah Heyn (18 points in the first half), Westview led 35-28 early in the third quarter.
“I just knew I had to do whatever it took to win,” said Brown. “Whether that was defense or offense. I just wanted to win, period.”
Sparked by its defense, Parker closed the quarter on a 14-0 run. Westview’s final 11 possessions of the quarter ended with five missed shots and six turnovers.
Still, the game wasn’t over. Heyn cut the deficit to 48-44 with just over six minutes to play on a bucket. But with 5:47 to play, Heyn was whistled for her fifth foul on a reach-in.
“Knowing their best player fouled out, we sealed the win,” said Brown.
As for Heyn, who finished with 23 points, she sat on the bench and pulled her jersey over her eyes, hiding tears.
Clements’ thoughts when Heyn fouled out? “I hope we can put this game away now.”
That the Lancers did, outscoring Westview 18-6 down the stretch.
The Lancers’ players and coach were effusive in their praise for Heyn, a four-year starter.
“She’s a great player,” said Brown.
“She played phenomenally,” said Clements. “She played the way you would think a senior would play in a championship game. She played desperately. She played every possession like it was the last 20 seconds of the game. She was extremely impressive. (Heyn buried five 3s, missing only once from deep.) She should be proud of herself.”
Clements was proud of her team for another reason. After blowing out two-time reigning Open Division champion Mission Hills by 26 in the semis, some thought Parker might cruise in the title game.
“I figured it was going to be a fight, and it was,” said Clements. “It was good that our girls had to come together, had to stick together. That’s what this is all about, developing character via the sport of basketball. When the kids face adversity, they have to make a decision. Who do they want to be? They showed the best version of themselves. That’s what I want to remember from a game like this.”
Francis Parker’s primary color is brown, which is fitting for the girls basketball team. They are led not only by the freshman Jordan Brown, but also junior Brieana Brown, a strong, aggressive and athletic 5-foot-11 wing.
Brieana Brown scored 25 points and yanked down a team-best eight rebounds.
About the team in brown being led by the Browns (who are not related), Jordan Brown said: “It’s super cool. I love Bri and our story. So many people think we’re related, that we’re siblings. In reality, we’re not, but we play like it.”
Francis Parker and Westview both will advance to the Southern California Regionals.
Earlier in the season, Clements — who was dressed in all black for the championship game — confessed she wasn’t crazy about Parker’s primary color. Her mood shifted Saturday night.
“Brown’s doing well for me now,” she said.
Asked if Lancers’ Brown squared tandem represents the best one-two girls basketball punch in the San Diego Section, Clements gave the questioner a “What do you think?” smirk.
“That,” said the coach of the Open Division champions, “is a no-brainer.”
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