Hello San Diego!

Here's the low-down on the cross-cultural events happening in San Diego!

Tonight the opera Roméo et Juliette will be performed at San Diego Civic Theatre, and the final performance will be on Sunday. North Coast Repertory Theatre's An Iliad got underway yesterday, and performances will continue until next Sunday.

Saturday and Sunday the International Dance Association Festival will take place at the Balboa Park Club.

Tomorrow (Saturday), the Mingei will present The Women of Chicano Park spotlighting the park's earliest female muralists of Chicano Park (note the event takes place at the park). The annual Tartan Day celebration will take place at the International Cottages in Balboa Park. The San Diego Diplomacy Council will hold an On the Road Again fundraiser at Stone Brewing in Liberty Park. After a long Covid hiatus, Little Italy will resume its film screenings at the Firehouse Museum with a showing of the comedy The Salt of Life.

Sunday, there will be a Ukrainian Fundraising Luncheon at the Pushkin Restaurant. At Liberty Station there will be a Persian Sizdahbedar Celebration with music from multiple DJs. The HPR Queens will hold their annual Lawn Program at the International Cottages with music and dance from around the world. Velocity Irish Dance will perform at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. At Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, Home Within will be a multi-media artistic presentation by Syrian composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Syrian Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad.

On Monday, the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy will present an online panel discussion on Sanctions on Russia: The Energy and Food Dimensions.

Tuesday and Wednesday, at Angelika Film Center & Cafe there will be a special film screening of the Verdi opera Rigoletto performed by the Royal Opera.

Wednesday, Warwick's will host Madhushree Ghosh who will talk online about her new book Khabaar. The Coronado Library will screen the recent film Belfast.

Thursday, the 21st Annual César E. Chávez Celebration will take place at UCSD's Price Center. The AfroLAtinidad Mi Casa, My City Exhibition will open at the New Americans Museum in Liberty Station. Warwick's will stream a discussion with author Leah Thomas who will talk about her new book, The Intersectional Environmentalist.

Next Friday, the three-day 15th Annual Indian Music and Dance Festival will kick off at the JCC in La Jolla.

Next Saturday and Sunday at the Exclusive Collections Gallery Solana Beach there will be a Native American Art Show.

Next Saturday, at Westview Park, Child Rights and You America will host its annual Holi Festival fundraiser. At the Central Library, there will be a discussion of the book The Tale of Kiều. At Torrey Pines High School there will be two performances of the Border Stories dance program.

Next Sunday, the 8th Annual Mariachi Festival featuring, Mariachi Champaña Nevin and Ballet Folklórico Tierra Caliente de Jose Jaimes will take place at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. There will be another Native American Indian Flute Circle at Mission Trails Recreation Park. The animated film Encanto will be screened at the Manchester Hyatt. At the Encore Events Center, there will be Charity Concert for Ukrainian Refugees. For Mingle at the Mingei, resident musical artist group Camarada will perform their Mosaics program.

Everyone here at the San Diego Participant Observer and the Worldview Project wish you a fulfilling, illuminating and culturally rich weekend. See you next week!

Your Window to the World

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Buy the Book (Paid Link) The Participant Observer Book of the Month selection is The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah. In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for his family. When a brutal beating lands Raj in the hospital of the prison camp where his father is a guard, he meets a mysterious boy his own age. Note: As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. International Films Around Town Notes: The San Diego International Film Festival is now screening films monthly. 2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action Film 2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation Belfast A semi-autobiographical film which chronicles the life of a working class family and their young son's childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital. Death on the Nile Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Gagarine Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his "starship." Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Yuta Okkotsu gains control of an extremely powerful, cursed spirit and gets enrolled in the Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School by sorcerers to help him control his power and keep an eye on him. Misham Impossible The adventures of three young boys, who want to capture India's most-wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim. Princess Mononoke On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime. RRR A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home. After their journey they return home to start fighting back against British colonialists in the 1920s. The Kashmir Files The Kashmir Files is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language drama film that depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during the Kashmir Insurgency. The Outfit The film follows Leonard, an English tailor who used to craft suits on London's world-famous Savile Row. The Worst Person in the World A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path. Umma Amanda and her daughter living a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother. Uncharted Treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan recruits street-smart Nathan Drake to help him recover a 500-year-old lost fortune amassed by explorer Ferdinand Magellan. You Won't Be Alone In 19th-century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim's shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power to understand what it means to be human

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