Hello San Diego! Tons of events to enjoy in the coming days!

Today (Friday) in City Heights, there will be a Cambodian New Year Celebration. A Piñata Workshop is being held at Centro Cultural de la Raza, and there will be additional workshops on selected Fridays through the end of June. At SDSU's Montezuma Hall, there will be a Pamayanan Filipino-American Culture Night. At SDSU, a Native & Indigenous Research & Arts Symposium got underway today and will continue through Saturday. At St. Andrews Episcopal Church, there will be a celebration of Jewish music, including Klezmer classics by the Hutchins Consort. The film Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) will be screened at MiraCosta College. The German Currents Kino series at the Digital Gym continues with a screening of the comedy Sorry Comrade. There will be repeat screenings of the film on the 16th and 19th. At Balboa Theatre, the opera Ghost will begin performances. The opera will be performed that Saturday and Sunday and throughout the following weekend.

Saturday, the Chinese Historical Museum will host an online talk by Jon Wai-keung Lowe on Decoding Chinese Opera. The Disney film Encanto will be screened at the Manchester Hyatt. At the Iranian-American Center, there will be an Iranian Singing Workshop. The biographic film Selena will be screened at the Manchester Hyatt. At Valencia Park/Malcolm X Branch Library, the film Black Roots will be screened. Filmmaker Peter Okojie will be on-hand for a discussion of this film and the larger project following the screening. At the Olivewood Gardens, there will be a Taste of the Middle East: Iraqi-inspired Dishes workshop will take place. El Puma De Sinalo will perform at La Sinaloense Bar & Grill. The 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet will be shown atop the Manchester Grand Hyatt.

Sunday, a very special shout-out to the Oh My Gong! Celebration of Indonesian Gamelan and Performing Arts at SDSU's Smith Recital Hall. the film Mama Mia, Here We Go Again will be screened at the Manchester Hyatt downtown. Singer, songwriter and guitarist Sharon Katz of Peace Train fame will perform at the Ramona Ranch Winery.

Monday at the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library, Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez will read selections from his books.

Tuesday, there will be a Conversation on Education Policy in India at UCSD. An interactive reading of Shakespeare's Henry VI will be happening at the Coronado Library. The Digital Gym Cinema will screen the film Suzhou River.

Wednesday at the Media Arts Center's Digital Gym, two films will screen, Sorry Comrade (Sorry Genosse) at 1:00 PM and Donde Los Vientos se Cruzan (Where the Winds Cross) at 7:00 PM. Kanekoa & Slack Key 'Ohana will perform at the Belly Up. Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes will be shown at the Coronado Library.

We are very excited about the week-long Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase that begins next Thursday. There will be multiple films screened each day until the 27th.

Next Thursday, at the Sanford Consortium, there will be a panel discussion regarding How the International Community Failed Syrians. Artist Armando de la Torre and Poet Cecilia Vicuña will present at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Gilbert Castellanos Quintet will perform at UCSD's Park and Market and Yale Strom will host and conduct a Q&A after the concert. Kurdish vocalist Aynur Doğan will perform at the Mandeville Auditorium on the UCSD campus. The world-famous Gipsy Kings will perform at the Civic Theatre downtown.

Next Friday, at the Brooks Theatre in Oceanside, local UT columnist (and former radio host) Richard Lederer will present Living Will - the Legacy of William Shakespeare. The Canadian ensemble Constantinople will perform on instruments from both the Middle East and Renaissance Europe paying homage to the history and culture of the city from which the ensemble took its name. Banda El Limón will perform at the Blue Agave Nightclub.

The 2-day Tequila & Taco Music Festival starts next Saturday. The German comedy show Lach Mal Wiede will be held next Saturday and Sunday at German American Societies' venue in El Cajon.

Lots of other events are also going on next Saturday! Chicano Park Day will take place in Barrio Logan. The House of Spain will hold their annual Cervantes Festival at the International Cottages. College Rolando Library will host a Crafting Culture: Beltane (Gaelic May Day) event. At the Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas there will be a performance by a Carnatic Quartet. At Park & Market, the Camarada ensemble will perform their En Fuego: Music of Mexico, Uruguay & Argentina show. Mexican singer, composer and songwriter of Norteño music Ramon Ayala at the SDSU Open Air Theatre.

Next Sunday, the House of England will hold their annual Lawn Program at the International Cottages. The Worldbeat Center will hold their 31st Annual Multi-Cultural Earth Day Celebration. At Normal Heights Community Dev, Feria de Abril (April Fair) will be celebrated with Spanish music, dance and food. At the Brooks Theater in Oceanside, the Spanish-language family comedy Se Alquila Mi Tesorito (My Little Treasure for Rent) will be performed. Sabrosas Latin Orchestra will perform at the Belly Up.

Local theatrical offerings include The XIXth (The Nineteenth) at the Old Globe Shiley Stage and Exotic Deadly, or the MSG Play is at the Old Globe White Theatre.

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