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Our Book of the Month recommendation is Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez. Olga is a successful wedding planner to the rich and soon-to-be-famous and her brother Pietro is a congressman—both have come a long way from their Brooklyn childhood when they were abandoned by their mother, a radical Puerto Rican activist. But when Hurricane Maria strikes, Olga and Pietro are forced to confront their past and their futures.

A bit of a light week on the events front, but there are some gems!

Tonight (Friday) the 3-day 15th Annual Indian Music and Dance Festival kicks off at the JCC. Lots and lots of Indian traditional music (vocal and instrumental) and dance to enjoy. The Mexican pop band Reik will perform at the Civic Theatre. And An Iliad continues at the North Coast Rep.

Saturday and Sunday Exclusive Collections Gallery Solana Beach will host a Native American Art Show.

Saturday, Child Rights and You America will once again host a Holi Festival at Westview Park. Border Stories at the Torrey Pines High School will feature dances choreographed by Mexican-American, Mexican and Chicano choreographers. They will have shows at 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM. At the Central Library, there will be a discussion of the book The Tale of Kiều which is considered to be the epic national poem of Vietnam.

Sunday, the 8th Annual Mariachi Festival will be held at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. At Mission Trails Regional Park, you can take part in a Native American Flute Circle. A Benefit Concert for Ukraine will take place at the Encore Event Center. Mingle at the Mingei will present a concert by Camarada they are calling Mosaics due to the eclectic nature of the night's program.

On Wednesday, the Village Theater in Coronado will screen the classic black and white film The Dragon Painter starring Sessue Hayakawa. Much of the film was shot at the Coronado Japanese Tea Garden which graced the island from 1894 to the late 1930s.

Next Thursday, the Timken Museum will host an online discussion on The Conquest of Reality - Early Netherlandish Painting. Warwick's will host Eliza Knight as she discusses her new book, The Mayfair Bookshop. Mira Costa College will host an evening of Music from Spain and Latin America featuring works from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Spain.

Next Friday, the Beatles vs. Stones battle of the tribute bands returns to the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach.

Next Saturday, the Eredő Hungarian Folk Band will perform at the International Cottages and will feature Hungarian folk and American bluegrass tunes.

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

Notes:

The San Diego International Film Festival is now screening films monthly.

	Beast		Beast is an Indian Tamil-language action thriller film.
	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."
	Ghani		Ghani is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language sports drama film.
	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.
	K.G.F: Chapter 2		K.G.F: Chapter 2 is an Indian Kannada language period action film.
	Navalny		Detailing the 2020 assasination attempt of Russian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, in which he was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.
	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 Outfit		The film follows Leonard, an English tailor who used to craft suits on London's world-famous Savile Row.
	The Rose Maker		Eve used to be one of the most famous rose growers in the world, but now her company is almost bankrupt. Her secretary hires three outcasts, who come up with an outlandish plan to save the company.
	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.
	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