Hello San Diego!

While the weather has turned unusually chilly in San Diego, cross-cultural events are heating up! Thankfully Covid cases continue to decline, but please remember we aren't completely out of the woods, and sensible precautions are still relevant to ensure everyone's continued good health.

Ongoing, local theatrical offerings include On Her Shoulders We Stand at Bread and Salt (ending on Sunday), Ad(mission)s at Onstage Playhouse (also wrapping up Sunday), El Borracho at the Old Globe, Trouble in Mind (also at the Old Globe), and Abigail's Party at the Tenth Avenue Arts Center. Next Thursday San Diego Rep's The Great Khan will open at the Lyceum.

The Oceanside International Film Festival concludes this weekend, still time to catch some flicks! San Diego Rep's 30th annual Kuumba Fest continues at the Lyceum until Sunday. Today (Friday), tomorrow, and Tuesday Gaslamp Quarter will host Mardi Gras Celebrations.

Tonight (Friday), the Irish band Irish quintet, Goitse will perform two shows (6:30 & 8:30) at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla. The Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park will host a Celebration of New Writers of Color with readings followed by a discussion. At the Music Box, there will be a tribute concert to Mexican rock's Heroes del Silencio and Soda Estereo.  Friday and Saturday House of Gucci will screen at Cinema Under the Stars.

Saturday, the San Diego Museum of Art will present a virtual lecture From Forts and Palaces: Paintings Made for the Rajputs. At the International Cottage's outdoor stage Island Mist + Dingeman Elementary B9ers will perform. Also at Balboa Park, the Worldbeat Cultural Center will host a BIPOC Community Circle. The Chinese Historical Society will host a virtual discussion of the acclaimed book The Red Bishop.  The fabulous SAMAHAN Filipino American Performing Arts & Education Center will hold a free Workshop on Maguindanao Dances and Kulintang (Gong) Music at the Malcolm X Library. Noche de Cumbia at the Quartyard will feature Los Sleepwalkers, La Diabla, Cumbia Machin & Viejo Lowbo. There will be Black Art Matters Art Exhibition and Competition at the Worldbeat Center. The El Cajon Elks Lodge will host a Mardi Gras Celebration. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger David Castañeda will perform at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad. The TYPA Theatre Company will present Expression of Black Joy and Unity at the Coronado Playhouse. Saturday and Sunday the Worldbeat Center will hold its annual Tribute to the Reggae Legends Festival.

Sunday, in addition to all the continuing events mentioned above, the Mexican Norteño band Los Cardenales de Nuevo León will perform at the Pala Events Center.

Monday there will be an online discussion of the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu. UCSD's School of Global Policy & Strategy will host an online talk entitled: From Manners to Rules: Regulating Smoking in Japan and Korea.

Tuesday, the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore (which moved to Rosecrans St.) will hold a book signing with Lizz Huerta who will discuss and sign copies of her book The Lost Dreamer. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations will perform at St. James by the Sea church in La Jolla.

Wednesday UCSD's Holocaust Living History Workshop will host a virtual talk on The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. Warwick's will present an author talk with Zoe Disigny who will discuss her book The Art of Traveling Strangers.

Thursday the Timken Museum will present an online talk on Flemish Baroque artist Anthony van Dyck and paintings by the artist in the Timken collection.

Next Friday Keltik Karma with every-way awesome guitarist Fred Benedetti and violinist Chris Vitas will perform at Templar's Hall in Poway.

Next Friday and Saturday, Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical film Belfast will be screened at Cinema Under the Stars.

Next Saturday UCSD's Center for Academic Research & Training in Antropogeny will host a virtual symposium on the topic of Human Origins & Humanity’s Future: Past, Present & Future of the
Anthropocene.

Next Sunday the House of India will hold its annual Lawn Program at the Balboa Park International Cottages.

Looking further ahead, we are extremely excited to report that the San Diego Latino Film Festival returns in full splendor (and live screenings) on March 10th!

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!

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Our International Music CD of the Month selection is The Eternal Return by Irfan. Irfan is a group that hails from Bulgaria. They perform instrumental and vocal music that is an electro-acoustic World Fusion influenced by folk and sacred music from Bulgaria, the Balkans, Persia, the Middle East, North Africa, India and Medieval Europe. Note: As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Buy the Book (Paid Link) The Participant Observer Book of the Month selection is The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.Note: As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. International Films Around Town NOTE: Covid-19 remains a serious public health problem. Please use utmost caution so that you protect yourself and others. 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. Belle A high school student becomes a globally beloved singer after entering a fantastic virtual world. She soon embarks on an emotional and epic quest to uncover the identity of a mysterious beast who's on the run from ruthless vigilantes. Bheemla Nayak Bheemla Nayak is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Saagar K Chandra from a screenplay written by Trivikram Srinivas. It a remake of the 2020 Malayalam film Ayyappanum Koshiyum by Sachy Cyrano Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles everyone with his ferocious wordplay and brilliant swordplay. However, he's convinced his appearance renders him unworthy of the affections of the luminous Roxanne, a devoted friend who's in love with someone else. 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. Encanto The Madrigals are an extraordinary family who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed place called the Encanto. the magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift -- every child except Mirabel. However, she soon may be the Madrigals last hope when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is now in danger. Gangubai Kathiawadi Gangubai Kathiawadi is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language biographical crime drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Jayantilal Gada and Bhansali Goodbye, Dragon Inn In Taipei, a movie theater is closing, but not before one final film is shown -- "Dragon Inn," a 1967 actioner and the source of nostalgia for the moviegoers and employees in the old, decrepit and possibly haunted building House of Gucci When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge -- and ultimately murder. Parallel Mothers Two single women meet in a hospital room where they are both going to give birth. One is middle aged and doesn't regret it, while the other is adolescent and scared. The two women form a strong bond with one another as they both confront motherhood. 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. Valimai Arjun, a police officer, sets out on a mission to hunt down a group of violent bikers after they're involved in a theft and murder. West Side Story Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City. Their burgeoning romance helps to fuel the fire between the warring Jets and Sharks -- two rival gangs vying for control of the streets.

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