Hello San Diego! Lots to share this week!

Friday and Saturday, the frantic, mind-bending, and downright fun film Everything Everywhere All at Once (which received 11 Oscar nominations and countless other film awards) will screen at Cinema Under the Stars and other local movie houses. Ziggy Marley will perform at The Sound today and tomorrow.

Today (Friday) the Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience opens at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and will continue until the end of March. Motions and Emotions: Filipino American Stories of Healing at the New Americans Museum is a combination of performances and exhibits that will continue until February 10. Heavy Metal/Mariachi band Metalachi will perform at the Holding Company. The San Diego French American School will screen Les Magnetiques (Magnetic Beats). Senderos de Mexico will perform at Vallarta Taco Shop.

Saturday and Sunday, the 40th Annual Chinese New Year Fair will take place downtown.

Saturday, numerous organizations will be participating in the Lantern Parade for Inclusion - Rally Against Hate at Waterfront Park. At "The Conrad" in La Jolla, Camarada will present The Taste of Tango. At the Laugh Factory, there will be a Brazilian Comedy Show. Mexican band Huapangueros Diferentes will perform at the Grandstand.

Sunday, there will be a Venetian Mask Making Workshop at the House of Hungary in Balboa Park.

Monday, Jimmy Patton and Enrique Plata will give a world music concert at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla.

Tuesday, there will be an online UCSD talk entitled The Leading Edge of Aging - Lessons from Japan.

Wednesday at UCSD, the Black Italy in Film discussion will feature a screening of the film Autumn Beat with a discussion to follow with the filmmakers Antonio Dikele Distefano and Fred Kuwornu. At the La Jolla Community Center, Opera Wednesdays will happen and continue every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra will perform at the Belly Up.

Next Thursday, at UCSD's Price Center Theater there will be a talk on the works of bi-cultural artist Shizu Saldamando. Performances of The High Table will begin at Diversionary Theatre, continuing through the beginning of March.

Next Friday, the classic German film M will be shown at MiraCosta College. At Yiddishland, anticipating St. Valentine's day, Lisa Fishman will sing Jewish Songs of Love. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lupillo Rivera will perform at the Blue Agave Nightclub.

Next Saturday and Sunday, the Worldbeat Center will host Black Com!x Day celebrating the works of Black comic book artists.

Next Saturday, the City Heights Multi-Cultural Festival of Love will take place with multi-cultural performances, arts, crafts, raffles, and more. Under a Baseball Sky will open at the Old Globe, a play about the roots of Mexican-American engagement with baseball. At Mission Hills Library, Adrienne Nims and Mark Danisovszky will give a concert featuring The Music of Paris. At San Luis Rey Mission, there will be a Native American Flute Concert. At the Hall of Nations in Balboa Park, the House of Hungary will host a dinner-dance Masquerade Ball. The Japanese Taiko group Kodo will perform at Balboa Theatre. At the Civic Theatre, in a series of 4 performances (on separate days), the Puccini Duo will bring to life two great Puccini one-act operas. Voices Unveiled at the Iranian American Center will be a three-part original musical composition inspired by Iranian traditional music, folk (South of Iran), with fusion elements. At St. James Episcopal Church, there will be a Musical Celebration of Black History Month with arias, spirituals, and gospel hits performed by the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir of San Diego and soprano Janai Brugger. Generational Black Pioneers at the Sunshine Brooks Theatre in Oceanside will be an interactive multi-media exploration celebrating Black entrepreneurs.

Local theatrical offerings include the musical Blues in the Night (ends Sunday) at North Coast Rep, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at the Old Globe, The Ferryman at New Village Arts Theater in Carlsbad,  El Huracán at the Old Town Theatre, The High Table at Diversionary, and Under a Baseball Sky at the Old Globe.

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