Hello San Diego!Welcome to the November issue of the San Diego Participant Observer Newsletter! In this edition, you will find a recipe for Cuban Picadillo Habanero. Our Book of the Month suggestion is for the 2022 Booker Prize-winning novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeid by Shehan Karunatilaka. And our Music of the Month recommendation is Les Racines by Vieux Farka Touré. You can find a robust number of interesting and important articles in this week's Cultural Tidings. Now on the events . . .
The always fabulous Asian Film Festival will wrap up on Saturday. Tonight is the closing night (although they will be screening films tomorrow too). There will be receptions before and after the closing night film, Riceboy Sleeps. Throughout this weekend, a stage production of All Is Calm - The Christmas Truce of 1914 will be performed at St. James by-the-Sea in La Jolla. Friday (today), the band Indigenous will perform at Ramona Main Stage. As part of the ongoing German Currents Kino series at the Digital Gym, the film The Last Execution will be screened. There will be additional screenings on the 13th and 16th. At the Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas, there will be a Carnatic Vocal Concert featuring Sandeep Narayan. Regional Mexican band Alacranes will perform at Blue Agave.
Saturday and Sunday will be the first of many 626 Night Markets held downtown along 5th Avenue. There should be a goodly amount of international cuisine on offer. Saturday, the Embers of Oaxaca art exhibition will open at the Museum of Art. The 1st Annual Valley Arts Festival, a celebration of the Luiseño Tribe, will be held in Oceanside. Samahan SDSU Alumni will hold their 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Balboa Park Club. Sonido De La Frontera & Los Sleepwalkers will perform at the Quartyard. There will be a Zydeco Party at the War Memorial at Balboa Park. Sunday, The San Diego Buddhist Association will host a Temple Cultural Day & Temple Tour. There will be an Afrodiaspora Day Party at the Quartyard. Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel will perform at San Diego State's Viejas Arena. Colombian music artist Feid will perform at House of Blues. Tuesday, Warwick's will host British author Anthony Horowitz as he discusses his new book, The Twist of a Knife. At UCSD, William Kirby from Harvard University will give a lecture that addresses the question: Are China’s Universities the Future? At the Coronado Library, a Reading of Henry VIII will take place. As You Like It will open at the La Jolla Playhouse with performances until mid-December. Wednesday at the Worldbeat Center, Dr. Julius Garvey will discuss his biography of his father, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. At USD's Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, former President of Poland and Nobel Prize winner Lech Wałęsa will deliver a talk on the fall of communism, Russia, and the war in Ukraine. Next Thursday, the Digital Gym will screen the wonderful classic film The Red Shoes. At Santa Clara Point the French American Chamber of Commerce will host a food and wine event they are calling A Taste of France. Comedian Rex Navarette will perform at the American Comedy Company next Thursday, Friday & Saturday. At the Museum of Photographic Arts, the San Diego Italian Film Festival will screen Ennio: The Maestro. Next Friday, at Cinema Under the Stars, the recent film Three Thousand Years of Longing will be shown with a repeat screening the following evening. It's a fun place to see a film. Next Saturday at the Central Library, the Culinary Historians of San Diego will present From Mesopotamia to Pompeii: A Tale of 1001 Agricultural Bites featuring Barbara Baxter. At Torrey Pines Beach, Ami Admire from the Rincon Reservation in Valley Center will give a talk about the Cultural Traditions and Stories of the Luiseno People. At Civita Park the Colores de Otoño dance performance will feature favorite ballet folklórico and flamenco dance numbers. Black Storytellers of San Diego will hold a Tellabration Storytelling at the Malcolm X Library. At UCSD there will be a screening for Transborder Film Fellowship. At the Qualcomm Q Auditorium, the film Kaval Park will be shown. At UCSD's Conrad Prebys Music Center, there will be a concert of Folk and Traditional Music of Iran. The Vienna Boys Choir will perform at Balboa Theatre. Next Sunday, there will be a Pacific Rim Park Friendship Walk at Shoreline Park on Shelter Island. The Chinese Historical Society will host an online talk with Bob Stein on The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China. Latin singer-songwriter Carin León will perform at Pechanga Arena. Regional Mexican musical group Banda MS will perform at Viejas Arena. Comedian India Yuridia will perform (in Spanish) at the Balboa Theatre.
Cross-cultural/international-themed theatrical offerings in San Diego include Chasing Shakespeare at the Community Actors Theatre, Baskerville at Lamb's Players Theatre in Coronado, Hamilton at the Civic Center, The Merry Wives of Windsor at Costa Mesa College, As You Like It at the La Jolla Playhouse, As You Like It at the La Jolla Playhouse (opens 11/15) and the musical Not Working (ends Sunday) at the Chula Vista El Salon Theatre. Lastly, don't forget to check out Ongoing and Extended Events as well the generous number of International Films screening in local theaters!
Everyone here at the San Diego Participant Observer and the Worldview Project wish you fulfilling, illuminating, and culturally-rich experiences in the days ahead. Stay safe and see you next week!!
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