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The past year and a half has not been kind to film festivals. COVID-19 ensured that many were canceled, while others decided to move operations entirely online. The San Diego Arab Film Festival, which runs from June 5 to 19 and is now in its 10th year, endures among the backdrop of another crisis: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which recently re-erupted into an armed fight and once again brings Arab issues to the global stage.
The festival has opted for a hybrid of online and in-person viewing of its 16 films from across the Arab diaspora. The in-person viewings will take place at the Museum of Photographic Arts and will require those in attendance to wear masks. Attendance is capped at 50 percent of the theater’s capacity.
Opening soon, by date
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The Old Globe theater in San Diego’s Balboa Park will resume outdoor presentations Friday, with full-scale indoor productions to follow in fall.
Yosemite National Park’s Wawona Hotel is projected to open June 10 after a long closure to upgrade its electrical system.
Disney Hall in downtown L.A. reopens June 26 with a free concert by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for invited guests and ticket giveaway winners. (The giveaway tickets are only open to people who have been vaccinated.)
The Exploratorium on San Francisco’s Embarcadero reopens July 1.
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Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, an open-air venue in Topanga Canyon, will present a summer season of three plays July 10 through Nov. 7, including “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Julius Caesar.” Ticket sales began June 1. The venue is also presenting an afternoon concert by singer-songwriter Inara George on June 6.
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The Museum of Photographic Arts reopened to the public on Friday, April 16 with two exhibitions. After closing per COVID-19’s safety measures and orders, the museum will open its doors to welcome a new exhibition that celebrates the creative nature of young talent. Based on the collections of the Kiyosato Museum of Photograpic Arts the exhibit is called “Beginnings, Forever.” The exhibit
presents works by historic and emerging artists made before they were the age of 35 and explores talent through images by influential classic artists, postwar Japanese photographers, and contemporary image makers. All contemporary works derive from “Young Portfolio,” an annual competition by KMoPA, which seeks to build the confidence of promising young photographers with purchases of their work.
Memories at the Museum
Cost: Free
Take part in a discussion and virtual tour of several Balboa Park museums. Docents with the Memories at the Museum program engage people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease and an accompanying family member or friend in discussions about the artwork to stimulate visual and verbal abilities, and to spark memory. Facilitators trained by the UCSD Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer s and Dementia Research Center. No obligation to participate in research. No cost to participate. Memories at the Museum alternates among three co-sponsoring museums that are all located in Balboa Park. This event is free of charge to participants. Virtual tours are held the first Tuesday of each month from 2 to 3 p.m. with one of several San Diego museums, including the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the Timken Museum. Link to Zoom meeting will be provided with registration.