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.
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Are we starved for positive messages or what? I found some, appropriately enough, during the just-completed Easter/Passover season in a virtual offering from the free “Live with Carnegie Hall” livestream series. Producers
Ray and Vivian Scott Chew hosted an hour of R&B and gospel music titled
“Be the Light: A Joyful Celebration” that’s intended to uplift, inspire and bridge the sociopolitical and cultural divides tormenting us as a nation.
Reflecting that mission is the opening video performance in the show: six-time Grammy winner Israel Houghton’s collaboration with Azi Schwartz, cantor of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue, on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” That’s followed by singer-songwriter Kenny Lattimore and a gifted college student covering Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me,” then Ray Chew, on keyboards
Solana Pacific, Online Scholars artwork selected for SD Museum of Art exhibit
Solana Pacific fifth grader Gabriela Morillo’s art was selected to be featured on a utility box downtown.
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Artwork by 10 students from Solana Pacific School and the Solana Beach School District’s Online Scholars’ was recently accepted as part of the San Diego Museum of Art exhibit “Young Art 2021: My World, Our Planet.” The environmentally-themed artwork will be on display at Balboa Park through May 9.
The 4-6 grade Solana Pacific students who will have their artwork shown at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) include Sierra Liu, Kai Shaprut, Katelyn Zeng, Gabriela Morillo, Dal Piccol, Pela Hadley, Mia Lopez, Kenzo Karres and Cici Mei. Art by Online Scholars Maya Krishnan and Purvi Jain will also be on display.
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Like a sleeping beauty rousing from a long slumber, Balboa Park is coming back to life amid declining COVID-19 rates and increasing numbers of people receiving vaccinations.
“I definitely feel there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” said P.J. Fatanat of Crown Point as he walked his dog with friends on a picture-perfect, sun-splashed Saturday.
With San Diego County recently entering the red tier of pandemic restrictions, an increasing number of park venues have reopened at least on a limited basis. The San Diego Natural History Museum, the San Diego Automotive Museum and the San Diego Model Railroad Museum each reopened this weekend.
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