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< December, 2019 >
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| Tuesday, Dec 10 |
| All Day |  Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 7:30 PM | Music: Gamelan and Mariachi Ensembles |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| Wednesday, Dec 11 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 5:30 PM | SDLFF Poster Unveiling Party |
| 6:00 PM | Movie: The Farewell |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Thursday, Dec 12 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 4:00 PM | Stage: Sila (The Arctic Cycle) |
| 7:00 PM | SDIFF Film: La Befana Vien di Notte (The Legend of the Christmas Witch) |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| Friday, Dec 13 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 6:00 PM | VIA Posada Holiday Celebration Fundraiser |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: Sila (The Arctic Cycle) |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 8:00 PM | An Irish Christmas |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Saturday, Dec 14 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 11:00 AM | Paris Holiday Celebration |
| 1:00 PM | Southern California Ballet The Nutcracker |
| 1:00 PM | Talk: Dragons, Myth and Reality |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 2:00 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 3:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 5:00 PM | Stage: Sila (The Arctic Cycle) |
| 7:00 PM | Southern California Ballet The Nutcracker |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Sunday, Dec 15 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 10:00 AM | Hanukkah Painted Placemat Class |
| 10:00 AM | Association for Jewish Studies Conference |
| 1:00 PM | Southern California Ballet The Nutcracker |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 2:00 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 3:00 PM | World Holiday Traditions Variety Show |
| 7:00 PM | World Holiday Traditions Variety Show |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: Cambodian Rock Band |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| Monday, Dec 16 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 10:00 AM | Association for Jewish Studies Conference |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A People's Cuban Christmas Tale |
| Tuesday, Dec 17 |
| All Day | Free Admission to Japanese Friendship Garden |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 10:00 AM | Association for Jewish Studies Conference |
| 8:00 PM | Reggae Tuesdaze w/ Ocean Natives & Bunny Mystic |
| Wednesday, Dec 18 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| Old School Little Italy Food Tour |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Thursday, Dec 19 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 6:00 PM | Talk: Consul General Carlos González Gutiérrez |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | Film: La Befana Vien di Notte |
| 7:30 PM | SDIFF Film: La Befana Vien di Notte (The Legend of the Christmas Witch) |
| 7:30 PM | Mariachi Sol De Mexico: A Merry-achi Christmas |
| 7:30 PM | SDIFF Film: La Befana Vien di Notte (The Legend of the Christmas Witch) |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 7:30 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Friday, Dec 20 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Saturday, Dec 21 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 2:00 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 3:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| 7:30 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: Around the World in 80 Days |
| 8:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| Sunday, Dec 22 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
| 2:00 PM | City Ballet: The Nutcracker |
| 2:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: A Christmas Carol |
| 7:00 PM | Stage: The Nutcracker in Balboa Park |
| Monday, Dec 23 |
| All Day | Ongoing and Extended Events |
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| Calendar |
| All Day |
Ongoing and Extended Events
Spotlight
• One Book - One San Diego Events
Stage
* Note: newest and shorter run productions can be found in our regular calendar listings.
Exhibitions and Art
• [A] Portrait of People in Motion
November 30, 2019
•Hanjialin Bao - Between Black and White
Until January 26 2020
• Art of East Asia
Until December 31, 2019
• Art Of The 20th Century
Ongoing until December 31, 2019
• German Expressionism
Ongoing until December 31, 2019
• Barrio Art Crawl
Ongoing, every 2nd Saturday of each month
Places
• Free Admission to Japanese Friendship Garden
Ongoing, 3rd Tuesday of each month
• Walking Tour of Asian Pacific Historic District
Ongoing, every 2nd Saturday of each month
• Chicano Park Tour
Ongoing Saturdays and Sundays
Kids
• Kids Meet Mandarin
Ongoing Fridays
• Chinese Storytime
Ongoing Mondays
• Spanish Storytime
Ongoing Mondays
• Bilingual Storytime
Ongoing Fridays
Classes and Workshops
• Asian Brush Painting/Sumi-e Class
Ongoing Tuesdays
• Capoeira Angola de Sao Bento Grande
Ongoing Saturdays
• Mahjong Lessons
Ongoing Thursdays
• Emei Qigong Practice
Ongoing Saturdays
• Kokedama Workshop
Ongoing every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
• Irish Gaelic Conversation Circle
Ongoing Tuesdays
• Tai Chi Workshop
Ongoing Saturdays
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| 10:00 AM |
Talk: History of the Rise & Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. As the world commemorates this historic event, J. Elke Ertle, will discuss the factors that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the dynamics that brought it down in 1989. Elke, born and raised in West Berlin, was fifteen years of age on that summer day in August when construction of the Wall first began. She vividly recalls how West Berliners, whose city was no more than a tiny capitalist island within a large communist sea, were terrified of winding up behind the Iron Curtain. Elke will end the discussion by reading a brief excerpt from her memoir,
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| 10:00 AM |
Coronado Island Film Festival
Since its 2016 launch, CIFF has screened a blend of notable independent films alongside Oscar-nominated features, making their San Diego County premieres. The festival
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| 10:00 AM |
Story Telling: Native American People Who Lived at the Lagoon
Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation continues its Fall Speakers Series. Cathleen Chilcote Wallace, a Native American storyteller and writer, will give a presentation on the Kumeyaay and Luiseno Native American people who lived along our shores many years ago.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Batiquitos Lagoon Nature Center
7380 Gabbiano Lane
Carlsbad, CA 92009
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Saturday, November 9 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
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| 11:00 AM |
SD Asian Film Festival
The San Diego Asian Film Festival is the flagship event of Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts), one of the largest media arts organizations in North America that focuses on Asian and Asian American cinema. The festival is dedicated to highlighting the diversity and breadth of Asian Pacific Islander and Asian international images, from impassioned independent voices and provocative documentary subjects, to the top hits from the world
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| 12:00 PM |
Talk: A Life In San Diego Archaeology
Explore 10,000 years of local history at the San Diego Archaeological Center at a reception and presentation. Enjoy food and drink prior to the 1:00 PM presentation Lately It Occurs to Me: A Life in San Diego Archaeology by local archaeologist, professor, and author Dr. G. Timothy Gross. A guided tour of the museum, research lab, and curation vaults will follow the lecture. Please register here.
Dr. Gross volunteered on his first archaeological projects as a high school student in 1968, and although he has worked outside San Diego, he has been involved in local archaeology ever since. In his presentation he will reflect on the changes that have happened in the last 50 years - how archaeology has been done, by whom, what we have learned, and what ideas have been discarded.
San Diego archaeologist Dr. G. Timothy Gross has been involved in local archaeology for over 50 years and is currently a professor at San Diego City College, where he directs the college
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| 2:30 PM |
Ballet: The Jungle Book
Welcome to the Jungle! Last season
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| 3:00 PM |
Concert: History & Art of Japanese Drumming
The free Discovery Concert Series presents Taiko: The History and Art of Japanese Drumming. Buddhist Temple of San Diego (BTSD) Taiko is an intergenerational taiko group (one of our families has three generations and several have two) made up of members of the Buddhist Temple of San Diego. The temple practices Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and has been a place of cultural preservation for Japanese and Japanese Americans in San Diego since 1926. BTSD Taiko was originally founded in the 1980s and after a hiatus the group reconvened in 2007. The goal of its drumming is not necessarily perfection for performance, but to put into practice mindfulness, oneness and gratitude. BSTD Taiko has performed at numerous community events including local festivals, cultural celebrations and library programs. The Discovery series of concerts at the library serves to educate the public about various music forms and to expand the opportunity for local musicians to perform and provide insights to their music.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Rancho Bernardo Library
17110 Bernardo Center Drive
San Diego, CA 92128
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Saturday, November 9 - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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| 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM |
Cameron Highlanders 71st Tartan Ball
71st Tartan Ball and Ceilidgh Hosted by the Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band of San Diego County
Schedule:
6:00 PM - no host bar
7:00 PM - Dinner Buffet
8:30 PM - Dancing and Floor Show
Formal dress and Highland Attire
Reserved seating. Tables of 8 can be reserved.
Admission/Cost: $25 - $55
Location:
Scottish Rite Masonic Center
1895 Camino del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108
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Saturday, November 9 - 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
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| 7:00 PM |
Ballet: The Jungle Book
Welcome to the Jungle! Last season
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| 7:00 PM |
Music: New City Sinfonia
The 40-member New City Sinfonia, led by Daniel Ratelle, presents "Inspiring Cities," a concert featuring Franz Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 99, written for one of his successful trips to London, the Serenade in F Minor, Op. 3 by Leo Weiner, written for the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Mihkail Glinka's Overture to Prince Kholmsky, from incidental music for a play in the composer's beloved St. Petersburg, and Symphonic Suite in G, by San Diego composer Steven Thompson. The Sinfonia is a part of the San Diego Continuing Education program.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Paradise Valley Seventh-Day Adventist Church
2701 East Eighth Street
National City, CA 91950
Saturday, November 9 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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| 7:00 PM |
Music: Mohsen Namjoo
Mohsen Namjoo will perform along with Ehsan Matoori and their full band including Santoor, Drums, Bass and Guitar at 7:00 PM
VIP tickets are included the new album. PCC members & Students, please look for $5 discount code in PCC weekly newsletter!
Admission/Cost: $35 - $75
Location:
Qualcomm Building Q
6455 Lusk Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121
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Saturday, November 9 - 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
For more information, please visit www.pccsd.org or call (858) 552-9355
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| 8:00 PM |
Stage: Around the World in 80 Days
The story of Victorian Phileas Fogg, who has determined, with mathematical precision, that the world can be circumnavigated in 80 days - and he has wagered his entire fortune on it.Joined by his trusty, acrobatic valet, Passepartout, Fogg sets off aboard steamships, locomotives, sleighs and pachyderms. Along the way, he meets the beautiful and self-assured Aouda, who joins him on his voyage, and he is pursued at every step by the unrelenting and bumbling Inspector Fix, who believes Fogg to be a notorious bank robber, and who will stop at nothing to cut his journey short.
Admission/Cost: $15 - $40
Location:
New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street
Carlsbad, CA 92008
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Dates and times:
Ongoing from Friday, November 8 until Saturday, December 21, 2019
Thursdays - 7:30 PM
Fridays & Saturdays - 8:00 PM
Sundays - 2:00 PM
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| 8:00 PM |
Stage: Disney's My Son Pinocchio Jr.
Presented by JCompany Youth Theatre. This new musical, which retells the classic Disney story from Geppetto
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| 8:00 PM |
Comedy: Akaash Singh
An Indian American born and raised in Texas, Akaash Singh is a nationally touring stand up comedian.
Age limit: 21+
Admission/Cost: FREE - $10
Location:
The American Comedy Company
818 Sixth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
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Dates and Times:
Thursday, November 7 - 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM
Friday, November 8 - 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM
Saturday, November 9 - 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM
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| 8:00 PM |
Stage: Sense and Sensibility
A playful adaptation of Jane Austen
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| 8:00 PM |
Stage: Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's tale of a shipwreck on the coast of Illyria. Viola disguises herself as a man for protection in this strange land, and soon finds a job working for Duke Orsino. Orsino loves the noble Olivia, Viola falls for Orsino, and Olivia becomes infatuated with Orsino
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