Top 7 Things To Do In San Diego This Week
Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. ~Easter Bunny
So excited at Easter that we wet our Plants!
1. Sunday, April 8– Pacific Horizons
Melanesian Art from the Valerie Franklin Collection,” on display through Friday, April 20, features objects from 19th century to middle of 20th. Exhibition showcases “a startling variety of visual forms and intellectual models and allows visitors to experience some of the finest art created in Melanesia.”
Artist Kuboku Takaku (1908–1993) “perfected the ancient Japanese technique of wax resist dying to create textile paintings…. His works merged Japanese subjects with cubist and modernist styles.” His daughter Hisako (born 1944) “preserves the knowledge of this painstaking dying technique, and her obi and kimono continue to be among the most chic and sought-after throughout Japan.” View the 71 obi, kimono, and other textile paintings of “Dyeing Elegance: Asian Modernism and the Art of K?boku and Hisako Takaku” through Sunday, May 27.
Carved into the mountains, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan in China were “crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty.” Once home to monumental Buddhas, divine attendant figures, crouching monsters framed by floral motifs, the limestone caves were severely damaged during 20th century, when their contents were chiseled away and sold. “Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan,” closing Sunday, May 27, boasts 14 objects from Xiangtangshan and three related Northern Qi works of art, juxtaposing dispersed sculptural fragments with a set of media projects.
San Diego Museum of Art
2. Monday, April 9– Rare and Unusual Plants
Talk by “self-taught botanist” Larry Hendrickson, staff advisor for Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Botany Society, who has studied, documented “plants in the desert and mountains of the region for the last 25 years.” 760-767-5311.
10am to 11am
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
3. Tuesday April 10- Kelly Clarkson: Stronger Tour 2012
Global superstar Kelly Clarkson announces her highly anticipated Stronger Tour 2012 in support of her 5th studio album, Stronger, which was released on October 24th. The first leg of her world tour kicks off with a North American 40 plus city trek beginning in Mashantucket, CT on January 13th, with special guest Matt Nathanson.
7:00p
Valley View Casino Center, San Diego,CA
4. Wednesday, April 11– Art Aerobics
An on-going experiment with art and music! Art Aerobics, FLEX your ART MUSCLE! Get your art in shape!
This easy class will help you release stress from your day, get messy if you want, even throw paint while the music keeps your mind still and your paint brush moving. The more you come the better you get at letting go and playing.
6:15pto 7:30p
Expressive Arts @ 32nd & Thorn,San Diego,CA
5. Thusrday, April 12- Tim Minchin
Australian musician, actor, comedian and writer
TIM MINCHIN has been performing his unique brand of musical comedy in front of appropriately excitable and ever growing audiences since 2005.
Winner of the Director’s Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for his break-out show Darkside and (in the same year) the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe, he spent 2010 writing the music and lyrics for Matilda (adapted from the Ronald Dahl classic) with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
8:00p
Balboa Theatre,San Diego,CA
6. Friday, April 13– San Diego Symphony: Tribute to Ray Charles
Marvin Hamlisch, conductor
Ellis Hall, piano and vocals
Ray Charles was truly one of the legendary voices in American music. Ellis Hall, a former protégé of Ray Charles, pays tribute to the master with hits such as “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” “This Little Girl of Mine,” “Hit the Road Jack” and perhaps his most popular, “Georgia On My Mind.
8:00p
Copley Symphony Hall,San Diego,CA
7. Saturday, April 14- Ole! Ole! Ole!
The chorus is back in the downtown historic Balboa Theater April 14-15th, with “OLÉ! OLÉ! OLÉ!”. A sizzling concert of music with a Latin beat, from Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin to Selena, from “In the Heights” to “Flying Down to Rio”, and much, much more. Featuring a live band and sexy, exotic Chorus dancers, this one is sure to sell out!
8:00p
Balboa Theatre,San Diego,CA
