Our picks of this week's events
Be sure to add the Billy Collins reading, Home Movie Day and the Red Show Shuffle to your Google calendar.
DANCE
Young and restless
Rayna Stohl’s been working on putting together a professional youth dance company for awhile now, and at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 and 18, Stohl’s hard work will hit the stage in Shine, the first full-length concert by Stella Nova Dance, the newest youth dance company in town. The show will put the teens to the test with original modern-dance pieces choreographed by Stohl and Dana Lossing, a recent grad of UCSD and director of a dance company in San Luis Obispo. Stohl says her pieces will look at the pain and bitterness of relationships as well as the “innate drive to continue onward after devastating life experiences.” Ain’t nothing lightweight or teenage about those two subjects, so if you’re hesitant to spend $20 to see youth dance, don’t be. Shine will be performed at the David and Dorthea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla. tickets.lfjcc.org, 858-362-1348.
FILM
How embarrassing
Home videos can be super-embarrassing, but they can be kind of precious and interesting, too. Perhaps that’s why people got together to start an official Home Movie Day, which is recognized internationally as a day when folks should gather to watch and appreciate the DIY aesthetics of home videos. Celebrate San Diego Home Movie Day at the Geisel Library on UCSD campus from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. If you have a film you’d like to share, film drop-off starts at 1 p.m. The event is free, but you should bring quarters for the parking meters. www.homemovieday.com/ sandiego.html.
ACTIVISM
San Diego boobs
The Keep-A-Breast Foundation presents San Diego’s Finest, a night of pin-up fashion shows, a breast-cast exhibition featuring the beautiful boobs of San Diego women, jewelry displays and performances by The Upstarts and DJs Iron Mike and Profile, plus a bonus burlesque performance featuring Mimi Lemeaux. Sushi and drinks will be served, too, for the fundraiser that actually sounds like a ton of fun. It’s all happening at Swiv Tackle Circus (530 South Coast Hwy. in Oceanside) from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. $40. www.swivtacklecircus.com.
Walkin’ for kids: Just about every cause has a fund-raising walk associated, with it. We hope you’re not experiencing walk-fatigue, because there’s an important one coming up this week. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, San Diegans are invited to Liberty Station’s NTC Park in Point Loma for the Red Shoe Shuffle, a timed 5K walk, run or shuffle that ends with a health and lifestyle expo, live entertainment, awards, food and a silent auction. Your $35 registration fee goes directly to The Monarch School, a school for homeless and at-risk children. www.redshoeshuffle.com, www.monarchschools.org.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Booze cruise
This week, our editors worked hard and did a ton of research so they could help you navigate the Nov. 4 general-election ballot (see Page 7). If you actually read our endorsements, you know that you should vote no on Prop. D, the proposed permanent booze ban on San Diego beaches. The folks over at FreePB.org want to drive the point home at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, with the Freedom Cruise, a two-hour cruise aboard the Lord Hornblower Yacht with bottle service, a cash bar and live entertainment. The funds raised at the booze-cruise event will go toward the continued fight for what the organization considers a matter of individual rights and freedoms. $30. www.freepb.org/FreedomCruise.
BOOKS
Simplicity
Billy Collins, the two-term poet laureate of the United States, will read from his new collection, Ballistics, at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave. in La Jolla. Collins is the kind of poet who laughs at pretension while capturing scenes form ordinary life with an everyman style of writing that’s easy to get. Ballistics is said to range from love and youth to solitude and aging and dig deeper than the guy’s ever dug before. www.dgwillsbooks.com, 858-456-1800.
ART
Deconstructed icons
Artist David Adey takes covers of magazines and advertisement posters from bus stops, uses basic craft tools to cut into them, pins the deconstruction onto foam board and ultimately creates new images that even the cut-up models themselves would consider fine art. The aesthetics of the final photo collages and installations are impeccable, but somewhat creepy, too. Adey puts our obsession with beauty and pop-culture at the forefront of his work, reminding us that perhaps it’s these pop icons’ images that will one day, in the not-so-distant future, end up raised to a level somewhat similar to the Renaissance images of Jesus and the Saints—the way we worship the beautiful male and female form these days is that obsessive and disturbing. Adey’s first solo show, I’ve Got a River of Life Flowing Out of Me, opens at Luis De Jesus Seminal Projects (2040 India St.) from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. www.seminalprojects.com.
Art of the dead: You’ve seen the strange skeleton dolls, the marigolds, the sugar skulls and the rest of the festive fare that color Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico on Nov. 1 and 2, but you’ve probably never seen the traditions families practice across Mexico during those days. Get to know the culture behind the celebration through the Day of the Dead exhibit opening at Gallery La Mesa (8808 La Mesa Blvd.) from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18. Photographer Victor Balcazar has documented the Day of the Dead goings on in Tijuana for years; his photos are a unique and intimate window into graveyards and homes across the border town. www.rickscustomeframe.com.
Published: 10/14/2008
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