This weekend in the arts in San Diego: A new interactive children's exhibit celebrating Octavia Butler; theater about basketball; Mussorgsky; Barrio Art Crawl; poetry about grief; binational art; live music picks and more.
| The New Children's Museum opens a long-awaited special installation about the work and imagined futures of legendary speculative fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. The exhibit fills an entire room in the museum with interactive art and play spaces, including a climb-in tree, a mini library and other items inspired by Butler's own childhood.
Butler-informed murals by artist Mithsuca Berry adorn the exhibit and museum lobby.Dr. Ayana Jamieson, advising curator of the NCM exhibit and founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, said that the exhibit invites children of all ages to consider who they are, and who they might become. "I think her writing and her life, which is also what things that exhibit are based on, really provide opportunities for people to explore and dream and imagine and speculate about the future that we would love to see," Jamieson said.Jamieson said that because of its practice of letting young people interact with contemporary art in meaningful ways, NCM is uniquely positioned to present an exhibit about Butler. "It's a wholly unique place that is really fertile ground for the kinds of imagination that we need in order to all thrive together as a community in the future," Jamieson said. On opening day, the curators and some of the artists in the Seeding Futures Collective will discuss the life and legacy of Octavia Butler in an off-site panel, 2-3 p.m. at UC San Diego Park & Market, a 15-minute walk from NCM.. Opens March 9. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Monday. New Children's Museum, 200 W Island Ave., downtown. $0-$24.| Iconic San Diego artist James Hubbell's work will be on view in a four-location exhibition at the San Diego Central Library Art Gallery, Scripps Miramar Ranch Library, Mission Valley Library and Otay Mesa-Nestor Library. If you visit each location, you can collect different commemorative stickers.. Multiple locations, on view March 9 through Aug. 4. Opening reception is 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, March 9 at San Diego Central Library Art Gallery, 330 Park Blvd., downtown. Free.Actors Caleb Foot and Joshua Echebiri are shown in an undated photo for The Old Globe's 2024 production of"King James."| This new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph follows the connection between two men who meet as a result of a ticket transaction for a basketball game. One man is Black, the other white, and they seemingly have nothing in common beyond being fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers and basketball royalty LeBron James. Directed by Justin Emeka and starring Joshua Echebiri and Caleb Foote.| While Mussorgsky's masterful"Pictures at an Exhibition" is the titular piece of music in this San Diego Symphony performance, don't sleep on the English Horn Concerto from contemporary composer Ned Rorem, who passed away in 2022. The symphony's principal English Horn Andrea Overturf performs.Joshua Tonies and Joe Yorty's collaborative exhibit"The Treachery of Pleather" opens at Best Practice March 9, 2024.| Consider Bread and Salt a jam-packed stop in your Barrio Art Crawl plans this Saturday. Joshua Tonies and Joe Yorty's"" has an opening reception at the Athenaeum Art Center. Guadalupe Vidal's stunning work is still on view in the main Bread and Salt Gallery.| Pasadena-based poet Margaret Anne Kean will join several local poets at Verbatim Books to celebrate her recent collection,"Cleaving the Clouds." Katie Manning, founding editor of Whale Road Review and author of"Hereverent" and seven other poetry collections, will read, as well as Leonora Simonovis, Merry Dennehy and Carly Marie DeMento. Each poet will read work that in some way explores grief, rituals and love.| This year's annual Dia de la Mujer exhibition at The Front Arte & Cultura is actually a binational exhibition, with a sister installation at Tijuana's Casa de la Cultura. Curated by Katalina Silva and Arzu Ozkal, this year's theme is"Invisible Traditions," about the intersection of power with the everyday practices of women and nonbinary artists. In San Ysidro, Foi Jiménez Jurado, Maria José Crespo, Carmina León, Ava Avnisan, Andrea Carrillo and Gail Swanlund are the invited artists, along with 24 juried artists . At Tijuana's Casa de la Cultura Altamira, Beliz Iristay and Carolina Montejo are the invited artists, along with 12 juried artists .at Music Box ; Elephant Gym at House of Blues Voodoo Room ; Bas at House of Blues ;The Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park will host their annual Cherry Blossom Festival. The four-day festival is packed with music, dance and traditional performances, as well as visual art, cosplay and sake tastings. According to theNorth Coast Repertory Theatre will open a production of Molière's"Tartuffe," translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur. It's a comedy following the outwardly pious Tartuffe, an imposter, fraud and overall high society leech.. On stage March 6-31. North Coast Rep, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Dr., Solana Beach. $49-$79. $45 San Diego Theatre Month tickets available with code SDTM24.One of the more prolific and well-known ensembles in the world, Kronos Quartet, will celebrate their upcoming 50th anniversary with a visit to the La Jolla Music Society to perform a"live documentary" with filmmaker Sam Green.San Diego Architecture Foundation's free festival will spotlight notable public art, architecture, public spaces and more across several San Diego neighborhoods throughout the weekend. Saturday's tours hit Banker's Hill, Barrio Logan, National City and Point Loma. On Sunday, visit Coronado, downtown San Diego and La Jolla.Early music ensemble Bach Collegium will perform a selection of Renaissance music from Claudio Monteverdi and Sigismondo D'India, with two performances at two different venues.. 7 p.m. Friday at All Souls Episcopal Church, 1475 Catalina Blvd., Point Loma. 3 p.m. Saturday, March 9 at Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 3459 Manchester Ave., Cardiff-by-the-Sea. $15-$60.Julia Dixon Evans writes the KPBS Arts newsletter, produces and edits the KPBS/Arts Calendar and works with the KPBS team to cover San Diego's diverse arts scene. Previously, Julia wrote the weekly Culture Report for Voice of San Diego and has reported on arts, culture, books, music, television, dining, the outdoors and more for The A.V. Club, Literary Hub and San Diego CityBeat. She studied literature at UCSD , and is a published novelist and short fiction writer. She is the founder of Last Exit, a local reading series and literary journal, and she won the 2019 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Julia lives with her family in North Park and loves trail running, vegan tacos and live music.Live results: 2024 Primary Election - San Diego Mayor
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