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A convening for thought leaders
The Spark Series (formerly known as the Spotlight on Education Series) ignites San Diego educators through world-class, cutting-edge, visionary thinking. It is a venue for site administrators, teacher leaders, central office administrators, university students, professors of education and business leaders to hear insights and perspectives from respected thought leaders in education.
The blockbuster movie Black Panther has brought Afrofuturism into mainstream pop culture. But what is this cultural concept that combines elements of science fiction and fantasy into the Black aesthetic and radical traditions? Join Afrofuturist thinker, Dr. LaWana Firyali Richmond(link is external)for an illuminating discussion of Afrofuturism and its placement of Blackness at the center of the universe. Registration encouraged. Please scroll down.
Dr. Richmond has served as Staff Advisor to the Regents of the University of California and is currently a Businesses Development Manager at UC San Diego where her focus is organizational development, project management and process improvement. Her background and experience are an eclectic mix of operations, technology, leadership, and social justice.
Philosophy talk is an occasional community lecture and discussion series designed as a fun opportunity to connect the richness of philosophical thought and critical thinking to everyday life.
STEM4Youth is a science and technology program hosted by Pillars of the Community. The purpose of this program is to provide the space and resources for youth grades 3-5 to develop their emotional, social, and mental skills.
:Women in Business:: conference calls to help build the leadership, business awareness, and career advancement among women.
Conference Call # Dial 605-475-4120 access code 124 8460
She was one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, an icon of American music. She was the consummate musical storyteller who used her remarkable talent to create a legacy of liberation, empowerment, passion, and love through a magnificent body of works. She earned the moniker ‘High Priestess of Soul’ – she was who the world would come to know as Nina Simone.
Featured singers:
Cerissa Mc Queen, Mimi Zulu, Brittany Cooper and more tbd!
There are albums dedicated to personal pain, or political protest, love, death, nostalgia, rage. There are those that are simply fun, glossy, the soundtrack to a good time. Some are exploratory, a musical journey, shapeshifting soundmaking, a new way to do an old thing. An artist can make a choice about concept and content, or heed a vision, follow their muse or their manager. But in times so extreme and overwhelming, when there is no known expression for the feeling, no satisfactory direction for art or action, then they might take refuge in a process, a ritual, something familiar, the shape and sound of which recall another time altogether, so that they can weather the present long enough to call it the past. Some albums are testimony, some confessions, and some are escape. “Ventriloquism”, the latest album from Meshell Ndegeocello, is a place, like its process, to take refuge from one storm too many.
Musically, Ventriloquism has the hallmarks of all of Ndegeocello’s work, lush and investigative, subversive and sublime. As always, she pays tribute to her diverse influences and in these eleven covers, we hear them layered over one another. Ndegeocello filters “Tender Love” through a folky, Californian filter and brings Vaudevillian accents to “Sensitivity”. She recreates Smooth Operator in five, and turns “Private Dancer” into a sultry waltz. The reimagining affords not just a new musical experience but also a comment on the narrow expectations of sounds and structures for black artists and black music.
STEM4Youth is a science and technology program hosted by Pillars of the Community. The purpose of this program is to provide the space and resources for youth grades 3-5 to develop their emotional, social, and mental skills.
Ladies come on out and enjoy! This invitation is to attend our fabulous pre-Mothers Day Breakfast… this event is going to be talked about for months to come just ask anyone who went in 2017! In addition to the flyer, there will be good music, a chair masseuse, vendors, mother/ daughter fashion show, photobooth, fun and games and door prizes!! The best part…finished by noon!! We have tickets now!! Please share with your friends! You can even purchase a table if you like! Tickets are selling fast!!!
