Events

You are cordially invited to join CAT on the 4th Monday of every month at 7:00 pm {EXCEPT MAY, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER} for an evening of sharing of talents…yours and ours. Talents that we invite you to showcase are: Poetry, Monologues, Spoken Word, Skits, Singing and/or Dancing, Drumming, Current Events, Magic Tricks, Clean Comedy, Excerpts from plays, etc., etc.. Potential Performers, please sign-up on the Sign-In “PERFORMER’S LIST” before 7:00 pm. Each performer will have 10-12 minutes to perform….depending on how many performers we have for the night. Please bring other family members, friends, and co-workers with you. They can perform, or be our audience. Suggested donation is $5.00 per person. However, we appreciate any and all donations.

Join us as the San Diego Alumnae Chapter celebrates 80 years of service to the San Diego community. Stay tuned for details on purchasing tickets!

Doors: 7PM Show: 8PM Lineup: PNB Rock NoCap $3Thouwow Derek All support acts are subject to change without notice. All ages welcome. All persons under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent, guardian, or by a responsible adult 25 years of age or older who has written authorization from a parent or guardian.

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Citi® Cardmember Presale : Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Live Nation Presale : Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Ticketmaster Presale : Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Spotify Presale : Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 07:00 AM

Citi® Cardmember Preferred : Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum : Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 09:00 AM

All Ages Welcome Doors Open: 7PM Show Starts: 8PM *All times are subject to change*

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Citi® Cardmember Presale : Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Live Nation Presale : Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum Presale : Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum : Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

All Ages Welcome Doors Open: 7PM Show Starts: 8PM *All times are subject to change*

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Citi® Cardmember Presale : Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Live Nation Presale : Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum Presale : Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Official Platinum : Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 10:00 AM

Tickets are available now
Althea Rene is coming back to San Diego for an upclose and personal evening and she is bringing the new CD FLAWSOME. Don’t miss this night with one of the premier entertainer in Soul Jazz, Funk and Soul.

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Live Nation Presale : Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Live Nation Mobile Presale : Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Venue Presale : Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Radio Presale : Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Chris Brown VIP Packages Presale : Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Chris Brown VIP Packages Public Onsale : Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Ticketmaster Presale : Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Citi® Cardmember Presale : Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Citi® Cardmember Preferred Tickets : Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Official Platinum Presale : Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Official Platinum : Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 12:00 PM

Join us for a 30th anniversary screening of the ground-breaking film Tongues Untied by late filmmaker Marlon Riggs. Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel co-director and colleague of Riggs’ who was involved in the film’s production and appeared in the cast will lead the discussion after the film.

Made to “shatter this nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference”, this bold and beautiful film combines poetry, performance, and music into a personal and universal statement on the experiences and resulting persecution of Black gay men. Met with a storm of controversy that reached all the way to Congress, Tongues Untied remains a radical act of representation.

Registration encouraged for this program. Please scroll down.

An artist of extraordinary courage and vision, Marlon Riggs gave cinematic voice to gay Black men at a time in America when to be either was to be denied one’s full humanity. Defying the culture of silence and shame that pervaded the era of the AIDS crisis, Riggs created a vibrantly expressive and innovative film that brought the richness of the queer Black experience to the screen. His Emmy winning 1987 classic documentary film Ethnic Notions remains the definitive work examining anti-Black stereotypes permeating popular culture and is a mainstay in college and high school screenings and discussions on race.

Film curator and programmer Cornelius Moore co-directs California Newsreel, a non-profit, social issue film distribution and production company. California Newsreel distributes films on Black life and history, race, Africa, health, and the complete works of Marlon Riggs. Moore was the executor of Riggs’ estate.

Presented in conjunction with the 2019 One Book One San Diego selection The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.

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Parking is underground and free with 2-hour validation. The Central Library is one block from the Park & Market stop on the Trolley Blue and Orange lines.  Bus routes 11 stops right in front of the library.

Join us Saturday, October 19th for the 14th Annual Capoeira Initiation and Graduation Ceremony led by Master Dennis Newsome known also as Mestre Preto Velho (Master Old Black) in Portuguese. This is WorldBeat Center’s first and longest running class.

Capoeira balances the body, soul and mind. It is a graceful and exciting art form that teaches you to be alert. Capoeira is both a dance and a fight which asks you also engage your mind in learning its music, culture, history and knowledge.

Free

This interview and public forum discusses the progress of society and black art in relation to The Black Aesthetic, first published in 1971.

The Black Aesthetic was a seminal texts that was composed of a series of essays from the most prominent black writers, musicians, artists and poets. It included definitions and explorations of what black art was and was becoming with lengthy critiques on society, racism and art as a whole. Many of the artists I have chosen to interview from this series were training or working at the time of The Black Aesthetic’s publication and were influenced by its contributors in their own professional careers. Others are younger artists who are now grappling with many of the same issues from 1971. As many of these issues have been exacerbated rather than striated; What, if anything, is the black aesthetic of 2019?

This work is the foundation of my practice as a storyteller and historian. Much of my work involves oral history, generational knowledge and trauma and public participation.

This project is a multi generational community building exercise. It is to understand the progress for Black people in America through both the arts and society in general. Though the intent is to support and unite black artists I hope to build and foster a larger community that supports all artists of color. I hope this project can offer a historical analysis of how black artists have traditionally collaborated and created work as well as create a space to work as the next generation takes on these problems.