Around the Block

The Everyday Heroes 5K Walk-A-Thon is at 8 am on Saturday, November 15^th, and everyone is invited to walk to support San Diego Police officers!  Registration fee is $25 dollars, and there is a “pledge” sheet that walkers can use to raise money and receive fun prizes, like free gas cards, movie passes and i-tunes cards!

It’s easy to register several ways: on-line at www.walkforcops.com  or in-person on walk day.  The 5K Walk-A-Thon begins at the corner of Womble and Cushing Roads.  Registration starts at 6:30 am.  KUSI’s Joe Lizura is the Honorary Chairman for the walk and will be broadcasting live all morning beginning at 6:00 am.

For registration, sponsorship and donation forms, click on the links below.

Everyday Heroes Registration Form

Everyday Heroes Sponsorship Form

Everyday Heroes Donation Form

On Tuesday, November 11, MELLOW, a wine bar will be hosting a tasting of American red wines.  The cost is $15 and includes light appetizers served from 6-8pm.  Wine tasting will be from 6-11 pm, and includes the following wines:

• Ventana Due Amici Cab Blend, Monterey, 2005
• Bell Big Guy Red Wine, Yountville, 2004
• Rancho Sisquoc Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara County, 2005
• Qupe Syrah, Central Coast, 2006
• Peter Franus Zinfandel, Napa Valley, 2005

 MELLOW, a wine bar

2556 Laning Road, corner of N. Harbor Drive

619.223.3348

http://www.mellowawinebar.com

Let’s Duet by Malashock Dance on Nov. 21 and 22 at 8:00 pm at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, 4126 Executive Drive  in La Jolla, is a thrilling evening of dances by Emmy-winning choreographer John Malashock, working in his favorite dance form – duets. For tickets, costing $20, $25 and $30, call the theater’s box office at 858-362-1348, or check out Malashock’s website at www.malashockdance.org.

Let’s Duet explores relationships and emotions of every kind:  quirky, loving, playful and tumultuous. Especially stirring is the premiere of a lovely duet for two women titled Flight of Longing; while Silver and Gold, introduced by Malashock in 2007, illustrates a more dysfunctional partnership.

Danced to music ranging from classical to pop, Let’s Duet encompasses works by icons such as New Music guru Philip Glass, opera composer Georges Bizet (whose The Pearl Fishers has been choreographed by Malashock throughout the U.S. and in Canada); Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (from the soundtrack of Malashock’s Emmy-winning Love and Murder), and minimalist Polish composer Henryk Gorcki. 

A driving and daring double duet, Spinning Away is set to a catchy 80’s tune by Brian Eno and John Cale; while a flash from the videogame past Un-Nintendo-ed Outcome plays out against a Nintendo sound file.

On Dec. 6 at 7 p.m., the company will also perform an hour-long Let’s Duet program at the new Kassebaum Theater at Mater Dei, 1615 Mater Dei Drive, Chula Vista as part of the San Diego’s Performing Arts series, online at www.sandiegoperformingarts.org.

The New Americans Museum at Liberty Station ends its inaugural year with the exhibition Between Cultures: Children of Immigrants in America.  This collection of Chicago photography by Gina Grillo captures family experiences as they arrive in Chicago as new Americans and chronicles their integration into urban life – in new neighborhoods, with family, at cultural celebrations, citizenship ceremonies and many other everyday scenes.  Opening on November 22, this exhibition has been featured at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the Children’s Immigration Museum – Chicago, and The Field Museum – Chicago.

Grillo’s personal commitment to exploring immigrant life in the United States turned into a creative odyssey. Since 1996 the photographer has documented the faces and captured the souls of the young people whose lives straddle two cultures. Grillo began by shooting photographs outside the lines of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Later, she photographed citizenship swearing in ceremonies, explored immigrant neighborhoods and ultimately was invited by the INS to photograph new immigrant families arriving at O’Hare. This opportunity led Grillo to develop relationships with individuals, enriching not only her work, but also her understanding of her own heritage. Grillo explains, “I grew up with a longing for my Italian heritage, to know my grandparents who had come to America long before I was born.  Their immigrant stories were told to me the way one receives a prayer, and part of my history was made in their repeating.”

“The New Americans Museum opened earlier this year to celebrate America’s past and promise by providing inspiring educational and cultural programs that honor our diverse immigrant experiences,” explained Executive Director Gayle Hom. “Grillo’s extraordinary exhibition provides an opportunity to help all of us understand and value our roots and ancestry. Newcomers, as well as many San Diegans, will relate to the challenges and the possibilities that the children in these images face as they begin life in a completely new and foreign home.”

Between Cultures: Children of Immigrants in America runs from November 22, 2008 through February 15, 2009 at The New Americans Museum at Liberty Station located at 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 102, San Diego 92106.   The museum is open from 11am – 5pm Wednesday-Sunday.  There is no charge for admission.

For more information about the New Americans Museum, call 619-255-8908 or visit www.newamericansmuseum.org.  For more information about Gina Grillo, please visit

http://work.colum.edu/~ggrillo/index.html.