CowParade, the world’s largest public art event, made its debut in La Jolla this week. The 40 life-size cows were each hand-painted by local artists. The cows were decorated at the San Diego Artist’s Lab at Liberty Station. Click here for the full story on NBC.
Fitness Together personal training studio at Liberty Station is officially opening its doors to the public on March 25, 2009. Fitness Together is a personal training studio franchise with over 500 locations across the Unites States. Our motto is One Client, One Trainer, One Goal and that is exactly what we practice. Every client is matched with a trainer to help meet their life fitness goals. Along the way, the client will be held accountable for those goals to produce an end result that is life changing. At Fitness Together, we teach busy people with hectic lives how to get healthy and stay healthy.
Liberty Station’s Fitness Together is owned by Greg and Kara Sterner. Greg has an extensive Personal Training and Physical Therapy background, and Kara has a keen business sense.
Fitness Together is located at 2750 Dewey Road, San Diego, CA 92106. For more information, visit the website at www.fitnesstogetherpointloma.com.
Solare’s Executive Chefs Mark Pelliccia and Stefano Ceresoli are excited to announce Italian Cooking Classes, held at Solare every Saturday, beginning March 28, 2009. The full program includes 9 classes. You can sign up for one or more classes, or the full program. Click on the flyer and cost breakdown below for more information.
The Bar Method will have a slightly modified schedule for Friday March 27 thru Monday March 30. The modified classes are listed below. All other classes will be on their regular schedule.
Friday, March 27
7:15 am – CANCELLED
5 pm – CANCELLED
6:15 pm – CANCELLED
Monday, March 30
7:15 am – CANCELLED
5 pm – CANCELLED
The Bar Method Studio is located at 2751 Roosevelt Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92106. For more information, call 619.226.2301, or visit www.barmethod.com/sandiego.
San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) is pleased to present an exhibition of original watercolor paintings entitled “Hometown San Diego.” The exhibition will run April 1-24. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11am-5pm, and admission is free.
“Pomegranates on Pewter Platter” by juror Rikki Reinholz of Solana Beach
The public is welcome to attend the First Friday reception, April 3, from 5-8pm. Approximately 100 paintings created by SDWS members are on display and for sale. The SDWS gallery is located in the Liberty Station NTC Promenade, in Point Loma, at 2825 Dewey Road #105, San Diego, CA 92105.
The San Diego Watercolor Society is one of the largest and well-respected watermedia organizations in the United States. The 800 member, all volunteer, non-profit presents original art exhibitions throughout the year, along with workshops, demonstrations and organized paint-outs. Membership is $55 per year. For more information, visit www.sdws.org, or call (619) 876-4550
Dr. Matt Sanicki introduces the newest member of his team, John Vosseller. John is a Certified Flexibility Therapist trained by the Stretch to Win Institute in Tempe, Arizona. After many years of running his own successful personal training business, John has identified a serious void in most fitness programs and in people’s day to day lives. That void is proper stretching and flexibility.
John says, “Don’t make the mistake that stretching and flexibility is only for athletes. Lack of flexibility and general tightness is the cause for many people’s day-to-day aches and pains. More accurately, these aches and pains are caught up in our body’s Fascia.” While other therapies can help these conditions, only FST can treat inflexible fascia at the deepest level- your joint capsule.
What is Fascia? It is the absolute most prevalent connective tissue in the human body. It is also the most influential structure in the body affecting one’s flexibility. Over time, one’s fascia becomes damaged or distorted causing chronic aches and pains, tight muscles, decreased sports performance and affects the quality of one’s life.
Stretching and flexibility training is one of the least understood topics in the field of exercise and is not much better represented in sports medicine, physical therapy or rehabilitative medicine. When athletes or weekend warriors do stretch, they usually do so ineffectively, performing the same old-school stretches that several generations of athletes and coaches have used. Consequently, the athlete yields small gains in flexibility or even worse, injures oneself and abandons stretching all together. Pain-free assisted stretching by a Certified Flexibility Therapist can help you achieve your goals faster and better than you can achieve them by stretching yourself.
Fortunately, the research on how to stretch properly has evolved and scientists have realized it is all about the fascia when gaining flexibility. Ann and Chris Frederick founded the Stretch to Win Institute in Tempe, Arizona with the goal in mind of revolutionizing stretching and flexibility. For several years now, the Fredericks have been working with professional and Olympic athletes as well as weekend warriors. They’ve focused their efforts on educating and certifying other health professionals to become qualified to help their patients and athletes become more flexible. In doing so, they developed a system of assisted stretching aptly called “The Stretch to Win System.” Clients are treated on a massage table and the system usually focuses on either the upper or lower body depending on the client’s needs. It is pain-free and clients find that it feels very good to just get in and stretch out the tight muscles. Many find it hard to go back to traditional massage because the benefits of stretching feel better and last longer than massage. Another advantage of assisted stretching is that athletes are able to train immediately after a session unlike with deep tissue massage where one feels “beat up” or “drained.”
Please feel free to call and schedule a session today. We are offering a reduced rate of 50% off the first session to all new clients. Call today!
CRAC Chiropractic
2751 Roosevelt Road, Suite 203
San Diego, Ca. 92106
619.795.2224
Quilt Visions, San Diego’s premiere fiber arts organization, continues to present extraordinary work of artists who are dedicated to the creation of quilts as art. In addition to presenting work in the gallery setting, Quilt Visions will be launching “Off the Wall,” a series of lectures, demonstrations and workshops tied to each exhibition that help engage visitors in art making process. Each upcoming show will have an educational component that will help promote the appreciation of quilts as art.
Next up is a solo retrospective of work by celebrated Maine artist Elizabeth Busch. As a teacher, author, sculptor, and quilt artist, Busch’s work has won numerous awards from Quilt National, Quilt Visions, and Quilts Japan, as well as being seen on Public Television, and in American Craft, and Textile Forum magazines. Her work is featured in numerous public and private collections. The retrospective exhibition will run from April 3- June 7, 2009, with the opening reception on Friday, April 3, from 5-7 pm.
Her style, often described as architectural, stems from 18 years of experience as an architectural designer. Her layered, often geometric, quilts are sewn paintings (acrylic on canvas) that are then hand quilted and embroidered. “This part of the process allows me to become physically reacquainted with a piece created at arm’s length on the wall, and to add another visual dimension to it,” she explained. “The subject matter for my quilts is very personal: it most often comes from something that is going on in my life at that moment. I believe it is the reason that the work connects with the viewer,” she added.
As part of the newly launched “Quilt Visions: Off the Wall,” the community will have a unique opportunity to learn from the artist during an exclusive two-day workshop and a special lecture and tour by the artist. Participants can enjoy this rare opportunity to share an artist’s vision and hear first hand about the process and techniques to create the work.
The workshop, called “Paint and Fuse,” will be on April 1st and 2nd, from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at the Visions Art Quilt Gallery and Pat D’Arrigo ARTS Center at NTC Promenade. The class fee is $200, and materials fee is approximately $10. Participants will learn fabric painting and design techniques from Elizabeth Busch. Pieces will come to life through discussion about how ideas evolve, letting go of preconceived ideas and simply letting it happen. Participants will get messy, have fun and come away with some small finished pieces, without a sewing machine. Call the Gallery (619-546-4872) to register.
The Elizabeth Busch Artist Lecture and Tour will be on Saturday, April 4, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, for a fee of $10 at the door. Visitors will meet the artist and enjoy a guided walking tour and lecture about her work.
Busch, who received a BFA in art from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1964, has been a quilt artist since 1983. She continues to receive accolades and awards from colleagues nationwide. “In her work Elizabeth Busch pulls from the natural world and from the emotional/psychological realm to create evocative scenarios whose poetic resonance offers the viewer both a refuge and a resource. Her achievement is to make consciousness palpable – to bridge the divide between the artist’s and the viewer’s respective experiences and realities,” explained Michael James, Chair, Department of Textiles, Clothing & Design, and University of Nebraska.
San Diego Quilt Visions Gallery is located at 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92106. For more information, call (619) 546-4872, or visit www.quiltvisions.org.
The Point Loma Boardroom, a soulful and elegant little surf shop, located in the beautiful courtyard between Panera Bread & Bakery and Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza at Liberty Station Marketplace, will host its annual Spring Surf Festival with a wide variety of exciting activities for surf lovers, teens and other hip So Cal people who live and love anything about the beach. The Surf Fest will be held on Saturday, April 11th from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Nate Cintas, owner of the Boardroom, will open the festivities at 3 p.m. with authentic Hawaiian Dancers and great Island music performing on the main-stage on the east side of the Courtyard. At 4:30 p.m. the Blonde Brothers, a quartet of four young teens from the Sunset Cliff area, will jam for ninety minutes playing hit after hit until the famous Loma Tones take over and play classic rock ‘n roll from 6 – 8 p.m.
More is promised for smart attendees, including the giant manufacturers, professional surfers, who will be at the shop greeting guests and autographing merchandise and representing such manufacturers as Sector 9 Skateboards among others. Matuse, the famous wetsuit manufacturers, will also be on hand with specials and more. There will be a fashion show of lovely young women showing off the latest in trendy new beach wear from as far away as Bali. Gifts and prizes of all kinds will be given away throughout the afternoon and evening to lucky winners!
Treats will be available from participating restaurants at the Marketplace. Panera Bakery will offer free lemonade and iced tea, Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza will be selling pizza by the slice in the courtyard and Coldstone Creamery will be quickly giving away free ice cream tasters for all!
Come on down to the Liberty Station Marketplace and ride the best wave in town at the Point Loma’s Board Room. It’s free!
The Point Loma Boardroom
2445 Truxton Road, Suite 108
San Diego, CA 92106
619.501.9269
You are invited to join the Rock Church for Easter Weekend. There will be a special presentation of The Passion of The Christ on Friday, April 10 at 6:30 PM. Please note there will not be children’s services on Friday night. Also, The Passion of The Christ is rated R for sequences of graphic violence. It is recommended that children under the age of 17 come with a parent or adult. There will be a special Easter Service on Saturday, April 11 at 5 PM with a message from Pastor Miles McPherson and music from the Katinas and Rock Church choir. Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009 the Rock Church will be having services at 6 AM, 8 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM, 5 PM, and 7 PM. Pastor Miles will be sharing a special message of “Hope” and the Katinas and Rock Church choir will be leading worship.
**Please note Saturday and Sunday services will be the same. **
The Rock Church
2277 Rosecrans Street
San Diego CA 92106
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