I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
After a year’s hiatus because of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Pacific Arts Movement’s Spring Showcase of films celebrating Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander identity is back.
The festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through May 2, returns at a time when, says Pacific Arts Movement Artistic Director Brian Hu, “More now than in a generation eyes are on the Asian American community in many ways.”
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“Now is an opportunity to show that there’s more to the Asian American community than just victimhood and there’s more to supporting the community than telling us ‘We’re here for you.’”
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I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
Are we starved for positive messages or what? I found some, appropriately enough, during the just-completed Easter/Passover season in a virtual offering from the free “Live with Carnegie Hall” livestream series. Producers
Ray and Vivian Scott Chew hosted an hour of R&B and gospel music titled
“Be the Light: A Joyful Celebration” that’s intended to uplift, inspire and bridge the sociopolitical and cultural divides tormenting us as a nation.
Reflecting that mission is the opening video performance in the show: six-time Grammy winner Israel Houghton’s collaboration with Azi Schwartz, cantor of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue, on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” That’s followed by singer-songwriter Kenny Lattimore and a gifted college student covering Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy, Mercy Me,” then Ray Chew, on keyboards
I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
Two timeless songs performed by
Chester Gregory during his
“Higher & Higher: A Rock ‘n’ Soul Shindig” concert stirred me to the core, because when the virtual show was over, I turned to Alexa and asked her to play “A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke, and after that “What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye. I just had to hear them again, in their original incarnations.
Not that Gregory, a Broadway performer with “Hairspray” and “Sister Act” and “Motown: The Musical” on his resume, didn’t give them his all. He stars in this 90-minute show presented by the Chicago-based Artists Lounge Live. It’s being offered and presented here through April 18 by the San Diego Repertory Theatre.
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