Escondido Mingei museum loses its "satellite"
By: PAM KRAGEN - Staff Writer | ∞
The Mingei International Museum has changed the name of its North County satellite branch in Escondido. The museum at 155 W. Grand is now called the Mingei International Museum ---- North County.
Museum acting director Rob Sidner said the name change (which involved dropping the word "satellite" from the end of its name) was done to reflect the 21,000-square-foot North County museum's separate identity from its parent museum in Balboa Park.
The Mingei opened in Escondido December 2003. Originally designed as an additional storage and take-in area for the main museum in Balboa Park, it has developed its own following, art programs and exhibitions.
Carlsbad residents get a rare opportunity to see the San Diego Symphony in their hometown at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 with a performance of "The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach" conducted by Murry Sidlin at the Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center, 3557 Monroe St. in Carlsbad.
Tickets are $30 for general admission with $5 discounts for seniors, students and the military. Call (619) 235-0804 for details.
Poway Center for the Performing Arts, which has struggled for years with low ticket sales, announced that its Feb. 11 concert by the Celtic family ensemble Leahy is nearly sold out. Center executive director Henry Korn said the show sold 400 of its 800 available tickets before the season opened in September and has continued to sell well ever since. Only a few tickets are still available.
"People keep asking me if I'm shocked but the truth is we had high expectations for this show right from the beginning. This is exactly the sort of reaction we'd hoped for," Korn said.
The latest installment of "Forbidden Broadway" will arrive in San Diego on March 31, with a 10-week booking at the Theatre in Old Town.
"Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit" is the newest show created by in the long-running "Forbidden Broadway" franchise, which spoofs current Broadway musicals.
The musical will come to Old Town directly from Broadway, where it has been playing at the 47th Street Theatre. The theater troupe's rental agreement with the theater owners in New York requires that it take its show on the road for 10 weeks each year to allow the theater's resident company a chance to perform in the space.
The Theatre in Old Town snapped up the rights for the show, which won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue. "Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit" will replace the Theatre in Old Town's current show, "Too Old for the Chorus, But Not Too Old to Be a Star," which closes March 19. "Forbidden Broadway will run March 31 through June 4. For information, call (619) 688-2494.
SeaWorld San Diego has extended through the end of this year a benefit program that provides free park admission to active military personnel and their families.
The Here's to the Heroes program allows active-duty, active reserve or ready reserve service members or National Guardsmen to a free single-day admission to the park and as many as three of his or her direct dependents. In order to qualify for the program, military members must register either online (www.herosalute.com) or at the park and bring their military ID. Launched in February of last year, the Here's to the Heroes program has given away more than 3 million free admissions to SeaWorld and sister theme parks.
"This is one small way we can acknowledge and thank the soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guardsmen whose services helps to preserve the freedom and safety of every American," said Andy Fichthorn, general manager of SeaWorld San Diego.
To fill the 400-seat theater at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, the Hidden Valley Community Concert Association is offering a special ticket deal to its concert at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 by the Russian piano duo of Anna and Kirill Gliadowksy. Tickets to the concert are $15, but if patrons purchase a membership in the HVCCA (which entitles them to low-priced tickets for other concerts in the Hidden Valley season as well as concerts presented by other community concert associations), tickets are just $10.
Also featured in the Hidden Valley's 2005-2006 season are the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra at 3 p.m. March 12 and violinist Linda Wang on May 11. For information, call (760) 740-0619.
Actor Michael York, who will present his one-man Shakespeare show "Will and I" at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 28 (see related story), is a big believer in the greatness of Shakespeare. But he's not a believer in the true identity of Shakespeare.
Like many skeptics associated with Oxford University, York has been an outspoken advocate of the long-held theory that William Shakespeare, the revered poet and playwright, was not the same William Shakespeare who was raised the son of a Stratford glove-maker and went on to a career in London as an actor and theater producer.
York and other Oxfordians believe that the man named William Shakespeare wasnít educated or well-traveled enough. The man who wrote the great masterpieces of theater and poetry attributed to Shakespeare obviously was. The main Oxfordian theory holds that Shakespeare agreed to serve as a shield or pen name for another author who didn't want his name associated with the theater (which at the time was not a highly regarded art form). The likely author, York said, is Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who was college-educated, a world traveler and a respected poet.
"There is something that doesn't add up there," York said of trying to reconcile the plays and the man, in an interview for Preview last week. "How can they reconcile what we know about the him ---- a man who could barely write his name, had an illiterate wife and has no evidence of an education ---- with the beauty of his writing? The evidence is very thin and the assumptions are huge."
De Vere, on the other hand, was "wonderfully educated, a genius at translating and he often wrote about his travels," York said.
Yet while York is happy to offer his opinions on the true identity of Shakespeare, he makes it clear that his theories have little bearing on the quality of Shakespeare's writing.
"It makes no difference whatsoever," York said. "Whoever he was, he was still a genius. It's fun to talk about these hypotheses but I prefer to focus on the writing itself."
A special intergenerational reading and art program will be presented from 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 28 in Carlsbad.
Carlsbad's Front Porch Gallery, which features the art work of residents of the Front Porch retirement communities, will host a public reception for "Everyone Has a Story to Share." The project, sponsored by StoryArts, paired Encinitas-area senior citizens with local high school and college students. The seniors told the students stories about their lives and the students wrote down the stories and illustrated them in book form for an exhibit that opens Saturday.
The students will read their books from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Carlsbad By the Sea Retirement Community (next door to the Front Porch Gallery) at 2855 Carlsbad Blvd. And the exhibit's grand opening party will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Front Porch Gallery, 2903 Carlsbad Blvd. Refreshments will be served.
The art books will be on display through April 30. For information, call (760)795-6120.
Pam Kragen is the entertainment editor of the North County Times.
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