Join the Charla on Thursday, November 19 at 11am for a conversation with David Avalos. A key figure in San Diego’s Chicano Art Movement, David Avalos works in sculpture, installation, and public projects. His sculptures unabashedly assert the vernacular of rasquache as a form of resilience in the face of social, racial, and economic adversity.

Financial support is provided by the City of San Diego; E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; Councilmember Chris Cate, City of San Diego, Sixth District; County of San Diego; 21st Century China Center, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy; Jon Doellstedt; Sony Electronics Inc.; Gail and Ralph Bryan; and the Gardner Bilingual Fund. The Exhibition Support Council is sustained by community leaders like the Elaine Galinson & Herbert Solomon Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation, Marion and David Knowles, Gail and Mel Mackler, Julie Lorene Smith, Elizabeth Taft, Marie Tartar and Steve Eilenberg, and Peggy Ann Wallace.

Sidewalks and streets of Old Town have become an amazing outdoor dining experience offering guests safe, social distance dining, shopping and siteseeing! Enjoy the outdoor patios of our restaurants and our retail businesses. All of the retail businesses and restaurants are creating a festive atmosphere by decorating the outside of their business with white lights and other festive decorations.

In addition, starting in August through September 27 there will be a street closure on San Diego Avenue from Thursday through Sunday to make room for the restaurants and businesses in that area to move onto the sreets. Visit all of Old Town from Tayor Street to Old Town Avenue. Wear your mask and enjoy the birthplace of California all summer long.

By Culture Clash
La Jolla Playhouse Commission
June – October, 2020

Culture Class offers 10-minute doses of levity, poetics and payasadas {clowning}, from their homes and streets of SoCal and beyond. While the nation’s premier Latino Performance Trio – Richard Montoya,  Ricardo Salinas and Herbert Siguenza – abides by social distancing and science, they recognize the need to chronicle the isolation, joys and silver linings of their artsy activist lives in a fake news pandemic-ready format. We got this America! Send in the Clash Clowns!