thursday, jan. 26
San Diego Italian Film Festival monthly screening: L’uomo che verrà ( The Man Who Will Come )
In the fall of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole south of Bologna, fascism showed its face in one of the worst massacres on Italian soil. Giorgio Diritti illuminates the incident in a very specific way: He creates an almost elegiac portrait of peasant life as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old child. Martina has fallen mute since the death of her infant brother; now her mother is pregnant again, and Martina awaits the infant as her own rebirth.
Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado in Balboa Park, 7 p.m., free with $5 suggested donation, 619-238-7559, mopa.org.
friday, jan. 27
Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Septet
Pianist, composer, educator and winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2003, Arturo O’Farrill was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. In 2002, he created the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for Jazz at Lincoln Center due in part to a large and very demanding body of substantial music in the genre of Latin and Afro Cuban Jazz that deserves to be much more widely appreciated and experienced by the general jazz audience.
Birch North Park Theatre, 2891 University Ave. in North Park, 8 p.m., tickets from $35, 858-459-3728, ljms.org.
saturday, jan. 28
Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Fair
The 30th Annual 2012 San Diego Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Fair is a free, family friendly event! Come celebrate the Year of the Dragon. Entertainment includes shows, music, parades, martial arts and much more. The San Diego Chinese Center will also be celebrating their 40th year of service for the community.
Third Avenue and J Street in downtown San Diego, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free, sdcny.weebly.com.
sunday, jan. 29
Passport to the World
Travel around the world with a sampling of some of music’s greatest composers. Your journey will start in Europe; go across to Asia, then down to Africa and then South America.You’ll wind up right here at home in North America! Learn how various cultures have influenced the symphonic music that we know and love.
Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street in San Diego, 2 p.m., tickets from $15, 619-235-0804, sandiegosymphony.org.
