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VIDEO: Live theater returns to City College

City drama re-imagines Shakespeare with live performances of Macbeth and Twelfth Night at the Saville Theatre

Kathryn Gray, Managing Editor • October 18, 2021

After performing solely to virtual audiences for the past year and a half, the San Diego City College drama department is eager to delight theater patrons with in-person performances of Macbeth and Twelfth Night at the Saville Theatre.

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Arts bring new perspectives back to City College campus

In-person classes begin amid a still-precarious global pandemic

Philip Salata and Kathy Archibald • September 3, 2021

For the first time in more than 18 months, select fine arts classes are finally being held in person at City College for the fall 2021 semester.

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REVIEW: Music video featuring Vel the Wonder has City College ties

Director Nahla Valdez in a San Diego City College alum

Candise Berry, Multimedia Journalist • June 7, 2021

The music video for the song, "Got Me Like Me" is different from any other video I have ever seen before.

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MAGAZINE: City College artists navigate the pandemic

City College artists continue to create during the pandemic

Rachel de la Torre, Multimedia Journalist • June 4, 2021

Due to COVID-19, artists all over the world have had to navigate creating, showing and selling their art to the public in new ways. San Diego City College is home to incredible artists of all kinds -- performers, painters, ceramicists, sculptors, multimedia artists and everything in between.

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MAGAZINE: 6th Annual Festival of New Plays goes digital

The 6th Annual Festival of New Plays was recorded by City Times Media for online streaming

Marlena Harvey, Managing Editor • June 3, 2021

Students and staff of San Diego City College spent weeks putting together eight plays, five of which were recorded by the City Times Media Team in the on-campus TV studio production.

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REVIEW: City College dance ends the year back on their feet

Landing on Our Feet is a five-part virtual dance performance online through Saturday

Rachel de la Torre, Multimedia Journalist • May 27, 2021

City College’s dance faculty presents “Landing on Our Feet,” a five-part virtual dance performance on Vimeo through Saturday.

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MAGAZINE: Chicano Park leaders fight for its heritage

City College students in 1970 helped shape the Chicano movement

Gabriel Schneider, Editor-in-Chief • May 24, 2021

Josie Talamantez remembers sitting in a Chicano Studies class at San Diego City College in April 1970.

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MAGAZINE: Jazz radio returns after the lockdown

The station is on-air Monday through Friday

Katia Pechenkina, News Editor • May 17, 2021

KSDS-FM Jazz 88.3, San Diego’s award-winning only full-time jazz radio station since 1985, went back to live broadcasting in January of 2021.

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MAGAZINE: 4 City College students share stories of hardship, pain at VAMP

Storytelling showcase allows students to turn painful experiences into beautiful performances

Kathryn Gray, Multimedia Journalist • May 11, 2021

Four City College students tell the stories behind their VAMP showcase performances.

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VAMP a chance for City College students to turn pain into performance

Storytelling "is part of a really powerful inheritance and legacy"

Kathryn Gray, Multimedia Journalist • May 11, 2021

VAMP, Visual Audio Monologue Performance, is taught in many City College English classes where all students are encouraged to submit work for the opportunity to perform in front of a virtual audience.

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MAGAZINE: City College’s student news organization debuts new magazine

Produced by the staff of City Times, CityScene focuses on arts and culture

Gabriel Schneider, Editor-in-Chief • May 5, 2021

As the spring 2021 virtual semester comes to a close, City Times debuted its first volume of CityScene magazine, which focuses on arts and culture on and around the San Diego City College campus.

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Chicano Park celebrates its 51st anniversary virtually

The celebration comes a year after the 50th was canceled due to the onset of COVID-19

Gabriel Schneider, Editor-in-Chief • April 27, 2021

The community of Chicano Park, a historical landmark with strong ties to San Diego City College, continued that mission this spring, celebrating its 51st anniversary virtually on YouTube April 19-25.

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