Best bets for the break: a quick guide to online entertainment and virtual experiences

the La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine dilemma.

Conferences & learning

• Warwick’s bookstore presents the author Will jelbert at 5 p.m. on Monday, November 9 via Facebook Live. Jelbert will discuss his new book, “Word Wise: Say What You Mean, Deepen Your Connections and Get to the Point”. To free. warwicks.com/event/jelbert-2020

• La Jolla Community Center presents the hypnotherapist Elena Mosaner at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 10, online. Mosaner will lead an introductory course to help participants learn and practice evidence-based hypnotherapy techniques and tools, previewing a four-part course that will begin later this month. To free. bit.ly/mosanerintro

• The La Jolla Community Center presents a computer and digital technology course from 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10, online. The four-part series, led by Ben Shapiro and Michael Viesca of TekMate, will introduce what seniors need to know about digital security, telehealth, the “smart” home, social media, devices and more. The course continues weekly until Tuesday, December 1. $ 15 per course for members; $ 20 for non-members. ljcommunitycenter.org/series

• Adventures through the present book “Hail Veterans” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 11, online. The event, featuring authors Rebecca Bruff and John Cribb, aims to raise awareness of the Foundation for Women Warriors, a veterans organization. Free with the purchase of a book. bit.ly/abbsalute

• Scripps search is holding the next session in its Front Row online lecture series at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, titled “Can Drugs That Modify the Microbiome Prevent Cardiovascular Disease?” “ Reza Ghadiri will present research on molecules that can alter the bacterial population of the intestines to a healthier state to lower cholesterol levels. To free. frontrow.scripps.edu

• Monarch Cottage La Jolla presents “The Faith and Well-Being Connection” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, November 12, online. Psychiatry professors Tanya Nguyen and Dan Sewell, clinical social worker Danielle Glorioso and Reverend Scott Mitchell will discuss how faith can improve health and well-being. To free. E-mail [email protected].

• UC San Diego’s Visual Arts Department Presents Online Performance Lecture by Installation Artist Judit Hersko at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 12. Hersko collaborates with scientists to visualize the science of climate change through art and storytelling, and her current practice is to tell stories through performances that incorporate the objects she makes. To free. Register on bit.ly/herskolecture.

Families and children

• San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum launches three-part program virtual parenting workshop called “Parenting on the Go” at 10 am on Friday November 6th. The first episode features the museum’s director of education, Whitney Raser, as she talks with Debbie Zeichner, a licensed clinical social worker and parenting coach. To free. facebook.com/sdcdm

Arts & Culture

• ArtPower at UC San Diego features a New York-based dancer and choreographer Ephrat Asherie virtual dance residency until November 19. Next up, Thursday, November 5, is a film screening of “Check Your Body at the Door,” a documentary about underground house dancing in New York City in the 1990s, and a conversation with the film Archie Burnett and Asherie on the golden decade of dance. On Thursday, November 12, the public is invited to participate in a conversation with Asherie and UCSD speaker Grace Jun on the life and works of Asherie. $ 10 per device. artpower.ucsd.edu

• Liberty Station presents Virtual First Friday from 4 p.m. on November 6. The lineup of local artists and designers will be on the Airmeet virtual platform and will include Milk Oolong Studio, Anne Gaffey Art and installation artist Hugo Crosthwaite. bit.ly/libstationfirst Friday

• Room group Camarada kicks off its 26th season with “Unstoppable,” a six-concert online series starting at 7:00 pm on Friday, November 6th. The first performance is “Recuerdos de los Dias” (“Memory of the Days”), a day of the dead-themed concert featuring Latin American composers. $ 20. bit.ly/camaradaunstoppable

• Third Coast Percussion premieres “Metamorphosis” at 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 7 online. The street music and percussion mashup, created in collaboration with Movement Art Is, will be broadcast live from La Jolla Music Society’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, with a recording of the concert available until Saturday, November 14. $ 15. bit.ly/MetamorphosisNov7

• The Bach Collegium San Diego continues its virtual 2020-21 season with “Earth, Air and Fire! Mass in troubled times” on Saturday November 7 online. The concert, part of the organization’s reDiscover series, features soprano Estelí Gomez, mezzo-soprano Angela Young Smucker, tenor John Russell and bass Mischa Bouvier. Free, although donations are accepted. bachcollegiumsd.org

• The Old Globe Theater presents its traditional AXIS Day of the Dead / Día de Muertos event at 11 a.m. on Sunday, November 8, online. The event features traditional Mexican music, short bilingual plays recorded from past coLAB productions, and other activities hosted by teaching artist Valeria Vega. theoldglobe.org

• The Athenaeum’s musical and artistic library continues its “Eastern influences in Western art” lecture series at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, November 10, online with “The Space of Art”. Led by art historian Cornelia Feye, the third of four lectures will discuss Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who incorporates Zen aesthetics into his work and more. $ 12 per conference or $ 44 for the series for members; $ 15 / $ 56 for non-members. ljathenaeum.org/art-history-lectures

The Tasende Gallery in La Jolla presents a tribute exhibition celebrating the 100th birthday of painter Wayne Thiebaud from November 12 to 19 online and in the gallery.

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• The Tasende gallery presents a tribute exhibition celebrating the painter’s 100th birthday Wayne Thiebaud From November 12 to 19 online and in the gallery at 820, rue Prospect, La Jolla. The exhibition will highlight nine works from the Galerie Tasende collection dating from 1954 to 2016, including oils on canvas and cardboard, drawings in ink, wash, watercolor and pencil as well as a lithograph and a monotype made by hand. bit.ly/tasende coming soon

Galas and virtual events

• The annual American Cancer Society gala “Magic of Hope” will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 7, online. The event will feature gourmet in-home meals prepared by Cohn Group Executive Chef Deborah Scott, online auction items and more. sandiegomagicofhope.org

What did you find for entertainment and other distance (social) activities? Send your prospects to [email protected]. ??