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SHERATON SAN DIEGO HOTEL & MARINA REOPENS

08.25.20

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina reopened with three accommodations packages, available through September 8.

It’s located on scenic Harbor Island just four minutes from San Diego International Airport and complete with a complimentary hotel shuttle. Sheraton San Diego’s resort packages include – “Sweet Summer Nights,” “Summer Trio” (Buy Two Get One), and “Credit For All.”

Sweet Summer Nights offers guests all the hotel’s four-star amenities and high-end chicness along with a second night free when they book one night in any room category including a splurge on a suite offering the ultimate in spaciousness. Room rates start at $104 and suite rates start at $119.

San Diego Summer Trio’s (Buy Two Get One) package features a third night free when guests stay in a Traditional or Deluxe Room in the Marina Tower – complete with waterfront views, each with its own balcony or patio, signature Sheraton amenities including Sheraton Sleep Experience Beds, sleek bathrooms and contemporary nautical themed decor, starting at reasonable nightly rates of $114.

Credit for All offering a $25 resort credit for each night booked. This credit can be used towards dining or other hotel amenities (not including room charges or taxes).

For reservations, guests can call 888-236-2427 or visit sweet-summer-nights.

Before retiring to a comfortable room or suite at Sheraton San Diego, there are so many alluring daytime activities around the resort for families, couples and friends to explore (and the hotel is dog friendly) – from walking or jogging on trails, bike riding, paddle boarding, relaxing on the private dock, jet skiing, whale watching and boating to hanging around the relaxing pools. Daily outdoor yoga is available, as well as tennis lessons and Lanai Lawn activities for the whole family. Outstanding convivial California dining and drinking is offered onsite, while sunset watching can be enjoyed at the waterfront Shoreline Cantina before roasting s’mores.

In addition, Sheraton San Diego is the perfect destination for San Diego outdoor attraction exploration, as Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo, Mission Trails Regional Park and Torrey Pines State Park are nearby.

 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina is at 1380 Harbor Island Drive in San Diego. 619.291.2900

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Catalina Island Museum Presents Reflecting on Tipping Point

08.25.20

Catalina Island Museum continues to bring art and culture to the community through virtual programming. In alignment with its ongoing Tipping Point sculpture exhibition exploring the concept of “extinction,” the museum will host acclaimed sculpture artist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship Awardee Elizabeth Turk in a conversation with Executive Director Julie Perlin Lee for “Reflecting on Tipping Point” on Thursday, August 27, via Zoom at 7 p.m. Admission is free with registration online at catalinamuseum.org/calendar.

Inspired by a changing natural world, Turk’s art elicits conversation and deep emotion surrounding ideas of extinction. Bird songs, archived by the Macaulay Library at Cornell University, create the foundation for Tipping Point, an outdoor sculpture installation at the museum. The exhibition gives three-dimensional form to extinct and endangered bird, whale and dolphin sounds, many of which have ties to California’s Channel Islands.

One year ago this summer, the Catalina Island Museum presented the official opening of Tipping Point. Turk’s work was only a portion of the event where attendees participated in an experience honoring loss and the loneliness of being the last. Yet, they did this, together. With many of California’s Channel Island birds on the cusp of extinction, Turk titled her work Tipping Point to highlight the danger to us all but also to show that there is hope. That we have an opportunity to make a difference. She asked all attendees to wear white to represent “ghosts” and ended the night in darkness to represent extinction.

Join the museum for a virtual event as it gathers again to reflect upon what was created together at Tipping Point and what extinction means in today’s environment. Lee will speak with Elizabeth Turk (Artist), Erik Thienes (Lead Photographer), Lara Wilson (Choreographer), dancers from The Assembly Dance Company and others to reveal their process and thoughts, then and now.

Like the first Tipping Point gathering, this event will also feature an interactive element. Participants are encouraged to watch from a dark room in their home and using a candle or flashlight, they will be given certain directives to follow which will end in darkness once again.

Check out the virtual tour and behind-the-scenes making of Tipping Point on IGTV.

Admission is free with a suggested donation of $20 online at catalinamuseum.org/calendar. The first 60 guests to donate $20 or more will receive a Tipping Point CD created with the music composed and performed by Michael Mortilla along with Nicole Garcia from last summer's live event. A dedicated Zoom link and instructions to join the event will be sent to registered participants a couple of days prior to the event.

To help keep the art and culture of the iconic Santa Catalina Island alive, please support the museum by texting “Magic” to 50155 or visiting catalinamuseum.org/donate.

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