Author: Layla Fonseca

Del Mar College Choirs accompanied by the music department will perform a “Celebration of Rosephany Powell” Nov. 6 and 13. The Nov. 6 performance begins at 7 p.m. in Wolfe Recital Hall on the DMC Heritage Campus while the Nov. 13 concert begins at 7 p.m. at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 5300 S. Alameda St. Both performances are free and open to the public. Powell, a professor of voice at Auburn University in Alabama, is an acclaimed composer, vocalist, conductor, and scholar whose works have made a significant impact on the modern choral repertoire. “I chose to feature her…

Dia De Los Muertos is a day to honor loved ones who have passed and commemorate with an altar, typically celebrated on Nov. 2. Del Mar College’s Heritage Campus will host a morning program and community ofrenda, or altar, on Thursday, Oct. 3, in the White Library, Room 218 from 10 a.m. to noon.   This event has taken place every year since 2004, with ofrendas placed at every campus, but the main morning program will take place in the White Library.   The White Library hasn’t always hosted the ofrendas. They have also been hosted in Spanish classrooms, the…

Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will discuss the U.S. Constitution and the impact it continues to have on our country and government during a Constitution Day 2025 lecture on Del Mar’s Heritage Campus. Serving as the structure of the United States, the Constitution outlines the principles of the federal government, and the rights reserved for citizens, which are still standing today.  To pay tribute to the signing of this document, and its lasting effect, Constitution Day was pronounced a federal observance by Congress in 2004. The…