{"id":436474,"date":"2026-08-18T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:18:09","slug":"aquamarine-environmental-awareness-gala-unveiling-a-7-foot-sea-lion-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436474\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquamarine\u00a0Environmental Awareness Gala + Unveiling a 7-foot Sea Lion Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Aquamarine Environmental Awareness Gala\" width=\"254\" height=\"329\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787077089_424_.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sierra Club San Diego and the Seal Society<\/p>\n<p>            \/<\/p>\n<p>        Carol Archbald, Leadership docent SCSS<\/p>\n<p>Aquamarine\u00a0Environmental Awareness Gala<\/p>\n<p>                                            Saturday, August 29, 2026 from 4 PM to 8 PM<\/p>\n<p>                                            Village Arts Center in Balboa Park\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>                                            All Ages\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>                                            Free\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>For over 10 years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegosierraclub.org\/seal-society\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sierra Club Seal Society (SCSS)<\/a> has wanted a large sculpture of a sea lion statue to be created and placed in a prominent area for all San Diegans to see. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C2smCHjBjBR\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sergey Gornushkin, President of the SD Sculptors Guild<\/a> in Balboa Park, is now doing just that. My son, a friend of Sergey, initiated this wonderful event by asking him to design the statue.<\/p>\n<p>We are having a free commemorative event on August 29 to celebrate the unveiling of Sergey\u2019s 7-foot long, 6-foot-high statue. It will be held in Balboa Park, by Spanish Village, Studio 36 on Saturday, August 29\u00a0from\u00a04 &#8211; 8 p.m. There will be several speakers starting at 4 pm. Food and drinks will be served and there will be a band and DJ to dance to.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026 a Spanish Viliage, Studio 36 from 4-8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sierra Club San Diego and the Seal Society \/ Carol Archbald, Leadership docent SCSS Aquamarine\u00a0Environmental Awareness Gala Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-436474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}