SAN DIEGO ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS

A 53-member coalition representing arts and business interests has called on the San Diego Unified Port District to revive its moribund public-arts program. “There seemed to be no unified response from the artistic community following the resignation of the Port Commission’s Arts Advisory Committee this summer,” said Jim Barker, a professor of art history at San Diego State University and coalition spokesman. “As artists and professionals in the community, we need to organize ourselves and formulate our own agenda so that exterior agendas don’t have to be placed on the arts from outside,” he said. The coalition sent a written list of its requests to the Port District on Sept. 6, asking the commissioners to schedule a public review of their public-arts policy and to appoint a new Arts Advisory Committee.