{"id":313231,"date":"2022-07-10T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=313231"},"modified":"2022-07-06T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:19:27","slug":"the-most-wuthering-heights-day-ever-coming-to-pacific-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/the-most-wuthering-heights-day-ever-coming-to-pacific-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever coming to Pacific Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you like literature, the library, and dancing at live events? Now you can have all three wrapped into one at The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever at Pacific Beach\/Taylor Branch Library on Saturday, July 30.<\/p>\n

The library at 4275 Cass St. will hold San Diego\u2019s edition of The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in the library\u2019s park starting at noon. Described as a flash mob\/community dance, the event has taken place internationally every July since 2013. San Diego is one of only five locations hosting an event in the United States in 2022, and the only one on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether you are more a fan of Emily Bronte’s classic 1847 novel \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 or Kate Bush’s 1978 song adaptation, we invite you to express your inner Cathy at The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever,\u201d said PB library manager Christina Wainwright, who has designed dance costumes, especially for the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon a red dress and dance to Kate Bush’s \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 in the Pacific Beach Library’s park, using the moves that Kate Bush immortalized in her music video.\u00a0Afterward, we invite you to hang out in our park. We’ll spin some tunes and you can bring picnic supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever\u00a0is an event held at locations worldwide where participants recreate the music video for musician Kate Bush\u2019s1978 song “Wuthering Heights.\u201d The event’s inspiration is\u00a0\u201cShambush’s\u00a0The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience,\u201d\u00a0which took place in 2013 in Brighton, United Kingdom, as part of\u00a0Brighton Fringe, created by performance collective Shambush. Shambush attempted to set an unofficial world record on that date for the most people dressed as Kate Bush in one place, with hundreds attending.<\/p>\n

\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d\u00a0is an 1847 work by Emily Bronte, an English novelist and poet who is best known for this, her one and only novel, concerning two families of the landed gentry\u00a0and their turbulent relationships. The novel was influenced by\u00a0Romanticism and Gothic fiction. \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d\u00a0is now considered a classic of English literature. But it was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to\u00a0Victorian morality and religious and societal values.<\/p>\n

Catherine \u201cKate\u201d Bush is a British singer, songwriter, pianist, dancer, and record producer. In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single “Wuthering Heights.\u201d She became the first female artist to achieve a UK No. 1 with a self-written song. She was also the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts and the first female artist to enter the album chart at No. 1.<\/p>\n

Wainwright characterized the upcoming library event as \u201csomething unique and just a bit weird in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe novel has enduring appeal,\u201d she said adding, \u201cIt\u2019s a love story about love and passion regarding the main characters, Heathcliff and Cathy. Kate Bush wrote the song from a TV miniseries based on one scene, now captured in her song, showing people in red dresses dancing in a field.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it is so dramatic, over the top, years later, in 2013, people in English art groups thought it would be a neat thing to invite folks to wear red dances and dance out in the fields. It has since become an international movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rob Rosas and Christina Wainwright of Pacific Beach Library rehearse the \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 dance in the red tunics that will be featured in a July 16 costuming workshop. PHOTO BY TAHNI BANNON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PB\u2019s observance of the special literary event will be lighthearted.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 is for people of all ages and abilities just coming together to do something fun,\u201d Wainwright said. \u201cIt just happens to be about \u2018Wuthering Heights.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The PB librarian said they\u2019re hosting online costuming workshops for folks wanting to practice dancing before they participate.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, it will get more people interested in Bronte\u2019s book and in Bush\u2019s music,\u201d Wainwright said. \u201cIf you want to do something weird and fun together: This is that event.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can see more info about the event (including links to dance rehearsals, a costuming workshop, and several videos) at\u00a0mysdpl.org\/wuthering<\/a>. Folks who are on Facebook can also join a group dedicated to the event, to get updates:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/sdplwuthering<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you like literature, the library, and dancing at live events? Now you can have all three wrapped into one at The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever at Pacific Beach\/Taylor Branch Library on Saturday, July 30. The library at 4275 Cass St. will hold San Diego\u2019s edition of The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":313232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Do you like literature, the library, and dancing at live events? Now you can have all three wrapped into one at The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever at Pacific Beach\/Taylor Branch Library on Saturday, July 30.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11547,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-features","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}