• Four CSUMB film students did their community service learning class, taught by Steven Levinson, with students from Rancho Cielo in the field of radio theater. You can listen to the sci-fi/horror results 4pm Thursday on KHDC Radio Bilingüe 90.9 FM. 402-1906, tstevens@csumb.edu.
• For the last P.G. First Friday of the year, meet physician, writer and poet Patrick Flanigan at Artisana Gallery (612 Lighthouse, 655-9775) 5-8pm where he will recite excerpts from his book When Sunflowers Speak: An Invitation to Contemplation. William Carlos William, Dr. Zhivago… there’s something about poet doctors.
• Monterey Museum of Art (559 Pacific St., Monterey, 372-5477) hosts a reception 6:30-8:30pm Friday for the artists who contributed to the small paintings and objects for the Miniatures fundraiser exhibition and raffle. It’s a lot of work.
• Mark Baer lets loose the fourth part of his five-part series The Joe Cupcake Chronicles (In Search of the Lost Mind) 3pm Saturday at Museum of Monterey (5 Custom House Plaza). This one, Joe’s Checkered Present, opens with a film, followed by a Q&A. 372-2608, $8.
• Author and publisher Naida West has written a trilogy of historical fiction covering moments in California history from 1824-1910. West (aplty named) will tell you more at the signing and talk 11am-1pm Saturday at Pilgrim’s Way Community Bookstore.
• Here is another way to revisit California history: San Juan Bautista’s Holiday Stroll Through Time. It starts 4pm Saturday with a tree lighting ceremony, cycles through candy cane lane, live music and storytelling by costumed characters, free cookies and cider and pictures with Santa at 6pm. 624-9275.
• Gallery Sur (Sixth between Dolores and Lincoln, Carmel) has long been a supporter of the famed Nyanhongo family of sculptors from Zimbabwe. This Saturday, 4-7pm, they are joined by the gallery’s photographers in the Art 4 Education show that raises money for new classrooms at the Maulana School for Orphans in Epworth, Zimbabwe. 626-2616, Sahwira.org.
• This month, 2pm Sunday at East Village Coffee Lounge, the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium and KRXA 540AM’s Poetry Slow Down presents Scott Galloway, writer of poetry books and former editor of The Central California Poetry Journal, and Edward Jarvis, born and raised in San Joaquin Valley near Tulare and author of 2001’sPalimpsest. 684-0854, $5.
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