- Cabaret-by-the-Sea and Pacific Repertory Theatre debut a new program called Cabaret Sundays: Six Short Stories at the Indoor Forest Theater, 7pm Nov. 26, Dec. 3, 10 and 17. It’s hosted by cabaret artist and director Barbara Brussell, who is accompanied by musical director George Peterson. $25. 622-0100, pacrep.org.
- The Arts Council for Monterey County is accepting submissions before Nov. 27 for a juried show of community work called Monterey County – Visualize Health Equity, asking what “health equity” looks, feels and sounds like to you. They have some suggestions: “access to healthy food or safe neighborhoods, good education or a living wage, clean drinking water or affordable housing, connection to cultural heritage or lack of discrimination.” Which sounds civic-minded and check-boxy, but it could be interesting to see what inspiration it sends people. In addition to the visual arts (including film and performance art), music and creative writing is welcome. Call 622-9060 x103 or email klara@arts4mc.org.
- Irwin Swirnoff, curator of gaze///yr gaze queer film series and faculty in CSU Monterey Bay’s Cinematic Arts Department, brings big city creativity and performance to the campus in a solo show by Rotimi Agbabiaka called Type/Caste: A Solo Performance About Acting While Black (& Queer). Agbabiaka uses humor, song, dance and monologue – tools of theater – to examine and critique racism and intersectionality in the world of theater, a world, he says, “that often wants to reduce people to one-dimensional stereotypes.” Swirnoff himself compares the performance to gay rights activist and poet Marlon Riggs and documentary The Celluloid Closet, two touchstones of LGBTQ culture. It’s free, 6:30pm Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Cinematic Arts Studio. jswirnoff@csumb.edu.
- The Museums and Cultural Arts Office of the city of Monterey de-accessed some artworks from its collection because they didn’t fit into the scope of their policy for the collection. Which sounds like bureaucratic colloquialism for something else, but I won’t speculate what. Some of the art has found a home at other public institutions, but a dozen pieces are being auctioned off to the public online at publicsurplus.com until Dec. 4. As of last Friday, the bids ran from $22 to $153. Check out the stuff online at bit.ly/surplusart, and to inspect said art up close, contact Chalet Booker at 242-8743 or booker@monterey.org.
ARTIFACTS: Healthy art competition, queer eye on theater, Monterey’s online art auction
The bookstore of the National Steinbeck Center (housed within CSUMB's Salinas Center for Arts & Culture) carries a nicely curated selection of books including H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and rainbow-colored reissues of classics (right) by Penguin Books.
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