• The Monterey Jazz Festival’s Monterey County High School All-Star Band and Honor Vocal Jazz Ensemble are on tour. They played DC’s National Archives building and Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage for the 4th of July. They come back home to gig at the Forbes Ag Tech Summit in Salinas July 9, Wine, Dine and Jazz at the Hyatt Regency on July 16, the Salinas Half Marathon Aug. 1, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Evenings by the Bay on Aug. 9, Concours d’Elegance on Aug. 13. And in September, the Monterey Jazz Festival. 646-8670.
• The first clue that Sharknado 2: The Second One is going to be a crap movie is… well, the title. The second clue: It stars Ian Ziering, a man with the acting range of a bobblehead. Three: the comedy team behind Mystery Science Theater 3000, operating as RiffTrax, has sunk their teeth into it. Witness the feeding frenzy 8pm Thursday at Del Monte Center’s Century Cinemas. www.FathomEvents.com.
• Three artists from Central Coast Art Association show their work together in an exhibition called Celebrating Summer at Sally Griffin Center, opening with a reception 5-7pm this Friday. 293-8028.
• Katie Crawford presents her mixed media watercolors for the first time on the Peninsula in a show she’s calling Indulge in Imagination, opening 5:30-7:30pm Friday at Open Ground Studios. Expect “frogs, bees, snails and other critters in her paintings,”reads her statement. 241-6919.
• Local (and world-traveled) photographer Douglas Steakley is showing his latest at a venue called Red Pear in Carmel Valley. Steakley’s on the board of the Center for Photographic Art and has received the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club for his environmental photography. It opens 6-8pm Friday. 659-1200, www.TheRedPear.com.
• Printmaker and installation artist Barbara Furbush demonstrates a variety of printmaking techniques used by Pedro de Lemos (currently on exhibit), including woodblock, etching and lithography. It happens in the pleasant environs of the Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada 10am on Monday. 372-5477 x101.
• Want to collaborate on a big project with the Seaside Library? They’re celebrating 85 years by collecting your photos (original, photocopied or scanned) and stories (emailed, recorded or printed) that mark the 85-year history of the library for a big show in November. Materials will not be returned (unless other arrangements are made). Call 899-2055 for more info.