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• The info didn’t get to me in time to make last week’s story, a round-up of the local film festivals coming in the next few months, but if it had, it would definitely have rated a big blip on that radar. On Oct. 19, the folks at Henry Miller Library bring Reel Rock 8 to the Golden State Theatre, an annual screening of some of the scariest stuff on film – shots of people scaling mountains and sheer cliffs, or dangling from stringy looking ropes hundreds of feet from terra firma. For those with a fear of heights, this can be excruciating/exhilarating stuff. We’ll have more soon.

• The Salinas Public Library offers free teen filmmaking workshops 2-5pm every Saturday Oct. 12 to Nov. 16, where young aspiring filmmakers can learn script writing, directing, production and editing with Final Cut Pro. The workshops are at John Steinbeck Library, 350 Lincoln Ave., 758-7319.

• You probably know that the Monterey Bay Aquarium offers passes to Monterey County Free Libraries; they go fast and one has to sometimes endure very un-library-like lines. Now, Monterey and Pacific Grove Public Library cardholders can use their cards to be transported literally through an online service called Discover & Go. Carholders can make reservations and print out a pass for the Tech Museum in San Jose or the San Jose Museum of Art or San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Call 646-3933 or go to www.Monterey.org/library to try it out. They hope to add Monterey-area institutions to the list of destinations. Hint, hint.

• Last weekend’s Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival could have benefited from more people in the seats during its Friday and Saturday night concerts at Sunset Center. One tactic they tried to entice more attendees was a two-for-one deal, but it seemed to come too late to have effect. Not so with PacRep. The coupon secret word is “sweet” and it gets the buyer the deal on Thursday and Sunday, Oct. 10, 13, 17 and 20 performances of their A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by phone (622-0100) or by website (www.PacRep.org).

• The Museum of Monterey is accepting submissions of marine-related photographic prints for a juried fundraiser show in December. Black-and-white or color, up to 16x20 inches, mounted on a board with info and specs written on the back. The museum’s curators will choose 25 to be displayed Dec. 18, 2013, to Jan. 26, 2014. That’s in a sweet spot between the closing of Bryant Austin’s Beautiful Whale photo exhibition and the start of Whalefest 2014.