- Aug. 19, the Concours d’Lemons turned the lawn behind Seaside City Hall into a wondrous parking lot of some of the most creative, weird, cool and jacked-up cars around. It was a low-stakes showcase of automotive excellence of a different order than its gleaming counterpart in Pebble Beach – with a healthy sense of humor. “The best part is that the show is free for participants and spectators,” the website says, “so you’ll get exactly what you pay for.” Check out Nic Coury’s photoblog on the matter.
- Old Monterey Foundation holds its second free lecture, by Kip Hudson and Mary Wright, on “Ninety years of key decisions to preserve Monterey’s history” 6-7:30pm Thursday, Aug. 24, in the Irvine Auditorium of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. 346-3030.
- The six films of the Studio Ghibli Fest brings to movie screens some of director Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved works for two-day engagements each month. This month it’s a fantastical, steampunk, Victorian-era Castle in the Sky, about a pair of teens using technology and magic to race pirates, spies and an army to find a floating island of great power. It plays in an English dubbed version 12:55pm Sunday (voiced by Anna Paquin, James Van Der Been, Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker, Mandy Patinkin and others), and English subtitled version 7pm Monday, Aug. 27 and 28, at Century Cinemas in Monterey. The film is preceded by Gkids Minifest, a bunch of short animated films. fathomevents.com.
- Arts Habitat convenes several local and successful photographers for one of their patented Arts in Progress discussions 6-8pm Tuesday, Aug. 29, at the Center for Photographic Art, this one titled “Surviving and thriving as a photographer.” Participants include Exposed gallery founder and director Rachael Short; photographer, author, painter and teacher Elizabeth Murray; digital artist and marketing consultant Jody Royee; and photographer and spiritual teacher William Giles. The moderator is CPA’s director, Brian Taylor. 624-6111.
- Up north, at the San Jose Museum of Art, artist Victor Cartagena has collaborated on an exhibition with the Salinas chapter of the United Farm Workers Foundation to tell the stories of workers who provide the labor for the region’s lucrative ag industry. In the museum’s so-called Beta Space installation, he’s created a kinetic, 80-foot-long mural that depicts bureaucratic failure, UFWF workers’ faces molded out of sugar, and humans with donkey heads that may remind you of Picasso’s “Guernica.” It shows through Sept. 4. sjmusart.org.
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