- Sol Treasures in King City is throwing down a Live Art Jam 5-9pm Saturday, Aug. 27, at The Orradre at the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds in King City. This year, painter Amanda Burkman is going to be painting live, fine food and wine will be served, someone will fire up some musical entertainment, you will be able to make art, and silent and live auction items will be up for sale. All this for just $65. 386-9809, www.soltreasures.com.
- In a spontaneous gesture of support, Carmel Bay Company is donating 100 percent of sales this weekend to benefit fire loss experienced by Big Sur artistMelissa Lofton, funding the rebuilding of her home and art studio on Green Ridge. 238-8243.
- Celebrate Jewish culture and nosh at the 29th Annual Jewish Food Festival 10:30am-4pm Sunday, Aug. 28, at Congregation Beth Israel in Carmel. Feast on matzo ball soup, chopped chicken liver, corned beef, blintzes, kugel, latkes, dessert and more. What more, you ask? Folk singers, storytelling, a wedding, crafts and collectibles. Park and ride at Carmel Middle School, admission and parking are free, so come on down already, you’ll like it, don’t be such a kvetch. 624-2015, www.CarmelBethIsrael.org.
- The Monterey County Fair starts up Wednesday, Aug. 31. Oh boy.
- Pacific Repertory Theatre hosts a cabaret 7:30pm Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Golden Bough Playhouse to raise money for the Community Foundation for Monterey County’s Soberanes Fire Fund. $20/general admission; $10/students, seniors, military. 622-0100, www.PacRep.org.
- The Greenfield Cultural Arts Center is launching their first annual Dia de Los Muertos exhibition in October by extending a call for artists to create “traditional, contemporary, experimental and personal” altars (not necessarily all in the same altar). Submit proposals by 5pm Thursday, Sept. 1. www.GreenfieldArtsCenter.org.
- The Monterey Museum of Art-Pacific invites you to the announcement 5-7pm Monday, Aug. 29, of the winner of the Weston Collective’s People’s Pic Contest scholarship photo show. www.MontereyArt.org.
- My wife and I have been watching the sitcom The Office. It’s a brilliant, hilarious, upbeat and emotional show. And the final message – appropriately delivered byPam, who is, among other things, an artist – is so profoundly simple it likely goes underappreciated: “There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things.”
Big Sur artist Melissa Lofton's oil paintings are at Carmel Bay Company, with all sales this weekend going to the rebuilding of her Green Ridge home.
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