- Kids who attended the July 22 family concert at the Carmel Bach Festival would not tell you classical music is a boring affair. Not when you’ve got festival conductor Paul Goodwin letting his goofy flag fly as the main character of musical storybook The Epic Adventures of Leonard and Rasmus. Not when physicist and astronaut James Newman makes a cameo. And not when a chorus of kids from YOSAL sing “Ode to Pluto (You’ll Always Be a Planet to Me).” The festival ends July 29 with the Best of the Fest concert. Bachfestival.org.
- Last Saturday, at Move Studios in Monterey, performers and artists showed what they can do. In three studios, an array of 20 featured dancers and choreographers did hip-hop to interpretive dance, The Jinxes (Deanna Ross and the Weekly’s own Kevin Smith) sang sweet songs in harmony, Garland Thompson and Kimberly Gunn teamed up on a spoken word jam, Enid Baxter Ryce (my wife) talked about art across multiple mediums, and the Big Sur Women of the Arts showed paintings. The atmosphere was rollicking and supportive. Providing the beat to lots of the musical action, as well as organizing the whole thing, was Jayson Fann, artist in residence at Move. MoveStudios.com.
- A few weeks back we profiled the Monterey Museum of Art’s new executive director, Stuart Chase. Now you can too, at a meet-and-greet 4:30-6:30pm Tuesday, Aug. 1, at the Pacific Street location. RSVP to 747-7455.
- Osio Theater is screening documentaries and inviting community groups and filmmakers to come in and talk about them. It begins Aug. 2 with Tomorrow, a French film that flips the doom and gloom of climate change, oil depletion and population growth by showing people making positive changes – kind of like if Amelie were doing An Inconvenient Truth. Next is Obit, playing Aug. 9. It’s a highly lauded doc about the New York Times’ cadre of obituary writers, who get a chance to bring the dead back to life. After that comes All the Rage (8-16), Jeremiah Tower (8-23), In Pursuit of Silence (8-30), and Score (9-6). All films play at 7pm. 901-3119, osiotheater.com.
- Gallerist and local art historian Steve Hauk has a new book titled Steinbeck: The Untold Stories, illustrated by C. Kline. A blurb from Bill Steigerwald (Dogging Steinbeck): “Hauk sharpens his stories with details of time and place like a good journalist, adds crisp dialogue like a playwright – which he is – and creates 16 fictional scenes from Steinbeck’s life that read like they could be the real thing.” SteinbeckNow published it.
Persay Bryant, sporting a most impressive mustache, performs poetry backed by musicians at Jayson Fann's artist jam at Move Studio last Saturday.
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