- The Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival returns to Monterey County with a bumper crop of new films that feed the consciousness. At 8pm on Thursday, April 20, they show the 2007 documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song at CSU Monterey Bay’s Tanimura & Antle Library, building 508, room 1188. On Monday, April 24, starting at 6pm, a triumvirate of short films at ArtWorks Studio in the American Tin Cannery, including Freedom Sleepers, about the counter-resistance to the anti-sleeping law in Santa Cruz; Out of Sight, Out of Mind, in which more than 100 people in California were interviewed about homelessness; and Holding Out, about the collision of tech money and San Francisco’s beleaguered tenants (the filmmakers are coming to speak on it). 6pm Wednesday, April 26, Maya Cinemas hosts In Dubious Battle, an adaptation of Steinbeck’s Depression-era story about organizing fruit pickers. The Reel Work series continues the following Thursday, April 27. Go to reelwork.org for more.
- Earth. I think you’ll agree it’s a pretty important place. So even though Saturday, April 22, is officially designated Earth Day, every day should be Earth Day. That said, you can celebrate this week by taking in a panel of local scientists who talk about climate change to foster informed decisions about how to live in harmony with the natural world – which, all of a sudden, is a novel and refreshing idea. It happens 10am-12:40pm Saturday, April 22, at Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ Irvine Auditorium. Afterward, why not join the March for Science, starting at Colton Hall at 1pm and ending on Window on the Bay with speeches and protest signs. jcondon@igc.org.
- The Monterey Peace and Justice Center is showing Circle of Poison, a documentary about how pesticides banned in the U.S. are exported to other countries. It’s paired with a discussion by Lucia Calderon, lead organizer of the Central Coast’s Safe Ag Safe Schools (SASS), and retired public health nurse Carole Erickson. It’s at 7pm Tuesday, April 25. 372-5762.
- The Friends of Homeless Women are meeting 10-11:30am Wednesday, April 26, at St. Mary’s Church in Pacific Grove to talk about the Monterey Museum of Art-Pacific photography exhibit What We See, photos taken by homeless women throughout their days and travels. It’s a window into a world most people do not know, so this program is designed to deepen appreciation of women without shelter (of which there are more than 500 on the Monterey Peninsula). The curators and photographers will be there.
A movie still from the film Slavery at Sea, playing at the week-long Reel Work May Day Labor Day Film Festival 12pm Thursday, April 27, at CSUMB Gambord BIT Building #506, Room 111.
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