• The Henry Miller Library’s 11th Annual Big Sur International Short Film Festival has sold out its first date, Thursday, June 8, at their relocated spot in Carmel’sBarnyard. So they added another date: 7pm Friday, June 9. RSVP via Eventbrite.
  • Donald Trump yanked the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. Of course he did. Well here is more news about humankind’s predilection for self-destruction. The documentary 30 Seconds to Midnight reminds us that climate is not our only means of self-immolation. There is also war, genocide and nuclear catastrophe. There are a bunch of credentialed talking heads to make the case that humans be illin’, and examples like Three Mile Island and Fukushima as evidence that the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes get all jacked up. The filmmaker, Regis Tremblay, comes and talk after the screening, which is 7pm Friday, June 9, at Monterey Peace and Justice Center in Seaside. 372-5762, 899-7322.
  • MPC Art Gallery is showing Raven Flights and Lizard Tracks: The Arts of Nancy Raven, comprised of pinhole photography, drawings and folk art. The show opens 3-6pm Saturday, June 10, with live music and food. Just this past weekend there was a special treat there: a table stocked with African mbiras, rain sticks, gourd shekeres and more that could be played by visitors; the sound surrounds listeners. 646-3060.
  • The Carmel Foundation brings in Elizabeth Barratt of the Carmel Valley Historical Society to show pictures and tell stories and anecdotes from her book Images of America: Carmel Valley. The region has been home to many inhabitants, which the event’s press release describes with a puzzling incongruity: “For millennia, native tribes fished along the river, which was discovered in 1602.” If native American tribes fished the river for thousands of years, how can it be “discovered” only 415 years ago? 2:30-4pm Wednesday, June 14, at the Carmel Foundation’s Diment Hall. 620-8705. lbejarano@carmelfoundation.org.
  • Lou Adler, co-producer of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, is returning to help usher in the 50th anniversary of that seminal music and culture event. He’s speaking as a guest of the Monterey History and Art Association – along with Monterey Pop photographers Lisa Law, Tom O’Neal and Elaine Mayes, and SF Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin, moderated by music columnist Beth Peerless – at the Dali 17/Stanton Center Theater 6-9:30pm Wednesday, June 14. $20. 869-1664.
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