- The Friends of the Marina Library are throwing their Gigantic Annual Book Sale over the next four days, Sept. 15-18, to raise funds for the Marina Library’s materials, free concerts, playground upgrades, free movie nights and monthly block party play dates. It runs 10am-6pm Thursday and Friday, 1-6pm Saturday (this is a kid-friendly day with Hillary & Sam singing at 10am and pony rides 12-2pm), and 11am-3pm Sunday, when books are half priced. 277-8586.
- Nicole Ricci, a marine and fisheries expert – not to be confused with Nicole Richie, the fame and celebrity expert – gives a talk at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies 6-7:30pm Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the McGowan Building, presented by the Center for the Blue Economy. It’s called “My Fifteen Years in International Fisheries Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” 647-6615.
- For the International Day of Peace lecture, 1st Presbyterian Church of Monterey brings in Dr. David Tucker, senior fellow at the Ashbrook Center, associate director of master of arts in American history and government, and retired professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, to talk “Abraham Lincoln: Religion and American politics then and now,” 7pm Wednesday, Sept. 21. They suggest reading Lincoln’s second inaugural address in preparation. You might also want to check out the “Epic Rap Battles of History” featuring Abe Lincoln and Chuck Norris, to be extra prepared. 373-3031.
- Confluence 2016, taking place in Sacramento Sept. 26-27, is kind of like Comic-Con for California arts administrators, educators and leaders. Keynote speakers include James Mayer, president and CEO of California Forward; Nina Simon, executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History; and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, chief of program and pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. www.CaliforniansForTheArts.org.
- In more out of town arts news, if you hadn’t heard already, San Francisco’s newly rebuilt Museum of Modern Art opened in May.
- The Dance Center in Carmel has opened their 1,650-square-foot expansion, giving the dance training facility its fifth studio by which they teach 450 students the finer point of pointe technique and more.
- Watch out for next week’s issue of the Weekly, the Fall Arts Preview, a centerpiece for which is an arts and culture calendar that takes you all the way into mid-December.
Grant Sainsbury's solo exhibition at Winfield Gallery ends Sept. 25.
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