- The first Friday of June is Oldtown Salinas’ First Friday Art Walk, 5-8pm, and there’s always new stuff to check out: a special dinner at the Steinbeck House (RSVP). The return of the National Steinbeck Center to the Walk. A new art venue in Kirk Kennedy Gallery and a new live music venue in Giorgio’s Patio-201 Main. Fresh and soulful singer-songwriter Rachael Lewtschuk at Bliss Boutique. And an intriguing venue called The Bowl Gallery, hosting musician Ariel Molina. 594-1799, www.1stFriday.org.
- You can always count on the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History to bust out some cool, science-y exhibits and activities that grow our understanding of this part of our planet. This time they’re hosting a coastal Bioblitz following a LiMPETS intertidal monitoring event at Soquel Point 5:30am-noon Sunday, using the app iNaturalist to catalog and identify organisms. I’m sure some of the accompanying naturalists will be glad to explain what that is. There will be coffee and donuts and… wait… this starts at 5:30 in the morning? Does science have no sense of decency? 648-5716, www.pgmuseum.org.
- Local playwright and actor (and founder of the now-defunct No Shame Theatre experiment at Hartnell College) David Norum won Paper Wing Theatre’s 2015 Summer Play Reading Series. That earned him a production of his play, Mozambique, about a veteran deputy sheriff in a small town whose life gets rocked. It runs 8pm Friday and Saturday, June 3-25 ($18-$20). The details should bring this story to life; Norum is a retired Monterey County sheriff’s seargant. 905-5684, www.paperwing.com.
- Warren Chang has just been accepted into the Carmel Art Association, and invites you to celebrate the occasion by coming to the opening reception 5-7pm Saturday of the New Members Show. If you’re like me, you’re thinking, I thought Warren was already a member. 624-6176, www.carmelart.org.
- In the artist statement for The Median Sea – meticulous paintings of calm local ocean waters standing in for loftier ideas – painter David Ligare refers us to Homer,Nietzsche and Robinson Jeffers. A conversation with him or about his work can reap much substance. It can happen, at the artist reception 3-6pm Sunday at Winfield Gallery. 624-3369, www.winfieldgallery.com.
- The Moss Landing Arts and Crafts Sale, slated for the Saturday after Thanksgiving, is looking for artists to participate. Step forth before Aug. 1 if you’d like to throw down with them. 818-6885.
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