- London-based artist and designer Roberta Graham is finishing up her 11-week residency at Henry Miller Library with a one-night “experiential art installation” about permanence and impermanence in Big Sur. It’s 7:30-9:30pm on Friday. Pink Champagne will be served; whatever else you can “experience” you’ll have to find out for yourself. 667-2574.
- Salinas’ Steinbeck Center is one of 77 nationwide organizations to nab an NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Big Read grant, $14,000 to promote the book Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories. Activities, with local arts partners, are coming this September. www.Steinbeck.org.
- And a big shout-out to Central Coast Writers for keeping the short story format alive locally, particularly among young people possibly more inclined to post a Vine or Snapchat. They’ve awarded the $500 grand prize for their Monterey County high schools short story contest to Victoria Mazariegos, a senior at Millennium Charter High School, for her story “The Boy Who Found His Ears.” Read that and other winning stories at www.CentralCoastWriters.org.
- Crews are working to get ARIEL Theatrical, which suffered ancillary damage from the Dick Bruhn fire next door, up and running and they promise doors will re-open soon. Stay tuned. 775-0976.
- Jeff Clark of the Monterey County Film Commission presented up-and-coming filmmakers Brianna Beavers and Rose Mercurio with MCFC Film Student Scholarships worth $1,500 apiece. Congrats.
- Monterey Jazz Festival tickets went on sale a couple weeks ago. Here are some reasons why you might care: Quincy Jones, Wayne Shorter Quartet, Branford Marsalis Quartet with Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter (who keeps popping up on my YouTube “Up Next” feed), Joshua Redman and The Bad Plus, Kamasi Washington (who put out an epic 3-CD release called… The Epic), Maceo Parker… www.MontereyJazzFestival.org.
- There’s a film coming by way of Santa Cruzian Andrew Dillon that threw a wide casting net at Kaiser Permanente Arena. It’s called Hope Dances, about an 11-year-old girl who has to make big decisions about her future between the opposing forces of her parents. You might want to watch for it in the coming months. There’s nothing quite like watching a movie in which you recognize locales and people. It bends reality back in on itself. www.HopeDances.com.
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun, a "Zapotec folktale adapted for theatre to the Pinnacles region," is performed free 7pm Thursday at Frank Ledesma Elementary School in Soledad.
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