- The Arts Council for Monterey County is convening their 4th Annual Arts Education Summit, “Arts Healing: Model Programs and Practices,” 8:30am-1:30pm Saturday, April 28, at the Boys & Girls Club in Seaside. Good ideas should come out of it. $40. 622-9060.
- Moss Landing Marine Labs is a research consortium of the California State University system. But one weekend a year it opens to the public and becomes like a family-friendly museum, a curiosity cabinet, all free and loaded with arts and crafts, food and drinks, puppets and live creatures, faculty and students, lectures and raffles. That weekend is April 28-29, 9am-5pm. 771-4400, openhouse.mlml.calstate.edu.
- This week’s paper you have in your hands is the annual Home & Garden issue. But you don’t even need that excuse to check out the Cannery Row Antique Mall’s Home & Garden Show 2018 11am-4pm Saturday, April 28. It’s a trip back in time so immersive you might come out marveling at the new-fangled, metallic, horse-less buggies whizzing by. 655-0264.
- In movie musical The Wiz, Michael Jackson as a loose-limbed Scarecrow, fluidly dancing withDiana Ross as Dorothy along a yellow brick road toward a New York skyline and singing, “Come on and ease on down, ease on down the road!” is one of the jubilant moments of 1970s entertainment. A team of performers is doing highlights from that gem 6pm Saturday and 3pm Sunday, April 28-29, at CSUMB’s World Theater under the aegis of the Music and Performing Arts Department. Free. 582-3009.
- The Veterans Resource Center of Monterey County Free Libraries are hosting a veterans poetry contest open to all, but especially veterans and military family members. They’re looking for voices to elaborate on military service, life, values and stories. Poems must be original and in English or Spanish. Entry forms are at all MCFL branches and poems can be turned in there until April 30. Carry on. 385-3677, emcfl.org.
- There is so much literary activity occurring now that the story (left) was not able to contain it all, including a number of recent book releases. Todd Cook, a trained history buff, modeled his two-volume historic novel Nueva California (floricantopress.com) on James Michener’s Hawaii; U.S. soldier and missile defense expert Ed Mitchell has a missile warfare novel titled Gold Fire(booksbyedmitchell.com); and former Army intelligence officer Howell Hurst’s memoir, I Can’t Hear the Drums Anymore, spans 49 years (howellhurst.com).
The free Spring Celebration on the Lawn features textile artist Marilet Pretorius and Big Sur band Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us at Tancredi & Morgen (7174 Carmel Valley Road) 2-5pm Saturday, April 28. tancrediandmorgen.com/events.
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