- The Friends of the Monterey Public Library and the Monterey Public Library Endowment Committee present author John A. Greenwald to talk about his book Wild Bird: The True Jazz Tale of Ruth Wightman Morris. The book was inspired by letters found in the walls of La Mirada that revealed the end of an affair between Morris, a woman who flew planes, raced cars and worked in Hollywood, and British author Alec Waugh (Evelyn’s brother), who led a daring life himself. A reception starts off at 4pm Thursday, March 9, at Wave Street Studios ($25, mplfriends.com).
- A couple of colleagues recently batted around the news that a college student was writing a memoir. One argued that she would like to read such an attempt; the other that “memoir” suggests a longer lifetime. Well there would be no argument that Len Perry has earned the right to look back on his life in theater, in Hollywood, in love and in aging. He’s penned a benefit play, The Mirror Left Behind: A Play for the Ages, as a fundraiser for and at the Carl Cherry Center, and it runs 7:30pm Friday and Saturday, March 10-11. He is an evocative storyteller. 277-7072.
- There are times when a piece of writing is grammatically correct but enigmatic enough to foil understanding. Like this: “The CSUMB Sustainability Office will welcome staff from the International Living Futures Institute to introduce attendees to the Living Community Challenge – an ultimate, end-game, deeply sustainable framework for remaking the built environment.” Whatever exactly this is, it happens 5-6:30pm Wednesday, March 15, at the Alumni & Visitors Center at CSUMB, Marina. 482-3000 x5508, lraak@csumb.edu.
- Paper Wing Theatre is accepting submissions of new, unpublished, original full-length plays for their 4th Annual Summer Play Reading Festival this June. A winning play may be picked up and produced by Paper Wing in its regular season. Submissions are due by April 2; see guidelines at paperwing.com.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unleashed more than 375,000 public domain works in their collection under Creative Commons Zero. That means you can, according to them, “use, share, and remix – without restriction.” They’re calling it Open Access and it’s part of their effort – along with coming partnerships with Creative Commons, Wikimedia, Artstor, the Digital Public Library of America and Pinterest – to make these images easily searchable, sortable, filterable and usable. See metmuseum.org/openaccess
Multimedia artist and sculptor Bryan Gage (holding mascot Pooja) is one of the artists occupying the new ArtWorks @Pacific Grove space at the American Tin Cannery, opening 5:30-7:30pm this Friday.
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