(photo above) 10:30am on Sunday, the Carmel Sambosa Buddhist Center & Temple performs an Eye Opening Ceremony to welcome back one of its long-lost spiritual statues.
• Ashley Denning is the owner and self-described hair artist at Salon Eight Seven on Orange Street in Sand City, and she invites you 2pm this Saturday to her shop’s one-year anniversary party (in conjunction with neighboring tattoo shop Earthbound Tattoo Studio’s grand re-opening). No matter your predilection for changing up your hair or your body art, it sounds pretty live. Performers include hula dancers, local Hawaiian band Ho’Omana, local Islander band One A Chord, Keno, DJ Neato, DJ Khosmo. There will be food and Keoki’s Hawaiian BBQ is doing shaved ice and Uce Juice. 408-966-3616.
• Last year, published poet, English professor and author Rob Carney won the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, and so he reads his own work at Tor House 7pm this Saturday. I like the titles of poetry magazines and publications – they’re sometimes mysteriously oblique. For instance, Carney’s been published in Cave Wall, Mid-American Review, Redactions and Sugar House Review. 624-5725.
• The Carmel Sambosa, a Korean Buddhist Temple not that deep into Carmel Valley, holds an Eye Opening Celebration 10:30am Sunday. That’s when they will return a long-lost Buddha statue to the altar in a ceremony that involves Buddhist monks and traditional dancers all the way from Korea. It’s at 28110 Robinson Canyon Road. See their Facebook page (yes, Buddhist temples can have Facebook) for more.
• The Western Stage’s SpringFest 2015 summons forth special daytime performances of Luna, a play by Ramon Esquivel about Soledad, the daughter of migrant farmworkers, who dreams of becoming an astronaut. It’s for teachers and students, so if you are either, contact rsanchez@hartnell.edu for more.
• In case that story on the top left gives you the impression that the Monterey Museum of Art isn’t trafficking in serious mid-career and established artists anymore, a panel consisting of Executive Director Charlotte Eyerman, gallerists Terry Trotter and Gail Enns, and art professor Johanna Poethig are jurying a two day auction in June of work by Lucas Blok, David Ligare, Pam Carroll, Jeanne D’Orge, H. David Wagner, Minor White and more.