Writing is one of the most abstract art forms, but we all know the code.

• The Carl Cherry Center is accepting proposals ($30 per 5 art pieces) for a juried, site-specific installation called Elements. They define site-specific art as “an artist’s involvement in an explicit locale, creating artwork that explores a relationship to that environment and transforms the viewer’s conception or perception of the location. The term also applies to environmental installations of sculpture created specifically for a particular gallery or space.” Got it? Get a prospectus by calling 624-7491.

• Tim Youd is a performance artist in the midst of his 100 Novels project. He types the entirety of classic works of literature on the same kind of typewriter that their authors used to write the works in a location that has some relationship to the novel. Oh, and he types the whole thing on two pages, character on top of character, word on top of word, until it all becomes an obscure, inky work of art. He’s doing this June 22-30 at the Steinbeck Center with Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley. Why does he do this? For how long? And where else? Check out the Weekly’s Arts & Culture blog for answers to those very apt questions. 372-5477 x101.

• What kind of books will you find at the first annual Cannery Row Antique Mall Book Sale? Go to the Weekly’s Arts & Culture blog for a preview. Then hurry on to the book sale because it’s only this Thursday and Friday. 655-0264.

• Author Gary Koeppel signs his historical pictorial book The Legend of Quail Lodge, which should appeal to golfers and hoteliers, at Pilgrim’s Way Books in Carmel 1-3pm Saturday. 624-4955.

• Jerry Cimino came and laid it down on the Beat Generation tip at Henry Miller Memorial Library and it was the most, daddio! Ah, that probably isn’t how the Beats talked. But if you were there and liked what you heard, or if you missed it and are throwing your bongos across the room, just head to San Francisco’s Beat Conferencethis Friday-Sunday at Fort Mason Center. www.BeatShindig.com.

• Speaking of which, Jerry came down under the patronage of the Henry Miller’s Under the Persimmon Tree lecture series. The third visitor to the deck will be Betsy Stroman, who comes July 5 to talk “The Art and Life of Jean Varda.”

• The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History has practically reinvented itself. It’s got a new website, bigger and broader exhibits, a new author series, endowment money, a new-ish executive director. Don’t overlook this institution. It is fully on the move. www.pgmuseum.org.