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The Palette
Bringing Arts and Culture to Life in Santa Monica
April 12, 2007
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If you’ve finished
your taxes and they’re making their pilgrimage to Fresno, you can reward
yourself with musical delights, poetic enchantments, visual treasures or
literary masterpieces this weekend. At
Highways, they’re
Singing the Body Electric while over at
the First Methodist Church, the
Verdi Chorus will
be singing
Tchaikovsky and
Puccini.
At Bergamot
Station artists are celebrating a woman’s right to vote and
at the Ruskin, writers,
directors and actors are whizzing on by at 78 rpm. Whatever award
you deserve (or want) for being a responsible, good citizen, it’s here for
you in Santa Monica!
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Poetry + Performance = Dynamite at Highways
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Word is
Bond
3rd
Annual Poetry and Performance Festival
8:30 pm
April 12 – 14
Special Late
Night Performance on Saturday at 10:30
Highways Performance Space and Gallery
@
the 18th Street Arts Center
1651 18th Street
310/315.1459
Accomplished writer/performers each with a unique style and distinctive
voice celebrate the spoken word at Highways this weekend. Make the scene
and see the electrifying work of poets, DJs, singers, musicians, artists,
dancers, and more! This project is supported by the
City of Santa Monica Community Arts Grant Program,
a project of the
Santa Monica Arts Commission.
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This Weekend at
Bergamot Station
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Gavin
Scott at the Schomburg Gallery
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Pillow Talk: 87 Artists Celebrating the Passage of The 19th Amendment 87
Years Ago, Giving Women The Right To Vote
Opening reception
Saturday, April 14, 4p – 6p
The Exhibition
Continues Through May 26, 2007
Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Wonder Cabinets
Gavin Scott
The Schomburg Gallery
Opening
reception Saturday, April 14 from 5 -7 PM
Schomburg Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Eighty-seven female artists (including local talents
Phyllis Green
and Jody Zellen)
commemorate 87th birthday of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right
to vote. My favorite moment of that particular movement occurs when
Mrs. Banks
leads
Mary Poppins,
Jane,
Michael,
Katie
Nana
and Mrs.
Brill
on an impromptu suffrage march through the house. I think that was the
beginnings of my life as an activist – I figured if
Mary
Poppins
marched for equal rights so would I! So get on over to
Bergamot
Saturday night and raise your umbrella high! You’ll also enjoy the new
exhibition at the
Schomburg
Gallery
along with all the other great art you’ll find at the complex.
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One Million Readers and Counting!
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The
Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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A
Million More: Celebrating Our Visitors
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, April
14
Santa Monica Main Library
601 Santa Monica Boulevard
Santa Monica loves books and we love our new
library. Folks line up in the morning before the doors open. There are
worlds to explore, things to learn and important facts to uncover. Three or
four people pass through the library doors every minute they are open.
They’re coming by the millions. Join the crowd on Saturday and enjoy taiko
drummers, live music, storytelling, crafts, and more! While you’re there,
pick up a resource guide to this year’s
Santa Monica Reads book,
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey
Niffenegger. You can sign up for book discussions and
special events held throughout Santa Monica from April 18 through May 19.
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Singing The Classics
– The Real Classics!
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Dean
Elzinga sings with the Verdi Chorus
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Annual
Spring Concert
The Verdi Chorus
Saturday, April
14 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 15
at 4:00 pm
First United
Methodist Church of Santa Monica
1008 Eleventh
Street
310/826.8309
Guest artists Shana Blake Hill, Soprano; Gabriel Reoyo-Pazos, Tenor; and
Dean Elzinga, Bass-Baritone, join the Chorus to perform operatic works from
Eugene Onegin
and Pique Dame
by Tchaikovsky,
La Wally
by Catalini,
and Tosca
by Puccini.
The performances will conclude with selections from the Broadway musical,
Kismet. Not Since
Ninevah have such melodious reverberations echoed through the
halls!
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The Fastest Theatre
in Town
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L.A.
Café Plays
7:30 & 9:00
Sunday, April 15
Ruskin Group Theatre
3000 Airport Drive
Santa Monica
Airport
310/ 397.3244
In the Ruskin Group Theatre’s popular L.A. Café Plays, five short plays will
go from conception to execution in just 10 1/2 hours. Due to popular
demand, the company now presents two performances of these invigorating yet
intimate productions.
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Here
at the Palette, we’re just a bit jealous of those folks over at
Santa Monica Library - we haven’t quite hit that Million Reader
Mark but we’re working on it! So, if you’ll forward this along to
every single person in your e-mail directory and tell them to sign up, who
knows? Maybe we’ll hit it sooner than we expect!
Happy Weekend-
The Palette
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