| The Palette | |
| Bringing Arts and Culture to Life in Santa Monica |
July 12, 2007 |
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This week, without ever leaving our city borders, you can make trips to Jolly Olde England, debonaire Paris, fair Verona, the depths of an Argentine jail, the beaches of San Juan and back again to wind up in our own newly landscaped back yard! All without having to wait a single day for your passport! So, pick up your tickets, climb aboard the Santa Monica Cultural Express and let's get going!
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| Twilight Dance Series | ||
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Plena Libre The Spam Allstars 7:30 pm Tonight! Santa Monica Pier
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Direct from San Juan, Puerto Rico, three-time Grammy nominated Plena Libre is a 13-member orchestra founded by Gary Nuñez in 1994. The mission with Plena Libre was to reinvent and update a musical genre relegated to performances at holidays and folk revivals and turning it into a living and breathing, popular, evolving form. DJ Le Spam & the Spam Allstars bring the sounds of Brazilian, Haitian, African and Cuban instrumentation and culture together into an incredible mélange of grooves. |
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| The Bard in Santa Monica | ||
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Shakespeare Santa Monica 2007 July 13 - 29 Miles Playhouse Christine Emerson Reed Park 1130 Lincoln Boulevard 310-270-3454 Shakespeare Santa Monica launches its Annual Summer Shakespeare Season this weekend at the Miles Playhouse. This is not your father's Shakespeare. It's visceral, high-octane, stripped down to the bare essentials, leave you panting in the aisles, knock your socks off Shakespeare by the sea. The season opens with Richard III and an all-female version of The Taming of the Shrew with Twelfth Night playing on the tennis courts later this month. Check their website for times and dates - www.ShakespeareSantaMonica.com |
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| Artist Studio Open House, Gallery Openings and More! | ||
ArtNight at 18th Street 6:00 - 8:30 pm Saturday, July 14 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street 310-453-3711 18th Street hosts their quarterly open house extravaganza with opening receptions, open studios with local and international artists, and a free performance by nationally-acclaimed dance and music artists Oguri and Adam Rudolph! Oguri is one of Japan's leading butoh artists, performing all over the globe, while composer and percussionist Adam Rudolf's innovative performances have delighted audiences for over thirty years. The Center opens two new visual art exhibitions, Nature (Interrupted) dealing with Man's manipulation of Nature including works by Maura Bendett, Jeff Cain, Orlan, and Lothar Schmitz and Republic of China, without People!, a painting installation by Taiwanese Artist, Ming Hsu. ArtNight is funded in part by a grant from the City of Santa Monica's CO-ARTS grant program. |
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| Caught In The Web | ||
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Kiss Of The Spider Woman Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm Sundays at 2:00 pm July 13 – 22 Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Boulevard 310/434.3000 This darkly delicious Kander and Ebb musical is based on Manuel Puig’s tale of the window dresser and the revolutionary. With a book by Terrence McNally, the play details a harrowing tale that juxtaposes the all-but-unbearable reality of life in an Argentine prison with a dazzling, sensual fantasy world of Latin cinema. |
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| A New Park | ||
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| Vive La France! | ||
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Bastille Day LA Festival |
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| If you dream of suave Parisian chevaliers in black berets with stinky Gauloise and bottles of scrumptious red wine, then head on over to Bergamot Station on Sunday afternoon for the best in French gastronomic delicacies, spectacular live entertainment and tons of fun a la francaise! There will be a Parisian waiter’s race, sidewalk cafes, French Market vendors, and French Diva Jeanne Mas singing hits from her new album, The Missing Flowers. The festivities all take place under the auspices of the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles and are co-hosted by Consul General Philippe Larrieu so you know it’s the real deal! | ||
| Happy Weekend Everyone! | ||
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