Blue Seven Gallery presents Robert McGinley's Topography, Light and Magic, benefitting Santa Monica Bay Keepers & Heal the Bay

Four New Plays in Two New Weeks

Cine Varda

Shocked, I Tell You, Absolutely Shocked!

The Rockets Red Glare

See Art - Teach Kids to Surf!

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Breakfast with my Mother
Mami Mami Quien Soy?
June 26-28, 2009
Friday & Saturday at 8:30pm, Sunday at 2pm

Carrie's Web
Healing Mars
July 3-5, 2009
Friday at 8:30pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7pm
TeAda Productions
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
(no show July 4th)

Breakfast With My Mother
A play about three generations of Chicana women and the role reversal of their lives as dementia enters the isolated world of retirement, gardens, and Spanish-language television.

Mami, Mami, Quien Soy?
While facing a mother's dementia, a mother/daughter relationship goes from adversary to love. Through the power of forgiveness, a woman finds herself the keeper of her mother's stories. Veteran solo performer Raquel Salinas crafts a magnificent multi-character tale of care-giving, the process of letting go what was, and embracing what is.

Carrie's Web
A young South Asian woman struggles to untangle herself from cultural and familial webs. She looks for empowerment to stop cycle of violence only to find help from an extremely unlikely source. Can facing her deepest fears change her future? A fantastical tale is woven with contemporary Indian dance, theater and a high-heel-wearing spider. Come join the healing through laughter, tears and hope.

Healing Mars
Healing Mars delves into the world of going against Doctor's orders. Taking a holistic approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis, Marcella Pabros-Clark challenges the monsters of prescription drugs and health insurance. Creating theatrical dance through multimedia, she reclaims her body, mind, and soul.

This production is sponsored by a grant from the Santa Monica Arts Commission.

Purchase Tickets Online
Free garage parking located at 808 Wilshire Blvd, entrance on Lincoln Blvd approx. 200 feet south of Wilshire. Garage is in the same building as the AT&T Store. Tell the parking attendant you are going to the Miles Playhouse

In Person Tribute to
Director Agnes Varda
Aero Theatre
Various Times Check Schedule
June 24 - July 1

The woman credited with launching the French New Wave Cinema is coming to town! Agnes Varda will appear in person for a sneak preview of her latest film, the autobiographical The Beaches Of Agnes as well as a mini-retrospective featuring highlights of her 55 year career as a filmmaker. Los Angeles artists Fallen Fruit will join Agnes for a double feature of her Gleaners films, documentaries about persons who collect and utilize cast off food items. Her film on the life of her husband, filmmaker Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg) Jacquot de Nantes and films made during her LA years in the free-spirited 1960s -- Lions Love (And Lies) featuring Andy Warhol's Viva and the writers of Hair, and Mur Murs (A look at Los Angeles Murals) -- among others, will be shown.

Michelle Shocked
McCabe's
8:00 pm
Friday

"I'm the most sophisticated hillbilly you'll ever meet." Is that a great line or what? I think this woman and I would get along just great. ‘Cause if you knew me and didn't know her, then we'd probably say that I'm the most sophisticated hillbilly you ever met. But that's neither here nor there, Michelle's been shocking people since 1984 when she got her name (along with an arrest for civil disobedience) at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. She's recorded so many albums and is just so very talented and we are so lucky to have McCabe's where people like Michelle perform right here in Santa Monica.

There's limited seating for this concert so buy your tickets online here as soon as you can dig out your credit card.

Celebrate America
Corsair Field
Santa Monica College
Saturday
6:30 pm
Fireworks at Dusk

Santa Monica's one and only 4th of July Fireworks Celebration takes place on Saturday night at SMC. The festivities kick off at 6:30 with musical entertainment the beautiful new Quad. From there you can wander on over to Corsair Field to hear the Derek Bordeaux Group'srhythm and blues sounds while you're waiting to light up the sky. By the way, you're welcome to bring your own picnic dinners or buy some of the great food available from the vendors on site, but you can't eat on the field this year since they just bought a new synthetic playing surface and unfortunately catsup, mustard and diet sodas are just not good for it. I know YOU would never spill, but it's all those other people we have to look out for.

This event is sponsored by the City of Santa Monica and the SMC Associated Students.
For additional information, call (310) 434-3001.

Beach20-09
Warren Long
Hamilton Galleries
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday

Hamilton Galleries presents an exhibition of new paintings by Southern Californian artist Warren Long. The opening on Friday is their 4th annual benefit for the Rob LeMond Hamilton Galleries Swim Scholarship which provides swim lessons and surf camp to local kids. The gallery works with the Santa Monica Police Activities League to select the children. As a part of the program, the police actually drive them to and from the surf camp in Malibu. How's that for cool - a police escort to day camp!

For more information contact Leigh Hamilton at 310.451.9983 or via e-mail.

Benefit Sale
The Clayhouse Studio
9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Saturday

For 38 years the Clayhouse Studio has been providing artists with a place to create, learn and grow. But we all know that rents are rising, incomes are lowering, and everyone needs a little help now and then. So, they're having a benefit sale - but you can get the real benefit when you pick up some of the fabulous pottery from local artists and some collectible pieces from generous donors including: Otto Heino, Patrick Crabb, Sierra Pecheur and Lana Wilson who created the work on the right. So stop by on Saturday, pick up a few presents for yourself or hold onto them until the holidays and make some lucky soul very happy.