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The Palette
Exploring Creative Santa Monica
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June 4, 2009 |
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Did everyone go outside yesterday and give a great big
welcome to this year's June Gloom? I sure have missed
it, how about you? You have to admit though, the only
gloom to be found around here
is meteorological.
Judging from the happy faces I see as I
limp along our streets and boulevards - the Palette is
currently suffering from a broken ankle - I'd say we're
a pretty happy lot. And to keep you smiling all weekend
long, I bring you a brilliantly fun array of bright and
shiny treats! So, read 'em and grin!
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Doni Silver Simons' work is currently on view at
the Sherry Frumkin Gallery at Santa Monica
Airport. |
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Four
Original New Works! |
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4X4
Four Latina/o Solo Performers
Highways Performance Space
Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Adelina Anthony, Reina
Alejandra Prado, Yosimar Reyes,
and R. Ernie Silva will
definitely knock the gloom out of the weekend.
This group of 4 of the most exciting and
promising talents in Southern California will
present 4 new works, commissioned by
Highways with the support of a
Santa Monica Arts Commission
Latino Community Access and Participation
Grant, that will make you forget
any bad weather you have ever experienced!
Silva shares his adventures as
a street kid on the road and Prado
teaches us how she escaped the trappings of the
1950's ideals of femininity. Anthony
will assume the persona of one of the many LGBTQ
characters of her current work in progress,
Jotalogues, while
Reyes presents work from his new poetry
collection, For Colored Boys Who Speak
Softly.
Call 310/315.1459 or buy your tickets
online.
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Free Family
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Put On A Happy Face!
SMMoA
Saturday from 1:00 -4:00 pm
If you've seen the magnificent virtually
life-size portraits on display in the current
exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks:
Birth of the Cool: Paintings 1964-2007,
you'll really enjoy the opportunity to create
your own self-portrait at this free workshop.
You and the whole family can fashion an image of
yourself - from head to toe - using collage,
assemblage, drawing, and watercolor on extra
large sheets of paper and cardboard. This
workshop is recommended for ages 6-adult. So,
fight the gloom with your own sunshiney faces
this weekend at SMMoA!
Click here to make a reservation online.
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Now
Playing at the Miles Playhouse |
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Neverwonderland
Boom Kat Dance Company
Miles Playhouse
Thursdays
- Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm
Through June 14
Boom Kat Dance Company is still
up and running at Miles this weekend with their
fused and reconfigured dance version of two of
the most stalwart children's tales: J.M.
Barrie's Peter Pan
and Lewis Carroll's
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.
In this marvelously creative production, Peter
and Alice search together for a place both real
and imagined. Never Never Land
and Wonderland have
merged and who can even consider
the thought of cloudy days in such a place? This
company simply sizzles and I wouldn't miss their
performance for anything!
Check out the
Boom Kat video
and then
buy your tickets online!
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Art for a
Good Cause |
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Art for CLARE
1:00 - 4:00
Sunday
The good folks at the CLARE Foundation are
holding their annual Art for CLARE
fundraiser this weekend with a silent art
auction and a group art sale along with some
truly scrumptious food from local restaurant.
And for the lowly price of only $25 you can help
make sure that the sun will shine for a whole
lot of folks who could really use a nice day!
Ed Ruscha, Kim Abeles,
Mark Steven Greenfield and
Suzan Woodruff are just a few of the
many prestigious artists who have donated their
work to raise money to help this agency provide
treatment and recovery services for people
suffering from alcohol and drug addiction.
Check out some of the art that will be available
here and then buy your tickets
here.
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Love Is In
The Air |
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SMC Theatre student Joran Segal performs
I'm Not That Smart from the
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee's. Photo by Fabian Lewkowicz.
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How We Got Where We
Are
A Musical Revue
Santa Monica College Musical Theatre Workshop
Santa Monica College Main Stage
8:00 pm Friday and Saturday
2:00 pm Sunday
Love songs are a mainstay of Broadway musicals,
giving the talented students in SMC's
Musical Theatre Workshop a wealth of
material for this delightful revue. The songs
encompass a wide range of musicals in every
style and from every important theatrical
composer. Tied together with the theme of love
in all its many forms, this night of songs will
definitely defeat the gloom and, if you're
really lucky, maybe you'll find yourself
hopelessly lost in love by evening's end!
Call 310/434.4319 for tickets or visit the
college's
online ticket office.
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So maybe we're stuck with a bit of
grey in the sky, but that certainly doesn't mean we have
to deal with grey in our lives, right? Let's send those
gloomy mornings back where they came from and let the
arts bring us blue skies and nothing but blue skies will
we see!
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