Lifelong Learning

Santa Monica, a Lifelong Learning Community


AUGUST 2010

Saturday, August 7, 3pm
SOS Movies to the Rescue! The Princess and the Frog
Santa Monica High School, Barnum Hall
601 Pico Boulevard
Suggested donation: $5 per person

The SAMOHI Associated Student Body is doing their part to help the schools by hosting "Save Our Schools! Movies to the Rescue!" Movie screenings will take place until August 13.
Sunday, August 8, 2pm
SOS Benefit Advanced Screening "Nanny McPhee Returns"

Aero Theater
1328 Montana Avenue
Adults $20, Children $10

Have fun, support our schools and qualify to win a Flip Ultra HD Camera!
Bring the whole family to the SOS special preview screening of "Nanny McPhee Returns." Save Our Schools is hosting this special screening of the new movie "Nanny McPhee Returns" starring Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Tickets are on sale through the Santa Monica Malibu Education Foundation website at www.smmef.org.
Sunday, August 8, 5-7pm
Jazz on the Lawn
City Hall

1855 Main Street
Free

Bring a picnic, blanket and beach chair, and enjoy the Cuban and African rhythms of Bobby Matos and his Afro-Latin Ensemble. Get up and move to the music then cool off with a self-serve frozen dessert from The Big Swirl truck. Concerts are from 5-7pm. Parking is free after 4pm at the Civic Auditorium. For more information visit www.smgov.net/arts or call 310-458-8350
Monday, August 9, 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Fulfillment Workshop: 4 sessions

Speaker: Carla Robinson, Ph D.
Santa Monica YMCA, DeWind Room
1332 6th Street
FREE
Looking At Possibilities, Looking At Strategies, Making Choices, and Fulfilling your Dreams. This group will meet every Monday for four (4) consecutive weeks, beginning August 9.

For more information contact Lidia Magarian, Senior Physical Director at the YMCA (310) 393-2721ext. 129 or email lidiam@ymcasm.org. Free underground parking is available. Picture ID is required.
Tuesday, August 10 and 17, 12:00noon – 1:00pm
End of Life Educational Series

Presenters: Ellen Blakley RN, MSN and Noerena Abookire, Ph.D.
Santa Monica YMCA, DeWind Room
1332 6th Street
FREE

A healthy way to educate yourself about Life (and Death)… it’s mostly about Living. Presented by Hospice Partners of Southern California. Two sessions.

For more information contact Lidia Magarian, Senior Physical Director at the YMCA (310) 393-2721ext. 129 or email lidiam@ymcasm.org. Free underground parking is available. Picture ID is required.
Wednesday, August 11, 12:15 – 1:15pm
Ease Your Fear or Anxiety-Body and Mind Relaxation

Speaker: Nicholas D. Pollak, ChT, Clinical Hypnotherapist
Santa Monica YMCA, DeWind Room
1332 6th Street
FREE

Get some help with Chronic Pain Relief , Improved Memory Retention,
Attain Personal Goals, Improve Your Relationships, Improve Sales, Improve sports performance, Weight Loss, Smoking Cessation, you name it!

For more information contact Lidia Magarian, Senior Physical Director at the YMCA (310) 393-2721ext. 129 or email lidiam@ymcasm.org. Free underground parking is available. Picture ID is required.
Thursday, August 12, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Health vs. Emotional Eating Workshop Series Begins

Speaker: Rachel Fintzy, licensed psychotherapist
Santa Monica YMCA, DeWind Room
1332 6th Street
FREE

This 4 week series begins on August 12th with subsequent meetings August 26, September 2, and September 9.

For more information contact Lidia Magarian, Senior Physical Director at the YMCA (310) 393-2721ext. 129 or email lidiam@ymcasm.org. Free underground parking is available. Picture ID is required.
Saturday, August 13, 7pm
SOS Movies to the Rescue! Up

Santa Monica High School, Barnum Hall
601 Pico Boulevard
Suggested donation: $5 per person

The SAMOHI Associated Student Body is doing their part to help the schools by hosting "Save Our Schools! Movies to the Rescue!" Up is the last screening in this series. Support Our Students: Don’t miss it!
Sunday, August 15, from 11am to 3pm
Conservancy Tour: Adventures in Santa Monica

Check in: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1865 Main Street
Ticket information: Conservancy members $20; general public $25 and children under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult! And, this includes a ride on the carousel and Ferris wheel.

The Santa Monica Conservancy has been hard at work, preserving and promoting places of interest in Santa Monica. "Adventures in Santa Monica" is the Conservancy's newest tour and you won't want to miss it! The tour will take you to out-of-the way, off-the-beaten track or behind-the-scenes at ten sites in and near Santa Monica. Tour details are posted at
http://www.smconservancy.org/mtevents/000130.shtml

After checking in at the Civic Auditorium, you tour and explore at your leisure, in your car or by bike. Docents will be stationed at each site until 3pm to give you the scoop.

To register and purchase your tickets, please go to http://smconservancy.org/event_form.shtml
You can also purchase tickets after 11am at the Civic Auditorium. The City is providing $10 Discount Parking at the Civic Center parking structure and some beach lots. For more information on parking, please see www.thepermitstore.com/sm/event.

The Conservancy may still be looking for tour docents to take 2-hour shifts starting at 11am. Docents will have time to visit the tour sites yourself before or after your shift. If you’re interested in being a docent, please contact Kay Pattison at info@smconservancy.org

For more information on “Adventures in Santa Monica” and The Santa Monica Conservancy, please go to www.smconservancy.org, call 310-496-3146, or email info@smconservancy.org.
Sunday, August 15th, 4-7pm
SOS Grand Finale Celebration

Santa Monica High School Science Quad
601 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica
Park in North Lot, Enter from Olympic Boulevard

Join the Save Our Schools campaign for a mid-summer celebration to thank our more than 1,000 contributors and celebrate the difference a community can make when it works together to SAVE OUR SCHOOLS! Come celebrate with food, fun, and our amazing community of education supporters and lifelong learners!
August 16 - 18, 9:30am - noon
UCPlay workshop – Session 2

Memorial Park Gym, Cab Room A, B, C
1401 Olympic Boulevard
$156 resident, $172 non-resident
Day rate: $54/resident, $59 non-resident

This is the second of a three day workshop (single day registration available) designed for students between the ages of 7 and 12 who have an autistic spectrum disorder and other related disabilities. The program’s goal is to assist students to learn how to communicate, make friends and feel part of a peer group, improve their sense of worth, and improve their capacity for achievement through art and performance. To register, please go to http://recenroll.smgov.net
For more information please contact Olivia Karaolis at okaraolis@ucpla.org or 818-782-2211, ext. 605.
Thursday, August 19, 12:00noon - 1:30 pm
Legs for Life

Santa Monica YMCA, DeWind Room
1332 6th Street
FREE

Stephen Kee, MD, UCLA interventional radiologist, will discuss risks associated with peripheral vascular disease and the close relationship between disease affecting the arteries of the legs and cardiac disease. Attendance is limited to 35 people.

For more information contact Lidia Magarian, Senior Physical Director at the YMCA (310) 393-2721ext. 129 or email lidiam@ymcasm.org. Free underground parking is available. Picture ID is required.
Sunday, August 22, 7 – 9pm
Closing Party - Cause for Creativity: Tour de Arts, vol. 2

Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue, G-1
Free

This event features an all-day cultural bike tour of Santa Monica but unfortunately (or fortunately) registration for the bike tour is already full. However, you can still join in the fun after the tour at the exhibition closing party. Party highlights include: Music by Dublab, Acro Yoga with Lululemon, live t-shirt screen printing with Hit + Run, extended museum hours, food trucks, bike-themed vendors, fixie zone, and more!

For more information about Cause for Creativity, please call (310) 586-6488 or visit http://smmoa.org/index.php/news/pressroom_details/30
Tuesday, August 24, 12:00noon – 2:00pm
Older Adult Potluck

Santa Monica YMCA, Community Room
1332 6th Street
Free for Y members & $3 for Non-Members

Join the YMCA for refreshments with friends and Fun Music. All participants MUST bring an appetizer, a main dish, a salad, or a dessert for 6 people.

For more information contact Lidia Magarian, Senior Physical Director at the YMCA (310) 393-2721ext. 129 or email lidiam@ymcasm.org. Free underground parking is available. Picture ID is required.

For more activities, I strongly suggest you monitor or subscribe to the following:

City Master Calendar
Sortable by Location, Event Type, and Age Group
http://calendar.smgov.net/city/eventcalendar.asp

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The Palette
If you are interested in the arts and cultural events, be sure to subscribe to the Santa Monica Arts Palette at http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=902
You will receive a weekly email telling you about visual and performing arts events for that week and weekend. This is a great service!

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Santa Monica Pier eMailing List
Go to http://www.santamonicapier.org/subscribe.html to sign up for “Beyond the Pier” so that you will receive updates by email regarding events happening at the Santa Monica Pier.

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Santa Monica College offers the community performances, lectures, exhibitions, Friday night planetarium shows..... you can find out what’s happening each month by going to http://www.smc.edu/events

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The Broad Stage is a wonderful, still new, elegant, intimate, acoustically fine-tuned theater at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center that has just finished a remarkable first season. The Broad Stage maintains a website (separate from the SMC website) for events featuring professional artists. Please visit The Broad and www.thebroadstage.com

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Planetarium shows on Friday nights at SMC are listed at http://www.smc.edu/apps/agenda.asp?Q=9&G=1&C=agenda

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The Santa Monica Public Library is a must-bookmark-site! Our libraries offer a great menu of interesting and varied programming for people of all ages and interests -- films, lectures, book groups, and other special events. The library events calendar is posted at http://www.smpl.org/libraryevents.htm

The City’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment has a new, very informative website that includes a calendar of environment-related events. http://www.smgov.net/departments/ose/

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The School District website has a useful color-coded calendar that includes special school events as well as Board meetings. Please check it out at http://www.smmusd.org/calendar/index.html

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The Santa Monica Visitors and Convention Bureau maintains a Calendar of Events at http://www.santamonica.com/events-calendar/
City of Santa Monica now posts upcoming events and some full calendars if you click on the appropriate headings in the top right hand corner of the home page at http://www.santa-monica.org/



Lifelong Learning Community Links lists these and many other useful websites including local theatrical companies – listed under "Local Museums and Special Venues." Please use these links to stay abreast of these wonderful local organizations. Links can be found at http://smllc.org/links.html

Art Exhibitions

SMC Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
http://events.smc.edu/art_gallery.html

Bergamot Station
www.bergamotstation.com/

Highways
http://www.highwaysperformance.org/

Santa Monica Art Studios
http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com/ 

Santa Monica Museum of Art
www.smmoa.org/ 

18th Street Arts Complex
http://www.18thstreet.org/ 


Book Groups

http://www.smpl.org/reading/bookgroups.htm


Film Screenings

Aero Theater Calendar Listings
http://www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm 

SMC's Film Series
http://www.smc.edu/apps/agenda.asp?Q=5&G=1&C=agenda

Santa Monica Film Festival
http://www.artsfightingcancer.com/santamonica.html


Lectures

California Lawyers for the Arts
www.CALawyersForTheArts.org

Library Events
http://www.smpl.org/

SMC Lectures
http://www.smc.edu/apps/agenda.asp?Q=7&G=1&C=agenda


Museums & Tours

California Heritage Museum
http://www.californiaheritagemuseum.org/ 

Santa Monica Historical Society
http://www.santamonicahistory.org/

Santa Monica Museum of Art
www.smmoa.org/

Santa Monica Conservancy
http://www.smconservancy.org/mtpages/main.shtml


Music, Theater, Dance

Santa Monica Symphony
www.smsymphony.org/

SMC Events
smc.edu/events

Edgemar Center for the Arts
http://www.edgemar.org/Edgemar/Home.html

Highways
http://www.highwaysperformance.org/

Miles Playhouse
http://www.milesplayhouse.org/

Morgan Wixson Theater
http://www.morgan-wixson.org/

The Powerhouse Theater
http://www.milesplayhouse.org/

Ruskin Group Theater Company
http://www.ruskingrouptheatre.com/

Santa Monica Civic Light Opera
http://www.smclo.org/

Santa Monica Playhouse
www.santamonicaplayhouse.com/

Virginia Avenue Project
http://www.virginiaavenueproject.org/


Planetarium Shows
http://smc.edu/events

What's Happening on the Pier
www.santamonicapier.org

Looking for even more things to do?
Check out this calendar posted by the Convention and Visitors Bureau:
http://www.santamonica.com/index.php/things_to_do/calendar.html



For more information about the Lifelong Learning Community, contact

Louise Jaffe
lcjaffe@aol.com
310-450-2487



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