Lifelong Learning Community Calendar


Santa Monica, a Lifelong Learning Community
JULY 2009 Tuesday, June 30, 2:30-3pm Dr. Tsang on KCRW: The Politics of Culture 89.9 SMC President Dr. Chui L. Tsang will be on KCRW's "The Politics of Culture" along with the president of CalArts and executive vice chancellor of UCLA, to speak about the impact of state budget cuts to higher education and the future of California. Tune in Tuesday to 89.9 FM. Thursday, July 2 Twilight Dance Series: Playing for Change and Bushman Santa Monica Pier Free The opening concert for the 25th season of the Twilight Dance Series begins with the global multimedia movement Playing for Change and then Bushman, featuring Jamaican Bush Reggae. For a lot more information about this evening’s performance and the full summer schedule which includes Joan Baez on July 9 and ballroom dancing on July 23, please go to http://www.santamonicapier.org/twilight.html and mark your calendars. Saturday, July 4, begins at 9:30am July 4th Parade Main Street – parade marches from City Hall south on Main Street to Marine Free This will be the 3rd annual Fourth of July Parade sponsored by the Ocean Park neighborhood association. It is a family friendly, fun “small town” affair. Spectators welcome! For more information, please go to https://oceanpark.net/opa/content/parade/ Tuesday, July 7, 6:30pm LUCE Community Needs Workshop Civic Auditorium East Wing Free Continuing the process of updating Santa Monica’s land use and circulation element to guide development for the next twenty years, the purpose of this workshop is to identify and prioritize community needs to be incorporated into future development and future development projects. Facilitators and participants at the workshop will focus on identifying the types of physical and/or social and cultural amenities such as open space, historic preservation, affordable/workforce housing and creative environments. (No mention of other types of learning environments....) Proposals for some lower heights for the transit corridors and districts will be reviewed and, the workshop will also address approaches for phasing and monitoring the LUCE implementation. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Additional information will be posted on www.shapethefuture2025.net. Friday, July 17 to Saturday, July 18, 7pm to 7pm Relay for Life Santa Monica College, Main Campus, Corsair Field 1900 Pico Boulevard This is a fundraiser to fight cancer. This is a great event - lots of fun for families, brings in needed money for cancer research and education programs, and helps build community. Please spread the word For more information, to sign up as a team leader or to join a team, or to make a pledge, please go to http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=13882 Saturday, July 18, 8:30am-3:00pm Southern California Constitutional Convention Town Hall 8:30 a.m. Registration \| 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Program University of Southern California \| Davidson Hall (Embassy Room) 3415 South Figueroa Street \| Los Angeles, California Cost: $25 I am breaking my self-imposed rule of restricting this newsletter to local events because of the magnitude of the state budget crisis/process and its overwhelming impact on all of us and on all lifelong learning institutions and supports. Changing the rules may be our only way out of this mess. This event is part of an effort to reconsider California’s constitution. Please read on and be sure to go to the website for more information and to register. The Southern California Constitutional Convention Town Hall will focus on introducing and educating the community to the concept and gathering feedback from the public. Featuring panels of elected officials, issues experts, and community leaders, this event will be Southern Californian residents’ first major opportunity to learn and ask questions about this powerful method to reform the state, and give input into a process that could profoundly affect California for generations to come. For more information and to register, please to go http://www.repaircalifornia.org/southern_ca.php Tuesday, July 28 - Friday, July 31 International Youth Soccer Tournament Santa Monica College and John Adams Middle School Free The International Youth Soccer Tournament, sponsored by the Santa Monica Sister City Association, will bring together teams from Santa Monica and its Sister City in Italy and will provide opportunities for youth to exchange friendship through soccer games. Under the leadership of SMC President Dr. Chui Tsang, who is chairing the Tournament Organizing Committee, and SMSCA President Joseph E. Deering, the tournament will feature local teams competing against a team from Cassino/S’Entelia, Italy. For information, please call (310) 393-0701 or visit www.santamonicasistercity.org Friday, July 31 Parcel Tax Senior Exemption Application/Renewal Deadline Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District 1651 16th Street Please go to http://www.smmusd.org/fiscal/senior_exempt.html for more information. For more activities, I strongly suggest you monitor or subscribe to the following: 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! ................................................ 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. The Twilight Dance Series begins this coming Thursday! ................................................ 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 ................................................ 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. Season 2 will open in September with a performance by legendary dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Please visit The Broad and www.thebroadstage.com ................................................ Planetarium shows on Friday nights at SMC are listed at http://www.smc.edu/apps/agenda.asp?Q=9&G=1&C=agenda ................................................ 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 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 ................................................ 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/ 18^th 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	HOMEPAGE CALENDAR LLC LINKS NEWSLETTER CALL TO ACTION GOALS FOR A MASTER PLAN IMPORTANT RESEARCH POST MY EVENT SUBSCRIBE USE OUR LOGO
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