Lifelong Learning Community Events & Calendars


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 ................................................ 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. ................................................ 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. 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 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/ ................................................ 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 EVENTS & CALENDARS LLC LINKS NEWSLETTER CALL TO ACTION GOALS FOR A MASTER PLAN IMPORTANT RESEARCH POST MY EVENT SUBSCRIBE USE OUR LOGO
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