Lifelong Learning

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!

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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. The Twilight Dance Series begins this coming Thursday!

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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. Season 2 will open in September with a performance by legendary dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. 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

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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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