Lifelong Learning

Santa Monica, a Lifelong Learning Community


JANUARY 2010

Tuesday, January 12,
City Council discusses possibility of Broad Art Museum
City Hall
1685 Main Street
Free

Really Big News! It looks like a new Broad museum of contemporary art will be coming to the Santa Monica Civic Center! The City Council will discuss principles for concluding the negotiation with the Broad Foundation to establish the museum here in Santa Monica. The staff report is online at
http://www01.smgov.net/cityclerk/council/agendas/2010/20100112/s2010011208-A.htm

Wednesday, January 13, 7 p.m.
Author’s talk & book signing: Mindsight

Barnes & Noble
3rd Street Promenade
1201 3rd Street, Santa Monica
Free
Rsvp to adit@drdansiegel.com

Dr. Dan Siegel spoke at our very first Lifelong Learning Community Conference about brain development in children from birth to age three. His new book, “Mindsight:The New Science of Personal Transformation” sounds like it is applicable to all ages. Dr. Siegel is an excellent speaker with a fascinating expertise. If you can make this event, please do! For more information, please visit www.drdansiegel.com

Wednesday, January 13, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Can I Retire? How Do I Know?

YWCA Santa Monica / Westside Community Room
2019 14th Street
Moderator, Hollis Harman
$45. To register, please call 310 452-3881.

The YWCA hosts this financial literacy seminar for women.
Thursday, January 14, 7:30 p.m.
Christopher Knight: "Criticism, Journalism & Looking @ Art"

The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College
Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street
Free

The Santa Monica College Art Department, in conjunction with Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, is pleased to present "Criticism, Journalism and Looking @ Art," a public lecture by Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight. Knight is the 2009-10 visiting critic in Fine Arts at Otis. His lecture will roam far and wide over art, journalism, history and critical art writing by journalists and others and will include examples found in traditional print media and online media. Distinctions will be made among journalistic, trade, academic and theoretical criticism.
Friday, January 15, 7:30 – 9am
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Interfaith Prayer Breakfast

Calvary Baptist Church
1502 20th Street
Suggested donation is $25 per person or $200 for a table for ten.
Free parking across the street at St. Anne's

This year’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will feature speaker Reverend Louis Chase, Minister of the Hamilton United Methodist Church of Los Angeles and Acting Chair of the Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace. Rev. Chase works on issues of race, environment, immigration, promoting peace, and nuclear disarmament. This is the first of three events to celebrate the birthday of the slain civil rights leader. The celebrations are presented in cooperation with the Westside Interfaith Coalition and the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. To make reservations or for more information, please contact westsideinterfaithcoalition@yahoo.com or call 310-452-1116.
Friday, January 15, 3:30 p.m.
Julianne Bruce in Concert

Santa Monica Main Library, Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Boulevard
Free

This delightful concert of flute and piano pieces by a variety of composers including Ibert, Poulenc and Mozart is an event of The Living Room …a place for adults. Julianne Bruce began studying flute at age nine. She was principal flute of the Santa Monica High School Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, as well as flute section leader in the Marching Band. She was also principal flute of the All Southern California Honor Orchestra and the California Orchestra Director's Association Orchestra. Julianne is now studying with Michel Debost at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and will graduate this spring.
Sunday, January 17, 3:30 p.m.
4th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Concert

SGI-USA Auditorium
525 Wilshire Boulevard
Free

The 4th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Concert features the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Allen Robert Gross with tuba soloist Christopher Miller performing Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, suite from "the Firebird" by Stravinsky, Tuba Concerto by Vaughan Williams, and Danzon No. 2 by Marquez. This is the second of three events to celebrate the birthday of the slain civil rights leader. The celebrations are presented in cooperation with the Westside Interfaith Coalition and the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. For more information, please call 310/395-6330 or go to www.smsymphony.org
Monday, January 18, 9am
25th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Adena Williams Loston
SGI-USA Auditorium
525 Wilshire Boulevard
Free

This multiethnic interfaith program includes inspirational readings, music, and presentations of scholarships, along with a keynote address by Dr. Adena Williams Loston who serves as the 14th President of St. Philip’s College, our nation’s only Historically Black College and Hispanic Serving Instituion. The celebration is followed by a Community Involvement Fair, from 11 a.m. to noon at 606 Wilshire Blvd. Free parking is available on 7th Street, behind the 7-11 store on Wilshire Boulevard.

This annual celebration on the official King holiday has become one of the largest and most diverse celebrations of its kind in Southern California. It is co-sponsored by Santa Monica College, Santa Monica College Associates, the City of Santa Monica, City TV-Santa Monica, RAND Corp., and SGI-USA.

For more information, please call (310) 434-4303 or (310) 453-5511.
Tuesday, January 19, 7:00 pm
Santa Monica High School Jazz Band

Santa Monica High School, Barnum Hall
601 Pico Boulevard
$10 at the door; $5 for students/seniors

Featuring special guest artist Bob Mintzer, world-renowned tenor saxophonist and jazz arranger. Bob Mintzer is the Director of Jazz Studies at USC.
Wednesday, January 20, noon – 1:00pm
Navigating the Senior Care Maze

Speaker: Bonnie Davis, Elderly Advisor – A Place for Mom
Santa Monica YMCA, DeWind Room
1332 6th Street
FREE

Learn the different elder care options that are available and how to determine
the one that fits the specific needs of a family. In addition, Bonnie will clarify
available funding sources. 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.
School Budget Presentation
Wednesday, January 20, 7:00-9:00pm

Santa Monica High School Cafeteria
601 Pico Boulevard
Free

California’s continuing budget crisis means cuts in public education. Our school district cut 4.5 this year and will probably need to cut another $8 million for the 2010-11 school year.

Superintendent Tim Cuneo writes:

"During the next six months, the Board of Education will be studying potential revenue enhancements and budget reductions. Examples of these include:
  • a new parcel tax to offset a portion of this shortfall
  • a reduction in the school year by five days
  • increases in class size at all grade levels
  • additional positions being cut at the district office and school sites
  • additional energy and utilities conservation
  • fewer summer school class offerings
  • reductions of support staff such as librarians, nurses, counselors, and classroom aides"

Superintendent Cuneo invites school and community members to attend meetings to learn more about the impact of the states funding short fall on the district’s budget. This January 20 meeting is the first of four budget presentations (January 20, 21, 26, & 27) that the superintendent will be making this month at school sites. Everyone is invited to attend. For more information, please visit the district website at www.smmusd.org. Budget materials can be found at http://www.smmusd.org/fiscal/0910BudgetInfo.html.


Thursday, January 21, 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m.
State of the City Breakfast

The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College
Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street
Tickets range from $35 to $60. For tickets, call (310) 393-9825 ext. 10 or go to www.smchamber.com.

Santa Monica College is pleased to host the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce's State of the City 2010 breakfast honoring Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and featuring keynote speaker Bill Allen, president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp.

In addition, the event will serve as a platform to say goodbye to outgoing Santa Monica City Manager P. Lamont Ewell and to welcome his successor, Rod Gould. January 21 is Ewell's last day as city manager.

Thursday, January 21, 7:00-9:00pm
School Budget Presentation

Malibu High School Auditorium
30215 Morning View Drive, Malibu
Free

For more information, please see the description for the January 20 Budget Presentation at Samohi.


Saturday, January 23, 2-3:30pm
The New Retirement: Women in Transition

Santa Monica Public Library, Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Boulevard
Free

For the first time in history, millions of working and career women are facing retirement with few, if any, role models. This life stage is creating new expectations, challenges and possibilities. Learn how women are facing the “new retirement,” their key issues and the emerging resources relevant to their professional and personal lives. This event is part of The Living Room Series and is sponsored by The Older Adult Task Force (OATF). The OATF, part of the Lifelong Learning Community Project, is a consortium of over 35 organizations. OATF promotes lifelong learning for adults through its various projects and collaboration amongst its member organizations.
Tuesday, January 26, 7:00-9:00pm
School Budget Presentation

John Adams Middle School Cafeteria
2426 16th Street
Free

For more information, please see the description for the January 20 Budget Presentation at Samohi.
Wednesday, January 27, 7:00-9:00pm
School Budget Presentation

Lincoln Middle School Cafeteria
1501 California Avenue
Free

For more information, please see the description for the January 20 Budget Presentation at Samohi.
Saturday, January 30, 2:00 p.m.
Forum of Local Artists: "Art with Cultural Folk Stories"

Santa Monica Public Library, Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Boulevard
Free
The Senior Arts Foundation and the City of Santa Monica present “Art with Cultural Folk Stories.” This forum will present local artists who infuse their work with cultural folk stories. Through their art, they inspire us to learn more about the different histories, traditions, humor and lifestyles of their unique cultures.

Ronn Davis, Santa Monica College Art Department Chair, will moderate a panel discussion, featuring American artist Ramona Otto, Persian artist Badri Borghei, and Korean artist Younghee Park. Ramona Otto has been a teacher of academically gifted children for 35 years, and her classes have always been a receptive audience to her work. Born in Tehran, Iran, Badri Borghei expresses her work through the ancient form of Persian Miniature Art. With her art, she tries to inspire younger generations who know little about Persian tradition and culture. Born in Korea and educated in Japan at the Ikenobo School, Younghee Park uses cloth flower arrangement as an expression of her interpretation and perception of nature. Her cloth flowers are also symbolic representations of family stories and experiences.

The Senior Arts and Community Forum series is sponsored by the city’s Cultural Affairs and Human Services Divisions, the Santa Monica Public Library, and the Senior Arts Foundation, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to making the arts more accessible to seniors. For more information about the Senior Arts Foundation visit www.SeniorArtsFoundation.org. This Forum is also endorsed by Santa Monica College’s Emeritus College.

This Program is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Senior Arts Foundation at (310) 393-0701, ext. 21, or the Main Library at (310) 458-8600.
Sundays, Thursdays, Saturdays, January 31 – April 25
The Wonder of Learning - The Hundred Languages of Children Exhibit
Thursdays 4-8pm ; Saturdays 10-4pm ; Sundays 12-4pm

1129 Second Street
Free
It is fitting and hopeful and a testament to Santa Monica’s status as a lifelong learning community that we end this month with the opening of this very special exhibition that celebrates and supports learning in young children.

“The Wonder of Learning - The Hundred Languages of Children” is the newest North American version of “The Hundred Languages of Children” exhibit that has been touring the United States, Canada and Mexico since 1987.

From birth, children use many “languages,” such as art, music, play, drama and literacy, to learn about and make meaning of the world. To help educators, parents and other advocates for children to better understand the powerful learning that occurs in early childhood, the world-renowned Reggio Emilia approach to education gives visibility to the values of its experience through this interactive traveling exhibit.

A series of professional development initiatives has been organized in connection with The Wonder of Learning - The Hundred Languages of Children. exhibit in Santa Monica, including:
"Dialogues for Quality in Education: The School as a Place of Community, Collaboration, Research and Innovation" will be presented January 28-30, hosted by First Presbyterian Nursery School. For more information about the exhibition and the presentations, please go to http://www.reggioexhibitla.com/ or email reggioexhibitla@first-pres.net

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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