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Sign up your children for music lessons for the summer at The Monterey Music Store! We offer lessons in guitar (electric, acoustic, and classical), ukulele, bass, piano, drums, violin, and voice. Please call us today for complete information and to register, 831-372-5893. The Monterey Music Store is located at 425 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey.

Selfieville's New Hours

Posted on June 3rd, 2019 by Golden State Theatre

Have you heard? Beginning on June 1, 2019, Selfieville will be open daily, 11am - 4pm. Admission will begin at the top of each hour. Come get creative and have fun while capturing photographic moments that will last a lifetime. Some exceptions may apply - please purchase tickets and check availability on our website. Selfieville is conveniently located in the Golden State Theatre Building, 417 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey.

Come to Grace Lifestyle Boutique and check out these beautiful leaf-shaped lace earrings handmade for Sachi Love by the talented artist and craftswoman Sachiko Muramatsu-Kramer of California. The pieces are hand dyed; an organic solution is added to keep the lace from losing its shape. Grace Lifestyle Boutique is located at 459 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey.

Below are the showtimes for Osio Theater, May 31 - June 6, 2019. Osio, a nonprofit movie theater dedicated to independent, foreign, and art films, is located at 350 Alvarado Street in Old Monterey. Purchase advance tickets on our website.

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
Weekdays at 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm
Sat & Sun at 12pm, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm

This documentary chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination. Watch the trailer.

THE WHITE CROW
Weekdays at 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 7pm
Sat & Sun at 11am, 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 7pm

Ralph Fiennes directs this biopic of Russian ballet artist Rudolf Nureyev. Starting with his childhood in a poverty stricken town in the Soviet Union through to his defection to the West, the film portrays a life in which love, art, and international relations all intersect. Oleg Ivenko turns in a riveting debut as Nureyev, a consummate artist who is forced to risk everything. Watch the trailer.

NUREYEV
Daily at 3pm, 6pm

This documentary follows the Russian ballet artist, Rudolf Nureyev, from his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic leap to freedom in the West at the height of the Cold War, and to his unprecedented adulation as the most famous dancer in the world. The film highlights Nureyev's unlikely yet legendary partnership with Margot Fonteyn and charts his meteoric rise to the status of global cultural phenomenon. Watch the trailer.

PHOTOGRAPH
Daily at 2pm, 7pm

A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect. Watch the trailer.

NON-FICTION
Weekdays at 2pm, 4:30pm, 7:15pm
Sat & Sun at 11:30am, 2pm, 4:30pm, 7:15pm

Set amidst the bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world, Non-Fiction traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer begins blurring the line between fact and fiction, using his real-life love affairs—including a passionate fling with an actress who happens to be married to his editor—as fodder for his explosive new novel. Watch the trailer.

RED JOAN
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The Monterey Museum of Art is seeking professional artists to create and exhibit video, interactive, or immersive artworks, including video and sculpture, for their second annual Ferment Event in Francis Elkins Park (559 Pacific Street in Monterey). Entry deadline is Friday, June 14, 2019.

The Ferment Event on Saturday, September 21, 6pm-9pm, aims to bring artists out of the woodwork in Monterey County to come together, support one another, provide tastings of fermented foods and drinks from local purveyors, create and exchange zines, and participate in art installations and interactive art pieces. Funding will support future programming for local artists and the community to further conversations about contemporary art and culture in Monterey County - expanding boundaries and possibilities for contemporary artists to thrive.

Please click here to view proposal submission requirements, eligibility, important dates/times, and evaluation criteria.

Mythic Games in Monterey will be taking pre-orders for Modern Horizons from May 24 through pre-release weekend, June 8-9, while supplies last. The pre-order price is $300 a box and includes the buy-a-box promo Flusterstorm again, while supplies last. Mythic Games is located at 561 Tyler Street in Old Monterey.

For the prerelease weekend we will be offering $30 drafts at FNM Saturday at 1pm and 6pm, and Sunday at 1pm. The format for the draft will be: keep what you draft with the option to buy a new pack if you can’t bring yourself to pass what you opened. Participants will get the pre-release promo Astral Drift while supplies last. No additional prize support.

Did you know that The Bar Method is expressly designed to give you a dancer's body? Check out this blog post from our founder, Burr Leonard, and discover the top five transforming secrets of The Bar Method.

If I asked you why The Bar Method is so good at changing bodies, you might answer that it’s an intense and targeted workout, and you’d be correct! What you may not be as aware of is its many other body-transforming abilities. In this blog, I will reveal five less-talked-about features of The Bar Method workout that are key to giving you the body you are working towards.

1. It is expressly designed to give you a dancer’s body

The Bar Method builds firm but graceful-looking muscles by challenging you to a large number of reps against moderate resistance. In contrast...

THE BAR METHOD’S TOP 5 TRANSFORMING SECRETS

If you'd like to try the Bar Method for yourself, come visit our studio in Campbell.

The Campbell Museum is remaking our visitor video about the history of Campbell and Santa Clara Valley. We are looking for a host/ narrator. We are holding auditions on June 14 at the Campbell Historical Museum from 10am-1pm and are looking for actors or anyone comfortable acting in front of a camera, ages 16-30. If you are chosen, you will need to be available for filming over the course of two days in July.

If interested please email Gaby@fixedheartfilms.com.

The Monterey County Film Commission, located in the Lighthouse District, is pleased to announce that Erin Mansel, a student majoring in Cinematic Arts & Technology at CSUMB, is the winner of the 2019 Monterey County Film Commission's Director Emeritus Richard Tyler Film Student Scholarship Award.

Erin Mansel is originally from Los Angeles. She'll use the $2,000 award to to pay for film festival fees and outreach for her film, Screaming in Silence, which deals with the differences between the deaf and hearing communities, the acceptance of being deaf, and makes a strong statement about creating one’s own voice. Her goal is to spread awareness about the issue of deafness and knocking down barriers.

In addition, two other worthy film student scholarship applicants from CSUMB were awarded $500 each. They were Toni Erebia, originally from Fresno, who plans to use the funds for studying abroad in a British film class or for funding her Capstone project, and Nicolas Oliva, from Apple Valley, who has his film already in post-production and will use the funds to go on the film festival circuit.

For more information on the scholarship fund, please phone MCFC at 831-646-0910.

Petite Petal Co is moving!

Posted on May 24th, 2019 by Petite Petal Co.

Petite Petal Co. is moving!

Don't Worry it's just a couple doors down from where we are now! We'll be moving into the space that used to be Freshly Worn Furniture.

We will be closing to make our big (little) move starting on May 28th and will re open our brand new doors on June 8th! We are excited for our new space as it will allow us to host larger private parties as well as being able to offer more seats for our workshops!

We can't wait to see you so stop by on June 8th and in the mean time check out our new workshop schedule for the Summer and follow along on Instagram!

Our new address will be
389 E Campbell Ave
Campbell CA
95008

? ? GIVEAWAY ALERT ? ?

In celebration of the upcoming long Memorial day weekend, we want to treat one lucky winner to a $100 Sushi Confidential Gift Card, good for use at either of our two restaurants in downtown Campbell or downtown San Jose.

To enter, you must follow Sushi Confidential on Facebook (or Instagram), and tag three friends in the comments. Up to 15 entries per person. Winner chosen at random. This giveaway is in no way affiliated with Instagram or Facebook. Giveaway ends Monday, May 27th 2019 at midnight, pacific coast time.

If you love ? as much as we do, and would love a night off from cooking or want to simply treat yourself, feel free to enter to win. Good luck to all!

How often to you get rid of your clothes? After a few wears? or after years of use? When the time comes, how do you dispose of your clothing? According to data from 2015 most clothing ended up in landfills. The breakdown: Landfill 63%, Combustion 19%, Donated/Recycled 12.5%, Unknown 5.5%. Visit "Wearing the Living World: How Fashion Impacts Nature" at the Ainsley House to learn more about how our clothes are made. Open through October and FREE to view (tour of house not included).

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