28 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY june 22-28, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Send ideas to calendar@mcweekly.com HOT PICKS Want to get your hands in some paint? Henry Miller Memorial Library and Big Sur artist Ruby Brown Dudley host a drop-in art-making party on Saturday, June 24. Barron has committed to a theme: helping Latino artists get connected in the entertainment industry to increase their odds of success. His quarterly series, “Breaking Into the Music Business,” explores the challenges with speakers who have succeeded in music, film and radio. Now Barron launches his new business, Industry Connexion, aimed at elevating and connecting Latino creators. [SR] 5-10pm Tuesday, June 27. In Los Angeles; stream the event at bit.ly/IndustryConnexion. Free. (310) 962-5172, therobertobarron.com. Wednesday, June 28 Readers vs. Monsters Good writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has the capability to transport readers, whether to a time in history or to the future, to another human’s life or to another world entirely. Awardwinning author Tananarive Due is a master at creating worlds and bringing her readers there, and her newest collection of stories, The Wishing Pool, features a blend of genres—horror, science fiction, suspense—that bring readers to places familiar and imagined. There’s Gracetown, a magical town in the aftermath of a pandemic; there are monsters, some depicted as supernatural creatures and some much harder to eradicate, like racism. Due teaches classes about Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA, and brings insight from her latest collection to this author talk, hosted by the Salinas Public Library. [SR] 5-6pm Wednesday, June 28. Virtual event; register online. Free. 758-7311, jissellad@ ci.salinas.ca.us, salinaspubliclibrary.org/ AuthorTalk/TananariveDue. Mobile Home Never—we repeat, never—dust off a board game long buried in the basement. What could go wrong, you ask? Well, in Zathura: A Space Adventure, it results in a house with two bored children being launched into outer space, where things are suddenly no longer so dull. Pissed off aliens, out-of-control robots, hurtling pieces of space junk— you name it, they encounter it as they try to find a way to bring their house back home (you know, before father gets back from work to notice it’s missing). Let that be a warning. And relive the wild, rollicking, fantasy adventure from 2005 in the perfect setting: Outdoor Forest Theater. The movie (rated PG) is part of Forest Theater Guild’s Films in the Forest series. [DF] 8:30pm Wednesday, June 28. Outdoor Forest Theater, Santa Rita and Mountain View, Carmel. $12; free/children under 4 with paying adult. 626-1681, foresttheaterguild.org. Hot Picks by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, Dave Faries, Kyarra Harris, Celia Jiménez, Pam Marino, Rey Mashayekhi, Agata Pop˛eda, Sara Rubin and David Schmalz. gardens. The nonprofit King City in Bloom hosts a tour of six Salinas Valley homes/gardens as part of King City’s Beautification Week. The tour is self-guided, so pick up some tickets from The Garden House on Canal Street and then take your time as you wind your way through the various properties—stop and smell the roses, so to speak. [CJ] 10am-3pm Saturday, June 24. The Garden House, 650 Canal St., King City. $25. 3856811. Arty Party We’ve been glaring at screens too long—it’s time to tap into nature as well as our creative natures with what’s being called a “drop-in, art-making extravaganza” under the redwoods at Henry Miller Library. Big Sur artist Ruby Brown Dudley is leading the party, introducing a medium—on this day, it’s watercolor—and helping participants of all ages in making a collaborative piece, to be installed somewhere on the library’s forest property. Each participant will also be able to create a small piece of artwork to take home. All materials are provided; BYO lunch. This is the first of three extravaganzas: Saturday, July 15 the medium will be acrylic painting; Saturday, Aug. 12 is devoted to printmaking. [PM] Noon-3pm Saturday, June 24. Henry Miller Memorial Library, 48603 Highway 1, Big Sur. Free; register online. 667-2574, henrymiller. org. Humbled California The Monterey Public Library Friends and Foundation is hosting authors Glenn Church (now District 2 county supervisor) and his wife, writer Kathryn McKenzie, discussing their 2020 book Humbled: How California’s Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin. It is the story of one of the opening battles of the modern environmental age. In early 1965, Humble Oil and Refining Company Co. (now ExxonMobil) planned to expand to the West Coast by building an oil refinery in the heart of some of California’s most beautiful coastline. Its top choice: Moss Landing. In a deeply divided community, Humble Oil got its permit to build, but it never would. The book captures in detail how a small environmental group bloomed into a mass movement using every means at its disposal. [AP] 2-3pm Saturday, June 24. Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. Free; $10/ suggested donation. 646-3933, monterey. org/library. Saturday, June 24-Sunday, June 25 Stage Reading Get a sneak peek of what could be coming to the theater at the Western Stage with Pages on Stage—a series of staged readings of “titles of interest” for future seasons. This weekend’s reading is from the Julia Cho drama Aubergine, in which a successful Korean-American chef takes a break from his career to care for his dying father. The Hollywood Reporter called it “a moving meditation on love, loss, and the emotional power of food.” The reading takes place this weekend only—Saturday night and a Sunday matinee. Another reading, of Brown Face by Carissa Atallah, follows in July. [TCL] 7:30pm Saturday, June 24 and 2pm Sunday, June 25. Student Center, Hartnell College Main Campus, 411 Central Ave., Salinas. $18. 755-6816, westernstage.com. Tuesday, June 27 Hollywood Stars Roberto Barron was born and raised in Salinas, and now he’s a jack of all trades in the world of creative production in Hollywood. Throughout his work promoting artists and producing events and collaborating with the likes of Telemundo’s Latin American Music Awards, Gloria Trevi and Aracely Arambula, parker seibold Glenn Church and Kathy McKenzie are the authors of Humbled, a book about how Moss Landing fought back against proposed development by Humble Oil.
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