28 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY august 3-9, 2023 www.montereycountyweekly.com Send ideas to calendar@mcweekly.com HOT PICKS In order to thrive and do their important pollination work, monarch butterflies need safe habitat. Learn all about monarchs and milkweed at a Saturday, Aug. 5 workshop. shutterstock This painting by Carmel artist Monica Johnson, titled “Between Worlds,” will be auctioned off to support Chamber Music Monterey Bay at the organization’s garden party celebration. Courtesy of Chamber Music Monterey Bay village of Anatevka, features the story of a loving but yes, traditional, father who expresses his affection for his daughters through seeking to help match them with Jewish men. When his daughters have their own desires, it forces a family to rethink their relationships and their values. Residents of the Ukrainian village also face violence and displacement. It’s a story that is very much of this moment, even though it was written in 1964. This production runs for two weekends only. [SR] 7pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2pm Saturday matinees from Friday, Aug. 4-Saturday, Aug. 12. Karen Wilson Children’s Theatre, 320 Main St., Salinas. $13; $11/seniors, students, military; $9/children; free/children under 3. 775-0976, arieltheatrical.org. Saturday, Aug. 5 Pollination Station We all love monarch butterflies—not just for their role as a sort of mascot for Pacific Grove (“Butterfly Town, USA”) but for the important work of pollination they perform. We all also need safe homes (habitats) and a reliable food source too—and that extends to butterflies. These beautiful creatures rely on native plants for their habitat, which is why Fort Ord National Monument welcomes and cultivates its patches of milkweed. Join this workshop to learn all about milkweed and the pollinators it supports. The event includes walking off-trail, so lather up with SPF, wear comfy shoes and bring water. No dogs allowed. [TCL] 9am-noon Saturday, Aug. 5. Badger Hills Trailhead of Fort Ord National Monument, Toro Road and Highway 68, Salinas. Free. Sign up at bit.ly/MonarchsandMilkweed. Make Art The Monterey Museum of Art hosts a free family fun day. The event is a great way to spend quality family time while creating a new piece of art for your home. Spend your afternoon using your imagination and playing with new materials to create clever collages, abstract mosaics or painted flower pots. For inspiration you can turn to the current exhibition titled The Bruton Sisters: Modernism in the Making, which explores and celebrates the impact that these three sisters had on the development of modern art in California. [CJ] 11am-3pm Saturday, Aug. 5. Monterey Museum of Art, 559 Pacific St., Monterey. Free. 372-5477, montereyart.org. Sunday, Aug. 6 Garden Chamber Chamber Music Monterey Bay is throwing a garden party in Carmel Valley at the former estate of Earth, Wind & Fire. The event is created in partnership with a Carmel artist, Monica Johnson, who is the 20232024 season artist. Johnson’s work will be part of CMMB’s 2023-2024 season, which begins on Oct. 14 with the award-winning Telegraph Quartet. “Between Worlds” will be offered for auction at the garden party, to benefit Chamber Music Monterey Bay, and the winner will be announced at the organization’s final concert on April 27. Twisted Roots and Bernardus Winery, Paella LLC, The Great British Bake Shop, Café Carmel and Little Luna’s will be there with treats. [AP] 2:30pm-5pm Sunday, Aug. 6. “Earth, Wind & Fire” Estate, 25 miles east of Carmel via Carmel Valley Road. Details—and a map—provided upon RSVP. $65. 625-2212, chambermusicmontereybay.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. has loved the ocean for as long as he can remember. By the time McCoy was 5 years old, he’d already crossed the Pacific twice and the Atlantic once. He started freediving at 11 and Scuba diving at 13. Later, when in graduate school studying oceanography, McCoy read a book called Waves and Beaches by Willard Bascom. First published in 1964, Waves and Beaches explores the dynamic nature of the places where the ocean meets the land. Now McCoy is part-author of the third edition of the classic text, an update that takes into account the impacts of climate change. (Bascom died in 2000.) McCoy speaks about his work, his writing and his adventures at the Pacific Grove Public Library. [TCL] 5:30-7pm Friday, Aug. 4. Pacific Grove Public Library, 550 Central Ave., Pacific Grove. Free. 648-5760, pacificgrovelibrary.org. Friday, Aug. 4-Sunday, Aug. 6 Fiesta Forever The first weekend of August can only mean one thing: the Carmel Valley Kiwanis Club’s annual Carmel Valley Fiesta, a three-day celebration of summer at Carmel Valley Community Park. Where to begin? There will be food, drink, games and rides, arts and crafts, a dog show, a car show, a horseshoe tournament, a raffle, live music and, somehow, much more. The festivities kick off with Friday night’s Hoopla barbecue at the Carmel Valley Trail & Saddle Club, and are capped off Sunday with the Mountain Run footrace through Garland Ranch Regional Park. All proceeds go back to the community—so bring your family, friends and pets, and enjoy the splendor of another Carmel Valley summer. [RM] 5pm Friday through 4pm Sunday, Aug. 4-6. Carmel Valley Community Park, 25 Ford Road, Carmel Valley. Free; Hoopla BBQ $50/adults, $30/youth. 298-0018, cvkclub.org. make me a match The iconic family patriarch, Tevye, has a thing about traditions. “And who has the right, as master of the house, To have the final word at home?” he sings. “The Papa! Traditioooonnnnn.” The famous song captures the tension between preserving the way things were and the way things can be. The musical, set in the fictional Jewish
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