30 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY MAY 22-28, 2025 www.montereycountynow.com Send ideas to calendar@montereycountynow.com HOT PICKS SHOWING TALENT For those who enjoy music and dance, and celebrating the progress young dancers have made throughout the year, attend The Dance Center’s showcase this weekend. See dances for different ages, skill levels and musical genres: tap, hip-hop, ballet and jazz. Among the performances are Sleeping Beauty, When I’m Older and Pop, Drop & Roll. They will captivate viewers with their moves and theatrical presence. [CJ] Advanced teens 9:30am-12:30pm; pre-k/ kinder 1:45-2:30pm; beginning teens 3:305:30pm. Sunday, May 25. Sunset Center, San Carlos Street and 9th Avenue, Carmel. $23- $38. 625-3262, dancecarmel.com. Monday, May 26 MEMENTO There are many ways and places to celebrate Memorial Day and honor those who sacrificed their lives for the country. It will be observed with a ceremony followed by a race at 8:30am at Lower Presidio Historic Park on Corporal Ewing Road in Monterey. This open-to-all event welcomes strollers and dogs on leashes; join the “wear blue, run to remember” initiative for a 5K run or walk. Another celebration, Memorial Day Avenue of the Flags Ceremony, takes place at the Castroville Public Cemetery, 8442 Moss Landing Road in Moss Landing, where breakfast is served at 9am, followed by a ceremony from 10am-noon. American Legion Auxiliary Monterey Cypress Unit 694 (3307 Marina Drive in Marina) holds a ceremony at 11am; lunch will follow. At 11am, the California Central Coast Veterans Cemetery (2900 Parker Flats Road, Seaside) hosts a ceremony to honor the fallen. Main Street in Salinas is decorated with flags for the occasion. Monterey County Pops! celebrates Memorial Day with a concert at 1-3:30pm on the lawn at Colton Hall, 580 Pacific St., Monterey, offering sounds of patriotic pride. [AP] Wednesday, May 28 THE MASTERS One of the simple pleasures of life is to watch people who have mastered their craft, no matter what it happens to be, in music, art, sports, fashion, cooking, you name it. Two masters of their musical craft are cellist Mark Kosower and Robert Walters, an English hornist, both soloists with The Cleveland Orchestra. They are coming to Hidden Valley Music Seminars for a Masters Concert, accompanied by world-renowned pianist Reiko Uchida and Melivia Raharjo, collaborative pianist at the Indiana Jacobs School of Music. Watch, listen and enjoy the artistry of true masters. [PM] 7:30pm Wednesday, May 28. Hidden Valley Theatre, 104 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley. $25. 659-3115, hiddenvalleymusic. org. Hot Picks by Sloan Campi, Erik Chalhoub, Dave Faries, Celia Jiménez, Pam Marino, Agata Popęda, Katie Rodriguez, Sara Rubin and David Schmalz. Chautauqua Hall Dance Club in Pacific Grove has been around for the last 100 years. Each Saturday is a chance for you to pick up rumba, foxtrot or swing dance. CHAUTAUQUA HALL DANCE CLUB CASSIDY ISAACSON | PHOTO BY CHRIS HARDY DANCE SERIES 2 “MESMERIZING. Makes a viewer want to push the rewind button and take it in all over again!” – SF Chronicle Don’t miss the world premiere of Amy Seiwert’s powerful I Remember Now and Trey McIntyre’s zany, ebullient Wild Sweet Love—set to music by Queen, Mendelssohn, and more. Also on the bill is Michael Smuin’s sweeping, romantic The Eternal Idol and Rex Wheeler’s lively Sinfonietta. Dancing into a theater near you—get tickets now! CARMEL JUNE 7–8 TICKETS: smuinballet.org | 415.912.1899 TWO SHOWS ONLY!
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