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How California Works: Building Democracy in the Golden State

“How California Works: Building Democracy in the Golden State” 
“Be Bold America!” Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)
Wishing that things worked one way or another is not the same as knowing how things work. It’s when we all …

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Youth Orchestra Salinas Has a New Music Director, Jeffrey De Seriere.

Youth Orchestra Salinas (YOSAL) has a new music director, Jeffrey de Seriere, who started as interim music director in January, has already made a significant impact, according to YOSAL. At the same time, De Seriere teaches at Cabrillo College in…

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Arts Council for Monterey County Awards 19 Local Artists With Individual Grants

MONTEREY COUNTY — Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) has announced the recipients of its Individual Artists Grants.

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Nearly $111K in Grants Awarded to Local Arts and Culture Projects in Monterey County

MONTEREY COUNTY — The Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) has announced that it has awarded $110,520 in Arts and Cultural Impact Grants to 23 local arts organizations and nonprofit organizations with art programs.

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Arts Council for Monterey County Reveals the 2024 Champions of the Arts.

The Arts Council for Monterey County announced the 2024 Champions of the Arts awardees. These five extraordinary local individuals will be recognized at Arts4MC's Annual Champions of the Arts Awards Breakfast on Friday, Aug. 9.

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New Art Galleries to Check Out Open Along the Monterey Peninsula.

It’s hard to keep up with new galleries that are always popping up in Monterey County. Today we are bringing to your attention three new galleries you may visit whenever you have a chance.

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PacRep Nears Completion of Its Golden Bough Playhouse Remodel.

The anticipated opening of the Golden Bough Playhouse in Carmel, the primary performance venue for the Pacific Repertory Theatre (PacRep), has moved to late August. But the show must go on, as the saying goes, which means that the upcoming…

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Community Celebrates New Mission-Themed Mural in King City

KING CITY — Members and friends of the nonprofit group King City in Bloom gathered Friday afternoon to celebrate the completion of the new mural at 122 N. Second St., across from the Hartnell College campus.

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Monterey County's Funding for the Arts Is Safe, for Now.

Arts organization leaders in Monterey County were alarmed by the proposed California state budget for 2024-25, which recommends cutting funding to the California Arts Council by 58 percent, or $10 million.

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After 40 Years in Darkness, the Four-Part Endomosaic Mural by Emile Norman Finally Sees Daylight.

On Friday, May 24, Monterey History and Art Association President Gary Spradlin, along with Emile Norman Charitable Trust trustee Marc Del Piero, Monterey Library and Museums Director Brian Edwards and a couple of helpers, gathered on Tyler Street in Monterey…

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Thousands Celebrate ‘Golden Hills & Fair Time Thrills’ at 80th Annual Salinas Valley Fair

SALINAS VALLEY — Nearly 40,000 people attended the 80th Annual Salinas Valley Fair over the course of its four-day celebration in South Monterey County last week.

Image caption: Dalip Singh Saund,  the first Sikh, Indian American and Asian American to be elected to Congress and Kamala Harris, the first Asian American vice president.
25 AAPI Leaders From California

California has been home to many Asian American and Pacific Islanders who have transcended barriers and reshaped society, from education to advocacy, art to sports, politics, and beyond.

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Aurora Borealis in the Santa Cruz Mountains

The Northern Lights appeared in Northern and Central California Saturday night.

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Female Lowriders Celebrated in Watsonville

Filmmaker Gloria MorĂĄn discusses her film, Unique Ladies about an all-female lowrider club in San Diego. Her screening is part of a five-day Cinco de Mayo celebration in Watsonville of lowrider culture.

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Guitars Not Guns Makes Historic Donation of 200 Guitars to South Monterey County Schools

MONTEREY COUNTY — The Monterey County Chapter of Guitars Not Guns, in conjunction with the Monterey County Office of Education, distributed 200 Keith Urban Yamaha Guitars, along with Gator guitar cases, to 10 school districts in South Monterey County on …

Image caption: A screenshot from “Modern Times” (1936), Charlie Chaplin’s meditation on the vicissitudes of labor.
For May Day: A Temp Worker’s Oddest Jobs

They were odd jobs, but somebody had to do them. On International Workers’ Day, one peripatetic laborer shares his career lowlights.

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Pacific Grove Student Named Monterey County’s Next Youth Poet Laureate

MONTEREY COUNTY — After a competitive selection process, the Arts Council for Monterey County (Arts4MC) has announced Maram Haddad as the 2024-25 Monterey County Youth Poet Laureate (YPL).

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With Planning Commission’s Blessing, PacRep Moves Forward on Theater Remodel.

Pacific Repertory Theatre amended its Golden Bough Theatre renovation project, resolving all existing issues in front of the Carmel Planning Commission on March 13.

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