Local women artists are wanted The Women’s...

Local women artists are wanted

The Women’s Club of Laguna Beach is considering holding a one-day

Winter Art Boutique in mid-November. All types of arts and crafts are

eligible. Women artists wishing to exhibit should contact Nadine

Nordstrom today at (949) 494-0233.

All-women jazz band performs Oct. 1

Laguna Beach Live is presenting Jazz at the Beach Weekend

Saturday, featuring saxophonist Ann Patterson and her all-women

17-piece band, Maiden Voyage, performing at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 at Laguna

Beach Artists’ Theater, 625 Park Ave.

Tickets -- $30 or $25 for adults and $15 for students -- are

available at Laguna Playhouse, (949) 497-2787.

Art museum to offer free admission

Laguna Art Museum and 23 other area museums will be offering free

admission on Saturday. Information: o7www.museumsla.org. f7Laguna

Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, (949) 494-8971 or

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First Sundays opens its season

Bassist Luther Hughes and musicians from Jazz Masters will open

First Sundays Sunday at Laguna College of Art & Design with a jazz

concert from 3 to 4 p.m. at 2222 Laguna Canyon Road. This is the last

chance to see famed Disney animator Glen Keane’s exhibit, starting at

2 p.m. Information: (949) 376-6000.

Laguna Beach Film Society offers free screening

Laguna Beach Film Society’s Cinema in the Park will present a free

screening of MacGillivray Film’s “Five Summer Stories” at 7 p.m.,

Oct. 15 outdoors at Heisler Park’s entrance to Rockpile Beach, off

Cliff Drive. Attendees are encouraged to bring beach chairs and

picnic dinners. Information: (949) 494-5827, ext. 201.

‘Bad Dates’ now at playhouse

Beth Broderick, star of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” is starring

in the one-woman comedy “Bad Dates” at Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna

Canyon Road through Oct. 16.

“Bad Dates” centers on Haley Walker, a recent divorcee and single

mother with a shoe fetish. Walker is re-entering the world of dating.

From the privacy of her bedroom, she relates a series of hilarious

tales of her experiences while preparing for, and then recovering

from, one dreadful date after another. Information and tickets: (949)

497-ARTS or o7www.lagunaplayhouse.com.

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‘Moveable Feast’ fundraiser

The Laguna Playhouse presents its 15th annual “A Moveable Feast”

progressive dining experience fundraiser from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Oct.

17.

Attendees start with a pre-dinner, champagne reception at Tivoli

Terrace and can bid on a silent auction items. Then participants

enjoy two courses at their choice from featured restaurants.

After diner, participants return to Tivoli Terrace for dessert,

jazz and final auction bidding and prize drawings. This year’s top

prize is a trip for two to New York, including airfare, hotel

accommodations, dining and tickets to a Broadway show.

This event benefits the Playhouse Annual Fund. Tickets are $150

($100 of which is tax deductible). Information: (949) 497-2787, ext.

308.

No Square presents ‘The Sound of Music’

No Square Theatre will present “The Sound of Music” Oct. 14 at 8

p.m., Oct. 15 at 2 and 8 p.m. and Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. at the Festival

of Art’s Forum Theater, 650 Laguna Canyon Road.

Dress for a part and get a free glass of wine from Penfolds at a

pre-show tasting, included with $20 ticket. Information: (949)

497-1950 or o7www.nosquare.org.

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City hosts holiday palette competition

The arts commission is holding its annual holiday palette

competition. Artists are provided with a prepared 4-by-3-foot wooden

palette on which to paint original artwork. The completed palettes

are displayed throughout the city during the holiday season.

Proposals will be accepted from Laguna Beach residents, artists

with a studio in Laguna Beach or showing in a Laguna Beach gallery,

Laguna College students and artists exhibiting in Laguna festivals.

Artists must submit a horizontal palette design on 8

1/2-by-11-inch paper, in color, within the border of a palette

outline. The palette’s indentation must be integral to the design.

The deadline is 5 p.m. Oct. 7. Entries must be delivered to

Cultural Arts Manager Sian Poeschl at City Hall, 505 Forest Ave.

Entries will be judged by the commission based on creativity and

appropriateness. Honorarium is $300 for each selected design.

Information: (949) 497-0722.

Toulouse Engelhardt at Coach House

Toulouse Engelhardt, a Laguna resident, and Andrian Belew will

split the bill in a guitar concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 6. at the Coach

House Theater, 33157 Camino Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano.

Engelhardt was one of the original members of the Takoma Seven, an

elite club of the world’s greatest acoustic finger-style guitarists

that includes John Fahey and Leo Kottke.

Belew has worked with many rock ‘n’ roll heavyweights over the

years, including David Bowie and Frank Zappa. Tickets are $17.50.

Information: (949) 496-8930, o7www.lostgrovearts.comf7 or

o7www.thecoachhouse.com.

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