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Art Exhibits, Events & Workshops

Create 2013 - Mixed Media Conference & Artist Faire - Irvine
May 29 - June 2, 2013
9 am - 12 pm
(Artist Faire - Fri, May 31, 6-9 pm)

This exclusive mixed media event brings together more than 20 of your favorite artist instructors for a unique blend of 90+ three hour and six hour hands-on workshops over the course of five days.

On Friday, The Artists' Faire is your opportunity to shop for interesting & unique supplies and one-of-a-kind artworks from Artist Instructors, local and national Artists and Suppliers. Artists’ Faire is FREE and open to the public!

LOCATION:
Hyatt Regency Irvine
17900 Jamboree Blvd
Irvine, CA 92614

Artists Village Art Walk - Santa Ana
June 1, 2013
First Saturday of the Month
7:00pm - 10:00pm.

Downtown Santa Ana comes alive with arts the first Saturday of each month when galleries, theatres, artists and performers in the Artists Village host a monthly Open House for the public. This free event attracts as many as 1500 individuals who come from throughout Los Angeles and Orange County to walk more than 150 participating studios and galleries located in historic buildings in the heart of downtown Santa Ana.

INFORMATION:
714-571-4229

Laguna Canyon Premier Artists (Private Studios) & Wine Tasting
1/2 Day Tour - Meet 8 to 15 of Laguna's Premier Artists.

These award winning Gallery and Festival Artists will show you their latest work of art in their private studios as well as the process and tools used for their inspiration. Many have won prestigious awards and are renowned around the world. Enjoy contemporary art, plein air, mixed media/abstract, bronze sculptures, figurative art, sculptured glass jewelry and more. There's also a stop at Laguna's famous Culinary Arts for wine tasting & cheese.

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Music

The Muckenthaler Jazz Festival
Fullerton
Thursdays, May 16 – June 13, 2013

Entering its 8th season, The Concert Series has emerged from nativity to be a recognized force on the Southern California Jazz Scene. This year’s series will help launch the Festival onto the International Stage when we debut the first Muckenthaler Jazz CD featuring the Glenn Cashman Nonet. Festival Co-Founder and Jazz educator Dr. Cashman, who in addition to being a world-class tenor saxophonist, is also a well known Jazz Composer/Arranger.

Ticket prices are $20 in advance, $25 day of concert, or $100 for the entire series. No member discounts available.

LOCATION:
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center
1201 West Malvern Avenue
Fullerton, California 92833

Pacific Symphony Presents: "Rite of Spring Turns 100"
June 6, 2013 - June 8, 2013

8 pm

The New York Times proclaimed Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” as significant “to the 20th century as Beethoven's Ninth is to the 19th.” Celebrate the centennial of Stravinsky’s foremost orchestral achievement.

Preview talk with host Alan Chapman at 7 p.m. This is a collaboration with UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

LOCATION:
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
615 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

INFORMATION:
714-755-5799

Melody Makers' Spring Concert - Santa Ana
Saturday, June 8, 2013
3:00 & 5:00 pm

Melody Makers Scholarship Foundation presents: "THE POP CONCERT"

3:00 pm show (Artists: 4-10 yrs)
5:00 pm show (Artists : 11-17 yrs)

Tickets are $25 each and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

LOCATION:
OCSA’S “MARGARET A. WEBB THEATER”
801 N. Main St.
Santa Ana, CA 92701

INFORMATION:
For more information, visit online or call (949) 423-5710.

Laguna Beach Live! Jazz Wednesdays - Laguna Beach
June 19th-August 28th, 2013

Jazz Wednesdays Summer Series brings great jazz music and great food together 6 concerts, every two weeks, June 19th-August 28th, 2013. Tickets are $15 online and $18 at the door. Season tickets are $90. All seats are pre-assigned by order of purchase date and group size.

LOCATION:
Aliso Creek Inn
31106 South Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

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Film & Cinema

Bowers Museum presents 'Mrs. Skeffington'
Thursday, June 06, 2013
1:30 PM - 4 PM

Starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains, this film was nominated for two Oscars. Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man in order to save her beloved brother from an embezzlement charge. (1944) (146 minutes)

Member $7 / Non-member $10

LOCATION:
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706

INFORMATION:
714.567.3677

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Historical Tours & Programs

San Juan Capistrano Walking Tour - San Juan Capistrano
Sundays
1 pm

The Walking Tour visits two San Juan Capistrano adobes built in the 1790s and the Victorian Pryor House. Tales of ghosts, pirates, buried treasure and of many who have lived here will point out why San Juan is so special.

Donations of $2.00 per adult and $1.00 per child are accepted and go to several projects including Save the Adobe Fund.

LOCATION:
Tours leave from "Lady Debra's" at the corner of Camino Capistrano and Verdugo Street.
San Juan Capistrano

INFORMATION:
(949) 493-8444

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Current Museum Exhibits

Discovery Science Center Presents: “Planetary Research Station” - Santa Ana
New exhibit now open

The “Planetary Research Station” is an animated globe that can show dynamic, animated images of the atmosphere, oceans, and land of a planet.

LOCATION:
Discovery Science Center
2500 N. Main St.
Santa Ana, CA 92705

INFORMATION:
714-542-2823

Bowers Museum Exhibit: Gems of the Medici
April 16 - September 15, 2013

Gems of the Medici, a world premier exhibition, highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from the 1st Century BCE as well as a cornelian which was part of the Seal of Nero.

LOCATION:
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana

INFORMATION:
(714) 567-3679

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Readings, Lectures & Seminars

Orange County Museum of Art - Curatorial Tours & Artist Talks - Newport Beach

Highlighting selected works from OC Collects, educators engage visitors in observation and discussion, creating a forum for the exchange of ideas and perspectives.

LOCATION:
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach

INFORMATION:
949-759-1122

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Theater & Performing Arts
- Featured On Stage Peformances

SCR Presents: "The Fantasticks"
May 10 - June 9, 2013

A carnival midway of magic, mischief and theatrical thrills! Amanda Dehnert, celebrated throughout the American theatre for re-imagining classics, has added a multitude of visual delights and fantastical illusions to the original charm and beautiful ballads (like the haunting “Try to Remember”) of The Fantasticks. When two scheming fathers conspire with the mysterious El Gallo to keep their daughter and son apart (to be sure they’ll fall in love!) the dewy-eyed lovers venture into the real world. But as fantasy turns to reality, El Gallo is there to remind them that “without the hurt, the heart is hollow” in one of the most popular musicals of all time, which the Washington Post calls, “Fresh and alive again.”

LOCATION:
South Coast Repertory
655 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa

INFORMATION:
714-708-5555

SCR Presents: "The Night Fairy"
May 24 - June 9, 2013

Theatre for Young Audiences

Flory is a fairy no taller than an acorn, who loses her exquisite wings in a fight with a bat, falls into the garden of a "Giantess" and takes up residence in a birdhouse. This magical story from a Newbery Medal winner is as visually bewitching as the night fairy herself. But Flory is as fierce and ferocious as she is elegant, and she's about to discover that she needs every drop of bravery—and equal amounts of understanding and compassion—in her new life among the daylight creatures.

LOCATION:
South Coast Repertory
655 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa

INFORMATION:
714-708-5555

Laguna Playhouse presents: "Steel Magnolias"
April 30 – May 26, 2013

This heartwarming true story follows a group of friends who gather each week at a salon in Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana. Truvy dispenses shampoo and advice to Ouiser, the town curmudgeon (“I’m not crazy; I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years”), Miss Clairee, an eccentric millionaire with a sweet tooth, and M’Lynn, whose daughter Shelby is about to get married. Tough as steel and fragile as the blossoms of magnoliatrees, these hilarious characters gossip, tease, laugh, fight, cajole, and comfort each other as they go through life’s big joys and challenges.

LOCATION:
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92652

INFORMATION:
Box Office (949) 497-ARTS (2787)

CTSA presents 2013 Shakespeare Festival - Irvine
August 1 - 31, 2013

8 pm

Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Department of Music UCI Symphony presents 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'King Lear' and 'The Fantasticks'. Productions are in a modular, transportable Elizabethan-style theater that provides an intimate setting for both the audience and the actors. Roofless, the New Swan Theater is perfect for outdoor theater under the stars and enjoying our wonderful California summer evenings. Seating on two tiers for 125 maximum capacity.

LOCATION:
Claire Trevor Theatre
Irinve, CA

INFORMATION:
Tickets at online or call 949-824-2787

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Community Theater / Youth Theater Productions

Cabrillo Playhouse presents: "The Last Five Years"
June 7-30 , 2013

The Last Five Years is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist and Cathy Hyatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order (begining the show at the end of the marriage) and Jamie's is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple have first met). The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.

LOCATION:
202 Avenida Cabrillo
San Clemente, CA

INFORMATION:
(949) 492-0465

The Buena Park Youth Theatre presents 'Guys & Dolls' - Buena Park
June 14 - 23, 2013

Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, this oddball romantic comedy considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy soars with the spirit of Broadway as it introduces us to a cast of vivid characters who have become legends in the canon. Funny and romantic, GUYS AND DOLLS is ideal for audiences of all ages.

Tickets: General Admission $10; Senior and Child Admission $8

LOCATION:
Buena Park High School Performing Arts Complex
6688 Academy Drive
Buena Park, CA

INFORMATION:
(714) 562-3860

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Wine Tasting Events

First Friday of the Month Wine Party
June 7, 2013
Meets the FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH (except January)

6-9 pm

Enjoy delicious food, live entertainment with wine pairings. Must make reservations via email or phone

LOCATION:
Laguna Canyon Winery
2133 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651 USA
949.715.9463 (Wine)

Laguna Canyon Premier Artists (Private Studios) & Wine Tasting Tours
1/2 Day Tour - Meet 8 to 15 of Laguna's Premier Artists.

These award winning Gallery and Festival Artists will show you their latest work of art in their private studios as well as the process and tools used for their inspiration. Many have won prestigious awards and are renowned around the world. Enjoy contemporary art, plein air, mixed media/abstract, bronze sculptures, figurative art, sculptured glass jewelry and more. There's also a stop at Laguna's famous Culinary Arts for wine tasting & cheese.

 

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