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Art
Events, Exhibits & Workshops
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Family Art Festival - Buena Park
March 11, 2023
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
The Family Art Fest provides a wonderful opportunity for parents and children to enjoy a day discovering the arts together. Hands-on art activities for all ages, live entertainment, and much more provides a delightful celebration of the rich cultural traditions that thrive in our own backyards!
Free event, but a special session of Palettes in the Park will be held at this event for $25
Location:
Smith-Murphy Park
5290 Cameron Drive
Buena Park, Ca
INFORMATION:
(714)562-3860 |
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Dance
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Music
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Valentine's Day with The Righteous Brothers - Costa Mesa
February 10-11, 2023
8:00 pm
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo The Righteous Brothers topped the charts for four decades. Now, Bill Medley joins forces with one of the most versatile vocalists in America, Bucky Heard, to bring The Righteous Brothers back to the stage. The Righteous Brothers concert experience features a string of their biggest top-ten hits, including “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’" (the most played song in radio history), “Soul & Inspiration,” “Unchained Melody,” “Rock and Roll Heaven,” Medley’s Grammy-winning Dirty Dancing theme “The Time of My Life” and much more.
LOCATION:
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
615 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
INFORMATION:
(714) 755-5799 |
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Film
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Casa Cinema: Pride & Prejudice (2005) - San Clemente
February 14, 2023
6-8 pm
Enjoy a romantic movie night in Casa Romantica’s historic Main Salon theater with this romantic film based on Jane Austen’s 1831 novel of the same name. Follow the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy as they overcome their sins of Pride and Prejudice.
BONUS: Purchase a $30 add-on that includes chocolate-covered strawberries and a bottle of Prosecco.
LOCATION:
Casa Romantica
415 Avenida Granada
San Clemente, CA 92672 |
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Historical
Tours & Programs
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Downtown Santa Ana Historic Architecture Tour - Santa Ana
Saturday, June 4, 2022
- check back for next date
Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA), the county seat since 1889, is probably more reminiscent of a classic downtown than any historic downtown in Orange County.
Join Preserve Orange County with one of their experienced tour guides for a 2 1/2 hour cultural experience. See the banks, courthouses, stores, churches, fraternal halls, and office buildings on a walking tour of this district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Learn about active historic preservation issues in Santa Ana concerning buildings such as First American and the YMCA.
Preserve Orange County member: $12 Non-member: $15. Click link abover to purchase tickets
LOCATION:
Old Orange County Courthouse
211 West Santa Ana Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92701 |
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San
Juan Capistrano Walking Tour - San
Juan Capistrano
Saturdays
1 pm
The
Walking Tour visits two San Juan Capistrano adobes
built in the 1790s and the Victorian Pryor House.
Hear tales of Buchard the pirate, Juan Flores the bandito, Chola Martina the bruja and much more.
The Historical Society gives tours every Saturday at 1:00 pm starting at the train depot. Tours last about 45 minutes and include the Society’s own collection of historic structures as well as other homes in the Los Rios District. As the oldest, continuously inhabited street in California, Los Rios Street is a charming neighborhood with a colorful history.
LOCATION:
Meet your guide at the railroad depot platform on Verdugo Street
San Juan Capistrano
INFORMATION:
(949) 493-8444 |
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Home and Garden Tours & Workshops
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Make It, Take It – Gifts from the Kitchen: Escabeche - Costa Mesa
Saturday, May 21, 2022 - check back for next event
10 a.m.-noon
RSVP online by May 18
This class will bring you up to date on the latest canning process recommendations, teach you how to process your food safely and tell you why you are doing it that way. You will learn what equipment is needed and proper storage methods. A recipe to make escabeche – a simple but zesty combination of crunchy pickled vegetables that is often served with Mexican cuisine – will be taught and prepared in class for participants to take home.
LOCATION:
Centennial Farm, OC Fair & Event Center
Costa Mesa
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Current
Museum Exhibits
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Bowers
Museum Exhibit - Ancient Arts of China: A 5000 Year Legacy
Ongoing Exhibit
Curated by scholars of Chinese history and culture from the Shanghai Museum, this incredible collection portrays the evolution of Chinese art and culture. Journey back through 5000 years of Chinese history and follow the efflorescence of arts throughout one of the world's oldest living civilizations. From large painted ceramic pots used during the Neolithic period, to sculptures of camels and horses made at the height of the Silk Road, to beautiful embroidered silk court robes and ivory carvings from the 19th century, this exhibition presents the importance of fine art made to be admired during life and depended on in the afterlife.
LOCATION:
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana
INFORMATION:
(714) 567-3679 |
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Readings,
Lectures & Seminars
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Theater
& Performing Arts
- Featured On Stage Performances
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South Coast Repertory presents: Appropriate - Costa Mesa
January 28 - February 26, 2023
Arkansas, present day. The estranged members of the Lafayette family gather at their late father’s crumbling plantation to prepare for the estate sale—and bury the hatchet. But decades of resentment have a way of bubbling to the surface, and a shocking discovery in the piles of clutter sends them spiraling as they confront repressed histories, regrets and each other. Winner of the Obie Award for Best American Play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ crackling comedic drama is called “subversively original…remarkable and devious” by The New York Times.
Recommendation: Ages 16+ for strong language and sexual themes.
Voices of America Two plays—The Little Foxes and Appropriate-—alternating nightly, with one set, two directors, overlapping casts and unlimited firepower!
LOCATION:
South Coast Repertory
655 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
TICKETS / INFORMATION:
Phone: (714) 708-5555
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South Coast Repertory presents: Little Foxes - Costa Mesa
January 29 - February 26, 2023
Alabama, 1900. Ben and Oscar Hubbard stand to earn millions by funding an industrialized cotton mill. But first they’ll need their calculating sister, Regina, to secure the seed money from her dying husband. When he refuses, the siblings stop at nothing to satisfy their own ambitions and keep the wealth in the family. It is Regina, however, with razor-sharp intellect and diabolical gentility, who is the most ruthless. Ferocious and funny, this celebrated classic takes an absorbing look at all sides of the American Dream.
Recommendation: Ages 14+
Voices of America Two plays—The Little Foxes and Appropriate-—alternating nightly, with one set, two directors, overlapping casts and unlimited firepower!
LOCATION:
South Coast Repertory
655 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
TICKETS / INFORMATION:
Phone: (714) 708-5555
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Chance Theater presents: Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious
March 31, 2023 — April 30, 2023
This biting comedy spans centuries, continents, and cultures in its three-part vignette structure. Beginning in 1880s Hanoi, the capital city of French Indochina, where a Vietnamese cook finds herself in the kitchen of aristocratic French settlers. Then in 1999, a century later, in Vietnam, where American diners get their first taste of the local cuisine. Then finally, in present-day, gentrifying Brooklyn, where the simmering argument around culture, ownership, and authenticity comes to a roaring boil.
LOCATION:
Chance Theater @ Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
5522 E. La Palma Ave.
Anaheim, CA
TICKETS / INFORMATION:
Tickets and Information at www.ChanceTheater.com
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Community
Theater & Student Theater Productions
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Camino Real Playhouse presents: 'Strangers on a Train' - San Juan Capistrano
February 3 – 19, 2023
Guy Haines and Charles Bruno meet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything while chatting. Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder-he could kill Guy’s unfaithful wife while Guy could eliminate his hated father. Guy does not take him seriously, but Bruno is deadly serious. The basis of the thriller classic film by Alfred Hitchcock.
LOCATION:
Camino Real Playhouse
31776 El Camino Real
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
INFORMATION:
(949) 489-8082 |
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Current
and upcoming cultural events in Orange County.
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