Sawdust Signs Off With a Raffle As the Sawdust Art Festival’s 47th season ends, 200 local artist-exhibitors and staff prepare for a final weekend of festivities. These include the Sunday, Sept. 1 raffle for a Suburu. Visitors still have a chance to enter the 4 p.m. drawing, which supports arts education. Raffle tickets are $5 […]
Aaron and Shira Alcouloumre first got involved with Laguna Beach’s day labor center by dropping off day-old bread, their joint b’nai mitzvah project in 2010. The siblings next raised $3,000 to pay for installation of a water fountain at the center, a need the workers identified. And each Christmas since, the teens raised funds to […]
He appears on stage slowly, his movements precise and slightly exaggerated to focus the audience’s attention on his presence. Then the stage blacks out. Somewhere in the corner of one’s vision, the dancer moves with dizzying speed, making perhaps scores of leaps in mere seconds. They register briefly in one’s perception as if the dancer […]
Laguna Playhouse is offering two courses to adults interested in playwriting Sept. 23 through Nov. 4. Page to Stage explores memoirs that have been turned into stage plays. Classes meet Monday from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Short-Form Playwriting helps those who want to exercise their imagination and create their own plays. The class will […]
Registration for Recreation Classes Begins Registration for fall recreation activities began this past Monday, Aug. 12 for classes that begin next month. The 30-page brochure, mailed to residents, is also available at the Community & Susi Q Center, Community Pool and Community Services Department, as well as online at www.lagunabeachcity.net. Register for classes online, by […]
By Christine Carpenter, Special to the Independent Carissa Scivers, already 21, counts down the days until she can live independently. For her, the excitement of packing up belongings and saying goodbyes to her family will mark the real beginning of adulthood. Her rite of passage is special by several measures. Scivers is among the very […]
Samantha Crane, a Laguna Beach High School 2009 graduate, continues on the path she began with encouragement and inspiration while enrolled in photo classes with former high school art teacher Peter Tiner. Crane, who continued as a studio arts major, concentrating in photography at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., recently shared her capstone […]
Bringing Music to the Boys and Girls Club This summer music is filling the halls and playgrounds at the Boys and Girls Club. For the first time music classes and concerts are being offered throughout the club’s nine-week summer program. Presented by Laguna Beach Live!, the concerts cover a wide range of styles -from the Flamenco […]
The Laguna Dance Festival’s annual fundraising event drew 185 guests on June 20 to celebrate dance and Desmond Richardson, a renowned choreographer, dancer, artist, actor and co-artistic director of New York’s Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Local audiences may well be seeing more of Richardson, who danced in the festival’s initial seasons. He announced plans to relocate […]
“Here we are. We should be competitors, but really we are great friends,” said Laguna gallerist Carla Tesak at the outset of an annual art auction benefit she has previously hosted alone at her gallery, Salt Fine Art. This year, though, she collaborated with fellow Laguna Beach gallerists Sue Greenwood of Sue Greenwood Fine Art […]
A group of local college students arrived in Southampton, England, last weekend to board the MV Explorer for a 66-day semester at sea this summer. Their first port will be Casablanca, Morocco, followed by Turkey, Malta, Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. While at sea, the 550 students from 300 universities attend University of Virginia […]
A group of local college students arrived in Southampton, England, last weekend to board the MV Explorer for a 66-day semester at sea this summer. Their first port will be Casablanca, Morocco, followed by Turkey, Malta, Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. While at sea, the 550 students from 300 universities attend University of Virginia […]
St. Catherine of Siena Parish School plans a pageant show this Friday, May 17, a tribute to the town’s famous Pageant of the Masters production. The school transforms itself into a gallery of live art, where students pose in full-sized art works. This year’s exhibit includes Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper,” and […]
Editor, I want to say thank you for an excellent show in the play “Hello Dolly.” The music, dancing, acting, costumes, sets were comparable to a very professional production anywhere. No one would guess these were 14 to 18 year old actors. If there were flaws no one knew it. I wish there would be […]
Fristers, a nonprofit that assists teen moms to become self-sufficient, has added a new school-readiness program for children of their clientele. The Kidsters Childcare and School-Readiness Program in Newport Beach is offered simultaneously with the life coach program offered teen moms. Teen mothers rarely can afford preschool, though studies show there are great benefits. Children […]
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