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EVENTS AT THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY. 831-667-2574 for event tickets and info
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The 2nd Sunday Concert Series: July 12!

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Friday, July 3 & 4
The Crepe Place, Folkyeah and Henry Miller Library presents:
1st Annual Mother Hips Family Hipnic
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!

"The Mother Hips, a Bay Area quartet, hooked up nearly twenty years ago at Chico State. A couple of record deals and sabbaticals later, they continue to deliver a romping strain of countrified psychedelic power pop laced with traces of Merle Haggard, Barry Gibb, and the Eagles. Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacano, the songwriters and front men, know how to sing it sweet and play it dirty."
New Yorker Magazine

Friday 3pm -11pm
Saturday 1pm - 11pm

Friday 3pm gate

3.15 Emily Jane White
4.35 Citay
5.35 Red Cortez
6.35 These United States(pict on right)
7.50 Moondoggies
9.15 MOTHER HIPS

Saturday 1pm gate

1.15 The Dry Spells
2.15 Travel By Sea
3.15 Nicky Bluhm and the Gramblers
4.15 Sparrow's Gate
5.25 Parson's Red Heads
6.35 Little Wings
7.50 Everest
9.25 MOTHER HIPS

Plus DJ sets and an acoustic stage (back porch) in-between main stage live acts.
Tickets will be available at the door!
LOCAL DISCOUNT! (with BIG SUR ID only)
Kids 10 years old and younger free! Beer and Wine + mixed drinks + BBQ vendor inside the event.
No food and drink allowed in. Call 831-667-2574 for more.

STILL LOOKING FOR LODGING? Go here.
Check in with all the local spots everyday as people do cancel reservations (rooms and campsites) often. bigsurcalifornia.org

Camping: (go here) first come first serve camping (no reservations needed) @ these spots :
Bottchers Gap Campground located 8 miles inland at the end of Palo Colorado Road.

Palo Colorado Road winds its way up a narrow canyon through a Redwood grove, taking you to the campground at 2,100'. The campground is situated in a ridge saddle among Oak and Madrone trees.
Bottchers Gap provides an excellent view of the Ventana Double Cones in the Santa Lucia Mountains within the Ventana Wilderness. The Skinner Ridge trailhead is located at the campground. The campground has 12 units, each with a picnic table, fire ring and pedestal grill. Several of the sites are walk-in sites. Fee: $12.00 per night. 6-8 persons per site.
Bottled water is available from the campground manager. Parks Management Company
(805) 434-1996

Nacimiento Campground is a small campground along the side of a mountain trout stream approximately 11 miles east from Kirk Creek on the Nacimiento-Ferguson Road.

The Nacimiento-Ferguson Road runs from the coast at Kirk Creek on Rt. 1 to the Big Sur high country.
40 miles east of Nacimiento, the road provides access to King City and US 101 via Jolon Road
(County Road G-14), passing through the Hunter-Liggett US Military Reservation.

The campground has 8 units, each with a picnic table, fire ring and pedestal grill.
No Drinking Water is available at this site.Fee: $10.00 per night. 6-8 persons per site.

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Sunday, July 5th, 2 – 4 p.m.
The Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU of Northern California and The Henry Miller Library
Invite You to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the ACLU of Northern California.

Please join us for an afternoon of refreshments, music, poetry, and good company under the redwoods while learning about the remarkable history of ACLU-NC and what's on the horizon for civil liberties during the Obama presidency. Meet Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California. If you want more information, contact us at via e-mail here. Or call (831) 624-1180.

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Sunday, July 12.
Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM.
Line-up is announced.

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Sunday, July 19th, 3-6 PM.
Rise Up Singing: A Singing Workshop with Lisa Goettel

A super fun afternoon singing workshop for singers, shower singers & wanna-be-singers alike. Local voice coach Lisa G. teaches songs of every genre in the round and guides the way to vocal freedom, connection and joy. $25/person
Please pay and register here:

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Friday, July 24
(((folkYEAH!))) and Henry Miller Library presents:
Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 7pm

STEPHEN MALKMUS and The Jicks
plus very special guests, returning to Big Sur: The Entrance Band
+ DJ sets
Tixs $22.50 plus venue/paypal fees

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Latest Malkmus recording review in Rolling Stone here

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Saturday, July 25 @ 8 PM (Gate at 7 PM)
by popular demand, they're back:
THE HOUSE OF FLOYD - Doing 'THE WALL'

By public demand, they're back! This year with an even more advanced laser show! Get your tickets early, we will sell out.

HOUSE OF FLOYD, a reverent tribute to Pink Floyd, captures the intoxicating sights and sounds of the original for even the most discriminating fan. HOUSE OF FLOYD pays the highest tribute to the original by accurately recreating all of the nuanced musical complexity and powerful visual imagery of Pink Floyd. The result of this obsessive attention to detail is a total Floyd production...music, lights, lasers and video. HOUSE OF FLOYD will transport you back to that mystical moment when you first discovered the enthralling world of Pink Floyd.

Food and drink by Big Sur Coast Foods.
Tickets $27.50 (they will sell out!) 831-667-2574
Buy now!

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Sunday, August 9.
Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM.
Line-up is announced.
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Saturday, August 15
The sci-fi comedy StarStruck
A Lance Roger Axt & Play it by Ear/AudioComics Production.

StarStruck: a benefit for "Gentleman Gene" Colan

On August 15, 2009, the off-Broadway science-fiction comedy StarStruck by Elaine Lee, Susan Norfleet Lee, and Dale Place, basis for the 1980’s comic book series by Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta (who provided set and costume designs for the original production), will be presented for the first time in 25 years as an audio theatre-style live reading here at the Henry Miller Library.
Tickets available now at $12 plus service fee = $ 12.80. Click below or call 831-667-2574

Original Playbill: Courtesy of Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta

Starstruck creator Elaine Lee will be in attendance for this special performance, as will painter Lee Moyer, who supplied colors for the new Starstruck revival from IDW Publishing (schedule subject to change) and members of the original off-Broadway production of Starstruck from 1983!

A silent auction will feature comic book and fantasy related prints from artists Tom Fleming, Todd Klein and Alex Ross, and Lee Moyer, limited edition jazz prints and original concert posters from the Fillmore Auditorium, wines, gift baskets, and an original one-of-a-kind commissioned piece from artist Frankie B. Washington.

Proceeds from this performance will benefit comics legend Gene Colan. Colan, best known for his artwork on Iron Man, Daredevil, Batman, and Tomb of Dracula (from which the character Blade was introduced), was diagnosed with liver failure in 2008.

The reading will employ pre-recorded sound effects and live effects performed by a team of foley artists, coupled with composer Dwight Dixon’s music from the original production.

Play it by Ear Productions, an audio theatre company in Pacific Grove, CA, will produce the event under the direction of Producing Director Lance Roger Axt. “I’m absolutely ecstatic that this is finally going to happen; speaking as both a longtime comics fan and a theatre artist, I’ve wanted to do something with this play for over a decade. And helping Gene and Adrienne Colan is an added bonus; I’m more than happy to lend a hand.”

Play it by Ear Productions

...As the play opens, Captain Galatia 9 and the crew of the Harpy blast into space on a mission for the United Federation of Female Freedom Fighters. Flying with the amazon captain are a hotheaded Space Brigader, a renegade nun, an empathic fish-woman and a reprogrammed pleasure droid who serves as science officer. When the Harpy runs into a living ship inhabited by a team of galactic evildoers, the outcome of the battle may well decide the fate of the free universe...

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Sunday, August 23 at 10-5PM
Writing Workshop
"Working Through Your Inner Dark Side!"
Instructor: Jill Kleiss
For reservation please go here.

From Jill Kleiss' website:
Welcome to the dark side of writing, a process that encourages writers to examine their own darkness of pain and suffering in order to achieve the benefits derived from self-exploration.

Why Do It
Uncovering the dark soul (where pain and fear hide), releases a treasure chest of creativity, the gold of truth for both fiction and nonfiction writers. The best art comes from truth–modified through fiction–but truth nonetheless.

Who Should Attend
The class is for beginning and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers of any age. Anyone interested in deepening their writing by exploring the hidden emotions that drive a story will benefit by this work.

How Is It Taught
The class format will incorporate methods of role-playing, in-class assignments, and dream work to push beyond the blocks and dip into the black ink of imagination.

More detail on: kleissink.com

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Sunday, August 30
Gala Finale of the 2009
Big Sur Int'l Short Film Screening Series.
Details TBA - mark your calendar!

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Saturday, September 12
“Let There Be Peace on Earth.”
CD and Book Release Party!

The afternoon will include live music by Palo Colorado and Mountain Jamband, book signing and other events. Everyone is invited!

Jan-Lee Music will soon be releasing a new CD featuring the song, “Let There Be Peace on Earth” and nine other songs written by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller, arranged by 'our own' very talented Nico Georis and performed by himself and friends, Jacob Silver and Robin MacMillan, along with the Big Sur Singers and other musical friends and family.

Tricycle Press, a division of Ten Speed Press will be publishing “Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin with Me,” a book for children and families, illustrated by award-winning artist, David Diaz, which will include the CD.

More TBA.
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Sunday, September 13.
Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM.
Line-up is announced.
If you are interested in performing in 2010 click here.

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Saturday, September 19.
Launch Party for Ping Pong issue # 3.
Please keep in touch as this party develops steam...
We are very proud of our editors for getting our third issue off the press!
Website and details still pending, stay in touch.
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Friday, September 25
the Handsome Little Devils (cancelled)

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Stanimals????...waiting...waiting...

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Open Mic - 8 - 11PM, every Wednesday night!

Sing a song, speak your mind, juggle your balls - @ 8 PM
We have a good sound system, three mic's, two direct boxes,
12 channel mixer, one good guitar you can borrow.
Sign up when you get here or by e-mailing now.

REGULAR EVENTS: OPEN MIC / WEDNESDAYS SHORT FILM SERIES 2nd SUNDAY SERIES, July 12 Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series now scheduled for the 2009 series! ___________ OUR FAVORITE PAST PERFORMERS RECENT PAST EVENTS Our two local NPR stations. Thanks for your support!	EVENTS AT THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY. 831-667-2574 for event tickets and info ______________________________________ The 2nd Sunday Concert Series: July 12! ______________________________________ Friday, July 3 & 4 The Crepe Place, Folkyeah and Henry Miller Library presents: 1st Annual Mother Hips Family Hipnic TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR! "The Mother Hips, a Bay Area quartet, hooked up nearly twenty years ago at Chico State. A couple of record deals and sabbaticals later, they continue to deliver a romping strain of countrified psychedelic power pop laced with traces of Merle Haggard, Barry Gibb, and the Eagles. Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacano, the songwriters and front men, know how to sing it sweet and play it dirty." New Yorker Magazine Friday 3pm -11pm Saturday 1pm - 11pm Friday 3pm gate 3.15 Emily Jane White 4.35 Citay 5.35 Red Cortez 6.35 These United States(pict on right) 7.50 Moondoggies 9.15 MOTHER HIPS Saturday 1pm gate 1.15 The Dry Spells 2.15 Travel By Sea 3.15 Nicky Bluhm and the Gramblers 4.15 Sparrow's Gate 5.25 Parson's Red Heads 6.35 Little Wings 7.50 Everest 9.25 MOTHER HIPS Plus DJ sets and an acoustic stage (back porch) in-between main stage live acts. Tickets will be available at the door! LOCAL DISCOUNT! (with BIG SUR ID only) Kids 10 years old and younger free! Beer and Wine + mixed drinks + BBQ vendor inside the event. No food and drink allowed in. Call 831-667-2574 for more. STILL LOOKING FOR LODGING? Go here. Check in with all the local spots everyday as people do cancel reservations (rooms and campsites) often. bigsurcalifornia.org Camping: (go here) first come first serve camping (no reservations needed) @ these spots : Bottchers Gap Campground located 8 miles inland at the end of Palo Colorado Road. Palo Colorado Road winds its way up a narrow canyon through a Redwood grove, taking you to the campground at 2,100'. The campground is situated in a ridge saddle among Oak and Madrone trees. Bottchers Gap provides an excellent view of the Ventana Double Cones in the Santa Lucia Mountains within the Ventana Wilderness. The Skinner Ridge trailhead is located at the campground. The campground has 12 units, each with a picnic table, fire ring and pedestal grill. Several of the sites are walk-in sites. Fee: $12.00 per night. 6-8 persons per site. Bottled water is available from the campground manager. Parks Management Company (805) 434-1996 Nacimiento Campground is a small campground along the side of a mountain trout stream approximately 11 miles east from Kirk Creek on the Nacimiento-Ferguson Road. The Nacimiento-Ferguson Road runs from the coast at Kirk Creek on Rt. 1 to the Big Sur high country. 40 miles east of Nacimiento, the road provides access to King City and US 101 via Jolon Road (County Road G-14), passing through the Hunter-Liggett US Military Reservation. The campground has 8 units, each with a picnic table, fire ring and pedestal grill. No Drinking Water is available at this site.Fee: $10.00 per night. 6-8 persons per site. Back to top of page ______________________________________ Sunday, July 5th, 2 – 4 p.m. The Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU of Northern California and The Henry Miller Library Invite You to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the ACLU of Northern California. Please join us for an afternoon of refreshments, music, poetry, and good company under the redwoods while learning about the remarkable history of ACLU-NC and what's on the horizon for civil liberties during the Obama presidency. Meet Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California. If you want more information, contact us at via e-mail here. Or call (831) 624-1180. ______________________________________ Sunday, July 12. Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM. Line-up is announced. ______________________________________ Sunday, July 19th, 3-6 PM. Rise Up Singing: A Singing Workshop with Lisa Goettel A super fun afternoon singing workshop for singers, shower singers & wanna-be-singers alike. Local voice coach Lisa G. teaches songs of every genre in the round and guides the way to vocal freedom, connection and joy. $25/person Please pay and register here: ______________________________________ Friday, July 24 (((folkYEAH!))) and Henry Miller Library presents: Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 7pm STEPHEN MALKMUS and The Jicks plus very special guests, returning to Big Sur: The Entrance Band + DJ sets Tixs $22.50 plus venue/paypal fees Back to top of page Latest Malkmus recording review in Rolling Stone here ______________________________________ Saturday, July 25 @ 8 PM (Gate at 7 PM) by popular demand, they're back: THE HOUSE OF FLOYD - Doing 'THE WALL' By public demand, they're back! This year with an even more advanced laser show! Get your tickets early, we will sell out. HOUSE OF FLOYD, a reverent tribute to Pink Floyd, captures the intoxicating sights and sounds of the original for even the most discriminating fan. HOUSE OF FLOYD pays the highest tribute to the original by accurately recreating all of the nuanced musical complexity and powerful visual imagery of Pink Floyd. The result of this obsessive attention to detail is a total Floyd production...music, lights, lasers and video. HOUSE OF FLOYD will transport you back to that mystical moment when you first discovered the enthralling world of Pink Floyd. Food and drink by Big Sur Coast Foods. Tickets $27.50 (they will sell out!) 831-667-2574 Buy now! Back to top of page ______________________________________ Sunday, August 9. Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM. Line-up is announced. ______________________________________ Saturday, August 15 The sci-fi comedy StarStruck A Lance Roger Axt & Play it by Ear/AudioComics Production. StarStruck: a benefit for "Gentleman Gene" Colan On August 15, 2009, the off-Broadway science-fiction comedy StarStruck by Elaine Lee, Susan Norfleet Lee, and Dale Place, basis for the 1980’s comic book series by Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta (who provided set and costume designs for the original production), will be presented for the first time in 25 years as an audio theatre-style live reading here at the Henry Miller Library. Tickets available now at $12 plus service fee = $ 12.80. Click below or call 831-667-2574 Original Playbill: Courtesy of Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta Starstruck creator Elaine Lee will be in attendance for this special performance, as will painter Lee Moyer, who supplied colors for the new Starstruck revival from IDW Publishing (schedule subject to change) and members of the original off-Broadway production of Starstruck from 1983! A silent auction will feature comic book and fantasy related prints from artists Tom Fleming, Todd Klein and Alex Ross, and Lee Moyer, limited edition jazz prints and original concert posters from the Fillmore Auditorium, wines, gift baskets, and an original one-of-a-kind commissioned piece from artist Frankie B. Washington. Proceeds from this performance will benefit comics legend Gene Colan. Colan, best known for his artwork on Iron Man, Daredevil, Batman, and Tomb of Dracula (from which the character Blade was introduced), was diagnosed with liver failure in 2008. The reading will employ pre-recorded sound effects and live effects performed by a team of foley artists, coupled with composer Dwight Dixon’s music from the original production. Play it by Ear Productions, an audio theatre company in Pacific Grove, CA, will produce the event under the direction of Producing Director Lance Roger Axt. “I’m absolutely ecstatic that this is finally going to happen; speaking as both a longtime comics fan and a theatre artist, I’ve wanted to do something with this play for over a decade. And helping Gene and Adrienne Colan is an added bonus; I’m more than happy to lend a hand.” Play it by Ear Productions ...As the play opens, Captain Galatia 9 and the crew of the Harpy blast into space on a mission for the United Federation of Female Freedom Fighters. Flying with the amazon captain are a hotheaded Space Brigader, a renegade nun, an empathic fish-woman and a reprogrammed pleasure droid who serves as science officer. When the Harpy runs into a living ship inhabited by a team of galactic evildoers, the outcome of the battle may well decide the fate of the free universe... Back to top of page ______________________________________ Sunday, August 23 at 10-5PM Writing Workshop "Working Through Your Inner Dark Side!" Instructor: Jill Kleiss For reservation please go here. From Jill Kleiss' website: Welcome to the dark side of writing, a process that encourages writers to examine their own darkness of pain and suffering in order to achieve the benefits derived from self-exploration. Why Do It Uncovering the dark soul (where pain and fear hide), releases a treasure chest of creativity, the gold of truth for both fiction and nonfiction writers. The best art comes from truth–modified through fiction–but truth nonetheless. Who Should Attend The class is for beginning and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers of any age. Anyone interested in deepening their writing by exploring the hidden emotions that drive a story will benefit by this work. How Is It Taught The class format will incorporate methods of role-playing, in-class assignments, and dream work to push beyond the blocks and dip into the black ink of imagination. More detail on: kleissink.com ______________________________________ Sunday, August 30 Gala Finale of the 2009 Big Sur Int'l Short Film Screening Series. Details TBA - mark your calendar! ______________________________________ Saturday, September 12 “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” CD and Book Release Party! The afternoon will include live music by Palo Colorado and Mountain Jamband, book signing and other events. Everyone is invited! Jan-Lee Music will soon be releasing a new CD featuring the song, “Let There Be Peace on Earth” and nine other songs written by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller, arranged by 'our own' very talented Nico Georis and performed by himself and friends, Jacob Silver and Robin MacMillan, along with the Big Sur Singers and other musical friends and family. Tricycle Press, a division of Ten Speed Press will be publishing “Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin with Me,” a book for children and families, illustrated by award-winning artist, David Diaz, which will include the CD. More TBA. ______________________________________ Sunday, September 13. Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM. Line-up is announced. If you are interested in performing in 2010 click here. ______________________________________ Saturday, September 19. Launch Party for Ping Pong issue # 3. Please keep in touch as this party develops steam... We are very proud of our editors for getting our third issue off the press! Website and details still pending, stay in touch. ______________________________________ Friday, September 25 the Handsome Little Devils (cancelled) Back to top of page ______________________________________ Stanimals????...waiting...waiting... ______________________________________ Open Mic - 8 - 11PM, every Wednesday night! Sing a song, speak your mind, juggle your balls - @ 8 PM We have a good sound system, three mic's, two direct boxes, 12 channel mixer, one good guitar you can borrow. Sign up when you get here or by e-mailing now.	Stay in Touch! Sign up to our e-mail list! Quick links to events Check back often... Friday, July 3 & 4 1st Annual Mother Hips Family Hipnic Sunday, July 5th, 2 – 4 p.m. Come celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the ACLU of Northern California. Sunday, July 12 @ 2 PM. Second Sunday Concert Series Sunday, July 19th, 3-5 PM. Rise Up Singing: A Singing Workshop with Lisa Goettel Friday, July 24 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Saturday, July 25 @ 8 PM The House of Floyd Sunday, August 9 @ 2 PM.. Second Sunday Concert Series Saturday, August 15 The sci-fi comedy StarStruck Sunday, August 23 at 10-5PM Writing Workshop: "Working Through Your Inner Dark Side!" Sunday, August 30 Gala Finale of the 2009 Big Sur Int'l Short Film Screening Series. Saturday, September 12 “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” Sunday, September 13 @ 2 PM. Second Sunday Concert Series Saturday, September 19. Launch Party! Ping Pong issue # 3. Friday, September 25 the Handsome Little Devils ______________________ Stay in Touch! Sign up to our e-mail list! Nearest airport: Monterey It's about one hour drive to the Henry Miller Library from the Monterey airport. Car Rental IMPORTANT! When you come for an event to the Library please: CARPOOL, TAKE THE BUS or RIDE A BIKE - Parking is very limited. WHEN PARKING DO NOT LEAVE ANY PART OF YOUR CAR ACROSS THE WHITE SIDE LINE. (this last point is very important). Your co-operation is much appreciated. THANK YOU and WELCOME!
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