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Please remember, starting June 9:
The Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series every Thursday night until August 25.
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Saturday July 9
Improv Theatre Performance & Workshop with
David Razowsky and Eric Hunicutt w/ music by Al Rose
Concert w/ Al Rose
IMPROV THEATRE WORKSHOP - Saturday 2 - 5 PM
DINNER PARTY AT THE LIBRARY - Saturday 5.30 - 7 PM
IMPROV THEATRE PERFORMANCE - Saturday 7.30 - 10 PM
CONCERT W/ AL ROSE - Saturday 7.30 - 10 PM
Tickets $ 15 (plus fees) for show. ($20 at the door)
$ 75 for workshop, dinner and show! (first come first serve, limited)
Improvisation isn’t scary, it isn’t foreign, and it isn’t work. Improvisation is fun, simple and something you’re doing already but don’t yet know it!
David Razowsky, an alumni of the world famous Second City, and the former Artistic Director of Second City Training Center in Los Angeles, will be conducting the workshop
“Improvisation: You Can Do It!,” a three-hour introduction to theatrical improvisation. This class will show you how through mindfulness and awareness anyone can create amazing great improvisation.
Join one of the best teachers in the country (world?) for a workshop that'll help you open up to stuff inside you probably barely remember was in there.
Workshop includes a Dinner Party at the Library on Saturday, July 9.
So...instead of this websites' editor pouring out words of admiration, gratitude, and awe let's see what a few others have said (there are many more like this):
"With Warren Zevon-like wordplay, Chicago's Al Rose may be one of the cleverest singer-songwriters you've never heard of." -Sea Of Tranquility
“Al Rose tells, with wonderful flair, his remarkable stories which are often truly little masterpieces.” Rocktimes, Germany
“Every once in a while, a folk artist takes a genuinely new viewpoint and carries it to its limits” – New England Folk Almanac
“With a mixture of irreverence and soul, this veteran singer-songwriter just gets better, funnier and more plaintively incisive with each release. His latest, "My First Posthumous Release", mixes blues, country and rock influences with off-hand ease, while crafting indelible imagery. How, after all, can anyone resist a song that begins, ‘The X-rays were embarrassing’.” One of The Best Chicago Indie Releases of 2008 –Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
Spontaneous and passionate in the spirit of Henry Miller, the music of Al Rose and the improv theater of Razowsky and Hunicutt. 2 acts. Each act will open with a music set by Al Rose followed by Razowsky and Hunicutt. There will be an intermission in between acts.
David Razowsky, an alumni of the world famous Second City, and the former Artistic Director of Second City Training Center in Los Angeles, will be conducting the workshop “Improvisation: You Can Do It!,” a three-hour introduction to theatrical improvisation. This class will show you how through mindfulness and awareness anyone can create amazing great improvisation.
David Razowsky is one of the top teachers of theatrical improvisation and acting. He has been called “the guru of improvisation, an improviser’s improviser,” who connects the mindfulness of Buddhism with improvisation’s core principals of being in the moment, taking care of your partner, and groundedness. In over 25 years of improvisational acting David has worked with Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert at The Second City, iO West, The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, as a consultant to Dreamworks, BBC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago Theatre. He was Artistic Director of The Second City Training Center Los Angeles, and is adjunct faculty in the California State University system. He has been a featured performer and lecturer at the Chicago Improv Festival, The San Francisco Improv Festival, the Vancouver Improv Festival, and The Kennedy Center. David continues to act and direct professionally in Los Angeles.
“Al Rose tells, with wonderful flair, his remarkable stories which are often truly little masterpieces.” Rocktimes, Germany
“Every once in a while, a folk artist takes a genuinely new viewpoint and carries it to its limits” – New England Folk Almanac
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Sunday, July 10 at 3PM
Welcome to a special presentation and
booksigning by
John Robbins
Sponsored by Big Sur Powerdown.
Bestselling author, social activist, and humanitarian. Recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award, and Green America's Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Robbins' latest book is The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less.
He is also author of the international bestseller DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth, THE FOOD REVOLUTION: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, HEALTHY AT 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, THE AWAKENED HEART: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World, and RECLAIMING OUR HEALTH: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing.
 John’s work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Life, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many of the nation’s other major newspapers and magazines. His life and work have also been featured in an hour long PBS special titled Diet For A New America.
“If there is anyone who can provide a new vision for money and happiness, it is John Robbins. His ability to take a complex and emotional subject and bring the reader to insight and resolve are unparalleled.” —Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism, and Blessed Unrest.
This event is free & we will serve coffee and tea.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Thursday, July 14 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection:
There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
 Bottle
by Kirsten Lepore
USA
I Have Sinned
by Gabriela Tollman
USA
Next Floor
by Dennis Villeneuve
Canada
0507
by Ben and Chris Blaine
United Kingdom
Hans' Voice
by Luca Vacchi
Spain
Coccuniellidae
Géraldine Frery
France
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Saturday July 16 at 7.30 PM
Slideshow and booksigning
A Different Kind of Luxury:
Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance
Join author, writing teacher, and traveler Andy Couturier for an inspiring reading and slide presentation under the stars at the Henry Miller Library. In his latest book, A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance, Couturier profiles eleven contemporary men and women that have made the transition to sustainable, deeply fulfilling lives in the mountains of Japan. By presenting the journeys of these ordinary yet exceptional people, Couturier shows how we, too, can travel a meaningful path of living simply, with respect for our communities and our natural resources.
 “Andy Couturier catches everything that is
essential and beautiful in Japan with a clarity, sincerity and openness that move me to the core. It’s been years since such a fresh and liberating voice has emerged to remind us of the true heart of a country that so many of us fail to see or, indeed, to listen to.” Pico Iyer
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Thursday, July 21 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
Requiem for Kosova
by Dhimitri Ismailaj
USA/Kosovo
Chienne d’Histoire / Barking Island
by Serge Avedikan
France
The Terms
by Jason LaMotte
United Kingdom
Pitstop
by Melanie McGraw
USA
Deep end Dance
by Conor Horgan
United Kingdom
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
(((folkYEAH1))), Boo Boo Records & HMML Present
Kurt Vile & The Violators
w/ support TBA
gates 5:30pm
(Due to scheduling conflict Thurston Moore will not be performing.)
show 7pm
CARPOOL to this event.
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Thursday, July 28 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
Sing Me to Sleep
by Magnus Arnesen
Norway
Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns
by Pardis Parker
USA
Catharsis
by Cedric Prevost
France
From the Stars
by Kristian Landmark
Norway
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Another great night under the stars
with a movie you will not forget!
Saturday, July 30 when it gets dark enough.
(about 8.30PM)
Screening of the feature film
MY SUICIDE
Presented by the films Producer and Screenwriter:
Eric J. Adams.
(see film website here)
Legendary Music Supervisor Karyn Rachtman (Pulp Fiction) passionately signed onto the project to secure the rights to the prodigious amount of music and pre-existing media, sound and images featured in the film. She helped My Suicide to secure the music it dreamed of featuring. Check this...
Musical artists include:
• Bright Eyes
• Radiohead
• Devendra Banhart
• My Morning Jacket
• Animal Collective
 • Third Eye Blind
• Mark Mothersbaugh
• Blue October
• Daniel Johnston
• Wolfmother
• MGMT
• The Eels
• Tim Kasher (Cursive, The Good Life)
• The Pixies
• TV On The Radio
• Joanna Newsom
• Rocky Votolato
• The Mae Shi
• The Microphones
• The ATMA
• The Cinematic Orchestra
• Orphan Theater
• Alex Herron (discovered on MySpace)
BY DONATION
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(((folkYEAH))) Present
WOODSIST FESTIVAL
Night #1
SAT. JULY 30 @
FERNWOOD (in Big Sur north of the Library)
doors at 9pm- live music from 9:15pm - 12:30am
 NODZZZ
ART MUSEUMS
DUCKTAILS
WOODS/FRESH & ONLYS BIG BAND
Tickets for Night #1 at Fernwood
Click here.
Night (and Day) #2
SUN. JULY 31 @
HENRY MILLER LIBRARY
gates at 1pm
live music from
2pm - 10:30pm outdoors
REAL ESTATE
THEE OH SEES
FRESH & ONLYS
WOODS
SIC ALPS
SUN ARAW
WHITE FENCE
Tickets for Night (and Day) #2
here at NOON Friday, April 8:
CARPOOL to this event.
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Thursday, August 4 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
Watching
by Max Myers
United Kingdom
Mobile
by Verena Fels
Germany
Passengers
J.T. Walker
USA
Shoe
by Nick Kelly
Ireland
The Piano
by Levon Minasian
France
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Wednesday, August 10
 (((folkYEAH))) and HML present
an evening with
MGMT
Gates at 6PM
Show at 7.30
Tickets on sale here
Friday, June 17 at
High Noon.
Please note:
there will be NO refunds.
Do not buy tickets from scalpers on CraigsList, Stubhub, etc., as they
will not be honored.
Thank you for your understanding."
CARPOOL to this event.
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Thursday, August 11 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
Mi Otra Mitad
by Beatriz Sanchis
Spain
Blue Rinse
by Matt Leigh
Ireland
Eat
by Janicza Bravo
USA
Last Rain
by Tony Lopea and David Sanz
Spain
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Tickets now onsale
Saturday, August 13
An Evening With
Legendary Filmmaker
John Waters
bringing his live, one-man show to Big Sur in a benefit for the Henry Miller Library.
5 PM - 6.30 PM
Dinner with John* at the Henry Miller Library: Highest bidder. Current high bid is $1500 (as of June 10). Bids can be for 1 or 2 persons. Deadline for bidding is midnight July23.
E-mail your bid
6.45 - 7.45 PM
A limited amount of tickets (30) for a Private Meet and Greet. $125/person
8.30 - 10.00PM
The Show! $75.00
Legendary filmmaker John Waters
(“Pink Flamingos””Hairspray””Serial Mom”) brings his live, one-man show to Big Sur.
In it, he details his groundbreaking career in a rapid-fire stand-up comedy format (akin to high-brow comics and monologists such as Spalding Gray, Janeane Garofalo, and Margaret Cho) plus conducts a Q & A afterwards.
The show has played to sold-out audiences in New York, Copenhagen, Boston, San Francisco, Tucson, Washington (DC), Sydney (Australia), and beyond.
As a director, actor, graphic artist with showings at galleries across the globe, creator of the wildly successful Broadway musical “Hairspray”, Gay/Lesbian role-model, social commentator, author of numerous books (including his 2010 best-seller Role Models), and even his being immortalized as an animated character on “The Simpsons”-- not to mention being the man who first took a chance, believed, and catapulted Johnny Depp from pin-up idol to serious-actor status and critical acclaim--Mr. Waters is a renaissance man of almost unprecedented cultural influence.
* The intimate dinner will be candle lit, white table cloth, polished silver and the finest food and wine.
e-mail your bid before May 1st. Current high bid is at $1500 (as of June 10). Bids can be for 1 or 2 persons.
Deadline for bidding is midnight July23.
ARTIST ON WIKI
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Sunday, August 14
ARMITAGE SHANKS’ (of Circus Contraption)
“FREAKS & FEMMES”
An Evening of Cabaret, Burlesque, Music, Mayhem & More!
5 - 6:30PM
A free beginners Burlesque workshop for Women (& Men) who want to learn a little bit about shaking your tail feathers. In a supportive, relaxed environment, the performers will show you the basics this empowering art form. E-maill us to make a reservation.
6:30 - 7:30PM
Chill for a bit of summertime swank, with a red carpet (green grass?) cocktail hour. It’s an opportunity to meet the performers and have a playful movie star moment, right here at the library.
7.30PM:
Main Show Doors / Show @ about 8:30 (when it gets dark enough)
CARPOOL to this event.
Although Circus Contraption, who received much love by the Big Sur community, is no more, their legacy lives on through its many members. Circus Contraption’s co-founder & Ringmaster, Armitage Shanks now travels the world as a Ringmaster, Cabaret Singer, Director & Educator. From London, Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam to New York, San Francisco & beyond, he has been performing and producing shows with his unique brand of circus, carnival madness and audience interaction. He has recently completed a starring role in the upcoming feature film, “The Burlesque Assassins”, which also stars Koko La Douce, Scarlett Martini and Kellita.
Joined by some of Europe’s most notable Burlesque & Cabaret performers in their United States premiere, he returns to the Henry Miller Library for a night to remember.
From the Eternal City, Rome, Miss Scarlett Martini, brings the passion of Italy, its elegance and charm, as well as Fellini-esque touches of humor and dark pathos.
Switzerland’s, Koko La Douce, is truly a surreal sensualist. Whether embodying the spirit of Marlene Dietrich, or satirizing politics or sex, Koko never fails to captivate and inspire.
Hedo Luxe, a German national treasure, is both an amazing performer and stunning creator of costumes. If a divine alien mated with a Rockette and had a baby that knew how to sew, the interstellar love child would be Hedo Luxe!
Rounding out the bill, our very special guest, San Francisco’s Queen of Carnival (2008), Kellita. Her playful style, imagination and energy will make you drive to The City to get another fix.
Come dressed to the 9’s or come as you are, the show tonight will be a sexy, fun, strange romp with a carny twist!
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Thursday, August 18 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
Apele Tac / Silent River
by Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Germany/Serbia
A Bit Of Counseling
Deb Hiett
USA
All Animals
by Cynthia Mitchell & Robert Arnold
USA
Ghild
by David Yarovesky
USA
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Thursday, August 25 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
A special screening of the best films from last years series.
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Winner 2010
BEAST
by Lars P. Arendt
2nd Place
Born Sweet
by Cynthia Wade
3d Place
Vs.
by Ben Bruhmuller
Finalists 2010
Madagascar, carnet de voyage
Bastien Dubois
France
This Is Alaska
Gunilla Heilborn
Sweden
Kavi
Gregg Helvey
USA/India
Kus
Joost van Ginkel
Netherlands
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Friday, August 26
((folkYEAH!))) & HML Present
The Dodos
+ special guests
The Luyas
gates 6:30pm
show 8 pm
tixs on sale June 18 @ high noon
THE DODOS online
THE LUYAS Online
CARPOOL to this event.
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Sunday, August 28 @ 7PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screning Series
GALA FINALE
Under the stars a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Details will be announced as we get closer!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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We are very pleased to present two event in conjunction with the
Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival.
Please click on event name to get tickets (limited amount so act soon).
Wednesday, August 31:
A NIGHT OF POETRY, MUSIC and IMAGES
Curated by Philip Glass and Magnus Torén.
Performances by:
Eleni Sikelianos
Jerry Quickley
Francesco Levato
Philip Glass
and the Orchestra of Americas String Quartet.
More detail as the program develops.
Get your ticket now HERE.
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Thursday, September 1:
Jesse Goodman and Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival
Presents a benefit for the Henry Miller Library:
DRACULA
The Music and Film
Original Music by
Philip Glass
Performed by
Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble
Michael Riesman, Conductor
To Universal Pictures’ 1931 film classic
DRACULA, starring Bela Lugosi
TICKETS HERE
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(((folkYEAH))) Presents
Monday, September 5.
Explosions In The Sky
+ special Guests
Tickets on sale here
Friday, May 27th at Noon
SOLD OUT!!!
gates 6pm / show 7pm
Will Call at the gate.
No need to print out anything.
Please bring matching ID to show.
We allow no ticket transfers.
No refunds.
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(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Presents
Tuesday, September 6th
Little Dragon
with special guests
Seventeen Evergreen
gates 6pm
show 8pm
Tickets on sale here at Noon, Friday, July 1st.
Tickets $25.50 plus fees.
Li'l Dragon Online
Seventeen Evergreen Online
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(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Present in Big Sur!
Fleet Foxes
plus The Walkmen
Sunday, September 11, 2011
gates 6pm / show 7:30pm
2 tickets per person (please carpool to this event)
NO TICKETS OVER THE PHONE.
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PLEASE NOTE THESE VERY IMPORTANT RULES FOR TICKETS TO THIS EVENT!
All TICKETS are WILL CALL!
The name of the purchaser (you can buy two tickets) will be on the WILL CALL LIST and
that is how you will claim your event wristband.
You will be required to enter the venue as soon as you get your event wristband.
There will be NO IN & OUT privileges (no exceptions).
No tickets will be printed or mailed all TICKETS are WILL CALL (do not print anything all you need is your ID to claim the tickets you purchased- please save paper)!
PLEASE NOTE: We will not accept THIRD PARTY TICKETS!
Your name must match the will call list name (you the purchaser) or you will not be allowed entrance, no expections.
Websites:
http://www.fleetfoxes.com/
http://thewalkmenmusic.blogspot.com/
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(((folkYEAH!))) & HML Present
Saturday, September 24
Twin Shadow
plus support TBA
Doors 6pm
show 8pm
Twin Shadow Online
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 Oct 10th, 2011
(((folkYEAH))) Presents
Gang Gang Dance
gate 6.00PM
show 7.30PM
Tickets here at Noon June 3.
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Open Mic 8 - 11 PM, every Wednesday night!
Sing a song, speak your mind, juggle your balls.
For the Winter Months now back at
THE MAIDEN PUBLICK HOUSE (by River Inn)
Sign up by e-mailing now.
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News: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE RELEASING A RECORDING FROM THEIR 2009 SHOW AT The Henry Miller Library! Dave Portner on 'Pitchfork':
The B-side to the single is a live version of "Bleed", which we did at Big Sur on our last large U.S. tour. We played at the Henry Miller Library, which was awesome. We did this extended jam linking "Bleed" into "What Would I Want? Sky", so that's on there, too...read more.
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It's about one hour drive to
the Henry Miller Library
from the Monterey airport.
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