Carl Cherry Center for the Arts

Mirth-0-Matics
2015-11-20 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Tragedy, comedy or contemporary culture? It makes no difference to The Mirth ‘O’ Matics, who take suggestions from the audience on a range of subjects and then creates a series of scenes and skits, using whatever is at hand. Scenes might include star-crossed lovers, dance songs, sword fights, turkeys, politicians, rhyming couplets, disguises and asides from the audience. The Mirth ‘O’ Matics have gained quite a bit of notoriety as the only troupe on the Central Coast to take audience suggestions and turn them into laugh-out-loud 3-5 minute skits. As usual, the show will feature plenty of audience participation so be sure to leave your inhibitions at the door.
Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by calling 831-624-7491 or Purchase online here

Anne & Pete Sibley
2015-11-21 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Celebrated as a “disarming virtuosic experience,” the Sibleys hit the national spotlight in 2009 with a blue ribbon finish in the “Great American Duet Sing Off” on National Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. They’ve performed live at NYC’s Town Hall, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and on festival stages such as North Carolina’s Merlefest to Colorado’s Rockygrass.

With two voices in harmony, a guitar and a banjo, Anne and Pete Sibley’s songs are a journey, a joining of music and story. Raised in the Northeast, settled in the West, the Sibleys seek to convey music more attune to an experience, than a simple song.

Tickets are $25 and can be reserved by calling 831-624-7491 or online here

Holmes for the Holidays: An Evening of Sherlock Holmes One Acts
2015-12-04 19:30 - 2015-12-13 14:00 UTC | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Actor’s Collective of Monterey presents Holmes for the Holidays: An Evening of Sherlock Holmes One Acts adapted by local director, actress and playwright Cindy Womack from the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes for the Holidays consists of two of the world’s only consulting detective’s most famous cases. Beginning with “The Case of The Blue Carbuncle.” During the Christmas holidays a war veteran hard-up for money brings a little case to Holmes purely to help another unfortunate. Holmes’s deductions trigger surprising events that will change the veteran’s fortunes—and Holmes’s. This case gives us Sherlock at the top of his game in an unusually whimsical adventure. In stark contrast, in the act two case of “The Dying Detective,” Dr. Watson must deal with a fatally infected Holmes and a meeting between his now desperate and rapidly failing friend, and the learned Culverton Smith. Is the Great Detective meeting with his possible savior or having a showdown with a deadly enemy?
This is the World Premier of Holmes for the Holidays which was workshopped and presented at The Western Stage and the Carl Cherry Center earlier this year. So, whether you are a Rathbone, Cumberbatch or Downey Sherlockian, you and theater goers who enjoy the world’s most enduring mysteries are sure to enjoy.
Holmes for the Holidays features Jeffrey T. Heyer as Sherlock Holmes. He is co-founder of Actors Collective, the first Actor in Residence at PacRep and TWS Artistic Associate. A long time admirer of the Master Reasoner, Mr. Heyer is delighted to be returning to the role, as he has been cast as Holmes a previous eight times, a different problem causing the cancellation of no less than five of these productions. He appeared on stage as Holmes at TWS in The Mask of Moriarty (1999) and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (2008), as well as in The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes for the Carl Cherry Arts Center Monologue Festival in 2009.
Performances on Friday – Sundays – December 4th – 13th.
Friday and Saturday shows at 730pm and Sundays @ 2pm
Purchase tickets here OR by calling 831-624-7491

New Ground: Music for a New Year
2016-01-01 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
New Ground:
Music for a New Year
Performed by the Cherry Trio
January 1 at 3pm
From 1600 to 1900, the concept of a “tonal center” provided grounding and direction to the melodies and inner voices surrounding that center. Join the Cherry Trio as we explore the different expressions and approaches English and French composers traveled on their musical journeys. The music of William Lawes, Henry Purcell, John Jenkins, François Couperin, Marin Marais and others will be featured in a New Year’s Day concert performed by the Cherry Trio: Katie Clare Mazzeo, Elizabeth Gaver and Penny Hanna.
Tickets $25

Lens on the Water
2016-01-08 08:00 - 2016-02-19 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Lens on the Water, a photography exhibit exploring the images, themes and metaphors of the Pacific waters, opens Friday, January 8th at Carl Cherry Center.
A reception for the photographers will be held January 8th from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Music by Color Space.
The exhibit includes fine art photography by four established and emerging surf photographers. All pieces on display will be available for purchase.
Curated by Kelly Sorensen of On the Beach, the exhibit can be seen Monday through Friday from 11 to 4 p.m. or by appointment through February 19th. Photography includes work by John Bostwick, Patrick Bremser, Bart Keagy, Erik Landry and Eamon Lucas.
With each photographer having a distinctive style and approach to the same ‘surf’ subject matter, the exhibition shows how a shared experience–in some cases in the same area of California–can result in individual, contrasting work by using different photographic styles. Coinciding with the exhibit, the Cherry Center will launch a series of collaborative events, including musical performance and surf-related films.

A Sweetheart Deal: Valentine's Day Music, Chocolate and Poetry for the Smitten
2016-02-14 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the celebrated duet of Dixie Dixon and Steve Mortensen joins forces with critically acclaimed poet and actor Taelen Thomas to offer “A Sweetheart Deal,” a rich and romantic program of eclectic music, poetry, popular songs and chocolate. Richard Rosen, the stellar harmonicist, will join in on some of the songs.
The concert includes poetry and songs intertwined with themes such as “Wine comes in at the mouth,” (William Butler Yeats); “Dance Me to the End of Love,” (Leonard Cohen); “Love Me Like a Song,” (Willie Nelson); “The Zambezi of Your Eyes,” (Nicolas Guillen); and “Love is Like a Red Red Rose” (Robert Burns).
Taelen Thomas, known for his powerful stage presence and resonant voice, has been performing the poetry of W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Burns, Ogden Nash, and other notable poets for many years. Steve Mortensen, a versatile singer/songwriter, recording engineer, and bandleader, has been playing and performing almost his entire life. Dixie Dixon, singer of music in all genres, has a melodic, clear voice and will sing songs of heartbreak, betrayal and new and old love.
Included in the price of the ticket is savory faire, champagne, chocolate, cherries, wine and, incidentally LOVE!
(photo credits: Jerry Ginsburg and Carol Henry)
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Parallel Lives
2016-02-26 19:30 - 2016-02-28 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
A Caffrey Girl Production in collaboration with the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
In the opening scene, two Supreme Beings plan the beginning of the world. Once they decide on the color scheme of the races, a little concerned that white people will feel slighted being such a boring color, they create sex and the sexes. From this moment, the audience is whisked through an outrageous universe, where actresses will play men and women struggling through the common rituals of modern life: teenagers on a date, sisters at their grandmother’s funeral, a man and a woman in a country western bar. With boundless humor, Parallel Lives reexamines the ongoing quest to find parity and love in a contest handicapped by capricious gods or in this case, goddesses.
Show Dates & Times
Friday, February 26th and Saturday, February 27th at 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 27th and Sunday, February 28th at 2:30 pm

For information, call 831-624-7491
*Sales from concessions will be donated to the Gathering for Women, a refuge for homeless women on the Monterey Peninsula.
Tickets $20

High School Art Exhibit: Thinking Out Loud
2016-03-03 - 2016-03-24 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its annual High School Art Show, Thinking Out Loud. The program was established to fetch new life into the practice of art and poetry for all Monterey County High School students. Held each Spring, the program’s mission is to bring literary and fine arts to all county high school students–especially those in disadvantaged households. The High School program seeks to foster the next generation of poets and artists by capitalizing on the latest trends in poetry-recitation and performance, art techniques and curation. Through poetry and art, we will help transform the imagination and awareness of local high school students.
Your participation in this important event demonstrates to the community the vitality of art in Monterey County High Schools. As in the past, art teachers will be the primary jurors of the works submitted by your students. We look forward to seeing stimulating and timely work.
ART OPENING SATURDAY, MARCH 5th from 3-5pm
EXHIBIT FROM MARCH 5 – APRIL 1
Student artwork for sale.
Please contact us at 624-7491 or via email at info@carlcherrycenter.org if we can answer any questions.
This program is made possible, in part, through grants from the Arts Council for Monterey County through funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, the Community Foundation for Monterey County, the Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Volunteer Services for Monterey County, Carmel-by-the-Sea Rotary and the Yellow Brick Road Benefit Store.

High School Art: Thinking Out Loud -- OPENING RECEPTION
2016-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Artwork from Monterey County High School students.
Meet fabulous student artists.
Exhibit runs from March 5 – April 1
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 11am – 4pm or by appointment.
This program is made possible, in part, through grants from the Arts Council for Monterey County through funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, the Community Foundation for Monterey County, the Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Volunteer Services for Monterey County, Carmel-by-the-Sea Rotary and the Yellow Brick Road Benefit Store.

Seeing the Truth Arrive
2016-03-11 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Seeing the Truth Arrive, a reading exploring the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Robinson Jeffers, and recent verse by Kathryn Petruccelli and Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, will be Co-sponsored by the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation.
The lives of poets Muriel Rukeyser and Robinson Jeffers intersected several times: once, in 1941, when Jeffers was on the panel of judges that named Rukeyser the winner of the first Harriet Monroe Poetry Award; and again in 1947, when she lived in Carmel close to Tor House. Of art and specifically poetry, Rukeyser wrote: “It will apply to your life; and it is more than likely to lead you to thought or action, that is, you are likely to want to go further into the world, further into yourself, toward further experience.” (from Life of Poetry)
”Women and poets,” Rukeyser writes in her poem “Letter to the Front,” “see the truth arrive.” In this reading the focus will be on seeing the truth arrive.
Kathryn Petruccelli is a teacher and freelancer. After moving to New England from the Central Coast, she established Literary Cadences, a service that curates appearances for east coast authors in Northern California. She’d like to do more radio stories, but mostly she spends her time complaining about the lack of ocean in western Massachusetts. Her essay “How to Read this Essay” won the San Francisco’s 2015 Litquake Essay Contest. She is currently working on a series of essays about ice cream and community building.
A Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College where he taught composition, literature, public speaking and humanities for 32 years, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts is co-editor of the college text Bridges; co-editor/co-translator of two works from the Telugu, Sudha (Nectar) by Chalam and The Selected Verses of Vemana, both of which have been accepted into UNESCO’s Collection of Representative works: Indian Series; and co-author of Bowing to Receive the Mountain: Essays by Lin Jensen and Poetry by Elliot Roberts. His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing; Ping-Pong, the Journal of the Henry Miller Library; and in his introduction to Rivulets of Light: Poems of Point Lobos and Carmel Bay by John Dotson.
Poet-in-the-Schools for the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Ruchowitz-Roberts presents poetry writing workshops in high schools throughout Monterey County and coordinates the annual Monterey County High School Poetry Awards.
Ruchowitz-Roberts serves as 1st Vice President of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel, California. He also coordinates the Foundation’s annual Prize for Poetry and its annual reading series, and serves as a tour docent. He coordinated the National Endowment for the Arts “The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers,” during which he read and performed Jeffers’s poetry at venues throughout Monterey County, including local libraries, high schools and colleges. In 2009 he read Jeffers’ poetry at two bi-lingual readings in Prague, the Czech Republic.
Tickets $15

The Moon Shot: An Irish love tale
2016-03-18 19:30 - 2016-03-19 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
“In the summer of 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts fulfilled a promise made by the greatest Irishman ever to be elected President of another country. That same day, in County Ulster, Neil ‘The Skinny’ O’Toole said something so stupid it set the human race backward one humungous step.”
Award-winning writer and actor Michael Lojkovic debuts an original coming-of-age story, ‘The Moon Shot: an Irish love tale’ at the Carl Cherry Center, March 18 &19, 7:30 PM.
Channeling the spirits of classical Irish literature, poetry and music in contemporary terms, Lojkovic brings Readers’ theater to the Cherry Center in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. A blend of spoken-word, verse, story and live musical performance, the program includes Laura Burian, Skip Kadish, Michael Lojkovic, Deirdre McCauley and Robert McNamara.
Tickets $20

Mason & Weed: Ireland to Appalachia in Music
2016-03-25 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
John Weed and Stuart Mason play compelling, exciting music that explores the connections between Ireland and America, both ancient and modern. On fiddle, guitar, mandola, and banjo they bridge the Atlantic to summon a music that resonates with every audience. With the well-known Celtic powerhouse Molly’s Revenge, Stuart Mason and John Weed have appeared on festival stages from Glasgow, Scotland to Shanghai, China. Both are also members of the old-time bluegrass group Little Black Train with Kenny Blackwell, and Celtic group Story Road with Colleen Raney and Hanz Araki.
Tickets: $20

Jazz at The Cherry with The Biff Smith Quartet
2016-04-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Fools Rush In
The Carl Cherry Center is pleased to announce the launch of our Jazz at the Cherry series. Our inaugural performance will feature The Biff Smith Quartet.
Members of The Biff Smith Quartet (Biff Smith, Piano; Brian Stock, trumpet and flugelhorn; Heath Proskin, bass; Patrick Tregenza, drums) have performed at many local and national jazz venues, including the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Big Sur Jazz Festival. Since 1998 they have been celebrating the spirit of hard-bop, a seminal movement of 50s and 60s jazz. Pianist and prolific composer Biff Smith’s sophisticated yet highly accessible compositions blend elements of that era with modern sensibilities.
Savory fare, champagne, wine and, incidentally – foolishness — all included in the price of a tickets.
Special thanks to our events sponsors: Don & Laura Newmark and Karin Roache & Kenneth Hopkins, Richard & Bette Cannon, Morgan Winery and Ventana Vinyards.
Tickets $25

Love, Loss & What I Wore AUDITIONS
2016-04-02 - 2016-04-04 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts and Off the Rack Production are pleased to announce the revival of LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, a play about the challenges of the heart–and the closet. The play opens Friday, May 20th and continues through June 12th.
Every item in a woman’s closet holds a memory. Some are sweet, some are funny, and some are oh, so sad. Written by Nora and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, and directed by Michael Bond, LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE is a sweet and saucy collection of life-changing stories triggered by memories of specific accessories or articles of clothing.
Auditions for the play will be held at the Cherry Center on
Saturday, April 2nd at 2pm + Monday, April 4 at 7pm

We are looking for 5 women in their 30’s and older. The 5 women play a total of 30 parts.

If you are interested in auditioning, please call Michael at (831) 643-9331 or send an email to bonded1@gmail.com to arrange an audition time. Please be sure to leave a name, telephone number and email address. We will contact you to confirm an audition time and send you material for the audition.

Mirth-O-Matics: Monterey's Premier Improv Group
2016-04-08 19:30 - 2016-04-09 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Mirth-O-Matics return to the Cherry Center for 2 nights!
The premiere improvisational comedy troupe on the Monterey Peninsula has been entertaining audiences with their quick-wit and creativity for a long time now. Their unscripted shows are fueled by audience suggestions and adventurous volunteers. Similar to the popular television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” the Mirth-O-Matics perform funny games and scenes for the whole family!
Tickets $20
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4orm & Space
2016-04-15 - 2016-05-12 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
4orm & Space, an exhibit exploring spatial relations and the creative possibilities of form, on display now through May 12.
The exhibit includes new work by Stefani Esta, Josh Mitchell, Valerie Ostenak and Rick Soto.
Organized by the Carl Cherry Center, the exhibit includes examples of radical abstraction, conceptual restraint, and psychological exploration.
Here are the artistic expressions of four individuals who often find more in less. It is understandable that an exhibit in a historic house that is also home to Zen meditation and Yoga would host the pure expressions of these artists in its gallery. Whether through the simplicity of a hard line, the openness of a canvas, the texture of hard surfaces or the multiple layers of a collage resulting in a complex whole, each person’s expressions speak to their personal quest for meaning. For the viewer, their work provides an opportunity to find a quiet place to contemplate and wonder and find their own meaning – in the midst of our busy days, what more could one ask for?
The exhibit will be on display Mondays through Fridays from 11am – 4pm or by appointment.

Jayme Stone's Lomax Project
2016-04-21 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Jayme Stone (banjo, voice) | Moira Smiley (voice, accordion) | Sumaia Jackson (fiddle, voice) | Joe Phillips (bass, voice)
Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this “collaboratory” brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle, and re-imagine traditional music. The repertoire includes Bahamian sea shanties, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes, and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fisherman, prisoners, and homemakers.
A groundbreaking piece of work.
SONGLINES
“A truly inventive spin on some very old tunes.”
GEORGIA STRAIGHT
“A transatlantic session with blood, guts and grit.”
THE HERALD
Tickets $25
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Anne & Pete Sibley
2016-04-29 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
With two voices in harmony, a guitar and a banjo, Anne & Pete Sibley sing. Anne & Pete Sibley seek to convey music more attune to an experience rather than a simple song. Less then a decade since they released their first album, the Sibley’s music hit the national spotlight in 2009 with a blue ribbon finish in the “Great American Duet Sing Off” On National Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion. They’ve performed live at NYC’s Town Hall, Washington DC’s Kennedy center and on festival stages such as North Carolina’s Merlefest to Colorado’s Rockygrass. They have released seven albums, the latest Extraordinary Life in 2015.
Tickets $25
More info at http://anneandpetesibley.com/

High School Poetry Awards: Thinking Out Loud
2016-04-30 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA, 93940, United States
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts and The Monterey Public Library are pleased to announce the 2016 Monterey County High School Poetry Awards. As part of Thinking Out Loud, the Cherry Center’s annual exhibit devoted to high school arts, the high school poetry awards encourages the art and practice of poetry by offering educational workshops to high school students throughout Monterey County.The Awards provide students with an opportunity to master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn to write poetry. Now in its 23rd year, the poetry awards have inspired hundreds of high school students to discover classic and contemporary poetry.

Certificates of Merit, Cash Awards and Books of Poetry will be awarded at a reading and ceremony honoring the student poets beginning at 2:00 pm on Saturday, April 30th at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts at 4th & Guadalupe. The awards are free and open to the public. Additionally, an anthology celebrating the work of contributing students will be published by the Cherry Center.

The poetry awards are held in conjunction with the Cherry Center’s annual high school art exhibit, Thinking Out Loud. The art exhibit runs from March 5 – April 1 at can be viewed at the Cherry Center.

Get Creative.
The world around us is a place of end-less fascination, fun and facts. We hope you will learn some new ways to explore your neighborhood, parks, schoolyard, backyard and wild places with the help of Monterey County High School Poetry Awards. To instigate the creative process, the Monterey County High School Poetry Awards offer workshops to help students make the connection between place and imagination, between language and landscape. For information on workshops please call 831-624-7491.

Rules

Submissions must be original poetry in English, Spanish or a combination of both.
The author must be presently enrolled in a Monterey County High School.
No more than three poems allowed per author, and no poem may be more than 40 lines in length.
There are no restrictions as to content, style, form or metrical device.
All entries must be typed. Student’s name, address and phone number must be printed on each poem. Poets should also retain a copy of their poem.

Entries must be postmarked by March 27th and mailed to the Cherry Center for the Arts, PO Box 863, Carmel, CA 93921 or email entries to info@carlcherrycenter.org with the subject line “Thinking Out Loud”
This program is made possible, in part, through grants from the Arts Council for Monterey County through funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, the Community Foundation for Monterey County, the Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, the Pebble Beach Company Foundation, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Volunteer Services for Monterey County, Carmel-by-the Sea Rotary and the Yellow Brick Road Benefit Store.

Motherhood Out Loud
2016-05-06 19:30 - 2016-05-15 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
When entrusting the subject of motherhood to such a dazzling collection of celebrated American writers, what results is a joyous, moving, hilarious, and altogether thrilling theatrical event. Utterly unpredictable, MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD shatters traditional notions about parenthood, unveils its inherent comedy and celebrates the deeply personal truths that span and unite generations.
Performances are May 6, 7, 8 and May 13, 14, 15
Fridays and Saturday evening performances at 7:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday matinee performances at 2:00 pm
Tickets $20
Conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein
Directed by Lynette Winter
Written by Leslie Ayvazian, Brooke Berman, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Claire LaZebnik, Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman and Cheryl L. West

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Love, Loss and What I Wore - Theater Revival
2016-05-20 - 2016-06-12 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Written by Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts and Off the Rack Production are pleased to announce the revival of LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, a play about the challenges of the heart–and the closet. The play opens Friday, May 20th and continues through June 12th.
Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30pm. Sunday matinee at 2pm.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 831-624-7491.
Every item in a woman’s closet holds a memory. Some are sweet, some are funny, and some are oh, so sad. Written by Nora and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, and directed by Michael Bond, LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE is a sweet and saucy collection of life-changing stories triggered by memories of specific accessories or articles of clothing.
2016 Cast includes: Susan Keenan, Dania Ketcham, Sherry Kefalas, Linda Dale, Anne Mitchell, Alexandra Bristow (alternate, will perform on June 5th)
ART EXHIBIT: To accompany the 2016 play, the Cherry Center is launching an exhibit of local fashion-related artwork that examines the make-or-break challenges associated with getting dressed. Curated by Peter Hiller, the local artists include I.B. Bayo, Rachel Clark, Sarah Loveland, Heather Suzanne, Dawn O’Regan and Stevenson School students of Sally Russell. The exhibit will be displayed from May 20th through June 26th.

Special thanks to our Sponsors: Madrigal, She & Katie Foster Design

Love, Loss and What I Wore - Art Exhibit
2016-05-20 - 2016-06-26 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
To accompany the play, LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, the Cherry Center is launching an exhibit of local fashion-related artwork that examines the make-or-break challenges associated with getting dressed. Curated by Peter Hiller, the local artists include I.B. Bayo, Rachel Clark, Sarah Loveland, Heather Suzanne, Dawn O’Regan and the students of Sally Russell. The exhibit will be displayed from May 20th through June 26th.

Every item in a woman’s closet holds a memory. Some are sweet, some are funny, and some are oh, so sad. Written by Nora and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, and directed by Michael Bond, LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE is a sweet and saucy collection of life-changing stories triggered by memories of specific accessories or articles of clothing.
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts and Off the Rack Production are pleased to announce the revival of LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE, a play about the challenges of the heart–and the closet. The play opens Friday, May 20th and continues through June 12th.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 831-624-7491
June 2nd at 7:30 pm Words Dressed & Undressed:
Writing About Women & Clothing — Reading with Patrice Vecchione.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com

Outfitting Dreams and Dressing Our Wounds
We knew before we could explain it, and we knew it needed no explanation – it was right there for everyone to see: the dress was magical. Our mother slipped into the dress – not the plaid cotton shirtwaist or striped shift or corduroy jumper – it was that soft black chiffon, that shimmering black taffeta, that mesmerizing black lace — and suddenly, magically, domestic wrangler Mom was transformed into the alluring woman over whom Daddy was bent, fastening her necklace with his lips at her ear.
We knew the magic would work for us, too. Oh, we might have to wait till we were twelve or thirteen, we already knew the rings and wristbands and jeans jacket kept his eyes tracking us in school. And by fifteen we knew the great T shirt and the right jeans and must-have-these-boots-in-California-summers were what made us shine, what would prove, without fail, completely enchanting.
Of course we helped, gave just a boost to that little dress with spaghetti straps: we wore just the right heels, added just the most diaphanous scarf, carried just the tiniest of bags. And naturally, he was charmed.
We remember just how he fell in love that night. We can point to the record. Right there in the corner of the closet floor. Those heels, which also yielded blisters, are boxed along with all the pointy-toed/square toed/round-toed/open-toed/high-top-sneaker high heels. We danced. We laughed. We kicked them off.
The shoes lifted us into the clouds, or at least high enough to gaze into his eyes. And that dress: slinky, soft, thin as air, almost not there. When he placed his hand on shoulder, waist, hip – well — it was like skin to skin. And that black/red/cream/floral/velvet/jersey/spandex sheath is hanging in the far right corner of that closet where we go to cry over John and Paul and Chuck and Alistair. Where we go to assure ourselves that he loved us then. Where we go to reset the clock, incant the mantra that the little outfit could entrance anew.
And then we take courage, go out, and find the next little piece of magic for the next transformation.
Special thanks to our Sponsors: Madrigal, She & Katie Foster Design

Reading - Celebrating the Art of Getting Dressed
2016-06-02 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Words Dressed & Undressed: Writing About Women & Clothing
Local author, poet, and playwright, Patrice Vecchione will present a multi-media production on the subject of women and clothing. She believes that getting dressed in the morning is the best armor against almost whatever the world may throw at a person. If you feel good about how you look when you walk out the door, you’re more likely to make it through the day smiling. That may mean nothing more than a pair of jeans and bright red lipstick or it may require a little more ingenuity—a Oaxacan huipil, purple stockings, and cowboy boots. Patrice has been enamored by attire and bucking against convention ever since resisting the boring Catholic School girl uniform she had to don during her formative years. She’ll present an evening of work to delight, surprise, and make you want to get dressed up the next morning, even if just for the office.
Patrice Vecchione is the editor of many poetry anthologies, the author of two collections of poems and two nonfiction books, most recently, Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life (Simon & Schuster). She teaches creative writing, poetry and collage to adults and children. More at www.patricevecchione.com.
Tickets $15 and can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com

Jazz at the Cherry with the Dick Whittington Trio
2016-06-24 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Carl Cherry Center is pleased to announce the next event in our Jazz at the Cherry series – The Dick Whittington Trio featuring Kanao Mendenhall with drummer Vince Lateano.
Savory fare, champagne, wine — all included in the price of a $25 ticket.
Pianist, Dick Whittington, a long-time Big Sur resident, made his first major contribution to the Bay Area jazz scene in the late 1960s. He has worked with several generations of musical visionaries on the art of improvisation including Peter Apfelbaum, Rodney Franklin, Steven Bernstein, Jessica Jones, Joshua Redman and Benny Green.
Featured bassist, Kanoa Mendenhall, was born in Yokohama, Japan and raised in Monterey. She began playing jazz and classical cello at age ten, transitioning to the upright bass at age twelve. By age thirteen, she was recording and performing regularly in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas. A former member of the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, Kanoa has just finished her first year at Columbia University in New York and is enrolled in the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange where she studies with Ben Wolfe.
Rounding out the trio will be drummer Vince Lateano. Vince has toured with numerous great jazz musicians over the years including Cal Tjader, Woody Herman, Vince Guaraldi and Stan Getz. He also teaches percussion at the Monterey Jazz Festival’s summer jazz education program.
Savory fare, champagne, wine — all included in the price of a ticket.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com
Kanoa Mendenhall, featured bassist

The Mirth-O-Matics
2016-06-25 07:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
The Mirth-O-Matics, Monterey County’s stellar improvisational comedy troupe, returns to the Carl Cherry Center Saturday, June 25th at 7:30 p.m
A Mirth-O-Matics evening of theater games features a company of actors, a bare stage and a lot of ideas whose outlines are about as fixed as liquid mercury. Sometimes it starts with an unlikely combination of characters placed in equally improbable situations: Whoopie cushions, politicians, bagel salesmen and roller derbies can all find their way into a Mirth-O-Matics’ skit. Other skits are prompted by the audience, who are encouraged to suggest scenes.

Sometimes the situation is transformed time and again as the characters undergo a series of split-second metamorphoses: an irritated polka troupe on a bus, who then turn into faith healers at a revival meeting, gamblers at a casino, accusers at a witch trial and players in a rugby game.

However bizarre the setup, it is unique to the moment, no script and no structure except for the games, a fanciful array of exercises whose requirements range from making as many exits and entrances as possible in one scene to switching repeatedly back and forth from English to gibberish in another.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com

Dream Butchers: The World of Reinaldo Garcia
2016-07-08 19:30 - 2016-07-10 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
DREAM BUTCHERS: The World of Reinaldo Garcia, three evocative one-act plays by Reinaldo Garcia, will be presented July 8, 9th and 10th at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts.
Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:00 p.m., Sunday.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through Brownpapertickets.
Information: (831) 624-7491

LOW & INSIDE: Up-and-coming Los Angeles actor Mikandrew Perdaris portrays a baseball umpire on the worst day of his life as he vents his rage to a sports bartender.
HUNGER: On a Sierra Nevada cliff edge, a sheep and a wolf have a life-and-death encounter. This award-winning 1981 comedy receives a new production, with Jason Roeder as Loopy the Wolf and Mindy Whitfield as Harriet the Sheep.

LET ME LOOK AT YOU: Veteran Western Stage actor Jeffrey Heyer recounts the list of crimes committed by a married, middle-aged stalker who pursued a Pacific Grove actress. Jeffrey first starred in this piece in a 2009 staged reading at Monterey Peninsula College.

From the Vault: Forest Theater Poster Art
2016-07-15 - 2016-08-26 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Opening Reception: Friday, July 15th from 5pm – 7pm.
From the Vault: Forest Theater Poster Art, a rich and prominent collection of original Forest Theater poster art, opens Friday, July 15th at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Part of Carmel’s Centennial, the exhibit is drawn from the Pacific Repertory Theatre’s poster collection and will included a selection of posters—some of which can be purchased, with proceeds benefiting Pacific Repertory Theatre and the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts.

The posters are from approximately two dozen theater productions created by a range of illustrators from 1910 through the 1950’s. One of the favorite forms of entertainment in early years of Carmel was the theater arts, whose epicenter was the Forest Theater. The collection features posters from a wide range of plays, including Robinson Jeffers’ Tower Beyond Tragedy starring Dame Judith Anderson, to The First Poet by Jack London, and Fire by Mary Austin, among others. Together, the posters offer a window into Carmel’s vibrant theater scene and its leading actors and actress of the era.
Actor/director Herbert Heron is commonly called the founder of the Forest Theater and poet/novelist Mary Austin recognized as the muse behind the theater. As first envisioned, original works by California authors, children’s theatre, and the plays of Shakespeare were the primary focus. Since its inception, a variety of artists and theatre groups have presented plays, pageants, musical offerings and other performances on the outdoor stage, and the facility’s smaller indoor theatre and school.
“Heron was a known bibliophile – saving posters, programs, scripts and memorabilia from Carmel’s cultural history. When he passed away, he left much of his collection to his daughter, Constance, who kept it packed away in their home in Carmel Valley,” writes Stephen Moore, Founder and Executive Director of Pacific Repertory Theatre.
Acquired by Pac Rep prior to her death in 1990 and exhibited in depth for the first time, the programs remain in pristine condition. Pacific Repertory Theatre, whose annual festival of the same name, continues to 116-year tradition of presenting Shakesperare, Children’s Theater and contemporary plays.
The exhibit can be seen Monday through Friday from 11 to 4 p.m. or by appointment, through August 26th.

The Mudville Nine: Tales from the Diamond
2016-07-22 - 2016-07-24 | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
What happens when a Cub’s fan and a Giant’s fan get together and discuss their love of baseball?
An original evening of story and song featuring the Peninsula’s actor/songwriter Michael Lojkovic and Los Angeles’ renowned poet/performer Milo Martin (returning to his Carmel roots). With featured music recorded by The Chicago Els, Lisa Goettel and Bill Minor.
Four performances only!
Friday, July 22 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, July 23 @ 2pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, July 24 @ 2pm
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com
Info 831-624-7491

The Collection: A Play Celebrating the Life & Legacy of Peggy Guggenheim
2016-07-30 19:30 - 2016-07-31 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
THE COLLECTION, a theatrical collage of fictionalized vignettes celebrating the life and legacy of Peggy Guggenheim, will be presented July 30th and 31st in Cherry Hall. Shows are at 7:30pm
Written and directed by Al Schnupp, THE COLLECTION presents thirty-four brief, significant incidents in the life of Peggy Guggenheim, the renowned collector of modern art. Ms. Guggenheim was married several times, became friends with a vast assortment of American and European writers and painters, bankrolled Emma Goldman so the activist could write her memoirs, had an affair with Samuel Beckett, trafficked her art to America in the midst of World War II, introduced Jackson Pollock to the American art scene, established galleries in London and New York City and had a tumultuous relationship with her children. Each episode is paired with a work of art from her collection. The artworks are transformational, interactive, and complement the story.
While the scenes are sequential, the images are part of a dreamscape, where time and memory are free-flowing, without direction. Generally, the pairing of images with dialogue is symbolic, metaphorical. Included with the images are design and directorial solutions that enable the artwork to be transformed within each scene. THE COLLECTION is performed by four actors. (831) 624-7491.
Tickets are $20 can be purchased through Brownpapertickets.com.

Douglas W. Milliken reading from "Cream River"
2016-08-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Carl Cherry Center, Fourth and Guadalupe, Carmel, CA, 93921, United States
Pushcart Prize-winning author Douglas W. Milliken reads from his newest collection of short stories, Cream River (Pilot Editions). Cream River is described as “a series of eight subtly interconnected encounters with the fruitlessly stubborn and willfully blind.”
Douglas W. Milliken is the author of the novel To Sleep as Animals and several chapbooks, most recently the collection Cream River and the forthcoming pocket-sized edition One Thousand Owls Behind Your Chest. His stories have been honored by the Maine Literary Awards, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and Glimmer Train Stories, and have been published in Slice, McSweeney’s, the Collagist, and the Believer, among others.
www.douglaswmilliken.com.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com

Praise for Cream River
“I believe Doug Milliken has a firm grasp of life’s little traumas. He takes his chunk of loving meat and hangs it from a butcher’s hook on display for the world to read.”
—from the foreword by Ben Trickey, singer/songwriter
“I loved every story, every word.”
—Erin Sprinkle, singer/songwriter
Praise for To Sleep as Animals
“[…] it is impossible not to be the weird kid in Milliken’s Reno. To Sleep as Animals is a mystery about characters succumbing to their spaces, how such a rugged landscape sustains so many strange and dangerous lives.”
—The Collagist
“A disturbance of a very specific flavor […] Milliken’s writing is urgent yet finely considered—a literate pleasure.”
—Carl Skoggard, translator of Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood circa 1900.
“A distinctive and often vertiginously frightening psychological landscape […] bracingly disturbing.”
—Megan Grumbling, author of Persephone in the Late Anthropocene.
Praise for Brand New Moon
“These stories […] glow with some sort of holy light, as if every moment were magic, like footage of your family picnic on super 8.”
—The Portland Phoenix
“Seriously the funniest thing I have ever read. I was laughing so much that [my wife] yelled at me. Probably because she was sleeping. And it was 2 AM.”
—Derek Kimball, Last House Productions
