Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, April 8, 2017

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SOUTH PASADENA - SAN MARINO

Mountain Views-News Saturday, April 8, 2017 

Lectures and Conferences 
at the Huntington Library

Fundraising Concert Benefit 
the Friends of the Library

Annual Spring 
Green Expo

Off the Rails-

 The Gold Line offers some 
fun getaways, destinations 
and events along the Metro 
that standout to us here at 
the Mountain Views News. 
The fair for Metro is $1.75 
one way and you need to 
remember to have a TAP 
card (available at the train 
station).

 Metropolitan Water 
District is hosting their 10th 
annual Spring Green Expo 
on April 20, from 8:30 am 
to 1:30 pm at 700 North 
Alameda St. LA (Next to 
Union Station).

 Take the Metro Gold Line 
to the Union Station stop.

 Open to the public and 
free to attend, the program 
is an opportunity to 
highlight innovators of 
environmentally friendly 
services that save water and 
promote sustainability. The 
event will include a series 
of seminar presentations to 
educate attendees on the best 
and most promising ideas 
and solutions to conserve 
and protect water supplies.

Distinguished Fellow Lecture - Potosi, Silver, and the 
Coming of the Modern World

Apr 12 at 7:30 p.m.

 John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus 
at Yale University and the Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at 
The Huntington, will present an account of Potosi, the great 
16th- and 17th-century South American silver mine and 
boomtown which galvanized imperial Spain, fueled the 
rise of capitalism, destroyed native peoples and cultures 
en masse, and changed history (for good or ill?). Free; no 
reservations required. Rothenberg Hall.

Join us before each lecture for dinner in the 1919 café, just 
steps away from Rothenberg Hall. Our newly launched 
Research Lecture and Dinner series offers three-course, 
prix-fixe dinners inspired by the lectures topic, complete 
with full table service at The Bar. Signature cocktails, beer, 
wine, and small plates will also be available. Each lecture-
inspired dinner is $35 per person, and begins at 5:30 p.m.

East Asian Garden Lecture - The Lives of a Memorial 
Building: from Nara and Beyond

Apr 25 at 7:30 p.m.

 Some of the oldest timber structures that survive in Japan 
are a group of small buildings built in Nara in the eighth 
century to commemorate important patrons of Buddhism. 
Jun Hu, assistant professor of art history at Northwestern 
University, will explore the meanings and functions of this 
peculiar architectural typology, tracing its origins in China 
and its development as a feature of Japanese Buddhist 
architecture. Free; no reservations required. Rothenberg 
Hall

 The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical 
Gardens is located 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. For 
more information call 626-405-2100.


South Pasadena Arts Council 
present ‘Lun*na Menoh’

 

 A Special Fundraising Concert 
with Yukiko & Her Band and 
Wildwood Highway –ive at the 
South Pasadena Public Library 
Community Room.

 The event will be Friday, April 
14 at 8 p.m.

 The ‘East-West’ Concert 
with Yukiko & Her Band 
and Wildwood Highway 
-ive Performances by the 
Extraordinary International 
Recording Artist Yukiko 
Matsuyama, a koto master, will 
infuse Japanese melodies with 
jazz, pop, and new age elements 
and an ‘unplugged set’ by 
Wildwood Highway, a Classic/
Country Rock powerhouse 
performing original covers 
showcasing their impressive 
instrumental chops and soaring 
3-part harmonies.

 Tickets $25 visit 
southpasadenacalendar.com 
for more information.

 South Pasadena Public Library 
Community Room 1115 El 
Centro St - South Pasadena– 
Doors Open at 7:30 p.m. 
Festival Style-No Reserved 
Seats-First Come, First Seated

 All proceeds benefit the 
Friends of the South Pasadena 
Public Library and The Eclectic 
Friends of the Arts of South 
Pasadena, 501 (c) 3 nonprofits. 
Both organizations will be two 
of the major co-sponsors of the 
2017 Eclectic Music Festival in 
South Pasadena on May 6 that 
will bring a varied abundance of 
free concerts in a wide variety 
of venues all within walking 
distance of each other. Special 
thanks to Michael Kotzen, The 
South Pasadena Public Library, 
the South Pasadena Chamber 
of Commerce, SPARC (the 
South Pasadena Arts Council), 
and210eastsound!.

 On Saturday, April 15th 
SPARC will present, an 
evening of experimental 
and classical music, Lun*na 
Menoh and Saori Mitome 
(Les Sewing Sisters) in South 
Pasadena at Burke- Triolo 
Studios, 538 Mission Street, 
for new performances.

 SPARC welcomes back 
experimental artist, designer 
and musician Lun*na Menoh 
for her new performance 
of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, 
re-imagined using sampled 
sewing machine noise and 
found sound.

 Opening Act: Les Sewing 
Sisters Lun*na Menoh 
and Saori Mitome are Les 
Sewing Sisters. They create 
the combination of sewing 
machine music (noise), 
dress-making and women 
working together, using 
twisted language and action. 
Vocals, Spoken words and 
music made by sewing 
machines.

“We As A Sewing Machine”

Tickets: $55 online

 $65 at door (A limited 
number of tickets may be 
available at the door.)

 Advanced Reservations: 
eventbrite.com/e/ lunna-
menoh-maurice-ravels- 
bolero-tickets-32639297016 

 Doors Open at 6:30pm, hors 
d’oeuvres and drinks, music 
by DJ Black Rabbit. Raffle 
6:30 -8:30 pm. Drawing 
9:00 pm. Must be present to 
win. Performances begin at 
8:00 pm. Dessert following 
performances.

South Pasadena Eggstravaganza

 
Spring is near and we’re 
excited to hop over to 
Garfield Park (adjacent 
Tennis Courts) - 1000 Park 
Avenue for the annual 
Spring Eggstravaganza event 
April 15. Join us for food, 
games, inflatables, pictures 
with the our bunny, egg 
hunt, and more!

 Tickets are available online 
for $5 per child. Tickets 
purchased online will be 
available for pickup at the 
Recreation Office (815 
Mission Street), April 10-14 
(10am-6pm).

 Tickets will also be available 
at the event for $8 per child.

 Egg Hunt Schedule 11:30 
a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

 2 yr and under - 12:15pm 

 3 to 4 yo - 12:30pm

 5 to 6 yo - 12:45pm

 7 yrs and up - 1:00pm

 For more information 
contact the City of South 
Pasadena at (626) 403-7200 
or visit ci.south-pasadena.
ca.us. 

Huntington 
Explorers

 Explorers returns for 3 
fun-filled weeks in July

 Summer is around the corner 
and we’re gearing up for another 
amazing season of Huntington 
Explorers Camp! Our 2017 
program is filled with hands-on 
fun for children ages 5-12.

 Huntington Explorers Camp 
runs for three consecutive 
weeks, July 10 - 28, from 9 a.m. 
to 4 p.m. daily. Campers can 
register for a single week or 
multiple weeks. We’ll focus on 
a range of topics that emphasize 
active learning, design-based 
thinking and most of all, fun! 
Our Instructors are expert 
artists and makers, who use 
the Huntington collections as 
inspiration for engaging art 
and science-based activities. 
Campers will explore the 
Huntington’s gardens, library, 
and galleries and become 
incredible inventors, botany 
buddies, super storytellers, and 
eco-rangers!

 Registration will open on April 
7. Members’ Price: $350.00 
per week. Non-Members’ Price: 
$400.00 per week.

 The Huntington is located 
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. 
For more call 626-405-2100.

Huntington Exhibit Octavia 
E. Butler: Telling My Stories

 
A new exhibition opening 
this spring at The Huntington 
Library, Art Collections, 
and Botanical Gardens 
examines the life and work 
of celebrated author Octavia 
E. Butler (1947–2006), the 
first science fiction writer 
to receive a prestigious 
MacArthur “genius” award 
and the first African-
American woman to win 
widespread recognition 
writing in that genre. 
“Octavia E. Butler: Telling 
My Stories” opens today, in 
the West Hall of the Library 
and continues through Aug. 
7. Butler’s literary archive 
resides at The Huntington.

 “She was a pioneer—a 
master storyteller who 
brought her voice, the voice 
of a woman of color, to 
science fiction,” said Natalie 
Russell, assistant curator of 
literary manuscripts at The 
Huntington and curator of 
the exhibition. “Tired of 
stories featuring white, male 
heroes, she developed an 
alternative narrative from a 
very personal point of view.”

 A Pasadena, Calif., native, 
Butler told the New York 
Times in a 2000 interview: 
“When I began writing 
science fiction, when I began 
reading, heck, I wasn’t in 
any of this stuff I read. The 
only black people you found 
were occasional characters 
or characters who were 
so feeble-witted that they 
couldn’t manage anything, 
anyway. I wrote myself in, 
since I’m me and I’m here 
and I’m writing.”

 Butler would have been 
70 in 2017; she died an 
untimely death at age 58, 
apparently of a stroke at her 
home in Seattle.

After Butler’s death, The 
Huntington became the 
recipient of her papers, 
which arrived in 2008 in two 
four-drawer file cabinets 
and 35 large cartons. “She 
kept nearly everything,” said 
Russell, “from her very first 
short stories, written at age 
12, to book contracts and 
programs from speaking 
engagements. The body of 
materials includes 8,000 
individual items and 
more than 80 boxes of 
additional items: extensive 
drafts, notes, and research 
materials for more than a 
dozen novels, numerous 
shorts stories and essays, 
as well as correspondence 
and other materials. By the 
time the collection had been 
processed and catalogued, 
more than 40 scholars were 
asking to get access to it. In 
the past two years, it has been 
used nearly 1,300 times—or 
roughly 15 times per week, 
said Russell, making it one of 
the most actively researched 
archives at The Huntington.

 “Octavia E. Butler: Telling 
My Stories” will include 
examples of journal entries, 
photographs, and first 
editions of her books, 
including Kindred, arguably 
her best-known work. The 
book is less science fiction 
and more fantasy, involving 
an African-American 
woman who travels back 
in time to the horrors of 
plantation life in pre-Civil 
War Maryland. “I wanted 
to reach people emotionally 
in a way that history tends 
not to,” Butler said about 
the book. Published in 
1979, Kindred continues 
to command widespread 
appeal and is regularly 
taught in high schools and at 
the university level, as well 
as chosen for community-
wide reading programs and 
book clubs.


Free CERT 
Emergency 
Skills Training

 Free training for CERT 
graduates, Neighborhood 
Watch Block Captains, 
Amateur Radio Operators, 
and the general public. The 
goal of the meeting, April 
12 from 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., 
is to educate and empower 
groups of neighbors to 
be self sufficient during a 
disaster. This will be a very 
hands on discussion of the 
steps required to build a 
plan for you and your closest 
neighbors. 

 The Golden Hour is the 
one hour you have after 
an earthquake to find any 
neighbors who may be 
injured and trapped. The 
“Map Your Neighborhood” 
training will help empower 
you and your neighbors 
to develop a plan where 
“neighbors help neighbors” 
until help can arrive. Please 
bring 1-5 neighbors so that 
you can work as a team on 
your plan.

 The event will be at Library 
Community Room - 1115 
El Centro Street, South 
Pasadena.


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