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Mountain Views News, Pasadena Edition [Sierra Madre] Saturday, November 18, 2017

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New Exhibition Collection/s: South Pas Business License Exhibition Marking the

WCCW/five at The Huntington

Tax Amnesty Program 500th Anniversary of the

An exhibition opening next
week at The Huntington

In an effort to better

Protestant Reformation

Library, Art Collections,

assist our residents with
and Botanical Gardens

the Business License Tax

The Huntington Library,

will present a fresh, vibrant

Amnesty Program, South

Art Collections, and Botanical

group of new works by

Pasadena City Hall will be

Gardens mark the 500th

seven artists responding to

open for extended hours

anniversary of the Protestant

research they conducted

on Mondays from 7:30

Reformation with an exhibition

in The Huntington's

am to 7:00 pm beginning

that explores the power of the
vast collections over the

Monday to December 18.

written word as a mechanism for
past year. The exhibition

radical change. The exhibition
"Collection/s: WCCW/five every effort to return your
They said they are making

draws almost exclusively from
at The Huntington," on view Hess, The Huntington’s calls and e-mails. If you

The Huntington’s collections
and includes about 50 rare

in the Virginia Steele Scott chief curator of European have not received a response landlords renting three or

manuscripts, books, and prints

Galleries of American Art art and interim director of from City staff we have more units. Please note:

made between the 1400s and

from today, through Feb. 12, its art collections and Jenny noted that we need to return businesses based outside of

1648 (the end of the Thirty

is part of an initiative called Watts, The Huntington’s your e-mail or call and they the City of South Pasadena

Years War). “The Reformation:

"/five." The installation curator of photography want to assure you that they who are conducting business From the Word to the World” is
features paintings, sculpture, and visual culture. In /will honor the Amnesty in the City (e.g. contractors, on view in the West Hall of the
textiles, video, and writings five’s first year (2016), The program. Business licenses consultants, architects, Library through Feb. 26.Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528),
by artists Olivia Chumacero, Huntington collaborated will be valid one year from designers, landscape On Oct. 31, 1517, German St. Jerome in His Study, 1514,

engraving.

Sarita Dougherty, Jheanelle with NASA’s Jet Propulsion your purchase date. For maintenance companies, priest Martin Luther, who
Garriques, Zya S. Levy, Kiki Laborary (JPL) to present questions or to submit your mobile food vendors) must believed church doctrines word to effect radical change.

created an ever-growing Scholars, clerics, statesmen, and

Loveday (née kerrie welsh), the sound sculpture “Orbit business license online please also file an application.

gap between believers and lay believers disseminated texts

Soyoung Shin, and Juliana Pavilion,” which referenced email: businesslicense@ The City of South Pasadena

God, is said to have posted a to articulate their faiths, ignite

Wisdom, who were selected The Huntington’s history of southpasadenaca.gov welcomes you to our

document of what today are reforms, and attack adversaries.

in collaboration with the aerospace, astronomy, and All persons or companies business community. We are

called the “95 theses”—his European governments and

Los Angeles-based Women's Earth science collections.conducting business within glad that you have selected specific disputes—to the door religious councils banned
Center for Creative Work For the second year of the the City limits of South our city for your business of a church in Wittenberg to books to minimize the spread
(WCCW). Objects in the initiative, The Huntington Pasadena are required and are here to assist you contest recent practices of of works they deemed to be
exhibition include an archive chose WCCW, a Los to obtain a city business through the business license the Catholic Church. Luther dangerous, regain control, and
of Sappho-inspired love Angeles-based nonprofit license. This includes but process. Below are the was looking to stimulate combat people and ideas they
letters on handmade paper, organization.is not limited to retailers, business license applications thoughtful debate that would believed to be radical. Words,
plaster castings of cacti, a “Henry Huntington was wholesalers, manufacturers, and some frequently asked clear away corruption and texts, images, and prints

pomp, and reform the Church. blurred the divisions between

video created in uncultivated a collector at heart,” said service providers, questions. For more

What followed was a flurry of thinkers, heroes, and martyrs,

areas of the Huntington's Watts. “He began with professionals, non-profit information, please contact

written arguments and ideas said Wilkie. “The Reformation

grounds, and porcelain books and moved on to organizations, independent the Finance Department

put forward by scholars, clerics, did not just play out in pulpits

vessels and a tapestry land, plants, and, with the contractors, home at (626) 403-7257 or (626) statesmen, and lay believers and on battlefields—it lived on
inspired by 18th-century guidance of his wife Arabella, businesses and residential 403-7259. to fuel a movement called the the page.”
French masterworks.British and European art. Reformation. Items on display include a

The /five initiative The Huntingtons—who One Arroyo Day Celebration “This was an act of protest, 1514 papal indulgence (ais a contemporary art excluded women from the yet it was also an act of faith,” remission of the punishment
collaboration between The professional staff—surely to be held at Brookside Parksaid Vanessa Wilkie, the of sin), an incunable (a book
Huntington and five different never anticipated the myriad William A. Moffett Curator printed before 1501) annotated

This morning

organizations over five years challenging, provocative, 10 am – 2 pm
of Medieval Manuscripts by Martin Luther, early 16th

and British History at The century prints by Albrecht

that invites artists to respond and insightful ways in Brookside Park- 360 N. Arroyo Blvd.

Huntington, and the curator Dürer, the 1573 original

to a range of themes drawn which these 21st-century Come explore the Arroyo Seco and discover its rich natural and of the exhibition. “Luther was manuscript proclamation from The Huntington’s deep artists would interpret the cultural history at One Arroyo Day! Find out about the One

closely tied into larger debates issued and signed by Queen

and diverse library, art, and collections, living and not.” Arroyo vision and be part of a citywide celebration of all things taking place across Europe. Elizabeth I requiring the use of
botanical collections. The Additional information is Arroyo! Kids can earn a One Arroyo Nature Explorer Badge and It’s important to note that he the Book of Common Prayer, everyone can be part of:

initiative is led by Catherine available at huntington.org.
was not the only cleric in the and a 15th-century manuscript

Planned activities include:

early 16th century to publish of the Brut Chronicles in which

*Arroyo Seco Trail Clean-Up * Nature Scavenger Hunt for Kids *

theological justifications for a later reformer "erased" the

Native Wildlife Reptile Station *

his beliefs and actions. Luther’s word "Pope" from the text.

* Arroyo Exhibitor Booths * Lawn Games
reformation was just one part While the exhibition addresses

& Crafts * Raffles

of the Reformation. And none the power of the written word

* Bring a picnic! Enjoy hot dogs grilled
of it would have been possible and the relationship between

by the Pasadena Fire Department. First

without manuscripts and it and radical change within a

come, first serve!

printed books.”
specific historical moment and

Let us know you’re coming so we can buy

The spark of the Reformation geographical region, the themes

enough hot dogs!

spread through reading, and larger questions posed in

For more information and to RSVP, visit:

writing, and printing practices the exhibition resonate across

onearroyo.org/oad or call (626) 744

of the period. Reformers time in different ways.

4128.

and counter-reformers “Voices from the past survive
would often reinterpret older primarily through texts and
images and ideas to fit the images, but today we convey
current moment. Differing our own messages in a variety South ideas and theological beliefs, of ways: podcasts, social media,
however, soon gave way to fashion, and even protest Pasadena popular violence, warfare, and posters,” said Wilkie. “This
ultimately colonial conquest. exhibition touches on how

Community

While “The Reformation: From we reinterpret and transform
the Word to the World” focuses words and images from the past Garden on Europe and addresses to engage in debates of our own
important historical figures, time. In the end, it asks, ‘“What

Upcoming

religious wars of the period, do you want to tell the world?
the Catholic Church’s response How do you want to share your

Events
to the emergence of Protestant message?’”
groups, and the political The Huntington Library is
ideologies of countries with located 1151 Oxford Road San
state religions, the main focus Marino. For more information
is on the power of the written call 626.405.2100.

The South Pasadena Community
Garden is a place for harmony
and beauty where we cultivate
a community of individuals
committed to sustainable land
use in an urban setting, providing
the opportunity for residents to
grow their own organic fruits,
vegetables and flowers.
Upcoming Events

December 2: Work day begins at

10:00 am
Winter Chili Feast -Chili from
11:00 am to 12 noon Join them
for our second Annual Chili Feast
and get together. They’ll have
several kinds of chili on hand to
enjoy together.
There is currently a waiting list
for Community Garden plots.
If you would like to be added to
the waiting list, please fill out the
application and mail to the South
Pasadena Community Garden
at 1028 Magnolia Street, South
Pasadena 91030.
For more information visit:
ci.south-pasadena.ca.us.

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