Upcoming: Santa Cruz County, California, United States Events

Jul 25, 2008: Koumbemba at Crow's Nest Restaurant

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:34:25 -0700

Aug 16, 2008: Freelance Camp at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:11:06 -0700

Freelance Camp

Jul 25, 2008: The Burning of Rome at Catalyst Restaurant and Night Club

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:25:06 -0700

Jul 24, 2008: Song of the Siren at Catalyst Restaurant and Night Club

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:17:32 -0700

Aug 2, 2008: The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:55:13 -0700

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is proud to host America's longest running new music festival dedicated to orchestra and winner of the national A.S.C.A.P.

Aug 2, 2008: Cabrillo Music, Art and Wine Festival at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:28:54 -0700

This annual festival features fine arts and crafts, non-stop live world music and dance on the outdoor stage, delicious food and premiere Santa Cruz wines.

Jul 28, 2008: Sophie Milman at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:10:14 -0700

Raised in Russia and immigrating to Canada three years ago, Sophie has awoken the world of Jazz with her sultry, soulful voice. She is a tiny creature on stage who suddenly becomes the focus of the room with her musical and visual presence with sophistication and depth to her voice that belies her age while she evokes the spirit of the great jazz singers of the '40s and '50s.

Jul 25, 2008: Santa Cruz Improvfest at Santa Cruz Actors' Theater

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:49:43 -0700

The best improv Santa Cruz has to offer convenes each summer at the Actors' Theatre. Come enjoy and participate in these antics.

Jul 24, 2008: Amazing Chinese Acrobats at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:45:37 -0700

Amazing Chinese Acrobats executes an amazing array of death-defying feats and graceful acrobatics.

Jul 24, 2008: Amazing Chinese Acrobats at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:32:44 -0700

Amazing Chinese Acrobats executes an amazing array of death-defying feats and graceful acrobatics.

Jul 25, 2008: Blue Oyster Cult at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:30:38 -0700

Jul 24, 2008: James McMurtry at Catalyst Restaurant and Night Club

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:44:45 -0700

James McMurtry is a master songwriter who paints stories with his brilliant, poignant and occasionally biting lyrics.

Jul 24, 2008: Dub Scene at Crow's Nest Restaurant

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:37:32 -0700

Aug 5, 2008: Jayla Klein at Vets Hall

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:25:31 -0700

Aug 1, 2008: EXAM Rehab Studio Santa Cruz, CA 1 Aug 2008 at USA Santa Cruz, CA

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:48:52 -0700

The Polestar Graduation Exams are scheduled together for Pilates Studio and Pilates for Rehabilitation.
Please see exam descriptions below.

Studio Exam

Pre-requisites - PF, S-1, S-2, S-3, S-4, S-5, S-6

The Studio exam consists of three parts:

A written exam consisting of 50 multiple choice questions

A case study with written problem solving

A practical one-on-one demonstration of theoretical knowledge, exercise mastery, movement teaching skills and problem solving skills with an oral defense

The written portion of the exam (parts 1 and 2) lasts approximately two hours in total, and part 3 lasts approximately one hour. The candidate will need to achieve an 80% pass mark on both the written and practical sections of the exam.

Studio candidates will design a program based on information from a Polestar fitness screening and functional testing. The oral defense addresses theory, justification of exercise selection and modification, precautions and contraindications. Candidates will be evaluated on exercise selection and modification, sequencing, accuracy, verbal and tactile cueing and the quality of the instruction.

Rehabilitation Exam

Pre-requisites - PR, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, R-6

The Rehabilitation exam consists of three parts:

A written exam consisting of 50 multiple choice questions

A case study with written problem solving

A practical one-on-one demonstration of theoretical knowledge, exercise mastery, movement teaching skills and problem solving skills with an oral defense

The written portion of the exam (parts 1 and 2) lasts approximately two hours in total, and part 3 lasts approximately one hour. The entire exam is worth a total of 150 points. The candidate will need to achieve an 80% pass mark on both the written and practical sections of the exam.

The Rehabilitation examination tests depth of knowledge, skills and ability to facilitate movement in the Pilates-evolved environment. It is designed to establish an essential level of skill, with emphasis on safety and competence, and evaluates cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains as they pertain to movement analysis, problem solving and treatment planning. The oral defense addresses theory, adaptations to pathology, contraindications and precautions associated with treatment planning in the Pilates-evolved environment. Candidates will be evaluated on the quality of their teaching and movement skills.

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Jul 24, 2008: Robert Walters Trio at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:26 -0700

Aug 2, 2008: Santa Cruz Improvfest at Santa Cruz Actors' Theater

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:42:09 -0700

The best improv Santa Cruz has to offer convenes each summer at the Actors' Theatre. Come enjoy and participate in these antics.

Jul 27, 2008: Santa Cruz Improvfest at Santa Cruz Actors' Theater

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:36:23 -0700

The best improv Santa Cruz has to offer convenes each summer at the Actors' Theatre. Come enjoy and participate in these antics.

Jul 25, 2008: Tours at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:33:46 -0700

Tours of the redwood grove are offered every Thursday and Friday throughout the year.

Jul 30, 2008: The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:32:23 -0700

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is proud to host America's longest running new music festival dedicated to orchestra and winner of the national A.S.C.A.P.

Jul 24, 2008: Tours at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:29:13 -0700

Tours of the redwood grove are offered every Thursday and Friday throughout the year.

Jul 31, 2008: Tours at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:21:40 -0700

Tours of the redwood grove are offered every Thursday and Friday throughout the year.

Aug 1, 2008: The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:44:13 -0700

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium is proud to host America's longest running new music festival dedicated to orchestra and winner of the national A.S.C.A.P.

Jul 29, 2008: Jayla Klein at Vets Hall

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:30:52 -0700

Aug 9, 2008: Riffs & Refrains/Cabrillo Festival/Maestra Alsop/Bharat Chandra at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:58:36 -0700

The definition of "thrilling": being 19 years old and having Marin Alsop conduct the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in your newest work, presented on the same program as your mentor John Adams! And so goes the life of Matthew Cmiel, a Bay Area composer/performer who grew up coming to the Cabrillo Festival and was invited by Alsop to write an orchestral work to receive its World Premiere tonight. In titling this concert opener, Cmiel quotes Alsop's own sage advice to him, Sneak in a Window-a direction to seize whatever openings you can to make your dreams come true.

Next, the Festival's own principal clarinetist Bharat Chandra, praised for his "superb phrasing and creamy tone," takes center stage as soloist for the U.S. Premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's Riffs and Refrains, a work said to "exploit the full range and color of the instrument."

Then John Corigliano's The Mannheim Rocket takes us on an imaginary journey to the heavens and back atop an 18th century wedding-cake-rocket commandeered by the great Baron Von Munchausen.

The concert closes with the West Coast Premiere of John Adams' new Doctor Atomic Symphony, a 25-minute, one-movement symphonic score adapted by the composer from his 2005 opera about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. This is a piece considered by some critics to be "a significant leap forward for Adams as a composer." The work includes passages from the overture, Oppenheimer's Baudelaire soliloquy, the electrical storm music, "Batter my heart," and the culminating "Countdown" music. And according to the New York Times "invites you to hear the elusive music-driving passages with pounding timpani, quizzically restrained lyrical flights, bursts of skittish fanfares-on its own terms, apart from its dramatic context." An evocative and explosive evening awaits!

$26-41.

Aug 3, 2008: In the Blue Room with cellist Matt Haimovitz at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:36:40 -0700

"Matt Haimovitz may be the coolest cellist of our time," according to the Boston Herald. "Classically trained but keenly attuned to the possibilities of electronica, composer Mason Bates is making waves in both the club scene and the orchestra world," Symphony magazine states. And so these two mavericks will come together with a common conception about how a classical recital can be quite an uncommon experience. Haimovitz will present a solo cello recital including works by Ned Rorem, Osvaldo Golijov, David Sanford, and Gilles Tremblay; while Mason Bates (well known in the trip-hop scene in the Bay Area and beyond as DJ Masonic) will create an electronica soundscape between pieces. Introduced during this Cabrillo Festival experience, two brilliant talents-Haimovitz and Bates-will come together for the very first time in an evening that promises to explode the audience's notion of a traditional cello recital.

$20-27.

Aug 2, 2008: Triple Play/Maestra Marin Alsop/percussionist Evelyn Glennie at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:15 -0700

Three remarkable composers join the audience for three new works, each promising to hit it out of the park!

The program opens with the World Premiere of composer Dorothy Chang's Strange Air. A work inspired by the beauty and intensity of the Pacific Northwest's natural environment, it was commissioned by Festival patron Russ Irwin as the first project of the Women's Philharmonic Commissioning Initiative of Meet The Composer.

Mason Bates returns to the Festival to once again perform on electronica with the orchestra in a work titled Liquid Interface. Bates became consumed with the idea of water as the influence of a musical endeavor when he experienced living on Berlin's enormous Lake Wannsee. "Over the course of barely two months, I watched this huge body of water transform from an ice sheet thick enough to support sausage vendors, to a refreshing swimming destination heavy with humidity." Liquid Interface begins with glaciers and moves through all the forms of water, inhabiting an increasingly hotter world in each of its four progressive movements. The work is dedicated by Bates to his mentor and friend, John Corigliano.

So how appropo that Academy, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Corigliano should be present for Bates' West Coast Premiere, as well as the West Coast Premiere of his own Conjurer, a percussion concerto featuring soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie. A work for string orchestra and percussionist, Corigliano's Conjurer is in three movements, each restricted to a particular type of percussion: wood, metal, and skin. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said of the Pittsburgh Symphony's premiere, "[Conjurer] proved to be one blessed by the full dimension performance by soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie, conductor Marin Alsop and the orchestra."

A Talkback Session with Marin Alsop, guest artists, and composers follows the concert.

$29-44.

Aug 22, 2008: Gza the Genius of Wu-Tang at Moe's Alley

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:59:45 -0700

Gza "The Genius" is an American MC. He is most well known as a founding member of the seminal hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. In addition to appearing on all the Wu-Tang Clan albums he has released four solo albums and has appeared on many other Clanmate's solo releases.

Jul 24, 2008: Song of the Siren at The Catalyst

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:47:53 -0700

Aug 6, 2008: Clinton Fearon and the Boogie Brown Band at Moe's Alley

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:46:48 -0700

Coming from a rich musical history, Clinton Fearon fronts his own roots reggae group, Boogie Brown Band. Original lyrics and rock steady, hard-driving, stainless rhythms comprise the foundation of their music which appeals to people of all ages and from all walks of life.

Jul 27, 2008: Comedy 3 Live at Crow's Nest Restaurant

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:54:28 -0700

Enjoy comedy at it's best with a special headliner each week.

Aug 1, 2008: Cabrillo Festival Opening Night with Maestra Alsop and Matt Haimovitz at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:39:59 -0700

Opening Night of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, with Maestra Marin Alsop and the acclaimed Festival Orchestra. Composer Stephen McNeff of the U.K. will be in the audience for the U.S. Premiere of Sinfonia, a fast-paced concert opener commissioned and premiered by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Marin Alsop. Twenty-eight year old composer Eric Lindsay will return to his hometown of Santa Cruz for the World Premiere performance of his newly revised Darkness Made Visible.

Renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz has become a legend in the music world for pushing beyond conventions-be it performances in surprising venues or collaborations with unexpected partners around unpredicted genres. For his Festival debut, he'll perform in composer David Sanford's Scherzo Grosso, a "classical-funk-jazz-bebop-hip-hopping" work originally composed for cello and big band, and then rescored for full orchestra. The evening ends with a Festival milestone: the World Premiere performance of the third in a series of recent Festival commissions, Pulitzer-prize winner Christopher Rouse's Concerto for Orchestra. Among the most respected composers of his generation, Rouse is one of Marin Alsop's favorites.

(The 2008 opening night begins with an outdoor Pre-Concert Talk by Marin Alsop and a special ticketed dinner served alfresco at the Civic Auditorium. Reservations required.)

$26-41.

Jul 26, 2008: Santa Cruz Improvfest at Santa Cruz Actors' Theater

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:53:49 -0700

The best improv Santa Cruz has to offer convenes each summer at the Actors' Theatre. Come enjoy and participate in these antics.

Aug 1, 2008: Your Best Is Not A Pretty Picture at Felix Kulpa Gallery

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:01:05 -0700

An exhibition of new work by
Walter Martinez and Maya Delano
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Artist Reception
Friday August 1st, 6-9pm
Music by G Web
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Paintings, ceramics and mixed media on exhibit from August 1st -20th.

Aug 29, 2008: Scottish Fiddlers Concert at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:45:28 -0700

This annual concert is presented by Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School.

Sep 14, 2008: The Black Crowes at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:45:26 -0700

After going separate ways for a while in 2002, The Black Crowes have returned, with brothers Rich and Chris Robinson once again at the helm. These talented rockers shot to stardom with the hit cover of 'Hard to Handle' back in 1990. With southern rock meets Led Zeppelin inspiration and old timey gusto, the Crowes hit the road to "shake the money makers" once more.

Jul 31, 2008: Young Murph at The Catalyst

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:43:53 -0700

Aug 9, 2008: Le Strange at The Catalyst

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:43:19 -0700

Jul 25, 2008: Free Friday Night Bands on the Beach - Blue Oyster Cult at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:06:31 -0700

“BOC” are best known for their unforgettable hits “The Reaper,” “Burnin’ for You,” and “Godzilla.” Many fans know the group from Will Farrell’s lampoon of “The Reaper” on Saturday Night Live – “More Cowbell!”

Free shows at 6:30pm and 8:30pm on the Boardwalk's beach bandstand tBring your own blanket or low-backed chairs for a fun evening on the beach.

Oct 2, 2008: Blue Scholars at The Catalyst

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:08:14 -0700

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