Montalvo Arts Center | Calendar

EXHIBITIONS

BEGINNING THU, JANUARY 24
Moments From 20th Century Iraqi Art
BEGINNING TUE, MARCH 4
Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Exhibition

On March 5th, 2007, more than 30 people were killed when a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street, an old and established street for book-selling in the heart of Baghdad's literary and intellectual community. To protest the bombing, the Mutanabbi Street Coalition, a group started by San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil, invited letterpress printers to produce broadsides, which will be on ...

EVENTS

SATURDAY MARCH 1, 2008 7:30 P.M.
Matthew Bogdanos in Conversation with Donny George

An Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan and colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, Matthew Bogdanos is best known for leading the investigation on the looting of Baghdad's Iraq Museum, resulting in the recovery of over 5,000 antiquities in six countries. His acclaimed memoir, Thieves of Baghdad, is a tale of heroism and hope. Joining Bogdanos will be Donny George, former President ...
Tagged : iraqreframe, learn, programs
SUNDAY MARCH 2, 2008 2 P.M.
Greenberg Lecture Series: Dmitri Shostakovich: An Ill Wind

We meet again to explore the artistic repressions of Stalin’s regime and his insistence that all arts play a larger role elevating the Soviet, socialist and realist agendas. Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth (1932), which was previously acknowledged by the artistic community, was denounced and purged at the hands of Stalin. We follow Shostakovich’s life and works through his subsequent rehabilitation following the ...
Tagged : classical, programs
MONDAY MARCH 3, 2008 9:30 A.M. ( School & Teacher event)
Tomas and the Library Lady -- SOLD OUT

Recommended for grades: K-6Curriculum Connections: English-Language Arts; History-Social Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Tomás loves stories! Grandfather tells them each summer when the family leaves Texas to pick crops in Iowa. One summer, Tomás discovers the local library where he meets the Library Lady, and nothing is ever the same again. By the end of summer, Tomás gains his family’s respect, a colorful mentor ...
Tagged : learn, school and teacher, theatre
MONDAY MARCH 3, 2008 11:30 A.M. ( School & Teacher event)
Tomas and the Library Lady -- SOLD OUT

Recommended for grades: K-6Curriculum Connections: English-Language Arts; History-Social Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Tomás loves stories! Grandfather tells them each summer when the family leaves Texas to pick crops in Iowa. One summer, Tomás discovers the local library where he meets the Library Lady, and nothing is ever the same again. By the end of summer, Tomás gains his family’s respect, a colorful mentor ...
Tagged : learn, school and teacher, theatre
FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2008 8 A.M. ( School & Teacher event)
The Arts in Your Classroom 6

A Conference for K-8 Educators Exploring Learning Through the Arts Envision, Experiment, Explorewith the Santa Clara County Office of Education and Montalvo Arts CenterLimit: 125 K-8 EducatorsUp to 3 teachers from any one school may register for the conference.Priority registration for Santa Clara County educators.Space is filling quickly -- Sign up soon!Full and Partial Scholarships are Available!K-8 educators are invited to participate ...
Tagged : learn, school and teacher
FRIDAY MARCH 7, 2008 1:15 P.M. ( School & Teacher event)
Master Class: Culinary Fellow Jessie Benthien

Tagged : learn, residency, school and teacher
SUNDAY MARCH 9, 2008 2 P.M.
Pre-Code Film: Wonder Bar

At the Wonder Bar, a fancy night club in Paris, anything can happen as loves and lives intersect. This 1934 Busby Berkeley musical stars Al Jolson and Dolores del Rio. While the characters chase after each other and fall in and out of love, tragedy strikes amidst the glamour. Be warned this movie ends with one of the most politically incorrect musical numbers ever filmed ...
Tagged : film, programs
THURSDAY MARCH 13, 2008 NOON
Member Book Club: The Emperor's Children By Claire Messud

Montalvo Book Club discusses The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. For information on joining the Book Club, please visit the Membership page here.
Tagged : book club, programs
THURSDAY MARCH 13, 2008 6:30 P.M.
Drawing Montalvo's Botanicals with Edward Rooks

Tagged : learn
FRIDAY MARCH 14, 2008 1:15 P.M. ( School & Teacher event)
Master Class: Culinary Fellow Jessie Benthien

Tagged : learn, residency
SATURDAY MARCH 15, 2008 11 A.M.
Villa & Grounds Tour

Tagged : history, programs, tour
SATURDAY MARCH 15, 2008 8 P.M.
Tin Hat and Dusan Bogdanovic

Tin Hat’s freewheeling chamber music for the 21st century interweaves “Old World Europe with post-modern America, south-of-the-border sensuality with concert-hall propriety, and odd-metered syncopation with deeply soulful grooves" (The New York Press). Formerly Tin Hat Trio, this collective of composers has shifted and expanded to incorporate five members and a bevy of eclectic instruments, including pump organ, celeste, Dobro, clarinet, harp and accordion.A ...
Tagged : concerts, programs
SUNDAY MARCH 16, 2008 1 P.M.
Strings of Fire - Cuerdas de Fuego - CANCELLED

This show was cancelled due to illness. We apologize for the inconvenience. This performance is perfect for families! Latin America comes alive with the exciting music from Strings of Fire – Cuerdas de Fuego. South American harpist Ramón Romero, currently in residence at Montalvo’s Lucas Artists Programs, and Cuban percussionist Carlos Caro perform the lively, descriptive music of their homelands in this multimedia, bilingual musical ...
Tagged : learn, programs
SUNDAY MARCH 16, 2008 3 P.M.
Cypress String Quartet: Featuring Mendelssohn String Quartet Op. 13 in A minor

Influential. No look at Beethoven is complete without considering the profound impact he had on other great artists. One of the world's most formidable musicians and geniuses, Felix Mendelssohn could not escape the gravity of Beethoven's eminence. In this remarkable quartet, Mendelssohn pays homage to some of the great musical ideas his predecessor explored in his incredible and profound Quartet Op. 132, also ...
Tagged : classical, concerts, programs
MONDAY MARCH 17, 2008 6:30 P.M.
Aurora Forum with Filmmakers Maysoon Pachachi, Kasim Abid, Fady Hadid, Kristine Samuelson (moderator)

Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid, who set up the Independent Film & Television College in Baghdad in 2004, feature their Baghdad film school projects, a presentation of student films and discussion on challenges of film making in the current Iraqi climate. Fady Hadid is a producer of “Hometown Baghdad,” a documentary web series following the lives of Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad. He is ...
Tagged : iraqreframe, programs
TUESDAY MARCH 18, 2008 4 P.M.
After School Art Explorations with Susie Heeter

Tagged : learn
THURSDAY MARCH 20, 2008 6:30 P.M.
Drawing Montalvo's Botanicals with Edward Rooks

Tagged : learn
FRIDAY MARCH 21, 2008 1:15 P.M. ( School & Teacher event)
Master Class: Culinary Fellow Jessie Benthien

Tagged : learn, residency, school and teacher
TUESDAY MARCH 25, 2008 4 P.M.
After School Art Explorations with Susie Heeter

Tagged : learn
THURSDAY MARCH 27, 2008 6:30 P.M.
Drawing Montalvo's Botanicals with Edward Rooks

Tagged : learn
FRIDAY MARCH 28, 2008 1:15 P.M. ( School & Teacher event)
Master Class: Culinary Fellow Jessie Benthien

Tagged : learn, residency, school and teacher
SUNDAY MARCH 30, 2008 3 P.M.
The Sounds of Desire with Heather Raffo and Amir ElSaffar

Heather Raffo, author and actress of the award-winning, one-woman show 9 Parts of Desire, teams up with Amir ElSaffar, accomplished jazz trumpeter and Iraqi santoor player, for a dramatic afternoon of spoken word and melodic solos. Using characters from the acclaimed one-woman show and unique elements like slam poetry, together they present a concert of urban and classical sounds that spring from both their Iraqi ...
Tagged : iraqreframe, programs