“Ask the Author: Ups and Downs of Producing Artists’ Honeymoon”

Rowena M. Abdy Plein Air sketching with a friend on a Monterey Beach Photo by H.B. and R.M. Abdy

February 22nd, 2015 – 3pm-5pm: Julianne Burton-Carvajal is back to share some of the amazing photographs that have been discovered showing Monterey’s art colonies in the 1910s and 1920s, and has printed selections of them in her new work Artists’ Honeymoon: Rowena Meeks Abdy & Harry Bennett Abdy – At Work & Play in Monterey and Beyond, 1910-1920. Head over to Old Capitol Books on February 22nd, to see these amazing photographs and hear about their discovery.Continue reading ““Ask the Author: Ups and Downs of Producing Artists’ Honeymoon””

Networking Aloud! A Monthly Opening mic – January features: Sharon Law Tucker & P. A. Speers

A free monthly event open to the public every second Tuesday: A WRITERS OPEN MIKE. Come early & sign up for a five to seven minute reading from any genre: prose, screenplay, poetry & essay that follows 15 minutes from a featured published reader. We applaud one another, no critique allowed. Bring your work in progress, OR published we want to hear your VOICE.Continue reading “Networking Aloud! A Monthly Opening mic – January features: Sharon Law Tucker & P. A. Speers”

History of African Americans of Monterey County

Meet local author of the newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is African Americans of Monterey County, Jan Batiste Adkins. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images and memories from the unique California African American heritage. Ms. Adkins will be at Old Capitol Books on Saturday, January 31 from 3260AFRIcvr.indd3PM to 5PM to discuss her book and sign them.

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Theory & Philosophy Reading Group VII: Diogenes of Sinope

January 14th 2015, 6pm: Join with radicals, thinkers, activists, poets, and intellectuals on the Monterey Peninsula to read and discuss some of the world’s greatest philosophers.

For our seventh reading group, we’ll be reading some of the reports of Diogenes of Sinope (c. 404—323 BCE).Continue reading “Theory & Philosophy Reading Group VII: Diogenes of Sinope”