Community Corner
Los Gatos Weekend Planner: Aug. 1-4
Need something else to do this weekend? Check out our calendar of local events. If an important event is missing, please leave it here in the comments and put it on the calendar. It's free.
The Los Gatos Food Fest weekly summer culinary food truck series continues 5-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2 at La Hacienda, 18840 Saratoga-Los Gatos Road. The events officially began Friday, May 17 and feature live music and the presence of hugely popular food trucks. The series continues every Friday evening at the same time through Sept. 13. Details: Katie@stanprop.com, or 408-354-0300.
FREE E-WASTE COLDWELL BANKER RECYCLING EVENT FRIDAY
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Los Gatos office, 410 No. Santa Cruz Ave., will host a free e-waste recycling event 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2. The event benefits Hope Services, which supports people with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation, Down’s syndrome and other related conditions. The Santa Clara County nonprofit organization collects all electronic waste, working or not, including computers, monitors, computer cables, mice, keyboards, VCRs, faxes, radios, printers, telephones, televisions, CPUs, monitors, stereos, speakers, DVD players, cell phones and recorders. Details: jkoncoli@hopeservices.org, or 408-761-5156.
Romance, tragedy, belly laughs and adventure return to Los Gatos Aug. 2-4 with the 12th annual Los Gatos Shakespeare Festival. The 2013 season features three plays in repertory: The Tragedy of Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, and The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers, an original adaptation by Mark D. Pickens. Performances begin at 8 p.m. at Festival Theatre Ensemble's outdoor venue at Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos. Tickets are $15 for youth 17 and under and seniors 60 and over; and $22 for adults. Details: 800-838-3006.
LOS GATOS MUSIC IN THE PARK
The community nonprofit organization Los Gatos Music & Arts holds its fifth Music in the Park concert of the season at 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 at the Civic Center Park featuring Pacific Mambo Orchestra. The series ends Sunday, Aug. 25, with the performance of Talavya Indian Tabla drums. To sponsor MIP or donate to Los Gatos Music & Arts, please call 408-354-1155, or email terihope@losgatoscoffee.com.
EVOLUTION OF GREEN: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN SANTA CLARA VALLEY
Evolution of Green is an exhibit sharing the stories of those individuals and groups whose experiences have shaped the evolving narrative of the valley's environmental story for the past 50 years 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and Friday and noon-4 p.m. Wednesday and Sunday through Sept. 1 at the History Museum of Los Gatos, 75 Church St. Details: 408-354-2646.
PICTURING PLACE AT ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS
The Museums of Los Gatos presents Picturing Place: Photographs by Gregory Schaffer and Mike Williams, through Sept. 8 at the Art Museum of Los Gatos, 4 Tait Ave. Picturing Place is an exhibition that draws on two contemporary photographers’ explorations of their environments. In his landscapes, Seattle Schaffer explores where people, commerce, economy and natural environment intersect and ultimately define their surroundings. Williams focuses on the intersection of image and text in making observations about the world around him. What emerges is often the humorous and absurd, the tragic and surreal elements of human life. Details: 408-395-7386.
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