Community Corner
Los Gatos Weekend Planner: Aug. 8-11
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.
LOS GATOS FOOD TRUCK FEST
The Los Gatos Food Fest weekly summer culinary food truck series continues 5-9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9 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.
LOS GATOS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Romance, tragedy, belly laughs and adventure return to Los Gatos Aug. 8-10 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 FIESTA DE ARTES
Join 20,000 of your friends at the 41st annual Fiesta de Artes at the Los Gatos Civic Center grounds 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10-11, 2013. Don’t miss the town’s one and only art and wine festival. The 2013 Fiesta will be the 17th event sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Los Gatos. Enjoy 150 artists, gourmet food, wine and beer, and live music. Treat the kids to snow cones and a jump house. Celebrate with visitors from all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Details: Karla Opp, info@lgfiesta.org, or 408-395-8016.
40TH LOS GATOS DAMMIT RUN
The challenging and fun 40th annual Dammit Run, benefitting local sports programs, will take place at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10 at Los Gatos High School. The 5-mile race, named after Lexington Dam, involves a rugged, challenging course which starts off flat at the track, progresses down the next to Los Gatos High School's lower field, past the Old Mill and across Main Street to make the climb up to Lexington Reservoir. Details: Los Gatos Athletic Association, 408-395-2002; or Athletic Performance in Los Gatos, 408-354-7365. Register by clicking here.
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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