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8 Can't Miss Events This Weekend

Time to 'Party at the Pier,' take in some local art, and learn self defense moves. Here's what's happening in and around Pacifica this weekend.

Friday, Oct. 11

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Lots of large items of furniture donated that needs to go like a beautiful queen size brass headboard and footboard, a new dinette set with four chairs, a vintage headboard, armoire, chest of drawers, gate-leg table, mahogany drop leaf lamp tables, and more. Funds generated benefit the construction of the Pacifica Museum and Event Center and restoration of the Church.

Art Guild of Pacifica's 55th Annual Members Exhibition

The public is invited to the opening of Art Guild of Pacifica’s 55th Annual Members Exhibition at the Sanchez Art Center. Last year’s winners, Eunice 
Chan, Nancy Hall, Stephen Hearne, and Melinda Lightfoot are featured in the Main Gallery. Both exhibitions run through Nov. 17, 2013. 

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Women's Self Defense Class

Learn how to block, and strike an opponent without injury to yourself. Feel safer the next time you walk to your car. In one hour, Kuk Sool Won black belts can teach you techniques to get out of most threatening situations. At the Kuk Sool Won of Pacifica in the Linda Mar Shopping Center.

Come listen to Stones, Doors, Beatles, CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Motown by the Old Man Band. Members of the band are Tom Kendall on guitar, Pat Driscoll on guitar and vocals, Mark Baumgarten on drums, Stan Cossette on keyboard and vocals, and Dan Tiscareno on bass and vocals. From 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 5 West Manor Drive, Pacifica. No cover.

Le Jazz Hot at Pacifica Performances 

Le Jazz Hot (the Quartet/Trio of the Hot Club of San Francisco) is an ensemble of accomplished and versatile musicians celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s pioneering Hot Club de France. The ensemble borrows the all-string instrumentation of violin, bass and guitars from the original Hot Club, but breathes new life into the music with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group’s superb lead guitarist Paul Mehling. Hearing the ensemble live, or on any of their eleven albums, carries the listener back to the 1930’s and to the small, smoky jazz clubs of Paris or the refined lounges of the famous Hotel Ritz. Often called gypsy jazz, the music of Le Jazz Hot has entranced audiences around the globe for over 20 years. 7:30 p.m. at Pacifica Performances Mildred Owen Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd.

Sanchez Artists Open Studios

The studio artists at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica will open their studios to the public. Visit and view artworks by 25 local artists who work in painting, printmaking, sculpture, assemblage, collage, photography, and watercolors.

San Mateo County History Museum Presents a Quilt Show in Pacifica

An exhibition of traditional and contemporary  quilts will take place at the Sanchez Adobe both Saturday and Sunday between 1 and 4 p.m. A bed turning activity will be part of the fun. 

Sunday, Oct. 13

Party at the Pier 

It's time for the POPS 12th annual Party at the Pier with live music, a barbecue and T-shirts (by Dottie Borba, $20 for black, $15 for white) at 2 p.m. at the Pacifica Pier. Who's playing? Ian Butler and Fred McCarty. The free event is sponsored each year by POPS, Preserve Our Pier Supporters. Local elected officials are expected to speak at 3 p.m. Funds generated from donations and T-shirt sales goes toward the nonprofit Preserve Our Pier Supporters to repair and preserve Pacifica's pier.


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