BRIEFLY IN ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Club seeks women artists for show

The Laguna Beach Woman’s Club’s 5th annual art show, sale and auction, featuring local women artists, will be held Nov. 18 and 19 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the clubhouse, 286 St. Ann’s Drive.

Admission is free, and refreshments will be available.

All artwork will be individually crafted, “one-of-a-kind” pieces, with an emphasis on the work of new and emerging Laguna Beach women artists.

Items will range from paintings to jewelry, collages, photography, sculpture, fabric arts and decorative items.

A silent auction each day will offer works donated by each artist; the proceeds will support Woman’s Club activities.

The artist application deadline is Nov. 3, and all pieces for auction must be submitted by Nov. 10.

For information, contact Veronica Nice at (949) 290-6423 or veronica@nicetouch chiropractic.com.

Film society documentary series

The Laguna Beach Film Society will begin a documentary series with a screening of two films at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, at the Forum Theater, 650 Laguna Canyon Rd., located on the Festival of Arts grounds.

“Make Me a Match” focuses on the plight of Jewish singles looking for love. The film will be followed by “Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo,” a 2000 Academy Award nominee which looks at inmate cowboys.

The film society will also screen “Ginger and Cinnamon,” an Italian comedy, at South Coast Cinema, Broadway at Coast Highway, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16.

First Sundays concert

The next First Sundays concert, organized by Laguna Beach Live!, will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 5 with Les Amis Musicalles, a flute and string trio, with a special guest harpist.

The concert will be held in Studio 6 at the Laguna College of Art & Design, 2222 Laguna Canyon Road, and is free to the public. The College Art Gallery will open at 2 p.m.

For more information, visit www.lagunabeachlive.org.

Ceramics workshop at Festival of Arts

The Festival of Arts will commence an adult ceramics workshop series featuring exhibitor instructors beginning Nov. 18.

The first hands-on workshop, “Creative ‘Soft-Slab’ Pottery” featuring Scott Young, is slated for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Nov. 18.

The workshop, to be located on the Festival grounds at 650 Laguna Canyon Road, is $50 plus materials; for reservations, call (949) 494-1145, ext. 206. Space is limited and first-come, first-served.

OsCene panel slated at Art Museum

A panel discussion with OsCene 2006 artists Brad Coleman, Deborah Davidson, Moira Hahn and James Lorigan, moderated by curator Jacqueline Bunge, will take place at the museum at 1 p.m. Nov. 5.

The discussion, “Representing the Invisible: Symbolic Painting in the OsCene 2006,” will feature artists whose work is heavy with symbolic artists that represent the intangible.

For more information, call (949) 494-8971 or visit www.lagunaartmuseum.org.

Realist exhibition, portfolio show at

East Coast artists Philip Geiger, George Nick and Altoo Sultan will be featured at the Three Realists Exhibition at Laguna College of Art & Design, opening Nov. 1 and running through Dec. 16 at the college gallery, 2222 Laguna Canyon Rd.

Exhibition hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Free parking is available.

A reception honoring Geiger is slated for 5 to 8 p.m., Nov. 2, at co-sponsors Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions (SCAPE) in Corona del Mar, 2859 E. Coast Highway.

The museum also hosted more than 500 local and regional students and families at its National Portfolio Day event on Oct. 22; high school and community college students interested in attending art school had their artwork critiqued, and discussed their college plans with representatives from several schools, including LCAD, Art Center, Cal Arts, Otis, Parsons and Ringling.

For more information on the school’s offerings, call (949) 376-6000 or visit www.lagunacollege.edu.

Community Art Project members

About 40 members of the nonprofit Community Art Project toured the studio of artist Gary Simpson on Oct. 15.

Simpson took the opportunity to describe and explain his “Commonground 191,” a multimedia art piece that was inspired by the events of 9/11. The project involved collecting soil from all 191 countries that are recognized by the United Nations, and 196 large-scale multimedia frescoes that incorporated the soil samples.

An exhibit of “Commonground 191” is on view at the Banking on Art gallery at Wells Fargo, 260 Ocean Ave., through Nov. 14.

For more information on the project, visit www.commonground191.com.