October 3, 2024

Carl St.Clair Opens His Last Season as Director of Pacific Symphony

On September 26, Carl St.Clair opened his final season with Pacific Symphony. Over the past three decades, he has helped build the 84-musician symphony into one of the country’s top orchestras. After this year he will continue on as music director laureate. 

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Santa Ana Artist Grant Program Now Open

The City of Santa Ana’s annual Investing in the Artist Grant Program is now accepting applications through October 21. There is $200,000 available to disperse among qualified individual artists and nonprofit organizations for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. Please note that there is a mandatory information session on October 8 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. For the Zoom link, click here: 

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Samueli Foundation Endows $3 million to Preserve Chapman’s Holocaust Remembrance Contest

Engelina Billauer, 89, of Santa Monica, shares a moment with a student after signing a copy of the book “The Holocaust Chronicle” during a reception following Chapman University’s annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest in 2017.

For 25 years, Chapman University has presented an annual Holocaust art and writing contest that allows high school and middle school students to engage with first-person accounts from survivors and produce original creative works in response to their testimonies. The Samueli Foundation has helped to sponsor the contest since 2005. Now, a newly announced $3 million endowment from the foundation will ensure the contest continues indefinitely, continuing its mission to educate future generations about the lives and experiences of Holocaust survivors.

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OCVibe to Bring Back Golden Bear Nightclub

Rendering of 5,700 person concert hall that will be built by 2026. 

Officials behind OCVibe in Anaheim wanted people to know that their 100-acre development will bring a downtown to Orange County. A big part of this will be a reincarnation of the Golden Bear, the legendary Huntington Beach music venue that once hosted local bands and scores of music greats.

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Orange County Artist Creates Painting in Honor of Injured OCFA Firefighters

Aliso Viejo artist Jeanine Brown is among the many who are sending well-wishes to the eight injured Orange County Fire Authority firefighters from the Airport fire. She was inspired for her wishes to take the form of a painting that she has donated to the OCFA. 

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