5 Things To Do This Week
MLK archivist to speak
The Mother Lode Martin Luther King Jr. Committee celebrates its 20th anniversary on Sunday with speaker Clayborne Carson, the official King archivist and a Stanford history professor. Carson was selected by Coretta Scott King to edit and publish her late husband’s papers. Under the leadership of Carson, the King Papers Project has produced seven volumes of the late civil rights leader’s works. A reception with Carson will follow his talk.
WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Sonora High School auditorium, 430 N. Washington St.
ADMISSION: Free
CALL: (209) 928-3494
Mathemagician
Arthur Benjamin is a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont and a professional magician who combines his two passions in a fast-paced show coming to the Gallo Center for the Arts on Thursday. Benjamin will demonstrate how to mentally add and multiply numbers faster than a calculator, how to figure out the day of the week of any date in history and other amazing feats. He is winner of the national teaching award from the Mathematical Association of America, and was listed by Princeton Review as one America’s top 300 professors.
WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday
WHERE: Gallo Center for the Arts, 1000 I St., Modesto
TICKETS: $10-$25
CALL: (209) 338-2100
ONLINE: www.galloarts.org
O’Neill’s “Hughie”
Sonora’s Stage 3 Theatre Company opens its 2015 season with an American classic, “Hughie,” the work of the late Nobel laureate and revered U.S. playwright Eugene O’Neill. The one-act, two-man play was written by O’Neill in 1942 and is set in a Times Square hotel lobby in the 1920s. It follows down-on-his-luck gambling hustler Erie Smith and the new night clerk, Charlie Hughes.
WHEN: 7 p.m. today, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; through Feb. 1
WHERE: Stage 3 Theatre Company, 208 S. Green St., Sonora
TICKETS: $17-$25
CALL: (209) 536-1778
ONLINE: www.stage3.org
Capsule of Irving Berlin
The next Sunday Afternoons at CBS concert will offer “A Capsule of Irving Berlin: His Life, Music and Influence on the American Musical Theater.” River Lights Chorus will highlight Berlin’s music this weekend at the concert that also will feature the Golden Valley Chorus, Velocity Quartet, Young Women in Harmony (from Oakdale and Ripon high schools) and the Temple Singers from Congregation Beth Shalom. A chili and cornbread dinner will follow the concert; audience members are invited to enjoy the dinner and a singalong.
WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Congregation Beth Shalom, 1705 Sherwood Ave., Modesto
TICKETS: Individual $15 for seniors and students, $20 for adults, $7 for children, $12 for groups of 15 or more arranged in advance. Dinner tickets $10 each, $5 for children.
CALL: (209) 571-6060
John McCutcheon
Six-time Grammy-nominated folk musician John McCutcheon returns for his 14th annual benefit concert for the Modesto Peace/Life Center on Thursday. The concert will feature the artist’s classic peace song, “Christmas in the Trenches,” a commemoration of the World War I truce, which just marked its 100th anniversary. On Christmas Eve 1914 along the Western Front, war-weary German and English soldiers put down their arms and ventured out into No Man’s Land to share Christmas.
WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday
WHERE: Modesto Church of the Brethren, 2301 Woodland Ave., Modesto
TICKETS: $20 advance, $23 at the door, $5 age 18 and under
CALL: (209) 523-1438
This story was originally published January 7, 2015 at 4:00 PM with the headline "5 Things To Do This Week."