Two highly regarded meals occasions are again this week, notably the Style of Downtown meals sequence (again in-person for the primary time for the reason that pandemic, no much less) and the Lengthy Seaside Seafood Competition. What’s additionally particular about this weekend is the debut of two new occasions, together with a brand new music sequence at Shoreline Village and the very cute Infants! exhibition on the Aquarium of the Pacific, which you may need guessed, contains a host of the aquarium’s tiny-tiny creatures.
For those who’re feeling like just a little buying, we’ve discovered an occasion for that. Or in the event you really feel like giving again, contemplate going to a particular live performance elevating cash to assist these struggling from the battle in Ukraine.
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TASTE OF DOWNTOWN – EAST VILLAGE (Wednesday & Thursday)
Flyer courtesy of Downtown Lengthy Seaside Alliance.
Try all of the native grub East Village has to supply with the return of Style of Downtown, and again in-person for the primary time for the reason that pandemic shut all of the enjoyable down.
On Wednesday and Thursday, Could 25-26 choose companies in East Village might be providing a style of their signature meals and drinks, supplying you with the chance to seek out your new favourite restaurant(s) with out an excessive amount of injury to your pockets.
The occasion is free to attend, however with the intention to pattern you’ll have to buy $1 “style tickets.” Click here to buy tickets and for extra data.
Style of Downtown might be within the East Village between Elm and Linden avenues on First Avenue.
HELP HEAL UKRAINE CONCERT & FUNDRAISER – LA TRAVIATA (Thursday)
Flyer courtesy organizers.
Organized by the Ukraine United Fund (UUF), this live performance and dinner fundraiser Thursday, Could 26 is aiming to assist present assist to kids, households, refugees and medics who’ve been affected by the battle in Ukraine.
The occasion will characteristic a efficiency from award-winning violinist Philip Vaiman, pianist Lyena Atonyicq and Ukrainian jazz, pop singer and songwriter Nuttalya.
Tickets value $35 and embody an Italian dinner buffet from La Traviata. All income and donations go to Leleka Basis, which may even buy first help kits for medics on the sector.
Click here for extra data and to buy tickets.
La Traviata Restaurant is at 301 N. Cedar Ave.
BABIES! EXHIBITION – AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC (Friday)
A child sea otter from the Aquarium of the Pacific. See the otters plus different small creatures on the aquarium’s latest exhibition Infants! Photograph by Robin Riggs.
On Friday, Could 27 the Aquarium of the Pacific is debuting its latest exhibition all about child animals.
Infants! options over a dozen displays with child or younger animals together with sea otters, sea turtles, tiny cuttlefish, miniature sea jellies, frogs and child sharks.
Apart from gawking over all of the cuteness, visitors will study simply how the ocean acts as a nursery for these younger creatures and the way the aquarium is working to assist many of those endangered species.
Entry to Infants! is included in a common admission ticket which prices $36.95 for these 12 and older; $26.95 for youngsters 3-11; $33.95 for seniors ages 62 and older.
Click here for extra data and to buy tickets.
Aquarium of the Pacific is at 100 Aquarium Approach.
LONG BEACH SEAFOOD FESTIVAL – SHORELINE AQUATIC PARK (Saturday)
A seafood boil from Cali Shrimp & Wingz Home. Photograph courtesy of Victor Sanchez.
The third annual Long Beach Seafood Festival might be held at Shoreline Aquatic Park on the grassy slopes by Lions Lighthouse Saturday, Could 28. Over 20 seafood distributors (and counting) are anticipated to take over the waterfront grounds, providing a various vary of seafood dishes from sushi to crab desserts to lobster mac n’ cheese and fried oysters to seafood gumbo, shrimp skewers, grilled squid and extra.
Along with providing full-sized meals, every of the distributors might be promoting smaller, sample-sized dishes priced at $5. So in the event you’re seeking to attempt as many dishes as your abdomen can deal with, this method is the best way to go.
The pageant is designed to be a family-friendly occasion with stay music and leisure all day lengthy. There might be communal video games reminiscent of large Jenga and Join 4 for attendees to get pleasure from, plus an enormous mechanical bull.
Click here for extra data and to buy tickets at $21 for attendees ages 13 and older. Tickets are $8 for youngsters ages 5-12.
Shoreline Aquatic Park is at 200 Aquarium Approach.
THE PIKE MARKET ON BAY STREET – PIKE OUTLETS (Saturday)
Flyer courtesy organizers.
Over 50 distributors are anticipated to take over the Pike Retailers Saturday, Could 28 in a day-long buying market with meals, drinks, boutique outlets and stay music.
Distributors might be arrange alongside Bay Avenue on the Pike Retailers the place consumers can look forward to finding garments, jewellery, house items, pet merchandise, vegetation and extra.
The market is free to attend and can run from 1-9 p.m. Click here for extra data.
Pike Market on Bay Avenue is at 8 Bay St.
SEASIDE CONCERTS – SHORELINE VILLAGE (Sunday)
Lengthy Seaside-based blues-soul vocalist Shyy However Flyy. File photograph.
Shoreline Village is a beautiful place to go to any weekend. There are eating places and outlets alongside the boardwalk, plus its waterfront location makes it a picturesque vacation spot from any vantage level.
However weekends at Shoreline Village are about to get just a little extra inviting with a brand new live performance sequence each Sunday starting on Could 29. Kicking off the present is Lengthy Seaside’s Shyy However Flyy a blues-soul vocalist with a ton of coronary heart. Catch her set without spending a dime from 1 to five p.m. on the boardwalk by the Funnel Home.
Click here to see the whole lineup of bands and artists to play this summer time and fall.
Shoreline Village is at 429 Shoreline Village Dr.
SPONSORED BY AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC
STUDENT FILMS EARN HIGH TIDINGS AT AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC — ONLINE/AQUARIUM
OF THE PACIFIC (Wednesday, June 1)
Aspiring filmmakers from native excessive colleges would be the “sea stars” of the Aquarium of the Pacific’s digital Excessive Tide Movie Competition Screening, the place the group will be capable to dive into their brief movies concerning the Pacific Ocean.
Profitable entries might be streamed stay on-line within the classes of ocean innovation, native treasures and coral reefs. “Whereas information and discovery are the gas of science, that science solely adjustments the world with private tales and the type of human connection that artwork offers,” mentioned Aquarium of the Pacific President and CEO Dr. Peter Karejva.
The free stay streaming of the movies from 7 to eight p.m., in addition to an in-person group occasion and award ceremony, takes place Wednesday, June 1. The occasion is sponsored by Dr. Allen Charlotte Ginsburg. Go to www.aquariumofpacific.org/events/hightide for particulars.
The Aquarium of the Pacific is at 100 Aquarium Approach.
SPONSORED BY LANDMARK THEATRE
LANDMARK THEATRE PRESENTS “WORKING: A MUSICAL” (Friday)
Landmark Theatre returns to the stage this week with a vibrant and unique-to-Lengthy-Seaside manufacturing of Working: A Musical, primarily based on the best-selling e book by Studs Terkel. Nominated for six Tony Awards, that is an American basic that has been up to date with new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. This energetic and galvanizing musical illuminates the humanity of the American employee. And in a world nonetheless reeling from the pandemic, Landmark will discover the numerous problems with this explicit second in time – from the inequities of capitalist America to “the nice resignation” – as we take a deep have a look at what it means to work.
Landmark’s manufacturing of Working will hit the stage over three weekends, Could 27 – June 12, and also will unfold by means of a community-based video mission. Landmark is sharing the tales of Lengthy Seaside’s working lives by means of a video sequence that features native artisans, tradespeople, executives, service employees, and extra. The sequence may be discovered on-line on the firm’s web site at https://lblandmark.org/working and integrated on-stage throughout the manufacturing of Working: A Musical.
As at all times, this Landmark manufacturing contains a top-notch forged {and professional} stay orchestra—hallmarks of an organization that has re-launched as an vital cultural landmark within the coronary heart of Lengthy Seaside, recognized for persistently high-quality musical theatre productions in a novel setting. Previous memorable reveals embody Little Store of Horrors, The twenty fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Girls the Musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Nearer Than Ever, and Titanic the Musical.
Landmark Theatre is at 241 Cedar Ave.
