Big Sur in northern California is a treasure within itself but it also holds a tiny art space with a massive history and a dynamic force. Now fronted by Magnus Toren, this memorial library dedicated to the artist Henry Miller will celebrate it’s 30th Anniversary with summer festivities including performances by Fleet Foxes, an evening with John Waters, Explosions in the Sky, DRACULA by Philip Glass with a string quartet & piano, +++
Everyone is welcome to the celebration: “Doing’ for the sake of beauty, literature and art, ‘doing’ to nurture the things that arguably makes life worth living; that’s the ‘doing’ we understand. Henry Miller says “to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” And with no sign of slowing down, they happily encourage all intrepid souls – music-lovers, wandering poets, Parisians, restless spirits, aspiring writers, unfulfilled bankers, clove-cigarette smokers burning with wanderlust, Miller disciples, laid-off Silicon Valley yuppies, refugees from bourgeois society, aspiring gurus, and even over-worked lawyers from the Upper West Side – to come join us in the celebration.”
If you have the chance, do not miss this insanely unique series of events:
07/21/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series
07/28/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series
07/30/11 – Film screening: “My Suicide”
07/31/11 – Woodsist Festival
08/04/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series
08/10/11 – MGMT
08/11/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series
08/13/11 – An Evening with John Waters
08/13/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series
08/25/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series
08/26/11 – Big Sur International Short Film Series w/ The Dodos
08/31/11 – Poetry Night presented by Philip Glass
09/01/11 – DRACULA: Music by Philip Glass; string quartet & piano
09/05/11 – Explosions in the Sky
09/06/11 – Little Dragon
09/11/11 – Fleet Foxes
09/24/11 – Twin Shadow
10/10/11 – Gang Gang Dance
The incredible and incredibly lucky Paige Parsons got to check out Arcade Fire last year at the Henry Miller Library. Check out her first hand review from her front yard concert experience.
Donate to Henry Miller Memorial Library, and make this little bookstore continue its fantastic mission as a beloved sanctuary of cultivated art and culture.
