ArtNight Touching All Bases: A Baseball Celebration is this Friday Night, October 9th, 2009 from 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. If you love Baseball this is the ArtNight for you, your family, and friends. The evening will be full of Baseball Visual Art, Performances, Film, Literature, Music and Crafts and Games. Something for everyone!!!
ArtNight
October 9, 2009 • 6 – 10 p.m. • Central Library
Touching All Bases: A Baseball Celebration
Co-sponsored by the Baseball Reliquary & Pasadena Public Library
Enjoy a multi-cultural, multi-generational evening exploring the unparalleled creative possibilities of America’s national pastime through the visual arts, music, performance, film and literature.
Visual Art
Ben Sakoguchi’s Orange Crate Label Series: The Unauthorized History of Baseball
North Entrance Exhibit Cases • All evening
Byron Motley’s Viva Cuba Beisbol, A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Contemporary Baseball in Cuba and
Tina Hoggatt’s Eight Ballplayers from the Negro Leagues, a suite of portraits and oral history
Humanities Wing • All evening
Chicago White Sox 1938 Spring Training in Pasadena
Great Hall • All evening
“Baseball” Art Display
Presented by Pasadena Adaptive Recreation
Centennial Room • All evening
Comic Book Artists and Writers Demonstration and Display
Reference Room • All evening
Music
Original songs dedicated to Baseball Greats
Presented by Folk Singer and Baseball Balladeer Ross Altman
Humanities Wing • 7:15 & 9:15 p.m.
Seventh Inning Stretch Baseball Sing-a-long led by Ross Altman
Great Hall • 8 p.m.
Classical Hits
Presented by the Crown City Players
Children’s Room • All evening
Performances
Donald R. Wright Auditorium
Solo performances by Performance Artist Dan Kwong
An excerpt from Secrets of the Samurai Centerfielder
6:15 p.m.
Dodgertown
7:15 p.m.
Film
Baseball Greats from the Mexican and Latino Baseball History Project at Cal State, San Bernardino
Technology Learning Center & Information Center/Great Hall • All evening
1961 “Dinah Shore Show” featuring Baseball Greats
Donald R. Wright Auditorium • 8 p.m.
“5:04 p.m.: A First Person Account of the 1989 World Series Earthquake Game”
Donald R. Wright Auditorium • 9 p.m.
Literature
Baseball poetry and memoirs by Michael C. Ford and Holly Prado
Humanities Wing • 6:15 & 8:15 p.m.
Readings from I Never Played Catch With My Father by Gene Cartwright.
Reading Room • 7:30 & 8:30 p.m.
Crafts & Games
Baseball Board Games for all ages
West side of the Great Hall • All evening
Create your own game basket using recyclable materials
Presented by Reiyukai America.
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” Children’s Crafts
Children’s Patio • 6 – 9 p.m.
The Baseball Reliquary’s ArtNight programming is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
The Library will be closed for general business. Parking is available in the north lot.
Coffee and treats will be available for purchase at Espress Yourself Coffee Bar.
Free shuttles will loop throughout the evening with stops at each venue. Central Library’s shuttle stop is located on Walnut Street.