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PERFORMING ARTS
BRIDGES HALL OF MUSIC: Pomona College, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont. 607-2671. Saturday, June 16: Faculty concert featuring Margaret Thornhill (clarinet), Twyla Meyer (piano) and guest Ray Tischer (viola). Claremont Clarinet Festival series. 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 21: New Music for Clarinet Ensembles featuring SQWONK, avant-garde bass clarinet duo. Claremont Clarinet Festival series. 8 p.m. CANDLELIGHT PAVILION: 455 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening shows: dinner at 6 p.m., performance at 8:15 p.m.; Sunday evening shows: dinner at 5 p.m., performance at 7:15 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday matinees: lunch at 11 a.m., performance at 12:45 p.m. 626-1254, ext.1 or www.candlelightpavilion.com. Through June 16: The Full Monty. Seeing how much their wives enjoy

watching male strippers during their girls night out, unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York come up with a bold way to make some quick cash. In the process they find renewed selfesteem, the importance of friendship and the ability to have fun. As the guys work through their fears, self-consciousness, feelings of worthlessness and anxieties, they come to discover that not only are they stronger as a group, but that the strength they find in each other gives them the individual courage to face their demons and overcome them. Due to subject matter, recommended for mature audiences. LEWIS FAMILY PLAYHOUSE: 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga. Call 477-2752 or visit www.lewisfamilyplayhouse.com. July 20 through 28: Seussical the Musical. LYMAN HALL: Thatcher Music Building, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont. Thursday, June 20: Clarinet Masterworks. Claremont Clarinet Festival series. 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 22: Clarinet Matinee. Claremont Clarinet Festival series. 2:30 p.m. RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN: 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont. The gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Admission to the garden is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors (65+) and students with valid ID, $4 for children 3 to 12, no charge for children under 3 and members. 6258767 or www.rsabg.org. Saturday, June 15: The 30th Claremont Folk Festival. There will be 2 stages featuring live music as well as workshops, kids activities, garden tours, art vendors, craft booths and gourmet food and libations. The musical line-up includes David Lindley, Henry Rollins, Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys, Moira Smiley and Voco, Leon Mobley with Da Lion and more. The festival will open at 10 a.m. Tickets are $25, children 12 and under are free. For further information, visit www.folkmusiccenter.com or

www.facebook.com/folkmusiccenter. Contact the Folk Music Center at 624-2928 or by email at info@folkmusiccenter.com or folkfestival30@gmail.com.

MOVIE LISTINGS
LAEMMLES CLAREMONT 5 THEATRE: 450 W. Second St., Claremont. 621-5500 or visit www.laemmle.com for movie listings. General admission $11; students with ID $8.50; children under 12 $8; seniors 62+ $8; bargain price $8 on Monday through Friday for all shows prior to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Sunday and holidays prior to 2 p.m. Now playing: Man of Steel [PG13], The Internship [PG13], Star Trek Into Darkness [PG13], Now You See Me [PG13], What Maisie Knew [R], Frances Ha [R]. Premier: Man of Steel [PG13]. Friday, June 14 at 12:01 a.m.

Claremont Clarinet Festival returns to Pomona College

Now in its eighth year as a summer festival, the Claremont Clarinet Festival returns to the Pomona College campus from June 16 to 22, presenting 14 solo clarinetists in 5 public concerts. Admission to the festival is free. Featured guest soloists will be the San Francisco-based bass clarinet duo, SQWONK, a group which pushes the envelope of what bass clarinet music can be, says Clarinet Magazine. SQWONKs music draws on a wide range of influences, from klezmer to heavy metal to blues to minimalism to free improvisation, creating a repertoire that is strikingly contemporary, yet broadly accessible to a wide audience. SQWONK will be performing on Friday, June 21 at 8 p.m. in the Mabel Bridges Hall of Music both in a set of their own repertoire and in the westcoast premiere of a new concerto by
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Margaret Thornhill

Jonathan Russell in which the bass duo will be accompanied by a clarinet choir of festival participants. The opening concert of the festival is a faculty recital on Sunday, June 16 at 2:30 p.m. in Bridges Hall of Music. The festival's founders, clarinetist Margaret Thornhill, and Twyla Meyer, pianist, will perform works by Josef Horowitz and Takahaski Yoshimatsu, and will be joined by guest Ray Tischer, violist, in trios by Mozart and Bruch. Clarinet Masterworks takes place on Thursday, June 20, at 8 p.m. and a Clarinet Matinee on Saturday, June 22 at 2:30 p.m., feature festival participants, accompanied by pianists Twyla Meyer and Althea Waites. Both recitals are in Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Center. There will also be a noon recital in Lyman Hall on Friday, June 21, featuring works by Copland and Muczynski.

This year's participants are young artists, adult chamber musicians and music educators who are performance graduates of San Francisco Conservatory, California State University, Cal Arts, Cal Poly, UCLA, Stanford University, California Lutheran University and Louisiana State University. This is a unique event in Southern California, says Margaret Thornhill. If you love great clarinet music, these concerts are for you. Lyman Recital Hall in the Thatcher Music Center and Bridges Hall of Music are located near the south west corner of College Avenue and Fourth street in Claremont. There is ample parking in a campus structure at the end of Bonita, and disabled access at Fourth Street. For more festival information, visit www.claremontclarinetfestival.com or call 310-464-7653.

PETTERSON MUSEUM OF INTERCULTURAL ART: 730 Plymouth Road, Pilgrim Place. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 2 to 4 p.m. Contains collections of international fine art, folk art and material culture from 10,000 B.C. to the present, contributed by Pilgrim Place residents and community friends, covering every continent. 399-5544. Wednesday, July 10: Hawaiian quilt workshop led by Judy Manley who earned her MFA from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Participants will learn the history of Hawaiian-style quilting as well as how to design and execute their own unique Hawaiianstyle motifs. $5 for materials. 1 to 4 p.m. For ages 13 and up. Reservations must be made by July 7. Call Viki Battaglia, 399-5573. Through August 25: Celebrating the Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia. RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN: 1500 N. College Ave.,

Claremont. The gallery is open Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Admission to the garden is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors (65+) and students with valid ID, $4 for children 3 to 12, no charge for children under 3 and members. 6258767 or www.rsabg.org. Through July 28: RSABGs Butterfly Pavilion lets visitors interact with real butterflies. The Lantz Outdoor Classroom features activities for families, including nature-based art and craft projects. Butterfly gardening enthusiasts can learn about creating the habitats that butterflies need to survive. $2 exhibition admission, plus standard garden admission. SQUARE i GALLERY: 110 Harvard Ave., Claremont. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or by appointment. Square i is an annex of the Artist Trait Gallery. Exhibits rotate approximately every 6

COURIER photo/Jenelle Rensch Artist Barry Cisneros poses for photos at The Colony at Loft 204 in the Packing House during art walk on Friday. His costal watercolors are featured this month in the gallery.

weeks. Call 621-9091 or e-mail info@squareigallery.com. Through June 30: Jerry Owens collection of watercolors, Landscape Savior-Faire. Composition, line, color

and subject are the cornerstones of Mr. Owens work. Each piece has a limited but powerful palette crafted with museum-quality materials and mounted on hardwoods.