The La Quinta Museum is offering special events from November 6th - December 12, 2009 - Tuesdays
through Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM. These special events are part of the "On Earth to Stay" exhibits which include collections and creations by David Salk, a native of Palm Springs, who has preserved and replicated the basket weaving expertise of Native American women from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Also on display for the special events will be photographs and writings of George Wharton James. James wrote more than forty books and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest.
Below is a list of the special events at the La Quinta Museum, located at 77-885 Avenida Montezuma in La Quinta. For more information or reservations call the Museum at 760-777-7170.
06 November - Opening Reception 5 pm to 7 pm
Southern California Bird Singers perform traditional songs of the Desert Cahuilla people. Meet Artist David Salk and Coachella Valley resident Dennis Wharton James, descendant of George Wharton James.
07 November - 10 am to 12 noon Lecture and Native
American Basketry Demonstration by Alice Kotzen, noted artist and author. Limited to 30, reservations required to 777-7170.
12 November - 5 pm to 6 pm"Mukat's People:The Story
of the Cahuilla" by Ginger Ridgway, Curator/Director of Programs, Aqua Caliente Cultural Museum.
19 November - 5 pm to 6 pm "Literary Bounty in an Arid
Land: the weave of Coachella Valley geography, Cahuilla culture, and desert art in the writings of George Wharton James." Lecture/discussion by Ruth M. Nolan, M.A. Associate Professor of English, College of the Desert and editor of the California desert literary anthology "No Place for a Puritan" the literature of California's deserts, " forthcoming from Heyday Books (fall, 2009.)
03 December - 10:30 am to 12 noon "A Taste of the
Desert" by Tracy Albrecht, Interpretive Specialist, Sant Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.
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