Events
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9th Annual Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival
Celebrating Stories of the Sea: Wooden Boats in Film & Fiction Event Open to The Public June 13 & 14, 2025Newport Beach, CA – (March 19, 2024) – There is something undeniably romantic about a great adventure at sea. Think back to when a great sea tale first captured your imagination. Was it Jim Hawkins setting sail on the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island? Or perhaps it was seeing Marlin Brando as Fletcher Christian in the 1962 classic Mutiny on the Bounty? Or possibly for our younger readers it was the fantastic specter of the Black Pearl in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? This year the Newport…
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Sawdust Art Festival
We are working on Sawdust Art Festival’s 60th archive. You can follow the project and contribute your story! The archive contains thousands of never-before-seen photos, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Dive into the fascinating history of Sawdust and explore how Laguna Beach’s art scene developed. This collection contains photographs, oral histories, written stories, and ephemera. What was life like in the Laguna Canyon in the 1960s? The archive is a time capsule to the past. What did people do for fun? What were their hobbies? Discover this story within the space of six decades in these pages. You will see a variety of materials from the Sawdust Art Festival. Some…
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Center for Oral and Public History
Jennifer Keil shared her experiences as a 2014 Masters Degree graduate from the History Department in the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History in the Biennial Report | 2020-2021. Creating Access to California History showcases partnerships with cities and museums. Keil is the Founder of 70 Degrees and Museum Director of Moulton Museum, which will open to the public on July 1, 2022. Register to participate in the bi-annual Oral History workshop on Saturday, February 26th from 10am-1pm. As the Immediate Past President of Southwest Oral History Association, Keil encourages you to attend the conference with the theme of “The Memories Matter: Oral History, Hope, and Community”…
