July 3: Marlene Thompson - Storyteller "True Stories"

July 4: Fourth of July Luau

July 16: Quarterly Residents' Association Meeting

July 18: Baseball Game - "The Quakes" Angels' Farm Team

• Visit the Quakes website: rcquakes.com

July 20: Hymn Sing: "Hidden Hymns"

July 23: Craft Club - Stuffing toys for South County Outreach

July 24:

• Willows Social Hour
  • Pat Litz shared "Experiences in Vietnam"
• Metaphysical talk by Molly Byers, C.S.
  • "Polar passages and the polar magnet of revelation"
• Board Dinner

August 12: Pageant of the Masters "All the World's a Stage"

This year honors the Diamond Jubilee 75th Anniversary of the Festival and Pageant.

• For more information about the Pageant, visit the Pageant's website.

August 16: Ice Cream Social

August 17: Hymn Sing: "Our Favorite Hymns"

August 24: Capistrano Valley Symphony

The Capistrano Valley Symphony and guest pianist Sandra Joy will perform musical selections from Prokofiev to Gershwin.

• Concert in the San Juan Capistrano Mission.

August 28:

• Willows Social Hour
• Board Dinner
• The Perfect Gentlemen
  • Four Southern Californians gifted with great voices and great humor performed at The Willows. Learn more about them and listen to some of their work - all on their website.

September 4: Chinese Warriors - Bowers Museum

• Learn more on the Museum's website

 

• Also on September 4: Talk: Art of Visiting

 

September 11: History Lessons: The American Revolution

September 13: Sing Along and Games Day

September 18: Las Concordias with Rourke Stacy

Ms. Rourke Stacy has been an attorney with the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office since 2001. She currently represents the office in juvenile delinquency matters.

September 21: Hymn Sing "Hymns of Peace"

September 25: Board Dinner featuring Craig Zobelein playing "Pop Goes the Organ"

For many years, Craig performed in community theater - dancing, singing and acting. He also spent 15 years as a design engineer in the aerospace industry and then 15 years teaching in Ventura County.

September 26: Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Choir

This group was founded to bring "western" music to Kiev, an area which had been behind the Iron Curtain. The musicians soon asked for Bibles, and later the founding minister started a church which has grown to over 500 members.

September 29: C.O.P. Talk at Irvine/Laguna Hills Church

 

October 4: Broadview Annual Meeting

October 7: "The Certainty of Christian Science Healing", Lecture by Kevin Graunke, C.S.B.

October 9: History Lessons: The American Revolution

October 11: Sing Along and Games Day

October 12: Readers Theatre Performance

October 15 Residents' Quarterly Meeting

• New Residents' Board elected more...

October 16: History Lessons: The American Revolution

October 22: Y & R Clothing Sale

October 23:

• Donut Social

• California's Water Crisis

• Saundra Jacobs will be the speaker

• Board dinner

October 24: South Coast Symphony

October 25: Gallery and Boutique Reception

October 26: Hymn Sing: God's Government

October 30: Trip to Oak Glen - Apple country

 

November 2008 Events

December 2008 Events

January 1: New Year's Celebration

 

Jan. 16: Resident's Quarterly Meeting

 

Jan 24: Nancy Mooslin Talk

 

Jan. 26: The Willows Foundation Annual Meeting

Feb. 8: South Coast Symphony

 

Feb 10: Laguna Community Concert Band

 

Feb. 14: Valentine's Day Dinner

 

Feb. 16: "Ginger and Me"

• A musical at the Indian Wells Theater in Palm Desert. Catered lunch provided.

Feb. 17: Hymn Sing

 

Feb. 21: Las Concordias Luncheon

 

Feb 27: Craft Club - Stuffing toys

Feb. 28: Willows Social Hour with storyteller: Marlene Thompson

• Board dinner and entertainment
  • Dr. Jazz (Dr. Thom Mason), the Jazz Professor from USC, gave a repeat performance.

Mar. 1: Christian Science Lecture "Prayer That Heals and Restores" by Martha Moffett, C.S.

Mar. 8: Global Ethics Conference

• A Principia event at Cal Poly Pomona

Mar. 9: Christian Science Lecture "The Power of Thought" by Barbara Fife, C.S.B.

March 15:

• Tour of Nethercutt Museum of Antique and Classic cars
• "The Certainty of Christian Science Healing" by Kevin Graunke, C.S.B.
• Metropolitan Opera Simulcast: "Peter Grimes",
  shown at the Irvine Spectrum

Mar. 16: Hymn Sing "Let us sing of Easter Gladness"

 

Mar. 22: "Tristan and Isolde"

• Metropolitan Opera Simulcast, shown at the Irvine Spectrum

Mar. 26: Craft Club - Toy stuffing for the Orangewood Children's Center

March 27: Willows Social Hour

• featuring Betty Everett and three flutes.
• Photographer Lin Craft presents her "Red Rocks of the American Southwest"

April 3: Oceanside Museum of Art

• Masterpieces of San Diego Painting: Fifty Works from Fifty Years, 1900-1950

April 4: South Coast Symphony

April 5: Metropolitan Opera Simulcast: La Boheme

 

April 12: Willows Gallery and Boutique Reception: Gardens

April 17: Las Concordias Luncheon

• Mark's view of Africa was the topic of his talk. He has been visiting Africa regularly for the past ten years as a practitioner, first in Zambia and then Zimbabwe and South Africa.

April 20: Longyear Program

• John Mitchell - DVD Pleasant View "Who Shall Be Called"

April 24:

• Willows Social Hour: Amy Foster spoke about Habitat for Humanity
• Board Dinner, followed by Richard Fisk, pianist who performed a recital of primarily classical music.

April 26: South Coast Symphony

• Sunland Annual Meeting: Dr. Doyle spoke about "The Most Scientific Man"
• Metropolitan Opera Simulcast: La Fille du Regiment

May 8: Organ Concert by Herb Herrmann

May 9: May the Forest Be With You, by Rachel Crandell

Principia Program in the Muth Interpretive Center

May 16: South Coast Symphony: The Fantastiks (concert version)

May 17: Forever Plaid - off-Broadway Musical Comedy

Forever Plaid is the funny and charming story of a classic 1950's all-male singing group who where waylaid while traveling to their first big gig.
(more info and links)

May 18: Hymn Sing: Our Favorite Hymns

May 22: Willows Social Hour

Featuring Erwin Cornelius - Introduction to Political Thought

• Board Dinner & Program: An Interview With Queen Victoria

Presented by AAUW

May 22: Laguna Woods Village Chorale

Matinee performance of Celebrate America.

May 27: Christian Science Lecture: "The Basis of Christian Science Healing", by Timothy Myers, C.S.

June 5: Y&R Clothing Sale

June 7: FYI-Broadview: How to pay for Christian Science Care

June 15: Hymn Sing: "Freedom"

June 19: Las Concordias - Jennifer Zobelein

• Ms. Zobelein talked about the Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ

June 21: Organ Concert - Laguna Beach Church

June 26: Willows Social Hour

• Judy Frutig spoke on "The Future of Newspapers: Out of Print?"

June 27: Trip to the San Diego Wild Animal Park