Arts & Entertainment
More Feasting this Weekend as You Get Out in and Around Gilroy
A BBQ Cookoff with 50 different kinds of barbecue or barbeque or BBQ to choose from; a couple of fundraisers featuring either crab cioppino or music under the stars, a garden tour and a senior film festival round things out this Mothers Day weekend.
Where/When: 17000 Monterey St, Morgan Hill, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Why Go: If you have any fondness for BBQ or barbeque or barbecue (all correct ways to refer to BBQ, too) you shouldn't miss this. A cookoff with all different kids and styles of BBQ. And you, the customer, the festival goer, can get to sample it all. Music, too. There will be more than 40 BBQ competitors there from all over the West Coast. (Though I can't resist, where's Kansas City in this or Georgia or Florida or South Carolina?) Oh, it pains the author not to be there.
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Pricing: $10 for 5 tickets plus 1 vote ticket
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Where/When: Christopher Ranch, 305 Bloomfield Ave. Gilroy, CA 95020 (Use the Truck entrance off Hwy 25 at the railroad tracks, Saturday, 5:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Why Go: All you can eat Crab Cioppino, Salad and Garlic Bread at this fundraiser for the Athletic Program at Gilroy High School. Local wines to accompany your meal. A silent Auction featuring Sports memorabilia and other great items is part of the program. There will be dancing after dinner.
Pricing: $50
Where/When: , 4605 Hecker Pass Hwy, Saturday, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Why Go: Gilroy Arts Alliance brings back their popular annual fundraiser for a night of entertainment under the stars. This year, they combine the local talents of the men and the women, presenting "Divas and Divos On Broadway". Performers include Alan Hoshida, Don Elvis Prieto, Paul Myrvold, Phi Robb, Ted Sanchez, Beverly Blount, Carol Harris, Karen McConachie, Patti Lemon and Sandra Marlowe. The evening's MC's are Billy Tindall and Kevin Heath. Wine and hors D'Oeuvres sweeten the deal.
Pricing: $50
Where/When: 10711 Green Valley Drive, Friday, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Why Go: Gilroy Assistance League announces our annual fundraiser- "Impressions" Home and Garden Tour featuring Country Homes of Gilroy. Take a look at three distinctive homes and landscapes — a French manor, a Santa Barbara-style home and a country contemporary. Complimentary light appetizers. Proceeds benefit childrens' organizations.
Pricing: $30
Where/When: Good Samaritan Hospital, Health to You Auditorium, 2425 Samaritan Drive, San Jose, Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Why Go: A day of films that focuses on seniors. These movies emphasize positive aging. Events include presentations from filmakers. This is a unique event that is very much worth the drive to San Jose.
The films to be shown include Close Harmony, an Academy Award-winning documentary about a senior citizen chorus and an elementary school chorus who practice for a combined concert, and Shattering the Myth of Aging, about seniors in their 70s, 80s and 90s who compete in demanding sports at the Senior Olympics. There's much more, too many to list here.
Pricing: $10, includes box lunch
