THURSDAY, APRIL 17 Mark Harris screens his Academy Award-winning documentary, ‘The Long Way Home,’ and leads a discussion following the screening, 6:30 p.m., Kehillat Israel synagogue, 16019 Sunset. Admission is free and the public is invited. Palisadian Dr. Michael Gyepes discusses and signs his latest novel, ‘Hotel Transylvania,’ about exiles, refugees and immigrants during 18th-century Paris, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. FRIDAY, APRIL 18 The monthly Movies at the Library series features ‘Funny Face,’ starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, 1 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. This free program is co-hosted by the Friends of the Library and the Palisades AARP chapter. Theatre Palisades presents Michael Frayn’s ‘Noises Off,’ 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday, through May 11 at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Rd. Tickets: (310) 454-1970 or visit theatrepalisades.org. SATURDAY, APRIL 19 Volunteers are invited to join the monthly Village Green gardening and maintenance project, 9 to 11 a.m., corner of Swarthmore and Sunset. Just bring shears and gloves. Contact: (310) 459-5167. Sally Linden presents a Palisades art show, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the upper deck at the Spectrum Club, 17383 Sunset. Contact: (310) 454-4944, ext. 133. SUNDAY, APRIL 20 The Santa Monica Bay Auxiliary of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles presents its annual Spring Garden Tour from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., including two gardens in Pacific Palisades, two in Santa Monica and two in Brentwood. (See story, page 12.) MONDAY, APRIL 21 Cal State Long Beach professor Sherna Berger Gluck shares her knowledge of oral history at the Pacific Palisades Historical Society meeting, 2:30 p.m. in the Methodist Church lounge, 801 Via de la Paz. Public invited. Information/RSVP: (310) 454-2101. TUESDAY, APRIL 22 Novelist Lisa See (‘Peony in Love’) is the guest speaker at the annual Author’s Tea, sponsored by the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 7:30 p.m., at the clubhouse, 901 Haverford. Tickets at the door: $10. (See story, page 12). Jennifer Kwon Dobbs reads from her book of poetry, ‘Paper Pavillion,’ which touches on themes of transnational adoption and her personal history and identity as a woman who came to America from Korea, 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. Also, editor Neil Aitken reads excerpts of the Boxcar Poetry Review. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 The Palisades AARP Travel Group’s monthly meeting features a slide presentation on Laos, 2 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 9861 Alma Real. Public invited. Monthly Chamber of Commerce mixer, 5:30-7:30 p.m., hosted by the IDEAS Studio, 16650 Marquez. Non-members: $25. Billy Mernit discusses and signs ‘Imagine Me & You,’ a novel riff on the romantic comedy, 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. THURSDAY, APRIL 24 Palisades resident Bob Klein, head of the St. John’s Medical Center Foundation, will speak about St. John’s at the Palisades Rotary Club meeting, 7:30 a.m., Gladstone’s restaurant on PCH at Sunset. Contact: Citizen of the Year Dinner, sponsored since 1947 by the Palisadian-Post, 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on La Cruz. Bill Minor discusses ‘Trek: Lips, Sunny, Pecker and Me,’ a comic adventure novel set in 1976 along the Oregon Trail, 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore.
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