Calendar for the Week of August 23

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 Weekly campfire program in Temescal Gateway Park, 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the campfire center past the General Store. Sing songs, tell stories, and roast marshmallows, courtesy of the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority. Admission is free; parking is $5. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 The Theatre Palisades summer musical, ‘The Boy Friend,’ book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson, opens at 8 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Road. The show, directed by Lewis Hauser, runs Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees through October 14. Ticket reservations: (310) 454-1970. Visit: www.theatrepalisades.org. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 Final night of Movies in the Park features ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,’ 7:45 p.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center, 851 Alma Real. Admission is free. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 Final evening of Summer Splash, a free, family-oriented activity hosted by the Palisades-Malibu YMCA, 5 to 7 p.m., in the Y’s Temescal Canyon pool, just north of Sunset. Friends of Film screen ‘Father G and the Homeboys,’ narrated by Martin Sheen, 7 p.m. in Pierson Playhouse on Haverford. Admission is $10. (See story, page TK.) Palisades Symphony will perform highlights from Mozart’s Opera ‘Don Giovanni’ at 7:30 p.m. in the Palisades Lutheran Church, 15905 Sunset, corner of El Medio. MONDAY, AUGUST 27 The Palisades Branch Library hosts a community reading of Oscar Wilde’s comedy, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ 7 p.m. in the library’s meeting room, 861 Alma Real. Pacific Palisades Civic League meeting, 7:30 p.m. in Gabrielson Hall at the Methodist Church, 801 Via de la Paz. Public invited. (See story, page TK.) Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy meeting, 7:30 p.m., with public testimony at 8 p.m., Stewart Hall in Temescal Gateway Park. The agenda is posted at www.smmc.ca.gov. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29 Young Adult program at the Palisades Branch Library presents a seminar with classic cartoon animators Max Espinoza and Ruben Gerard, 4 p.m. in the community room, 861 Alma Real. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 Weekly campfire program in Temescal Gateway Park, 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the campfire center past the General Store. Sing songs, tell stories, and roast marshmallows, courtesy of the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority. Admission is free; parking is $5.