THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m., Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. Public invited. Photographer Nicole Katano and prosperity writer, coach and speaker Christiane Schull discuss and sign ‘What You Speak Is Seeking You,’ a coffee-table book on prosperity consciousness, 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 ‘Call Me Madam’ will be screened at 1 p.m. in the community room of the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. Admission is free. Snapshots Literary Troupe presents ‘She Walks In Beauty,’ produced and hosted by Eric Vollmer, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Theatre Palisades presents the final weekend of ‘The Boy Friend,’ book, music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson, 8 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Road. The show runs Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees through October 14. Ticket reservations: (310) 454-1970, or visit www.theatrepalisades.org. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 The Temescal Canyon Association hikers explore more new territory along trails in Corral Canyon East. Public invited. Meet at 9 a.m. in the Temescal Gateway parking lot for carpooling. For more information, visit TCA’s Web site at temcanyon.org. The Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra performs at 3 p.m. at Paul Revere Middle School Auditorium, 1450 Allenford. Admission is free. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Monthly meeting of the Santa Monica Canyon Civic Association, 7 p.m. at Rustic Canyon Park. Public invited. Paul Gripp will address the Malibu Orchid Society at 7:30 p.m. at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford. (See story, page 13). WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 Monthly meeting of the Potrero Canyon Community Advisory Committee, 7 p.m., in the old gym at the Palisades Recreation Center, 851 Alma Real. Public invited. Weekly writing meeting for members of all 12-Step programs or anyone with a habitual problem or illness, 7 to 8 p.m. at 16730 Bollinger Dr. Telephone (310) 454-5138 or e-mail info@12stepsforeverybody.org. A three-hour writing workshop is held at the same location every third Saturday at 9 a.m. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 Steve Soboroff, a community activist and president of Playa Vista, will speak about ‘The Future of Los Angeles’ at the Palisades Rotary Club breakfast meeting, 7:15 a.m. at Gladstone’s restaurant, PCH at Sunset. Contact: (310) 442-1607. Palisadian Marianna Zimmermann hosts a grand-opening luncheon for her new business, Celluette, noon to 3 p.m. in the 869 Via de la Paz building. There will be a raffle for treatments and 10 percent off all services at this rejuvenation studio for women. Contact: (310) 490-9889. Palisadian Janette Rainwater discusses and signs ‘2060: A Love Story in a Utopian Future,’ 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Rainwater is a retired clinical psychologist who earned her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1964. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 Gala opening concert of the 2007-2008 season by the fully professional St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Neenan, 8 p.m. in St. Matthew’s Church, 1031 Bienveneda. Tickets at the door: $25. The concert will feature Samuel Barber’s lyrical Violin Concerto with concertmaster Yi-Huan Zhao as soloist; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8; and Marc Falcone’s ‘Bells,’ a St. Matthew’s Music Guild commission.
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