Thursday, August 13 – Thursday, August 20

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13

Pacific Palisades resident Elizabeth Cocca presents a one-woman show focused on inner world peace, 3 to 4 p.m. in Temescal Gateway Park, just below the camp store. The event is free, but parking is $7. Contact: (310) 573-6233. Chamber of Commerce mixer, hosted by Ramis Sadrieh of Technology for You! 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Aldersgate Lodge and Retreat Center, 925 Haverford. Admission is free for Chamber members. Non-members: $25. Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m., Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. The public is invited. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy’s weekly Family Fun Campfire Night, featuring nature tales, campfire songs, games and, of course, marshmallows, 7 p.m. in Temescal Gateway Park. Parking is $7, but the campfire is free. Leigh Court reads from her sexy Victorian romance, ‘The Bet,’ which is featured in ‘Secrets, Volume 27: Untamed Pleasures,’ a collection of romantic fiction, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Leigh will hand out tantalizing prizes, such as a fan for cooling off if her story gets too hot, a little bottle of Champagne, and chocolate-covered cherries. ‘ ‘

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14

Fun Family Friday Nights, a summer series hosted by the Palisades-Malibu YMCA, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Simon Meadow in Temescal Gateway Park. This week’s theme is ‘Pirates and Princesses.’ Costumes are encouraged and there will be numerous theme games and activities. As always, Fiesta Feast will be selling dinners, but picnics are welcome. Admission is free; parking in the adjacent lot is $7. Will Rogers comedy classic, ‘Doubting Thomas,’ costarring Billie Burke, screens at 7:30 p.m. on the grass at Will Rogers State Historic Park. Free house tours start at 5 p.m. Popcorn and drinks are free. Parking is $8.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

L’szl’ Mező (cello) and Mary Au (piano) will perform music from around the world, 7 p.m. at Corpus Christi Church, corner of Sunset and Carey. (See story, page 12.) Guests are invited to join the artists for a post-recital reception at 8:30 p.m. at Modo Mio, 15200 Sunset. For dinner reservations, call (310) 459-0979. Palisadians are invited to take a leisurely two-hour walk through Temescal Gateway Park and learn about the ‘Master of the Night’ (the owl), 7:30 p.m., beginning at the front parking lot. Parking is $7.   The Movies in the Park series continues with ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ 8 p.m. on the Field of Dreams at the Palisades Recreation Center. Free admission. The August 22 film is ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.’

MONDAY, AUGUST 17

‘‘Bear-y Last’ Pajama Storytime this summer, for children of all ages (parents and teddy bears welcome, too), 7 p.m. at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18

Story-Craft Time, ‘suggested’ for ages 4 and up, 4 p.m. at t the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. Richard Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute, will talk about the chaparral and wildfire issues at the Culture in the Canyon lecture series, sponsored by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, 7:30 p.m. in Temescal Gateway Park. Free admission and parking.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20

Carola Donnerhak, director of the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, will speak at the Palisades Rotary Club breakfast meeting about her institute’s German-American history, programs and projects, 7:15 a.m. at Gladstone’s restaurant, PCH at Sunset. Eileen Davidson, who stars as Ashley Abbott on ‘The Young and the Restless,’ will read from her second novel, ‘Dial Emmy for Murder’ (a sequel to her debut novel, published by Penguin Books), 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Tabloids and fans are stunned when daytime soap opera star Alexis Peterson leaves her show. She’s too busy with her new job as presenter at the Daytime Emmy Awards to even notice, but when her co-presenter is killed, Alex realizes she has another mystery on her hands.