TO: HISTORICAL COMMISSION
FROM: CAMERON HARDING, COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR
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HISTORICAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE REPORTS
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RECOMMENDATION
Updates from the Historical Commission Committees, including plans for the City's 132nd Birthday Celebration.
BACKGROUND
The Redondo Beach Historical Commission has two active committees:
* The Visitor Experience Committee, comprised of Commissioners Stumphauzer, Hardy and Cota; and
* The Marketing Committee, comprised of Commissioners Stumphauzer, Hardy and Fernandez.
Committees may provide an update of projects through verbal or written reports. Written reports or supplemental information are attached to this report, or included in the agenda as a Blue Folder Item if received following the publication of the agenda packet.
THE CITY'S 132ND BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Staff and Commissioners have been working hard to produce two unique events for the City's 132nd Birthday Celebration.
Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center - Art Gallery
1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd.
Friday, April 26 - 6 pm - 9 pm
Saturday, April 27 - Noon - 5 pm
Sunday, April 28 - 11 am - 4 pm
Not many people know that the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (RBPAC) has a professional-quality art exhibition space with a track hanging system, track lighting, direct access to an outdoor patio with a full-service concession area and an entrance directly from the parking lot. As you face the building, the entrance is just to the right of the Gordon Huether sculpture. Stevan Colin, a former city council member and current chair of the Historical Commission has a collection of original watercolors by Caesar Hernandez (1909-1996), a very famous Redondo Beach artist and art teacher at Redondo Union High School. Over the past several years, Steve has taken his collection to the Historical Musuem for a June exhibition, but since Springfest is happening the same weekend as the City's birthday this year, having th...
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