Upcoming Events

The City of Monterey invites you to celebrate PARK(ing) Day, transforming parking spaces into temporary parks on Alvarado Street between Pearl and Franklin. These miniature "parklets" will feature green spaces, outdoor seating, and fun and educational booths.

The City of Monterey's Museums and Cultural Arts Division presents a reception for our newest art exhibition, Monterey - Timeless Beauty , featuring the work of the Central Coast Art Association, at Alvarado Gallery on Friday, September 20, 5:30pm-7pm. All...

Kick off the weekend and spend a Friday evening under the stars enjoying live music, cocktails, small plates, and more on the terrace at Jacks Monterey. Tonight, singer-songwriter Fred McCarty will perform 6pm-9pm.

Our new, pet-friendly terrace...

Puma Road at Portola Plaza presents the musical duo Max and Bronwyn . Enjoy wine tasting, wines by the glass, and wines by the bottle while you listen to one of our favorite local acts.

Max and Bronwyn...

East Village Coffee Lounge presents The Charities , a band from Hermosa Beach, California influenced by vintage jazz, old Motown soul, funk, disco, and R&B.

Cibo Restaurant invites you to join us for a night of live R&B, funk, rock, and pop music featuring The Rob Lopes Project.

Lopez Restaurante y Cantina presents an evening of live music in celebration of Chuy Lopez's birthday, featuring Banda Traviezos, Santa Maria, Kurioso Norteño, 1er Nivel, and Grupo Hermanos Casas. All are welcome to the party! Purchase advance tickets on our event website.

Join Monterey Bay Community Power to learn about clean energy and enjoy live music by VYBE, local sustainable food, free electric vehicle test drives, and eBike test rides. Visit an MBCP tent at the event to enter to win a $2,000 eBike!

The Dali Expo presents Dali's Alley. Discover over a dozen different vendors selling a variety of crafts - everything from fine art, jewelry, and books, to clothing, soaps, and more.

At this talk at The Dali Expo on Saturday, September 21, 1pm-3pm, artist Maria Poroy will demonstrate what materials she uses for the special effects in her paintings, then show them in the completed paintings in her exhibit...

East Village Coffee Lounge hosts Come and Hang Out: An Art and Music Showcase on Saturday, September 21, 6pm-10pm. The evening will feature artwork by Alejandra Montelongo, Liliana Pimentel, Max Amezquita, Isabel Aragon, and Ruth Naranjo plus music by...

Monterey Museum of Art on Pacific Street invites you to Ferment Event 2019, celebrating local craft beers, wines, kraut, cider, DIY zines, videos, and interactive art, plus live music by ¿Qiensave? ! Tickets are $5 general admission, $15 for pre-sale punch card (to taste food and drinks), and $20 for punch cards at the door.

Old Capitol Books is partnering with Monterey Peninsula Pride to host a monthly hang out for LGBTQ+ folks age 18 and up on the third Saturday of the month at 7pm. Join us and enjoy tunes and chill vibes. Admission fee is $5.

Mortecai (Jeddy Grant) and Padorr present Sin-aesthetic, an atmospheric feast of sensual delight at The Dali Expo on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22, at 8pm. Admission is $20. For mature audiences only.

Mortecai and Padorr concoct aural...

Lopez Restaurante y Cantina presents a drag show produced by Ellie Sparkles featuring your host, Deja Skye, on Saturday, September 21 and an all new night of comedy, cocktails, and queens! Doors open at 8pm, show begins at 9pm. Tickets...

Cibo Restaurant invites you to join us for a night of live music featuring the Lang Street Band, 9pm-12:30am. Lang Street is a group of experienced musicians who truly enjoy each other's talents and spirit; when performing,...

Puma Road at Portola Plaza presents Boscoe's Brood . Enjoy wine tasting, wines by the glass, and wines by the bottle while you listen to one of our favorite local acts.

Sam Regalado, the face and creator of...

The Old Monterey Marketplace and Farmers' Market takes place rain or shine every Tuesday. Strolling along the three and a half blocks of Alvarado Street, you can find organic produce, fresh flowers, international food and pastries, arts and crafts, handmade jewelry, and clothing.

Peter B's Brewpub invites you to join us for a four-course Brewer's Dinner celebrating our 23rd anniversary on Tuesday, September 24 at 6pm. Fee is $60 plus tax and gratuity per person; $40 plus tax and gratuity for Mug Club...

MIIS presents a free lecture by shark specialist Dr. David A. Ebert, Searching for Lost Sharks. A few large, charismatic sharks, such as the Great White Shark, are the focus of numerous conservation and scientific efforts while the remainder, the “lost sharks,” continue to be largely unknown but can help us learn about the health of the marine environment.

Come to Sovino to play Wine Bingo! Really, it's everything you like about Bingo, with wine and Sovino vocabulary associated with the numbers. Come and learn a little, play a little, drink a little. There shall be prizes!

Sovino Wine Bar and Merchant is hosting a themed Trivia Night centered around the popular HBO show Mean Girls ! There will be prizes. Team size is limited to 6 people.

Join us as we hear from Monterey Mayor Clyde Roberson and Monterey City Manager Hans Uslar on the 2019 State of the City on Thursday, September 26, 6pm-8pm at Portola Hotel and Spa in the Ironwood Room. Admission is free,...

Lopez Restaurante y Cantina presents a Tequila Mi Campo Summer Party on Thursday, September 26, 8pm-11:30pm. Say goodbye to summer with a tequila party featuring DJ Showbiz, a taco bar, specialty cocktails, and no cover charge. Ages 21 and older...

Sovino Wine Bar is hosting a pop-up show featuring beautiful jewelry made locally by Nautilus and Sway. We'll have grab bags (while they last) and buy-one-get-one deals. Come check it out!

Kick off the weekend and spend a Friday evening under the stars enjoying live music, cocktails, small plates, and more on the terrace at Jacks Monterey. Tonight, singer-songwriter Johan Sotelo will perform 6pm-9pm.

Our new, pet-friendly terrace...

Puma Road at Portola Plaza presents the musical duo Max and Bronwyn . Enjoy wine tasting, wines by the glass, and wines by the bottle while you listen to one of our favorite local acts.

Max and Bronwyn...

East Village Coffee Lounge and Kiki Wow present an evening of live music featuring Georgia singer-songwriter Caroline Aiken on Friday, September 27, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

After years of performing, beginning in 1969 in NY, California, South America, and Europe,...

Cibo Restaurant invites you to join us for a night of live rock music featuring VYBE , 9pm-12:30am.

VYBE is a collaboration of talented, seasoned musicians who came together in early 2010 and have become...

Lopez Restaurante y Cantina presents an evening of live music featuring La Tunera and Los Nuevos Santa Rosa on Friday, September 27. Doors open at 9:30pm. Ages 21 and over only. Purchase advance tickets on our event website. ...

Liberate your creativity at this printmaking workshop, held on the last Saturday of every month, 4pm-6pm, at The Dali Expo. Tickets are $30 for Expo members, $35 for all others. All ages and skill levels are welcome.

The Monterey Peninsula Gospel Community Choir, founded and directed by John L. Nash, Jr., celebrates the music of the late gospel legend Thomas Whitfield with a concert at Golden State Theatre.

East Village Coffee Lounge and Kiki Wow present an evening of live music featuring Marky Starks on Saturday, September 28, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

"Marky is a natural story-teller. There is an ease and familiarity with her songs that resonate...

Join us for a comedy improv show on the second and last Saturday of every month at The Dali Expo's Dream Theater. The Monterey peninsula's premier improv troupe uses audience suggestions and volunteers to create hilarious scenes right on the...

Middlebury Institute of International Studies presents a free lecture by Sandra Ponce de Leon entitled Can Technology Save the Oceans? on Tuesday, October 1, at 6pm in Room 102 in the McGowan Building on the campus of MIIS....

The Dali Expo hosts a free screening of Lives Well Lived , a feature documentary film by Sky Bergman that celebrates the incredible wit and wisdom of adults 75 to 100 years old who are living their lives to the...

East Village Coffee Lounge and Kiki Wow present an evening of live music featuring RAQIA on Friday, October 4, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

RAQIA is an instrumental trio formed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2018. Consisting of guitarist...

Dumplings? On Alvarado Street?! Yes please! Stop by Pacific Bowls and Rolls on Friday, October 4 at 8pm for an incredible dumpling line up until 11pm or while supplies last! Our last dumpling pop up was so popular it sold...

Cibo Restaurant invites you to join us for a night of live music featuring the Lang Street Band, 9pm-12:30am. Lang Street is a group of experienced musicians who truly enjoy each other's talents and spirit; when performing,...