On the Mile Magazine

Ringing in the Holidays
The Stockton Chorale will “Ring in
the Holidays” with a performance
under the direction of artistic director/conductor
Magen Solomon. The
wonderfully varied program includes
excerpts from the “Messiah,” and chorale
and secular holiday favorites. The
concert includes works performed by
the Master Chorale and Youth Chorale.
They will be joined in concert by
the Velocity Handbell Choir, a group of
very talented Bay Area musicians who
come to share the artistry of handbells.
Each year the Stockton Chorale Holiday
Concerts is enjoyed by large audiences,
who hear both the familiar and
the sublime. The audience is also invited
to sing along when the Chorale performs
such familiar tunes as “Joy to the
World” and “Angels We Have Heard
on High.” With the Velocity Handbell
Choir accompanying the Chorales and
performing their own signature pieces,
the audience will enjoy this concert as a
highlight of the holiday season.
This performance is 7:30 p.m. on Friday
Dec. 2, at the Central Methodist
Church, 3700 Pacific Ave., Stockton.
Concert tickets are $20 for adults and
$5 for students. Tickets are general admission
and may be purchased at the
door, by phoning the Stockton Chorale
office at (209) 951-6494, or by contacting
Chorale members.
Pirates Arrive in Stockton
Port City Sports and Entertainment
owner, Ronny Hagan, has officially
announced that the Port City Pirates
(an American Basketball Association
League professional team) will be calling
the Stockton Arena their home! Hagan
brings much needed enthusiasm and
passion for providing Stockton with an
exciting, affordable, and family-friendly,
sports entertainment experience.
To ensure a smooth inaugural season
and long-term success for the franchise,
Hagan has brought in two basketball
professionals to lead the team to victory.
The team’s General Manager, Wayman
Strickland, has coached professionally
and locally at Delta College and abroad
in Europe and Asia. Former NBA basketball
player Wallace Bryant, will be
the team’s Head Coach. Bryant played
for the Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks
and Los Angeles Clippers before taking
his game overseas.
The Pirates first league game, on Thursday,
Nov. 17, will be on the road against
the San Francisco Rumble, and the home
opener will be on Saturday, Nov. 19
AROUNDthe mile
against the East Bay Pit Bulls. The season
will run from Thursday, Nov. 17th
through Thursday, March 15th, with 15
games played at home in the Arena.
Tickets start at $10 per person. A
limited number of season ticket and
sponsor packages will be sold through
Thursday, Nov. 10. Tickets are available
online at www.portcitypirates.com or at
the Stockton Arena box office.
Happenings at The Haggin
New Exhibit
Experience water as you’ve never seen
it in “The Allure of Water – On Location
with the Plein-Air Painters of
America.” This exhibition will continue
at The Haggin Museum through Sunday,
Jan. 22, 2012, and is documented in
a color catalogue.
Water is essential to our physical sustenance
and psychological bliss, and has
inspired artists from the earliest times.
Today’s on-location painters are no less
intrigued by the challenge of capturing
the illusion, movement, and infinite
moods of water in pigments on canvas
and paper.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like
Christmas
Get a head start on your Christmas
shopping at The Haggin Museum
Store’s Annual Open House. The store
will be decorated to the hilt and filled
with an array of holiday merchandise.
There will be a special museum members’
preview on Saturday, Nov. 5, and
one for the general public on Sunday,
Nov. 6. The open house for both days is
noon to 5 p.m.
Book Talk and Signing
Dr. David G. Styles is an aero/auto
historian who has published 20 books
to date, winning 30 international
awards along the way.
His latest book, “Two Flights to Victory,”
is the compelling tale of a series of encounters
connecting Lieutenant-Colonel
Jimmy Doolittle, leader of the bold April
1942 bombing raid on Japan, and Colonel
Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola
Gay, the B-29 that dropped an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
Dr. Styles will be at the Haggin Museum
to talk about his book on Thursday,
Nov. 3. This evening presentation is included
with regular museum admission
as part of the museum’s First and Third
Thursdays series, with complimentary
wine and snacks beginning at 6:30 p.m.
For more information on any of the
events at the Haggin Museum, call
(209) 940-6312, or visit the Haggin
Museum website at www.hagginmuseum.org.
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