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# Santa Monica Festival draws in the throngs
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-festival-draws-in-the-throngs/
- Published: 2007-05-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T00:03:56.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Ocean Park, #archive-import

*By Hamp Simmons The Art Palette*

Before reading any further, get your calendar out now and mark this down: Sunday, May 20, Santa Monica Festival, All Day Long. If you do nothing else this weekend, you’ve got to visit the Festival. You won’t find an event anywhere in L.A. County that can match this one in the quality of performers, craft workshops, environmental awareness and good, healthy fun for everyone.

And there’s lots of fun stuff happening on Friday and Saturday, too. So brace yourselves for another terrific Santa Monica weekend!

REVEL WITH A CAUSE Santa Monica Festival 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 20 Clover Park 2600 Ocean Park Blvd. It’s Santa Monica’s biggest and best annual community event — an electrifying day of music, dance, and visual arts delivered by some of L.A.’s most exciting performers and artists, in a beautiful eco-friendly setting that honors the many cultures that have shaped Santa Monica’s history and the environment that sustains it. Don’t Miss It!

SPIFF UP YOUR RIDE 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19 Farmers Market Virginia Avenue Park 2600 Virginia Ave. Get an early start of the Santa Monica Festival when you do your weekly shopping at the Saturday Farmers Market. Artist David Orozco will use recycled and/or repurposed objects to show you how to turn your ordinary bicycle into an object d’art!

PETER WINTER Lois Lambert Gallery/Gallery of Functional Art Opening Reception Saturday May 19, 6 to 9 p.m. Exhibition runs through July 8 2007 2525 Michigan Ave., E-3 (310) 829-6990 As always, Bergamot Station is chock full of great new work. Stop by on Saturday afternoon and plan to spend your early evening at Peter Winter’s opening at the Lois Lambert Gallery.

IDENTITY THEFT Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, and Suzy Lake, 1972-1978 Santa Monica Museum of Art Opening reception Friday, May 18, 7 to 9 p.m. May 19 to August 11, 2007 2525 Michigan Ave. Bergamot Station (310) 586-6488 This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to focus on these three artists who pursued some of the most dramatic self-transformations imaginable. In San Francisco, Hershman donned a wig to create an alter ego named Roberta Breitmore, a fictional character who grew so real over the years that she acquired her own driver’s license!

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*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 17, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)