The 13th annual Car Show and Street Fair returns to downtown Twentynine Palms on Saturday, June 1, from 5 to 9pm. This is a free family event, featuring prizes, food, music, and old-fashioned fun.

For more information, or to participate, call 760-367-3445.

This year's Art Tours will be adding a new dimension to the event - we also plan on showcasing performance art. Venues are being set up for music performances, acting and poetry reading, and dance if there is enough interest from participants. If you would be interested in participating in any of these events, submit your request, promotional material or information and your questions to performance@mbcac.org.

Depending on the response from performers, we are hoping to schedule continuing performances at centrally located venues, which will be published in the art tours catalog and advertised extensively. There will be a sound system and crew provided, along with

The 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery is giving birth to an exciting new concept: starting a Teen Art Studio Club for ages 7 through 12th grades. A small handful of local teens are eager to get the ball rolling in their new green studio and they need your support, and help getting the word out to other teens and their parents who are interesting in joining the Teen Club.

On May 11, Saturday from 4 to 8pm, the Creative Center is hosting a Teen Art Studio Fund Raiser celebration. The public is invited to join the fun festivities with live music, caricature drawings of you or face paintings on you, anime demonstrations and selling of talented Teen art in their newly acquired art making space at the Creative Center compound.

Profits will go towards the Teen Studio Wish List for

Glass Outhouse gallery is featuring the works of Tami Wood and Tim Sabatino through May 26. The Glass Outhouse Gallery is is open from 1 to 5pm Tuesday through Sunday.

The gallery is located at

An MBCAC Members Group Show is on exhibit through May 14 at the offices of the Bob Burke Joshua Tree Government Center, located at 63665 Twentynine Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree.

On exhibit are Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council member artists Alita VanVliet, Chuck Caplinger, Darlene H. Morris, Janis Commentz, Marjorie Franklin, and Tami Roleff.

MBCAC members interested in showing at this or other MBCAC curated venues can email exhibits@mbcac.org for information.

Artwork by Tami Roleff

Joshua Tree Art Gallery will host a performance by Odeya Nina - A Solo Voice, in Collaboration with Archie Casey Bassonist, on Saturday, May 18, at 7:30pm.

A Solo Voice is an hour long electro acoustic investigation of the sound spectrum of the physical body, exploring the relationship between ourselves and our bodies, our bodies in our environment, and our perception of sounds in space as organized by our mind.

RSVP to info@joshuatreeartgallery.com.

Joshua Tree Art Gallery is located at 61607 Hwy 62 Suite B, open 10am-3pm Saturday and noon-3pm Sunday, or by appointment at 760-366-3636. For more info visit www.joshuatreeartgallery.com.

Audiences from all over the Inland Empire have been awe-struck by "Ragtime the Musical", now playing at Theatre 29 weekends through June 1. Friday and Saturday show times are at 7pm; there will be a Sunday matinee May 26 at 2:30pm.

"Ragtime" takes the audience back in time, to the dawn of the American Century in New York City, circa 1906. In a hauntingly beautiful musical journey, audiences will be transfixed by the stories of three disparate families,

Brilliant Dance in Yucca Valley is offering a series of dance camps this summer. Starts June 24, with early registration discount offered through May 1. Choose from four fun camps: Combo Camp, Story Ballet Camp, Ballet Intensive Camp, and Courtesy Camp.

Brilliant Dance Academy of Dance Arts is keeping dance alive in the Morongo Basin! Our dance programs are based on an education model - We are a SCHOOL of dance where the atmosphere is about learning in a positive environment. With curriculum-based dance education that is fun and challenging,