This Weekend in Santa Monica!

For more events happening in Santa Monica this week, check out our community calendar. If we're missing a local activity, don't be shy, !

Where/When: , 2525 Michigan Ave.; 11 a.m. Saturday
Why go: SMMoA's first look at the Milton Glaser for Lapchi is a special weeklong exhibition of 25 sumptuous carpets by this iconic American graphic designer. Glaser's body of work ranges from eminent logos to complete graphic and decorative programs for worldwide clientele.
Pricing: Free


Where/When: , 1310 11th St.; 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Why go: Wright is a culinary school graduate and the daughter of a pastor who grew up singing gospel music. As a chart-topping jazz and R&B singer, she's retained some of the hymnody she grew up singing in the church
Pricing: $47

THE LONG GOODBYE AND Q&A WITH ELLIOTT GOULD 
Where/When: Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St.; 8:30 p.m. Saturday
Why go: Best-selling author Michael Connelly will lead a Q&A with Elliott Gould following a screening of The Long Goodbye, a controversial adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mystery in which Gould played the lead.
Pricing: Free

Where/When: , 225 26th St; 3 p.m. Sunday
Why go: Helping your kids apply to college is expensive and time consuming! Need some relief? Santa Monica resident and author J.D. Rothman will make you laugh about the observations she's made about the process as she reads excerpts from her new book.
Pricing: Free

Where/When: James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station, Building D4, 2525 Michigan Ave.; 6 p.m. Saturday
Why go: The Help Group will host an artists' reception for an exhibit of artwork
from students of The Help Group's Village Glen and Bridgeport schools. More
than 100 paintings will be on display and available for sale, with proceeds
benefiting the group's school arts programs. The exhibit closes Sunday.
Pricing: Free

THE BETTER DEMONS OF OUR NATURES NAUGHT
Where/When: Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St.; 8:30 p.m. Saturday
Why go: Installation/performance artist Robert Catalusci—"known for creating massive installations that use archetypal ritual to conjure intense, near-chaotic experiences"—will make his Los Angeles debut with a show that will combine live actions and silent films designed to "lunge the audience into elucidatory visions of Frankenstein."
Pricing: $10