Community Calendar • Arts & Entertainment – Pages 28

A business pitch competition with $40,000 in prizes will take place from 1-5 p.m. with finalists pitching between 6 and 6:30 p.m.

Parking is available in lots surrounding the UCSC Cowell Hay Barn. Free parking after 5 p.m. Registration and vaccinations required. Food & beverage will be provided.

Saturday June 4 Sunday June 5

REDWOOD MOUNTAIN FAIRE RETURNS

11 a.m.- 8 p.m. (Gates open 10 a.m.), Roaring Camp, 5401 Graham Hill Road, Felton The Valley Women’s Club of Santa Lorenzo Valley is bringing back the Redwood Moun-tain Faire music festival fundraiser and arts & crafts fair for local nonprofits.

Saturday: Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, B Side Players, Wolf Jett featuring special guest Marty O’Reilly, Pixie and the Partygrass Boys, Space Heater, The Inciters, Alex Lucero and the Live Again Band, Buffalo Blues Trio, Anthony Arya Band, and Raue.

Sunday: Midnight North, Moonalice, The Coffis Brothers, The Carolyn Sills Combo, The China Cats, Smoked Out Soul, Sambada, Sharon Allen and The Dusty Boots, Birches Bend, and Quinn Becker and the Spacemen.

Plus there will be children’s activities, a bounce house, face painting, locally-made arts & crafts, food, wines from Santa Cruz Mountains wineries and beers and ales from local mi-crobreweries.

Tickets are available at https://www. eventbrite.com/e/2022-redwood-mountain-fairetickets-290960228877. Coast is $30 per day for adults, $20 for teens 13-17 and seniors 65+. Dis-counts for two-day ticket. Kids 12 and under free with parent/guardian. Parking is $15 online or $20 cash the day of. No coolers or pets; service dogs only.

Sunday June 5

RELEASE OF 2018 LA VITA AT BARGETTO WINERY

3-5 p.m., Bargetto Winery, 3535 N Main St, Soquel Bargetto Winery will host a party celebrating the 2018 LA VITA release in its creekside courtyard in Soquel. This release of LA VITA (“life” in Italian) is produced from a blend of 46% Refosco, 28% Dolcetto and 26% Refosc, Santa Cruz Mountains varietals grown in the Regan Estate Vineyards.

This handcrafted wine was aged for two- and one-half years in oak barrels and then aged for an additional one year in the bottle. The 2018 harvest yielded just 4,884 bottles. With 40% of the vintage pre-sold, a limited number of bottles remain for sale. The price is $60.

Each year LA VITA is released with a brand new wine label that showcases “wine in art.” The 2018 vintage LA VITA honors Zelie Alice, Parisian artist, and her aptly named painting “A Sip of Tuscan Sun,” with the new label unveiled at this event.

Each year, part of the proceeds from the sale of LA VITA goes to a local nonprofit. Housing Matters is the 2018 beneficiary. Grey Bears will receive the grant from last year.

John Bargetto, director of winemaking, says “LA VITA wine is our finest effort in winemaking, starting from growing these unique grapes, to producing the wine, to designing the art-series label. Each year the wine gets richer and more complex. The wine series has won numerous gold medals and the 2006 won “Best Italian Blend in California” award. We are very pleased to be able to, in a formal way, give back some of the proceeds to the Santa Cruz community, which has been so supportive of Bargetto Winery during our past 89 vintages.”

The LA VITA release party is set for Sunday, June 5, 2022 from 3-5 p.m. at Bargetto Winery. The release

JAPANESE CULTURAL FAIR

Saturday June 4

11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mission Plaza Park, 103 Emmett St., SC The 34th Annual Japanese Cultural Fair at Mission Plaza Park is an opportunity for the community to increase awareness and understanding of Japanese culture.

The goal is to improve mutual understanding among neighbors of the Pacific Rim and enrich the community of Santa Cruz County.

This is a celebration of Japanese music, traditional folk dance, food and arts and crafts. The fair opens with a performance by the Watsonville Taiko Group and closes with the e internationally renowned San Francisco Taiko Dojo.

The Zen Center, half a block away, will have demonstrations on ikebana (flower arrangement), tea ceremony, bonsai and kimono workshops.

This event is family-oriented. Admission is free. Parking is free at Santa Cruz County Building parking lot— with a shuttle every 20 minutes. To volunteer see www.jcfsantacruz.org

Tuesday June 14

CAPITOLA SOROPTIMIST CLUB MEETING

4 p.m., Michael’s on Main, 2591 S. Main St., Soquel Soroptimist International of Capitola-by-the-Sea’s meetings are free and open to the public.

Club members will prepare for installation of 2022-23 officers, make committee assign-ments, hear region conference reports and begin to schedule staffing of the rental booth at this summer’s Santa Cruz Shakespeare festival.

Soroptimist International of Capitola-by-the-Sea is a global volunteer organization that pro-vides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve eco-nomic empowerment. For information, see www.best4women.org.

Friday June 24

CAPITOLA ART & WINE FESTIVAL KICKOFF PARTY

6-9 p.m., Bargetto Winery, 3535 N Main St, Soquel Bargetto Winery’s creekside courtyard will host the Capitola Art & Wine Kickoff Party and Auction, a fundraiser in support of the 39th annual Capitola Art & Wine Festival, which takes place the second weekend in September.

Attendees can enjoy appetizers while sipping fine wines from Festival wineries. Bid on fabulous silent auction items featuring art pieces donated by Festival artists, and gift baskets from local businesses.

All attendees 21+ will receive the official 2022 Capitola Art & Wine Festival glass for wine tasting. Tickets: $45 in advance; $55 at the door (if available).

party features the unveiling of the new LA VITA label, tasting of the new wine, live music and light appetizers. Tickets are limited to 50 wine club members and 50 of the general public. Wine lovers can visit the winery on the Monday following the event to taste the new wine.

Saturday June 11

GARDEN TOUR

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Various Locations UC Master Gardeners of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties will host its 20th garden tour, featuring 10 Santa Cruz gardens, showing ways to be water-wise and create pollinator-friendly habitats.

This self-guided tour weaves from Live Oak through Aptos; from suburban homesteads and peaceful sanctuaries designed for rest and reflection, to a tropical oasis for friends and family to gather.

Get inspired by the variety of ways these gardeners have managed water use, including the use of drought-tolerant plants, water-catchment, and greywater systems, while cultivating bountiful and nature-friendly environments.

Tickets are priced per person at $30 for advance purchase and $35 day of the tour. Each ticket includes immediate access to two bonus pre-recorded garden tour videos.

This event is sponsored by the Soquel Creek Water District, City of Santa Cruz, and Shemeika Fox, Realtor. To learn more about the tour and to purchase tickets, go to mbmg.ucanr.edu

Saturday June 11 Sunday June 12

BOOK SALE FOR LIBRARY ACTIVITIES

10 a.m. Sat / Noon Sun – 3 p.m., Aptos Grange, 2555 Mar Vista Drive Friends of the Aptos Library will offer a book sale at the Aptos Grange.

“Since the Aptos Library has been closed we have been unable to hold our monthly book sales now for many months,” said Denise Ward of the Friends. “We hope to attract our regular customers, plus the public at large to this book sale.” Proceeds support library programs such as Summer Reading and Our Community Reads.

CAPITOLA ROD & CUSTOM CLASSIC CAR SHOW

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat./ -3 p.m. Sun, Capitola Village The Capitola Rod & Custom Classic Car Show returns this summer to Capitola Village.

You’ll see dozens of shiny, colorful, and curvy old cars.

The cars will cruise from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to Capitola starting at 8:30 a.m.

Parking meters will be enforced. Parking is available in the lot behind City Hall, 420 Capitola Ave. Dogs are not allowed on Capitola beaches.

The Capitola Public Safety & Community Service Foundation has put on the Capitola Classic Car Show since 2005.

The Classic Car Show is one of the Foundation’s major fundraisers, with the money used to sponsor and fund efforts to improve public safety and community services.

Recipients have included the Capitola Police Department, the Capitola Volunteers in Police Service program, the Neighborhood Watch Program, Capitola Lifeguard Program, the Annual National Night Out event, Herb Ross Award, the Fallen Officers Association, and Operation Surf for wounded veterans. For more info, visit https://capitolacarshow.com/

Saturday June 25

WOODIES ON THE WHARF

10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. After a two-year hiatus, the 26th Annual Woodies on the Wharf, with the 5th Annual Na-tional Woodie Club, will take place.

It began in 1994, when Santa Cruz Woodies was a fledgling chapter of the National Wood-ie Club. Many club members had participated in events with their woodies at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

This year’s event features Woodies on the Wharf merchandise sales, music by Classified Sound, and a raffle offering 100s of prizes donated from local businesses including surf-boards and an E-bike cruiser with ninety percent of proceeds donated to local charities.

There will be a surfboard-shaping demonstration by Bob Pearson of Pearson Arrow Surf-boards, food at Wharf restaurants, shopping, and recreation opportunities at Wharf busi-nesses.

The sendoff Woodie Parade of 200 cars begins at 3:30 p.m. after the awards ceremony. Plus you can expect beautiful views from the Wharf.

Wharf parking: Extremely limited! Bike Santa Cruz County will run a free Bike Valet & attendees are encouraged to park off site and walk or bike to the Wharf! Want more Woodies? Stroll on West Cliff Drive Sunday morning June 26 at 9 a.m. to see Sophia’s cruise — a large caravan of Woodies heads past the Lighthouse then loops back past the Boardwalk to say goodbye, Santa Cruz. n