L.A. Croatian Calendar

Thursday, March 02 & 04, 2008

CROATIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES SPRING 2008:

Children ages 4-7
First Day of Classes: Sunday March 2nd
3PM - 4:30PM SUNDAYS
Duration: 10 Week course
Cost: $50 + Materials

Youth - Beginner (Ages 8+)
First Day of Classes: Sunday March 2nd
3PM - 4:30PM SUNDAYS
Duration: 10 Week course
Cost: $50 + Materials

Youth - Advanced (Ages 8+)
First Day of Classes: Sunday March 2nd
3PM - 4:30PM SUNDAYS
Duration: 10 Week course
Cost: $50 + Materials

Adult - Beginner
First Day of Classes: Tuesday March 4th
7PM-8:30PM TUESDAYS
Duration: 10 Week course
Cost: $50 + Materials

Adult - Intermediate
First Day of Classes: Tuesday March 4th
7PM-8:30PM TUESDAYS
Duration: 10 Week course
Cost: $50 + Materials

Registration: You may register on or before the first day of classes. To ensure a spot in the class, please reserve by sending the following information to crocenter@gmail.com (you may also mail this information with payment to P.O. Box 1882, San Pedro CA 90731) or leave message at 310/833-0103:

1. First/Last name of student (If under 18, include name of parent(s) and contact information)
2. Address/Phone
3. Email address most used
4. Class level (Adult Beginner, Adult Intermediate, Youth Beginner, Youth Advanced, Child)
5. Returning student?

Thursday, March 08, 2008

CROATIAN DANCE CLASSES REGISTRATION DAY

Free-Full day of Classes plus Registration

8 weeks session starts Saturday March 29th 2008.
Saturday March 8th will be a free trial/registration Day. This will be a full day of class. If your child doesn\'t have dance attire specified below please make sure your child is dressed comfortably and with sturdy tennis shoes. Dancing in socks will not be permitted. Please have hair pulled back off face in a bun or pony tail and no jewelry exec pt studded earrings. Upon completion of registration you will receive a 30% Discount card to Alvas dance store, courtesy of Alvas! All parents and students will be required to complete a liability form before the child can dance on March 8th, 2008.

For Students who are taking Both Ballet and Jazzy Pop there is registration day special March 8th and Via Pay Pal Before March 8th of $ 85 for both classes.

Sibling discount 10% only on Registration day only March 8th and Via Pay Pal Before March 8th!
Please be sure to take into consideration the min students and max students per class. All registration is on a first come/completed registration process basis.

Pre-Ballet and Ballet
— 8 weeks $50.00 (Pre-Ballet)/$55.00 (Ballet I)
Pre-Ballet Saturdays at 9:30 am -10:00..................3 - 5 year olds
(Class min 5 students/Class max 10)

Pre Ballet Attire: Pink leotard with or without attached skirt. Long sleeved preferred. Pink tights and pink ballet slippers. Boys: black leggings, white socks, white T-shirt black ballet shoes.

Ballet I Saturdays at 10:15 am -11:00 .................. 6 - 11 year olds
(Class Min 5 students/Class Max 12)
Ballet I Attire: Black leotard any style (skirt optional however must be slip on or wrap around no attached please.) Pink tights and pink ballet slippers. (6-8 years old full sole slipper 9-11 year old split sole optional.)Boys: black leggings, white socks, white T-shirt black ballet shoes.

Designed to encourage the joy of dance, this class will develop your child\'s imagination and self-confidence, as well as improve rhythmic and motor skills. Classical ballet vocabulary will be combined with movement games and all this is taught in a fun and imaginative way with creative & classical music. As with all our dance classes, we will work towards an end of the season performance!

Jazzy Croatian Pop
— 8 weeks $60.00
Jazzy-Pop, Saturdays at 11:15- 12:15................ 6 - 13 year olds
(class min 5 students/ Class max 15 students)
Jazzy pop Attire: Black jazz pant long but not to drag on the floor. Black jazz shoe (preferred will be needed for performance) or Black Dance sneaker. Tights/optional until performance. Please wear socks with your jazz shoes! Black, Red, Blue, Pink or Purple tightly fitted tank top, T-shirt, leotard, or sports top. No mid-drift showing at anytime.

This fun, upbeat class teaches jazz technique and the some fun dance steps as the ones you would see in music videos. This class will be incorporating fun up beat Croatian Pop music of today and yesterday. The Students will learn how a dance is choreographed and will learn creativity, rhythm, coordination and self esteem. As with all our dance classes, we will work towards an end of the season performance!
If you have any questions please contact Instructor:
Miss Tonka: mstonka.danceclass@hotmail.com
or by phone 310-982-9414

Thursday, March 13, 2008

PASTRY CLASS WITH BILJANA

Sign up by sending your name, phone number and address to our email address, crocenter@gmail.com. Payment must be submitted by March 9th to secure your place in the class (send to PO Box 1882 San Pedro CA 90731 with contact information) or leave us a message at 310/833-0103.

Class will be held at the Croatian-American Club 631 W. 9th St, San Pedro CA

21 & over (Email Socalcroatians@aol.com if you are over 18 and under 21 and would like to get in)

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NINA - 323.791.2196
AIDA - 310.963.8873
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If you have not attended a Fish Luncheon in a while, please come on down for our 290th Fish Luncheon!

Our menu hasn't changed much since the event started in 1964. Every morsel of it is made fresh. It's a place where our members and guests have attended so regularly they have tables they claim as their own. Tradition runs deep here. The luncheon began as a chance for a dozen local businessmen to meet, forge deals and share a meal. As the lunch's reputation for huge, family style meals and influential guests grew over the years, our numbers have swelled — one luncheon netted more than 400 — and has evolved into a major networking opportunity for San Pedro's business, social and political communities.

Political heavyweights such as Councilwoman Janice Hahn and her brother, Mayor James Hahn, Assemblywoman Betty Karnette, our current Mayor Villargosa, come regularly to share a meal with business and community leaders, Ms. Janis Barquist, Esq. of the L.A. City Attorney's office, while campaigning says "This was certainly one of the more fun events that I went to - and the one with the best food, undoubtedly," many of whom advertise in our almanac. But before hundreds of hungry diners gather for one of San Pedro's oldest, regular social events, the preparation begins. At 5 a.m., the day before a small band of workers begin. Over the next day, the crew will season and cook 175 pounds of swordfish, boil and prepare 80 pounds of pasta for mostaccioli, chop up then boil 20 pounds of tomatoes and do the same to another 50 pounds of mixed vegetables. They'll skin, dice and boil giant piles of potatoes, unfurl yards of table cloth and carefully lay out an elegant array of 300 table settings, each one perfectly resembling the ones next to it.

MARIO NOVAK'S West Coast promotion of the book "Croatia" and “Breaking Boundaries” Exhibit