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Serra Mesa Recreation Center


Ceramics

Thursdays 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm


We have a ceramics workshop where we can slip-form, coil or free-form clay into great masterpieces. This is a hands-on, ground-level experience where we explore and have fun outdoing each other's artistic creations.
Small fee for supplies. Feel free to bring your own material you can purchase at
Freeform Clay and Supplies
1912 Cleveland Avenue
National City, CA 91950

Serra Mesa Recreation Center at 9020 Village Glen Drive (back room thru gym)

Serra Mesa Library


General Meeting

Third Thursdays 2 to 4 pm


On the third Thursdays we meet at the Serra Mesa Library Conference Room to mingle and discuss topics of common interest. Frequently we have guest speakers. Come mix with your neighbors.
Holy Angels Annex Ben-Hur movie poster


Tuesday Matinèe

25 April 2023


We watch movies on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

Ben-Hur (Part 2)


1959 American religious epic film starring Charlton Heston as the title character. Adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel. Ben-Hur had the largest sets built, of any film produced to that time. Costume designer Elizabeth Haffenden oversaw a staff of 100 wardrobe fabricators to make the costumes. A workshop employing 200 artists and workmen provided the hundreds of friezes and statues needed in the film. Executives at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made the decision to produce the film in a widescreen format. Over 200 camels and 2,500 horses were used in the shooting of the film, with some 10,000 extras. The sea battle was filmed using miniatures in a huge tank on the back lot. The nine-minute chariot race has become one of cinema's most famous action sequences. The score was at the time the longest ever composed for a film, and was highly influential on cinema for over 15 years. It was the fastest-grossing, as well as the highest-grossing film of 1959. It won a record eleven Academy Awards.

We'll watch this magnificent movie in two parts.

Holy Angels Annex at 2235 Galahad Road

Holy Angels Annex Sons Of Katie Elder poster


Tuesday Matinèe

9 May 2023


We watch movies on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

Sons Of Katie Elder


1965 American Western film in Panavision, starring John Wayne and Dean Martin. The four adult sons of Katie Elder – John, who is a famous professional gunman; Tom, a professional gambler; Bud, the youngest brother, in his first year at mining college; and Matt, an unsuccessful hardware dealer – reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas in 1898 for their mother's funeral, sharing regret that none of them has lived up to her high expectations of them.

Holy Angels Annex at 2235 Galahad Road

Holy Angels Annex 101 Dalmatians movie poster


Tuesday Matinèe

23 May 2023


We watch movies on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians


1961 American animated adventure comedy film based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. The film's plot follows a litter of Dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil ("deVille"), who wants to make their fur into coats. Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their puppies from Cruella, in the process of rescuing 84 additional ones that were bought in pet shops, bringing the total of Dalmatians to 101.

Holy Angels Annex at 2235 Galahad Road

Holy Angels Annex The Rock poster


Tuesday Matinèe

13 June 2023


We watch movies on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

The Rock


The Rock is a 1996 American action thriller film. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. The Pentagon assigns a team comprising an FBI chemist and a former SAS captain with a team of SEALs to break into Alcatraz, where a rogue general and a group of Marines have seized all the tourists on the island and have threatened to launch rockets filled with nerve gas upon San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays $100 million to the next-of-kin of 83 men who were killed on missions that the general led and the Pentagon denied.

Holy Angels Annex at 2235 Galahad Road

Holy Angels Annex Aladdin poster


Tuesday Matinèe

27 June 2023


We watch movies on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

Aladdin


Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film. Based on the Arabic folktale of the same name from the "One Thousand and One Nights." The film follows the titular Aladdin, an Arabian street urchin, who finds a magic lamp containing a genie. With the genie's help, Aladdin disguises himself as a wealthy prince and tries to impress the Sultan in order to win the heart of his free-spirited daughter, Princess Jasmine. Meanwhile, the Sultan's evil vizier, Jafar, plots to steal the magic lamp for his own uses.

Holy Angels Annex at 2235 Galahad Road

Holy Angels Annex Tortilla Soup movie poster


Tuesday Matinèe

11 July 2023


We watch movies on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

Tortilla Soup


Tortilla Soup is a 2001 American comedy-drama film. Semi-retired Mexican-American chef Martin Naranjo shares a suburban Los Angeles home with his three adult daughters. Although he has lost the senses of smell and taste since his wife's death, he still cooks elaborate, multi-course meals for his family and friends. The women humor their father's old-fashioned ways, but each is searching for fulfillment outside the family circle.

Holy Angels Annex at 2235 Galahad Road