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Montalvo Funk: The 2025 Marcus Community Arts Festival

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Montalvo Funk: the 2025 Marcus Community Arts Festival

Montalvo Funk: The 2025 Marcus Community Arts Festival

Join Us for a FREE Festival Celebration on the Montalvo grounds. 
Performances Curated by Universal Grammer on the Boombox Stage by San Jose Jazz

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Join us for a FREE community Marcus Festival, Montalvo Funk, featuring live music Curated by Universal Grammer, presented on the Boombox Stage by San Jose Jazz. DJ’s, Dancers, and Interactive Performances will take place throughout the night, along with hands on art making, scavenger hunts, vendors, and delicious food trucks throughout Montalvo’s Gardens and Grounds. Montalvo Funk is a public celebration the Marcus Exhibition "When the World is Beautifully Strange" featuring art works by twelve contemporary artists who create fearless new forms in ceramics. Montalvo Arts Center on Friday July 18th, 2025 from 6 - 10 pm, Free parking and Shuttles available from West valley College.

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Date

Friday, Jul 18, 2025 6:00PM

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Montalvo Funk: The 2025 Marcus Community Arts Festival

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Experience Montalvo Funk: The 2025 Marcus Community Arts Festival celebrating, When the World is Beautifully Strange, will take place on Friday, July 18th, from 6 pm to 10 pm, at Montalvo Arts Center.
 
This FREE community celebration features live music, dancing, performances, interactive art making, and artist engagements. Enjoy food from local vendors, visit food trucks, and refresh yourself at the no-host bar.
 
Parking Information
Free parking is available at West Valley College in Lot 4 and 5 with complimentary shuttle service running throughout the event. 
 
Event Highlights
  • Food from local vendors 
  • Food trucks
  • Refresh yourself at the no-host bar
  • Live performances and DJ
  • Dancing
  • Interactive art making stations
  • Exhibition featuring works from 12 distinguished artists from the Bay Area and beyond
 
What is “Funk”?
It’s a term used in visual art and music but hard to pin down... you know it when you see it or hear it. It has a vibe that is instantly recognizable.
When the World is Beautifully Strange explores the possibility that each of us is beautiful – even if we are strange. In this moment, when the world is chaotic, when truth is distorted, and we face policies that seek to divide and diminish us, we need art more than ever. In this exhibition, twelve contemporary artists who sculpt with clay – stretching the properties of this earth-bound medium to create fearless new forms-- intentionally draw viewers into their worlds with humor, play, and even strange motifs.
 
The influence of the West Coast/Bay Area clay movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s known as “Funk ceramics” can be seen in the works presented in the Cottage Gallery and throughout Montalvo’s grounds.
 
 
For the evening entertainment, Tommy Aguilar of Universal Grammar, has been invited to curate a series of performances responding to the exhibition that are sure to ‘bring the funk’. Presented on the Boombox Truck provided by San Jose Jazz, the night promises to be full of beautifully strange funk!
 
Performances Curated by Universal Grammar on the Boombox Stage by San Jose Jazz

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