Dec. 7 marks the 10th anniversary of the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, and local organizations and entertainers plan to celebrate the milestone with a series of events over the next six months.
The celebration started with Philanthropy Day Friday, an annual celebration of the work of the Morgan Hill Community Foundation and area nonprofits.
The Community and Cultural Center was the first of Morgan Hill’s recreation facilities and the result of a “successful community visioning process through which the community expressed its desire for a public facility in Morgan Hill that would meet the growing needs of the community for recreational, cultural and educational activities,” according to the city’s website.
Ten years later, the Community and Cultural Center campus offers a venue of choice for both large and small events, community festivals and concerts, public art, theater and business meetings.
The Center Campus is the home of the Morgan Hill Recreation Preschool, Gavilan College Morgan Hill Campus, South Valley Civic Theater, Chamber of Commerce’s Friday Night Music Series, Morgan Hill Rotary Club, Mushroom Mardi Gras, many Morgan Hill Community Foundation Events and several local churches and dance studios.
For more information visit www.morgan-hill.ca.gov.
-Dec. 5: Happy Birthday CCC, with the Rotary Club of Morgan Hill and Morgan Hill Flower Lovers.
-Jan. 3, 2013: Good Morning Morgan Hill breakfast, sponsored by the Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce.
-Feb. 8: “Big,” opening night, by the South Valley Civic Theater.
-Feb. 19: Tuesday night BINGO, sponsored by Friends of the Morgan Hill Senior Center.
-March 15: 10th annual Helping Hands Healing Hearts awards luncheon, sponsored by Community Solutions.
-March 23: Spring Fest and Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by Las Madres of Morgan Hill.
-April 12: South Valley Wine Auction.
-April 19: Senior citizen ball, with the MH Youth Action Council.
-April 27: Art a la Carte, sponsored by the El Toro Culture & Arts Foundation.
