La Perla Del Mar is hosting Advanced Acting Classes with professional Actor, Director and Producer Aaron Metchik on Sunday afternoons. Take your acting to the next level. Check our Calendar for class times.



It is Aaron's desire to create an advanced, professional caliber, acting class in the Central Coast where actors of all ages can come on a weekly basis to receive the same type of training and guidance that they would in a professional acting studio in Los Angeles.

Combining the techniques he has learned at top acting studios and through his professional experience, Aaron's class will cover advanced script breakdown techniques and methods for creating honesty and depth in any character. Students will keep their skills sharp by putting up a scene or monologue at least twice a month in class.

Whether you enroll for fun or to pursue acting as a profession, you will receive the tools and the guidance necessary to make more powerful choices in any scene and to create memorable performances full of depth and honesty.

For more information or to reserve a space in a Central Coast class, call (323) 488-9388 or email MetchikStudioInfo [at] S10Productions.com.

Aaron Metchik

Aaron Metchik has over 15 years of professional acting experience. He has played major roles in seven motion pictures and over fifteen television shows, opposite such notable stars as Sissy Spacek, Keanu Reeves, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tim Curry, Jim Belushi, and Rachel Leigh Cook.

Aaron has directed adult and child actors in both theater and film and has also coached professional actors privately, including central coast native mega-star, Zac Efron, before he landed his starring role in High School Musical.

Aaron grew up on the central coast before moving to Los Angeles and earning his B.A. at the UCLA Film School. After graduating, Aaron wrote the teenage sports screenplay "Slammin'" for Warner Bros. Studios, and in 2007, he directed the independent feature film "Ten Years Later" from a screenplay that he also wrote.

Aaron currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he studies acting at the world renowned Ivana Chubbuck Studios. (Mrs. Chubbuck is the private acting coach to Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Terrence Howard, Jake Gyllenhaal and many more of Hollywood's elite actors) Aaron studies with Ivana directly in her "Masters Class" every week.

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Shelley Massa-Gooch and Catherine Halcomb offer weekly yoga classes at La Perla Del Mar for students of all abilities.



Visit our Calendar or yogashalaslo.com for a class schedule.

Beginner Yoga: Guidance in the basic technique and breathing will be offered. No experience required.

All Levels Yoga: Open to all levels of students. 6 months yoga experience recommended.

Shadow Yoga: This form of yoga was developed by Zhander Remete. Claseses are taught in a serious style so that students learn the forms movement by movement until the form comes alive. For more information, visit www.catherineyoga.com.

Yin Yoga: The relaxed practice of floor postures held for 3-5 minutes. Open to all levels of students. For more information, visit www.into-balance.com.

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La Perla del Mar, formerly Shell Beach Methodist Church, held its grand opening. It will be used for community events, weddings, church services, yoga classes and more.

Shelley Malcolm of Shell Beach knew that it was meant to be.

When the longtime Shell Beach Methodist Church— built in the early 1940s at Pearl Street and Windward Avenue- was put up for sale a year ago because of a declining congregation, Malcolm wanted to make sure it remained a part of the community.

"My heart broke that the congregation had gotten to that point," Malcolm said. "I asked my husband if we could buy it -do something to save it."

A developer was in the process of buying the property, planning to demolish the buildings and construct homes. When that fell through, Malcolm said her heart jumped at the second chance.

Then, while driving home from a trip to Los Angeles, Malcolm shared her hopes of transforming the church into a community venue with close friend Garin Sinclair of Arroyo Grande.

"She looked at it the next day and didn’t hesitate," Malcolm said. "We share the same value systems for just lifting up the community, and she immediately saw the site’s potential for people getting together in the spirit of good will."

Malcolm and Sinclair met with people from the community who agreed with their wish to see the building transformed, Malcolm said.

A mere six months later, the makeover into La Perla del Mar was complete. The grand opening was celebrated this past weekend.

The venue will be available for weddings, banquets, receptions and various community recreation classes, such as yoga and drama.

A small, historic one-room schoolhouse on the property has been converted into a two-bedroom cottage that can be used for wedding parties.

On Sundays, the chapel hosts a small nondenominational congregation called At the Cross.

"There is a new history beginning here," Malcolm said. "The name translates from Spanish to mean the pearl by the sea... because it is a precious place to our community."

Church is reborn as a community center
Nick Wilson & AnnMarie Cornejo, San Luis Obispo Tribune

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