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Z107.7 Local News for Saturday 04/11/26 - Compound YV show, JT Art Walk, International + Music festival

April 11, 2026·8 min

1. Z107.7 News presents the Saturday April 11th, 2026 local bulletin for the Morongo Basin, anchored by Robert Hayden and featuring reporting from Gabriel Hart and Jeff Harmatz. 2. The bulletin is produced by Z107.7, a Morongo Basin radio station covering the Joshua Tree area of Southern California's high desert, available at Z1077FM.com. 3. The episode's focus is heavily arts and community events, reflecting a culturally active Saturday in the region. 4. Compound YV Gallery in Yucca Valley opens 'Shape Collectors,' a new exhibition featuring three California artists: Bay Area fiber artist Dana Hemenway, Bay Area painter Rachel Kay, and LA-based mixed-media artist Megan Reed. 5. Megan Reed describes her practice as 'bricolage' — the French art term for making work from everyday consumer materials — working with cardboard and styrofoam to create something 'more monumental' and 'rewrite the story of mass production.' 6. The three artists met at art school in San Francisco and share a 'vernacular' centered on found materials, manipulation of found objects, and an intuitive, evolving visual language. 7. Experimental composer Matt Robodeau will perform the Corn Synth at the opening reception — a modular system that interprets physical input from two ears of corn cast in aluminum — in Compound's backyard. 8. The Shape Collectors opening reception is free and open to the public from 4 to 8 p.m. at 55379 29 Palms Highway in Yucca Valley, next to Snakebite Roadhouse. 9. Desert Ace Hardware in 29 Palms hosts a '$29 Sunshine and Second Chances' pet adoption event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with all adoptions at $29 and a $25 Ace Hardware gift card for dog adopters, as part of the store's 50th anniversary weekend. 10. The 2026 International Festival at Freedom Plaza in 29 Palms is an annual event presented by 29 Palms High School and the City of 29 Palms, featuring student performers celebrating Filipino, Vietnamese, African-American, Korean, and Polynesian cultural traditions through music and dance. 11. This year the International Festival coincides for the first time with the Levitt AMP 29 Palms free outdoor music series; following the student performances, Berklee-trained singer-songwriter Stuart Taylor and LA-based Mau Mau Mau — known for 'left-of-center Mexican rock' — will play for free. 12. The Joshua Tree Art Crawl runs tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. across multiple walkable galleries in downtown Joshua Tree. 13. La Matadora Gallery debuts 'Desert Dagger / Isote de Desierto' featuring collage by Michael Hurst alongside new work by Carlos Ramirez and Leonard Harmon, with music by DJ La Cosmica. 14. Hayler Projects opens 'Ground Level' featuring landscape paintings and drawings by Eri Marquez, John Flores, Parker Thornton, and Thomas Ailman. 15. Coyote Little presents a new solo show from Abe Alvarez Tostado, with food, drinks, and live music; the Beatnik Lounge opens 'Journey of Creation' celebrating friendship and creativity with work by Chip Vasquez and Harry Royal. 16. The 29 Palms Art Gallery Spring Arts and Crafts Fair runs Sunday April 12th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with art booths, food from B&M Foods, and children's activities including rock painting, mosaics, and beadwork. 17. The Mojave Desert Land Trust warns that satellite launches and unchecked development are introducing light pollution that threatens the Mojave's 'deep black night skies' — one of the region's defining ecological and astronomical features. 18. The MDLT is hosting a free Women in Science Discovering Our Mojave (Wisdom) program event on Friday April 17th from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at MDLT headquarters in Joshua Tree, covering dark sky science, biodiversity, a nocturnal bio blitz, s'mores, and National Park Service ranger constellation viewing. 19. This bulletin is ideal for Morongo Basin residents and visitors planning a culturally active weekend in the Joshua Tree area. 20. Listeners outside the Morongo Basin region will find limited relevance beyond the art feature and the MDLT's dark-sky environmental message.

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