In Conversation: Waights Taylor & Jonah Raskin – March 12, 2018

In Conversation: Waights Taylor & Jonah Raskin
Copperfield’s Books – Montgomery Village
Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 7:00pm

Join local author, poet, and playwright Waights Taylor, and Chair of Communication Studies at SSU, Jonah Raskin for a discussion on their latest creations, and the craft of writing.

Featured Books:
“Dark Land, Dark Mirror” & “Heed the Apocalypse”

Tickets:
Free – General admission
Seating available on a first come, first served basis.

Location:
Copperfield’s Books – Montgomery Village
775 Village Court
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
(707) 578-8938

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – March 9, 2018

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Ongoing classes

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is a unique learning community for adults age 50 years old or better. OLLI offers the very best continuing education with no tests and no grades. Distinguished SSU faculty and other Bay Area educators enjoy sharing their expertise with OLLI students, whose life experience and curiosity enrich the exchange of ideas.

OLLI at SSU is one of over 100 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. The program is supported by student fees, donations, and the earnings on an initial endowment generously provided by the Bernard Osher Foundation. Joining OLLI at SSU means discovering new friends, new knowledge, and new ways to bring meaning and enjoyment to your life. Courses are taught in six week sessions (Fall, Winter, and Spring) at two locations. Areas of study range across many subjects:

Arts
Contemporary Issues
Food & Wine
Natural Sciences
Social & Political History
World Cultures

Attend an upcoming preview:
OLLI at SSU, University Campus
1801 E Cotati Ave
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Open House Preview: Mon, March 19, 2018
Classes: April 2 – May 11, 2018

OLLI at SSU, Oakmont Campus
Berger Center
6575 Oakmont Dr # 7
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Open House Preview: Wed, March 14, 2018
Classes: April 2 – May 11, 2018

For more information:
http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/

Wednesdays at Hospice, “Me with Me” – March 8, 2018

Wednesdays at Hospice – “Me with Me”
Memorial Hospice
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Wednesdays at Hospice is a monthly Community Education series offered January through June.

“Me with Me”, led by Janet Caliri, Founder of Visible Transitions, will be a fun and interactive experience that will guide us to discover ways of caring for the self, thereby increasing our effectiveness in caring for others.

Admission is free.

Location:
Memorial Hospice
439 College Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Telegraph Quartet – March 7, 2018

Telegraph Quartet
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Brave New Music will host the San Francisco-based Telegraph Quarter on its chamber music series, now in its fifth year of concerts. The Quartet will be performing in Healdsburg fresh from a very successful February performance in New York City’s Carnegie Hall. They have been lauded for the “brilliance and subtlety” and the “tonal warmth and communicative urgency” that they invest their music with. They are one of the leading young quartets of their generation in America today.

Their program will include music by Anton Webern, John Harbison, and Maurice Ravel.

The Paul Mahder Gallery venue is a destination in itself with its great collection of contemporary visual art and sculpture.

Fine selected local wines will be available for purchase before the performance and at the intermission.

Tickets:
$25 General
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3331640

Location:
Paul Mahder Gallery
222 Healdsburg Avenue
Healdsburg, CA 95448
(707) 473-9150

Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival – March 6, 2018

Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival
Sebastopol Community and Cultural Center
Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Sonoma County Folk Society presents the 18th Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival. The Folk Society and the California Bluegrass Association have worked together to put on some great shows over the years.

Workshops all day long – Rain or shine!

Bring your instrument to jam with others.

Food and Beverages will be available.

This year’s lineup includes:
Missy Raines & the New Hip
Doug Adamz
Wake the Dead,
Mike Stadler/Kevin Russell /Cori Wood
The Ruminators
Joe Craven & the Sometimers
Carolyn Sills Combo
John Reischman & the Jaybirds
Blue Summit featuring AJ Lee

Tickets:
$35 Full Festival General Pass
$20 Evening only
http://www.cbaweb.org/Events/Tickets

Tickets also available at Peoples Music, Sebastopol and The Last Record Store, Santa Rosa.

For more information www.socofoso.com.

Location:
Sebastopol Community & Cultural Center
390 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 823-1511
www.seb.org

Hill Start – March 5, 2018

Hill Start
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm and 7:30 pm

Welcome to the 3rd JCC Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival!

A car accident on her son’s wedding day puts mom in a coma. Left to cope are a difficult father and his softhearted son – both plastic surgeons, locked in a professional and intergenerational battle; a bride to be with a big mouth and a short fuse, who tries to assert herself in this family; an unmarried daughter still living at home, pining for a big star in Arab cinema. Will an almost love, an almost wedding, a maybe acceptance, a driving test, and a car that won’t start lead to a happily ever after?

Romantic Comedy, Israel, 2014 92 min.

Hebrew/Arabic w/ English Subtitles

Tickets:
$10 Matinee @ 1:00 pm
$13 General @ 7:30 pm
Season passes available!
https://jccsoco.ticketspice.com/israeli-film-festival-2018

Location:
Rialto Cinemas
6868 McKinley Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 525-4840

Backstories From the West Edge – March 2, 2018

Book Launch: Andrea Granahan’s ‘Backstories from the West Edge’
Occidental Center for the Arts
Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Please join us as we celebrate Andrea Granahan’s latest book ‘Backstories from the West Edge’ which she describes as “forty years of adventure and journalism on the Northern California Coast (aka Quirktopia).”

The author will share readings from the book and answer audience questions. There will be books for sale and signing, musical performers and refreshments.

Andrea Granahan has won awards for her reporting and feature writing from the California Newspaper Publishers Assn., and the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. She is the only reporter to hold three Lincoln Steffens awards for investigative reporting. She was the founding publisher of the Bodega Bay Navigator, a weekly newspaper. Her work covering the fishing industry has been described as unparalleled. She currently works as a travel publisher. She is the author of ‘It’s Greek To Me’ and ‘The Man with the Portable Love Room and other Stray Thoughts’.

Admission is free.

Location:
Occidental Center for the Arts
3850 Doris Murphy Ct.
Occidental, CA 95465
(707) 874-9392
info@occidentalcenterforthearts.org

Italian Mandolin Heroes in America – March 1, 2018

Italian Mandolin Heroes in America
Redwood Café
Sunday, March 4th, 2018 @ 5:00 pm

Sheri Mignano Crawford will present a series of slides all featured in her upcoming book covering Italian mandolin and accordion publishers in America. Many photographs and documents from the composers, musicians, and publishers will be seen for the first time ever. The story covers several decades (c. 1895-1960) and reveals how the dance repertoire evolved and merged in the bay area. This survey begins in Philadelphia, then Manhattan & Brooklyn, Providence, RI, and the trip across the US to the San Francisco bay area.

Admission is free.

Location:
Redwood Cafe
8240 Old Redwood Hwy
Cotati, CA 94931
(707) 795-7868

Good Fungi, Healthy Roots, Happy Plants – February 28, 2018

Good Fungi, Healthy Roots, Happy Plants
Presentation with Robert Kourik
Laguna Environmental Center
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 @ 3:00 pm

There are amazing beneficial fungi that promote the healthiest roots of native and ornamental plants. Trees especially need this symbiotic relationship for superior growth. This valuable fungus assists 95% of all plants to grow and prosper—from the Laguna and beyond. This presentation will explain what the relationship is (called mycorrhizal association), where in the roots it happens, how it increases yields, and whether-or-not purchased inoculants are needed. More importantly, how to promote the existing fungi will be reviewed. All gardens and market gardens will prosper with a healthy presence of this natural fungus. All gardeners, landscape professionals, restoration specialists, and farmers will benefit from this presentation. Hot drinks and snacks will be provided.

Robert Kourik started his organic maintenance and landscape design company in 1975 – long before the word sustainable “existed.” Since that time, his designs, consulting, and books have focused on organic and sustainable gardens, water management, drip irrigation and edible landscaping. He is the author and publisher (Metamorphic Press) of Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape – Naturally, Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates, Roots Demystified: Change Your Gardening Habits To Help Roots Thrive, No-Dig Gardening, The Lavender Garden, his most recent book – Understanding Roots: Discover How to Make Your Garden Flourish and 15 more horticultural books.

Tickets:
$12 (non-refundable).
Pre-registration required at http://www.lagunafoundation.org/

Location:
Heron Hall
Laguna Environmental Center
900 Sanford Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

In Between – February 27, 2018

In Between
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm and 7:30 pm

Welcome to the 3rd JCC Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival!

How do you imagine the lives of Arab-Israeli women? In this taboo-breaking film three Palestinian women share an apartment in Tel Aviv, finding themselves doing a balancing act between tradition and modernity, citizenship and culture, fealty and freedom; A criminal lawyer, who burns off her workday stress in the underground club scene, a DJ, who starts a budding relationship with another woman, and their new roommate, the religious Muslim student, whose conservative fiancé is horrified by her new friends.

Drama, Israel, 2016 103 min.

Arabic/Hebrew w/ English subtitles

Tickets:
$10 Matinee @ 1:00 pm
$13 General @ 7:30 pm
Season passes available!
https://jccsoco.ticketspice.com/israeli-film-festival-2018

Location:
Rialto Cinemas
6868 McKinley Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 525-4840