Sonoma Spotlight

Grace
Main Stage West
September 8th – 24th, 2017

Grace is a tragicomedy that explores human assumptions about how God, goodness, faith and causality operate in the cosmic machinery. Steve and Sara have relocated to Sunrise, Florida to pursue an unbelievably wonderful business deal, but as the deal slowly unravels and Steve finds himself afflicted with an itch that just won’t stop, Sara finds herself increasingly drawn to their next-door neighbor, Sam, a badly-scarred victim of a recent car accident who wants nothing to do with her or her Bible-quoting husband. In the end, with a little help from an old German exterminator who’s still angry about the Allied bombing of Hamburg in World War II, all three characters are confronted by a world that is both better and worse than any religion can justify.

Directed by John Craven
Written by Craig Wright

Tickets:
$30 General
$25 Senior (over 65)
$15 Student (with ID)
http://www.mainstagewest.com/plays/grace/

Location:
Main Stage West
104 N Main St
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 823-0177
contact@mainstagewest.com

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Wine Country Film Festival
Quarryhill Botanical Garden
September 22nd – 24th, 2017

The Wine Country Film Festival is Wine Country’s original showcase of international and independent films. Started in 1986, it remains an eclectic five-day celebration of cinema, the arts and cultural exchange.

Experience “Films al Fresco™” Screenings under the stars at the Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen. Films also screen outdoors in a spectacular setting at Deerfield Ranch Winery In Kenwood, inside the winery’s Grand Room Cave theatre, and at nearby venues in the Heart of the Valley.

Experience an exciting array of engaging conversations with attending filmmakers, actors and notable guests, live music performances and special presentations.

Tickets:
Our Local Pass ($75) is good for all regular screenings and opening and closing night films. Some restrictions apply.
Other VIP and Festival passes are also available.
Individual film tickets ($10- $25) can be purchased day of show (cash only).
Call (707) 935-3456
http://wcff.us/2017/
Tickets on Sale Sept 10

Location:
Venues throughout Glen Ellen and the Valley of the Moon.

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Fourth Annual Agrarian Games
Petaluma Fairgrounds
Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 12:00 pm

An interactive festival celebrating sustainable agriculture, local food and family farms!

From wheelbarrow relays to watermelon seed-spitting, whether you’re a farmer or an eater, a country bumpkin or a city-slicker, join us for an afternoon of local food, live music and farm-themed games to test your strength and speed, your knowledge of soil types and your proficiency with a pitchfork.

For the fourth year in a row, we invite all of California to come build, explore and celebrate a more just, healthy and regenerative food community for all.

Stop by the farmer’s market for locally-grown products!

Live music by: the The Hubbub Club, Oddjob Ensemble, Miss Moonshine, and Buck Thrifty!

Food trucks and vendors serving up organic ingredients from our favorite farms and ranches, plus wine and beer from the North Bay’s finest.

Activities include: the haybale toss, squash bowling, the honeybee hustle, competitive irrigation, butter churning, potato sack races, and much, much more.

Tickets:
$15 General
$10 Kids (Under 13)
Kids under 5 are free

For more information:
www.farmersguild.org/aggames2017

All proceeds support the statewide, non-profit work of Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) and The Farmers Guild building sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. Learn more at www.farmersguild.org and www.caff.org

Location:
Petaluma Fairgrounds
175 Fairgrounds Dr
Petaluma, CA 94952

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Call of the Wild Gala
Jack London State Historic Park
Saturday, September 23rd, 2017 @ 6:00 pm

Please join us for our second annual Call of the Wild Gala – an Evening of Storytelling in the Grand Tradition of Heinolds’ First and Last Chance Saloon!

This year’s gala will be held from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm under the stars at Jack London State Park. Step back in time with us as we transform the Winery Ruins into the famous Heinold’s Saloon and celebrate a much-storied part of Jack’s own tale.

Guests will enjoy a sampling of Sonoma’s finest artisanal Whiskeys followed by a delicious dinner prepared by Stellar Catering complete with fine wines provided by Kenwood Vineyards.

This year’s event will explore and celebrate the lifechanging power of storytelling and the importance of keeping a story alive with special appearances by some of Jack’s most beloved characters straight from the pages of his greatest adventure novels! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to chat with Wolf Larson from Sea Wolf…..or John Thornton from Call of the Wild? Now’s your chance to find out!

Jack London Park Partners receives no funding from the State of California therefore we count on generous supporters like you so that we may continue to tell Jack London’s story to future generations.

Will you join us for another Wild night here at the park and become a participating sponsor of this event. See sponsor benefits!

Tickets:
$200 General
Sponsorship levels available ($1,000 – $10,000)
Donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by the law (tax ID: 94-2412859).

For more information:
Caroline Quilici
(707) 938-1003
cquilici@jacklondonpark.com

Location:
Jack London State Historic Park
2400 London Ranch Road
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
(707) 938-5216

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Weaving Memories and Laguna Stories: Reflections on Learning to Weave Baskets with Local Elders and on Sustaining the Tradition Today
Laguna Environmental Center
Thursday, September 7th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Join us to hear Clint McKay reflect on his early memories of learning basket-weaving traditions, native plants, and other wisdom from his elders in the Sebastopol Laguna area. Through stories and personal experiences Clint McKay will reflect on the gifts, spiritual lessons, and weaving traditions he learned from weavers like Mabel McKay, Laura Somersal, and other Pomo and Wappo elders. Today, Clint and Lucy McKay gather plants and regularly sit and weave with family members in order to pass basket weaving traditions on to their children and grandchildren. Their native languages are spoken in their home on a daily basis. Clint will conclude with reflections on current native weaving and the strength of weaving traditions in our area today.

Beginning at 6:00pm, Clint and his wife Lucy will host a display table and provide a weaving demonstration using native plants as well as sample baskets in progress. Guests are welcome to arrive early to the presentation to join in the informal conversation.

In recent years, Clint McKay has served as the President of the California Indian Basket Weavers Association (CIBA) and along with his wife Lucky McKay (Pomo/Sierra Miwok) has demonstrated weaving with traditional plants in settings like the Oakland Museum, the Autry Museum, Pepperwood Preserve, and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

Tickets:
$10 (non-refundable).
Pre-registration required

Location:
Heron Hall
Laguna Environmental Center
900 Sanford Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 527-9277

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Broadway Under the Stars – Gala Celebration
Jack London State Historic Park
September 8th – 10th, 2017

Don’t miss this fast-selling, end of season celebration packed full of powerhouse performances, community tributes, sentimental reflections and more. We invite you to come close out the summer with us, Transcendence style.

5:00pm Preshow Picknicking
7:30pm Showtime

Production Sponsored By: Daryl Reese Attorney at Law, the girl & the fig, Kaiser Permanente, Nelson Family of Companies, Redwood Credit Union, Sonoma Media Investments

Tickets:
$150-$139 (VIP*)
$99-$85 (Premium)
$75-$65 (Select)
$50-$45 (General)

*VIP tickets include: VIP parking, VIP lounge, 2 glasses of wine, and access to the exclusive “VIP Bubble Lounge” during the pre-show picnic. Also, reserved VIP seating with a seat cushion provided for the performance.

Location:
Jack London State Historic Park
2400 London Ranch Road
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
(877) 424-1414

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Man of La Mancha
Cinnabar Theater
September 1st – 24th, 2017

A mixture of romance, humour and tragedy, framed within a rich musical score featuring the timeless anthem “The Impossible Dream,” this epic musical was beloved on Broadway to the tune of four revivals and five Tony awards. Man of La Mancha follows the saga of Miguel de Cervantes, playwright, poet and tax collector, who finds himself imprisoned and awaiting trial by the Inquisition. When his fellow prisoners try to confiscate his few possessions, including the uncompleted manuscript of his most famous work, the novel Don Quixote, Cervantes defends his masterpiece by presenting it as a play. Transforming himself into the title character, and recruiting his fiercely loyal manservant along with other inmates to take on various roles, he plays out his sweeping story of a deluded would-be-knight who becomes obsessed by his idealistic belief that the wrongs of the world can be corrected.

Book by Dale Wasserman
Lyrics by Joe Darion
Music by Mitch Leigh
Music direction by Mary Chun
Stage direction by Elly Lichenstein

Funding provided by Sponsors Circle Members Dr. David Noorthoek and Clyde & Kim Schultz additional support provided by Buffington Clay-Miller

Tickets:
$38 General/$45 at the door
$35 Seniors (62+)/$40 at the door
$30 Under 30 & Military/$35 at the door
$25 Youth under 18/$30 at the door
http://www.cinnabartheater.org/man-of-la-mancha/

Location:
Cinnabar Theater
3333 Petaluma Blvd North
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 763-8920

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Wings, Wine, and Wetlands
Laguna de Santa Rosa
Sunday, September 24th, 2107 @ 3:00 pm

Enjoy the amazing bounty of our spectacular Laguna: fine wine and champagne, unique brews, and delicious edibles from our local farms and restaurants. Come enjoy interactive outdoor activities to learn more about the spectacular Laguna. Plus, enjoy a live auction featuring wild adventures. Help support our goal to create a healthy, thriving and beautiful Laguna for all.

Tickets:
$125 General
http://www.lagunadesantarosa.org/benefit.html

Location:
Heron Hall
Laguna Environmental Center
900 Sanford Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 527-9277

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7th Annual National Heirloom Festival
Sonoma County Fairgrounds
September 5th – 7th, 2017

Come and walk the aisles at the “World’s Pure Food Fair,” an event for pure food enthusiasts, the national press, home growers across the country, farmers, school groups and the general public. The Expo is now dubbed the “World’s Fair” of the heirloom industry! This is a “non-profit” event, and any funds above cost will be donated to school gardens and food programs.

Enjoy the largest display of heirloom produce – ever! Over 4,000 varieties showcasing the diversity our planet has to offer. Including hundreds of incredible tomato varieties! Also meet the incredible farmers who grow them!

The Festival’s mission is to educate on the benefits of organic locally grown non-GMO foods. As well as preserve OUR food heritage and OUR right to good clean healthy food!

This year, over 300 Vendors, Thousands of heirloom varieties from across America! Workshops, Speakers, Contest, Art Show, Music, and much much more!

Over 75 nationally and internationally acclaimed on-topic speakers. Join us in three speaker halls that are themed this year: The Garden Hall, The Pure Food Pavillion and The Farmers Forum. So whether you’re a farmer, gardener or good food activist, we have a hall for you.

Event Hours:
9:00 am – 9:00 pm, daily

Tickets (purchased at the gate):
$15 One-day
$30 3-Day pass
Children are free

For more information:
Lisa (417) 924-8917
Claudia (707) 773-1336
info@theheirloomexpo.com

Location:
Sonoma County Fairgrounds
1350 Bennett Valley Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

www.TheHeirloomExpo.com

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4th Friday Art After Dark
Healdsburg Center for the Arts
Friday, August 25th, 2017 @ 7:30 pm

Healdsburg Center for the Arts presents, in partnership with the City of Healdsburg’s Community Services Department, Art After Dark. This event is a community outreach program to engage the Healdsburg community through arts and culture. Downtown Plaza St. will come alive with music, entertainment, fine art display, film, theater performance, children’s art activities & entertainment, and much more.

For August 25th, HCA is partnering with Corazón Healdsburg, a local nonprofit that offers bilingual community support services to the Latino community. This festive event will showcase Latino art and culture. We will have live Mexican music, a performance by Ballet Folkloríco, a traditional Mexican dance that emphasizes folk culture with ballet characteristics, and a comedy performance by S.F. standup comic Rudy Ortiz. Other activities include a silent screening of a 1940s Cantinflas film. Mario Moreno, known professionally as Cantinflas, was an iconic Mexican comic film actor who was often referred to as the Charlie Chaplin of Mexico. North Bay Impalas Car Club will have eight beautiful vintage Impala cars on display on Plaza St, near East St.

HCA and Healdsburg Literary Guild will have booths as well as Corazón Healdsburg where you can try your chances at playing lotería, a traditional Mexican card game similar to bingo that is considered to be a form of folk art.

Children will be invited to get their faces painted and create their own masterpieces under the “Little Frieda Kahlo” tent while friends and family watch. All art supplies free to each child.

Festival attendees can purchase food and wine at neighboring businesses: El Farolito Restaurant, Idlewild Wines, C. Donatiello and inside HCA. Some seating is available at the event to enjoy the performances or a snack.

Admission is free

Parking is available in the City lot on East. & Plaza. St.

For more information:
(707) 431-1970
artafterdarkhbg@gmail.com
https://healdsburgcenterforthearts.org/after-dark/

Location:
Downtown Healdsburg
Plaza St. (between Center & East Streets)

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