Sonoma Spotlight

Guelaguetza Tierra del Sol 2017
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
Sunday, July 16th, 2017 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

La Guelaguetza es un celebración en donde se representa el patrimonio cultural de las ocho regiones de Oaxaca a través de bailes que ejecutan al son de la música y los cantos que les son propios, vistiendo indumentaria de gala de sus respectivas comunidades.

The Guelaguetza is a celebration in which representatives from the many communities of Oaxaca come together and celebrate the diversity of their traditions and cultures.
Music Artesanías, arts & crafts, Oaxacan food, local vendors, childrens attractions.

Tickets:
$15 General
$12 Seniors (60+)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2989508

Location:
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
50 West Mark Springs Road
Santa Rosa, California 95403

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VFSF: Poetry Reflections
Paradise Ridge Winery
Sunday, July 16th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm

The Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation proudly presents Poetry Reflections, an afternoon of literary delight! It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dana Gioia, Poet Laureate of California and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Poet Laureate of Sonoma County who will read and perform some of their works in the sculpture grove at, Wind Curtain, created by Ned Kahn.

They will also be joined by Poetry Out Loud champions Seryna Bonacorso, from El Molino High School and Sarah Condello, from Analy High School, and youth who recently attended the Poetry Camp at the winery, creating poems from their interpretations of sculptures throughout the current exhibition Geometric Reflections: Ten Years of Voigt Family Sculpture.

We are pleased to dedicate this event to Dr. Walter Byck, who has so generously welcomed us into this creative partnership with his family and Paradise Ridge Winery. Poetry is the sculpture of language, words coming together to form an artful display of emotion, truth, and beauty. We are happy to bring sculpture, verse and, of course, wine together in this splendid setting!

Dana and Iris will be signing books at the end of the event and books will available to purchase.

During the event, light snacks and water will be served and wine will be available to purchase.

Tickets:
This event is free.
Donations gratefully accepted.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vfsf-poetry-reflections-tickets-35553249727

Location:
Paradise Ridge Winery
4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 528-9463

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Loving The Living Room Fundraiser
The Living Room
Sunday, July 16th, 2017 @ 2:00pm

You are cordially invited to Annual Summer Event “Loving the Living Room”

This year’s event is in honor of Marlene Ballaine.

Come enjoy Great Wine, Food by Ceres Community Project, Live Music by Le Hot Club Swing, an exciting Silent Auction and more, all in our beautiful gardens

Tickets:
$100 per person
http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/

Location:
The Living Room
1207 Cleveland Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 579-0138

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Larry Vukovitch & Bay Area All Stars
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Saturday, July 8th, 2017 @ 7:30 pm

Larry Vuckovich’s All Star Quartet with Noel Jewkes, and special guest vocalist Valeriana Quevedo will make this evening special. Larry Vuckovich and Noel Jewkes have an association that goes back to 1965 – a period of playing together for over 50 years developing a unique musical rapport. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes originals by both, plus classic jazz and rare standards, Latin/Brazilian, Balkan Middle Eastern selections, bluesy – funky boogaloo material & more.

Vocalist/dancer/percussionist Valeriana Quevedo brings a special vocal program featuring melodic Mexican/South American boleros plus Great American Songbook standards. Listeners will be treated to a program of diverse American jazz. Rounding out the group is seasoned veteran bassist Jeff Chambers along with the talented 19 year old Tim Angulo on drums. Featuring: Valeriana Quevedo, vocals / Larry Vuckovich, piano / Noel Jewkes, multi-reeds / Jeff Chambers, bass / Tim Angulo, drums.

Doors open at 7:00pm
Showtime at 7:30pm

Tickets:
$20 General
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2949968

Location:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
282 High Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 829-4797

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Munch & His Mentor
Spreckels Performing Arts Theater
July 8th & 9th, 2017

Kristiania (Oslo), Norway, in the early eighteen nineties: Edvard Munch is around thirty years of age and truly a struggling artist. The establishment criticizes his experiments in form and content and calls him a fraud. Sales are so low Munch has to exchange paintings for a meal, and he has great doubts about his quest as an artist: to paint his life. On top of this is his personal life on a low; every woman he meets seems to steal him away from his work and he ends up running away and with the end of the bohemian era, his social life is dramatically reduced and many of his friends are long gone. Munch especially misses his mentor, Hans Jaeger, the chief bohemian of Kristiania.

The bohemians inspired each other to jump onto lifes pages in full color, gave each other the courage to describe life as they saw it, and moved each other from being critical of the establishment to make their own original creations, from being copycats and followers to originals, to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Munch and his Mentor combines the personal story of Munch with universal bohemian issues. The bohemian movement was international and raised the same questions all over the western world, and the play investigates two hypotheses:

1.The bohemian era is the cradle of the modern sentiment.
2.Several writers and artists were successful because of being part of the bohemian movement.

The play also has underlying arguments that should be of inspiration to anyone today:

Finding oneself requires continuously introspection
The most common form of despair is not being true to yourself
For the world to move forward every new generation has to look critically at the establishment, the ruling generation
Lifes greatest aspects cannot be measured nor calculated

Tickets:
$30 General
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2996802

Location:

Location
Spreckels Performing Arts Theater
5409 Snyder Ln
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
(707) 588-3400

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HICAP Sonoma County
Ongoing Services

In California the Medicare Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP), provides beneficiaries with unbiased individual assistance and advocacy related to their Medicare benefits as well as community educational opportunities.
North Bay HICAP serves the 6 counties of Lake, Mendocino, Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma.

Since 1992, the national SHIP and state HICAP network have provided critical information upon which people with Medicare rely to make informed decisions about their coverage options and enrollment decisions. As roughly 10,000 people a day become eligible for Medicare, more and more people with Medicare and their families depend on HICAP.

North Bay HICAP serves as the key source of unbiased, face to face guidance concerning increasingly complicated choices regarding Medicare.

Senior Advocacy Services volunteers are needed in a variety of capacities:
Board of Directors – oversee the functions of the agency and represent our agency in the community.
Long Term Care Ombudsman – are trained and certified volunteers who visit nursing homes and residential care facilities throughout the county to help residents who may have problems.
HICAP Counselors – are trained and state registered volunteers who provide information and counseling to individuals on issues regarding Medicare, Medicare covered services and long-term care insurance.
Office Assistants – provide a variety of functions such as answering phones, clerical duties and data input.
Special Projects Volunteers – are always needed to help with special fundraising events.

Find out how to get involved at:
https://senioradvocacyservices.org/volunteer/

Location:
Senior Advocacy Services
1304 Southpoint Blvd. Suite 280
Petaluma, CA 94954
info@sasnb.org
(707) 526-4108

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Tiny Houses For Humanity
Gaia’s Garden
Saturday, July 8th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm

Gaias Garden is hosting a benefit for Tiny Houses for Humanity, an organization founded to provide affordable housing for the homeless. A formal, gourmet, vegan dinner and high-quality entertainment that is timely and funny. The Tiny Houses for Humanity Campaign is headed by homeless activist River King and Jay Shafer, an internationally-acclaimed pioneer of the tiny house movement. Funds raised will go toward building economical, permanent housing for local, displaced residents.

Dinner menu:
A gourmet vegan dinner with choice of soups (mango gazpacho OR split pea dahl); a salad of arugula, grilled stone fruits and pistachios with a vinaigrette dressing; choice of entrees: 1)deconstructed raviolo (a Sonoma County Harvest Festival Gold Medal Winner!)house-made pasta sheets, kale and mushroom filling, topped with a basil butternut squash sauce OR 2) Vegan and gluten-free “crab” cakes, Asian slaw and sweet potato fries served with house-made tartar sauce and lemon; and, for dessert, a choice of house-made berry cobbler or chocolate mousse.

Beverages sold separately.

Entertainment:
Sandy and Richard Riccardi – internet sensations most recently known for their political parody songs, including, “The Boy from Mar-a-Lago” and “Cofefe.”
Mary Carouba – Popular stand-up comedian, keynote speaker, playwright and co-author of the acclaimed book “Women at Ground Zero.” Mary delights audiences with her unique take on the human condition.
Muggs Muggles – delighting audiences for over three decades with his eclectic repertoire, irreverent demeanor and mellifluous bass/baritone, evoking distant eras of prohibition speakeasies, minstrel shows, juke joints, house rent parties, barn dances and sock hops.

Tickets:
$50 Minimum Donation
$100 VIP admission

Location:
Gaia’s Garden
1899 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 544-2491

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Fantastical Family Night – Broadway Under The Stars
Jack London State Historic Park
July 14th – 15th, 2017

Join us for everyone’s favorite annual night of magic and fun. This inspirational evening of music and dance will be filled with Broadway, Disney and everything in between. Featuring special performances by the kids of Transcendence Kids Camp, pre-show adventures, and more.

Arrive early for special pre-show activities!

Preshow Picknicking begins at 5:00 pm
Showtime at 7:30 pm

Production Sponsored By:
The Alan & Susan Seidenfeld Charitable Fund
the girl & the fig
Mary’s Pizza Shack.

Tickets:
$149-$117 (VIP)
$99-$68 (Premium)
$75-$50 (Select)
$50-$32 (General)
Youth Under 18 Prices Available.
https://transcendencetheatre.org/fantastical-family-night/

Location:
Jack London State Historic Park
2400 London Ranch Road
Glen Ellen, CA 95442

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Loving The Living Room Fundraiser
The Living Room
Sunday, July 16th, 2017 @ 2:00pm

You are cordially invited to Annual Summer Event “Loving the Living Room”

This year’s event is in honor of Marlene Ballaine.

Come enjoy Great Wine, Food by Ceres Community Project, Live Music by Le Hot Club Swing, an exciting Silent Auction and more, all in our beautiful gardens

Tickets:
$100 per person
http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/

Location:
The Living Room
1207 Cleveland Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 579-0138

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Rumi’s Caravan
Hermann Sons Hall
Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 6:00pm

Please join us for a magical evening of poetry and music, performed in the ecstatic tradition by the amazing all-volunteer troupe from Rumi’s Caravan. 100% of event proceeds will be used to ensure that sustainable leadership development programs within Sonoma County continue, and THRIVE.

Rumi’s Caravan was first assembled in Sebastopol, CA in 2000 as a vehicle to convey a love of the oral tradition of poetry. The original intention was three-fold:
To support local community benefit organizations;
To build community; and
To help restore the oral tradition of poetry to inspire audiences with a new imagination of the possible.

The Caravan is both an event and a performance company who continues to delight audiences with their eclectic mix of music, poetry and festivity. All proceeds from their performances go to support local community organizations and groups that have benefited in the past include the Center for Climate Protection, the Siskiyou County Public Library, the Gualala Arts Council, the Ceres Community Project, Youth Speaks and others.

Rumi’s Caravan has been part of a growing international renaissance of interest in poetry and story learned and shared by heart. In this small way, they hope to contribute to the restoration of the wholeness of the world.

The performance will begin promptly at 7pm.
If you are planning to join us for dinner (a delicious meal of Persian delicacies,) please arrive at 6pm.

Beer and wine will be available for purchase throughout the evening.

Lavish Attire Enthusiastically Recommended!

Tickets:
$35 (w/Dinner)
$25 Performance only.
There are only 75 tickets available for the dinner & performance combo.
http://dailyacts.org/

Location:
Hermann Sons Hall
860 Western Ave.
Petaluma, CA 94952

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