Sonoma Spotlight

Drumming with Anubis
Left Edge Theater
June 30th – July 2nd, 2018

Left Edge Theater presents Drumming With Anubis, a workshop reading of a new play by local playwright, David Templeton.

When the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, drunkenly crashes the annual camping trip of four middle-aged metal-music fans, will the result be this creaky band-of-brothers’ best male bonding weekend ever? Or its last? Light the campfire, cue the drumming, bring on the poetry, and toss in a few heart- stopping surprises. It’s a long night of the soul—hot dogs optional.

Showtimes:
June 30th & July 1st at 8:00pm
July 2nd at 2:00pm

Tickets:
$15 General
https://www.leftedgetheatre.com/special-events/drumming-with-anubis

Location:
Left Edge Theatre
50 Mark West Springs Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95403

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Bookshelf Author Series with Peter Coyote
Charles M. Schulz Museum
Saturday, June 24, 2017 @ 2:00 pm

Actor and writer Peter Coyote will read from and sign his new book, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education. Coyote has acted in over 120 films for some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers, including Barry Levinson, Pedro Almodovar, and Steven Spielberg. He is an Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 170 documentary films, including Ken Burns, National Parks, Prohibition, The West, the Dust Bowl and the acclaimed The Roosevelts for which he received his second Emmy. Coyote’s memoir of the 1960’s counter-culture, Sleeping Where I Fall, received universally excellent reviews. His new book, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education, about mentors and the search for wisdom, was nominated for one of the top five books in Northern California in 2015.

Tickets are free with Museum admission and available on a first come, first served basis beginning at 10:00 am on the day of the event.

Admission:
$12 Adults
$8 seniors (62 and over)
$5 students and ages 4-18
Free for kids under 4 and Members.

Location:
Charles M. Schulz Museum
2301 Hardies Ln.
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 579-4436

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The Heritage Project
6th Street Playhouse
Friday, June 23 – 24, 2017

The Heritage Project is back with two performances this Friday at 7:30 pm and Saturday at 2:00 pm!

The Heritage Project was presented in the G.K. Hardt Theatre May 19-21, 2017. The 6th Street Playhouse School of Drama’s Apprentice Company performed an original documentary play from interviews conducted with their elders about their family’s heritage.

Directed by Brian Glenn Bryson
Assistant Directed by Jacinta Gorringe
Music Direction by Elizabeth Brown.

The Heritage Project is made possible in part through a grant from the Community Foundation Sonoma County.

Tickets:
$15 Adults
$10 Children (5-12)
6thstreetplayhouse.com or call (707) 523-4185.

Location:
6th Street Playhouse
52 W. 6th Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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Poetry Camp Among The Sculptures
Paradise Ridge Winery
Friday, June 23rd, 2017 @ 9:30am – 2:00pm

Voigt Family Sculpture Foundations presents “Poetry Camp Among the Sculptures”. This camp is for students ages 11-15 and is coordinated by Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Poet Laureate of Sonoma County.

She and published poets Jackie Huss Hallerberg and Kathleen Winter will give each student the opportunity to participate in a poetry lesson at a total of three different sculptures in the current VFSF exhibition, Geometric Reflections: 10 Years Of Sculpture.

At the conclusion of the three lessons, the students and teachers will convene in the Paradise Picnic Pavilion for a boxed lunch and time to share their poems. Please register here to secure your student’s space.

A morning snack and lunch will be provided.

Recommended:
Bring a camp chair or blanket to sit on.

Admission:
Poetry camp is free for students age 11-15.

Registration is required:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vfsf-poetry-camp-tickets-35392048570

Location:
Paradise Ridge Winery
4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95403

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Summer Lunch Program
Redwood Empire Food Bank
Ongoing through August 4th, 2018

When schools break for the summer months, thousands of growing children from low-income families in our community lose access to free and reduced-cost school lunches. Summer Lunch fills the meal gap by delivering free hot and healthy meals and a variety of enrichment and physical activities to at-risk children throughout Sonoma County.

The Redwood Empire Food Bank invites all children ages 18 and under to enjoy summer lunch and summer play beginning Monday, June 5th at sites throughout Sonoma County.

For more information:
Dial 2-1-1 or Food Connections at the Redwood Empire Food Bank (707) 523-7903, Monday through Friday 9:00 am – 5:30 pm.

Various locations. Visit website for details.
http://refb.org/our-work/programs/every-child-every-day/summer-lunch/

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Anything Goes
Ravel Performing Arts Theater
Jun 23rd – Jul 9th, 2018

It’s 1934, and nightclub singer/evangelist Reno Sweeney is en route from New York to England on the ocean liner S. S. American. Her pal Billy Crocker has stowed away to be near his love, Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. With the help of disguises, tap-dancing sailors and good old-fashioned blackmail, Reno and Moonface Martin (Public Enemy #13) join forces to help Billy in his quest to win Hope’s heart.

Features great Cole Porter tunes such as: It’s De-Lovely, Friendship, I Get A Kick Out Of You, All Through The Night, Anything Goes, You’re The Top and Blow, Gabriel, Blow.

Directed by Joe Gellura
Musical Direction by Lucas Sherman
Choreography by Sandi Lang

Show is recommended for all ages.

Opening Night Bubbly & Sunday Post-Show Discussions
Join us for opening night of any production and stay afterward for a celebratory toast to the cast and crew!
Immediately following all Sunday matinees, members of the cast and crew will return to the stage to answer your questions.

Showtimes:
Jun 23, 24, 29, 30, July 1, 7, 8 @ 8:00pm
June 25, July 2 & 9 @ 2:00pm
Thursday Value Night, June 29 @ 8:00pm

Tickets:
$30 Adults $30
$25 Senior 65+
$10 Student w/ID
$15 Adults & Seniors Value Night
http://www.raventheater.org/
Tickets also available at Copperfield’s in Healdsburg & Santa Rosa, and at Pages in Windsor.

Location:
Raven Theater Healdsburg
115 North Street
Healdsburg, CA 95448
(707) 433-6335

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Kate Wolf Music Festival
Black Oak Ranch
Thursday, June 22nd – 25th, 2017

The Kate Wolf Music Festival first started in 1996 as a one day Retrospective, at Caswell Vineyards, near the town of Occidental, in western Sonoma County. In 2001 the move to Black Oak Ranch, just north of Laytonville, was made. 2017 will mark the 22nd Festival.
The annual Kate Wolf Music Festival is a wonderful place to relax and enjoy a great weekend with friends, family and lovers of fabulous music.

Over 40 acts on four stages:
John Prine, Bruce Cockburn, Brandi Carlile, Blind Pilot, Playing For Change, Paul Thorn Band, Carrie Rodriguez, Paper Bird, Charlie Thomas and The Drifters, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Las Cafeteras, Baka Beyond, Dirty Cello, Dar Williams, Front Country, Rising Appalachia, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Rainbow Girls, The Sam Chase & the Untraditional, Keith Greeninger with Dayan Kai, The Cave Singers, Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams, Carolyn Sills Combo, Crow and The Canyon, Joe Craven, Joel Rafael with John Trudell’s Bad Dog, John Craigie, Sherry Austin with Henhouse, Barbara Higbie, Laura Love Duo, Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs!, The Heifer Belles, Ferron & Her All Star Band, Monica Pasqual & The Handsome Brunettes, Mouths of Babes, David Luning, The Real Sarahs, Achilles Wheel, Jimmy Lafave, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Blue Summit

Plus, a tribute to Jimmy Lafave with Sarah Lee Guthrie and friends on either Saturday or Sunday during her set.

Festival Features:
Workshops, Kids’ area, Camping, Food court, Music jamming area, Flowing creek, ‘Hobo Jungle’ Campfire Sing.

More shade!
This year’s event will include more shade than ever before. We are shading the main meadow in front of the main stage. We’ve taken great care to make sure that it won’t obstruct anyone’s view. Same great seating area only shaded.

Tickets:
$17 – $325
http://katewolfmusicfestival.com/ticket-info-and-sales/

Location:
Black Oak Ranch
50350 Hwy. 101 North
Laytonville, CA 95454

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Pagliacci
Cinnabar Theater
June 10th – 25th, 2017

Short, gritty, and boasting one of the greatest tenor arias of all time, Pagliacci (“Clowns”) is a perennial audience favorite.
Get ready for passion to burst onto the Cinnabar stage. Canio, head of a travelling vaudeville troupe, fans the flame of his uncontrollable jealousy when he learns that his wife Nedda plans to run away with her lover, Silvio. For the heartbroken Canio, the show must go on, but the separation between life and art becomes blurred. With passions running high, there can be only one fatal conclusion.

Special commissioned curtain-raiser:
Clowns On A Stick present Rhapsody of Fools
If Pagliacci is a clown show within an opera, Rhapsody of Fools is an opera within a clown show. The diva is late, she’s hard to please, and then she loses her voice. What else could go wrong? Since these are clowns, certainly all ends well, but not before everything goes hopelessly wrong. The flip side of the passionate Pagliacci will have you laughing till the clowns come home!

Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Music direction by Mary Chun
Stage direction by Elly Lichenstein
Play within a play direction by James Pelican
Associate Conductor, Chorus Master Dana Sadava
English translation by Amanda Holden
Orchestral reduction by Francis Griffin

Generously underwritten by Producers Circle Member Larry Russo, with Sponsor Circle Members Sandra O’Brien, and Walter & Emily Roeder; and additional support by Buffington Clay-Miller

Tickets:
$40 General ($45 at the door)
$35 Under 30 and Military ($40 at the door)
$25 Youth under 18 ($30 at the door)
$9 Middle and high school students (June 16 show, advance sale only)
http://www.cinnabartheater.org/pagliacci/

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

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Professor Hoffman’s Humpday Comedy Circus!
6th Street Playhouse
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 @ 8:00pm

Professor Hoffman’s Humpday Comedy Circus is a combination of High Energy Comedy with several splashes of something extra!

Join us for this cavalcade of comedy – in the true tradition of the Variety Show.

This show is for ages 18 and above due to adult language and situation.

Full bar for patrons over 21. NO DRINK MINIMUM
Cash and Credit cards accepted.

Doors open @ 7:45 PM
Preshow starts @ 8 PM

Tickets:
$10 Advance
$15 At the door

https://www.profhoffcomedy.com/

Location:
6th Street Playhouse – Studio Theater
52 W. 6th Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 523-4185

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Margaret Jenkins Dance Company: Dancing in the Sculpture
Paradise Ridge Winery
Sunday, June 18, 2017 @ 5:00pm

The Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation proudly presents the MARGARET JENKINS DANCE COMPANY performing within and around the sculptures in GEOMETRIC REFLECTIONS: Celebrating Ten Years of Voigt Family Sculpture. This year they will bring several different multimedia performances including dance, music, theatre and literary arts to the sculpture exhibition Geometric Reflections at Paradise Ridge Winery.

Join us this Father’s Day for a glass of wine and light appetizers and stroll around the sculpture gardens while experiencing this once-in-a-lifetime performance! This is something the whole family will enjoy! Margaret Jenkins has designed a very special, interactive performance for the Geometric Reflections exhibition. Afterward, they will discuss their work and answer any questions you might have.

The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (MJDC) has been a part of the cultural fabric of San Francisco for over three decades—dedicated to the making and touring of new work, international exchange, and programs that support process, choreographic mentorship and performance opportunities. At the heart of the organization’s mission is Ms. Jenkins’ belief that it is incumbent on us as artists to be in conversation through our work—to break the isolation and expand who sees and responds to the arts.

Tickets:
$75 General adult
$35 Student (w/ID)
Kids 12 and under free
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/margaret-jenkins-dance-company-dancing-in-the-sculpture-tickets-34645192704

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

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