Sonoma Spotlight

Apples From The Desert – JCC Israeli Film Festival
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 21st, 2017

Rivka Abarbanel lives in Jerusalem, the only daughter of an Orthodox Jewish family, and is tired of the lifestyle that has been forced upon her, so she starts becoming interested in the secular world. When her father attempts to rein her in by trying to marry her off to a widower with children, she runs away looking for freedom on a kibbutz in the desert with a young man who is the epitome of the Israeli secular Jew.

Israel 2014, 96 min, Hebrew w/English subtitles.

Tickets:
$10 1:00pm (Matinee)
$13 7:30pm

The theater is wheelchair accessible.
Call Doron Hovav at (707) 526-5538 to reserve a wheelchair spot.

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

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The Sugar Bean Sisters
Spreckels Theatre Company
March 17th – April 9th, 2017

This Southern Gothic comedy by Nathan Sanders tells a quirky story of romance, murder and alien abduction as it follows two eccentric spinster sisters waiting for aliens to come to their home in the sugarcane swamps of Florida. In search of happiness, the Sugar Bean sisters hatch a plot in this fun, plot twisting, “out of this world” tale that examines faith and complicated family dynamics where lies are unraveled and truth is revealed.

Parental guidance suggested for youth under 15-years old.

Featuring:
Mary Gannon Graham
Mollie Boice
Lydia Revelos
Larry Williams
Sharon Griffith.

Directed by Denise Elia-Yen
Costumes by Pamela Johnson

Showtimes:
8:00pm Fridays and Saturdays
2:00pm Sundays
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6
Reservations recommended.

Tickets:
$26 General
$24 Seniors/Youth
$22 Students
$16 Children (12 and under)
Student Rush: Spreckels welcomes SSU and SRJC students to take advantage of its student rush price. Present student ID at the Spreckels box office 10 minutes before curtain for special admission of $12. (Reservations recommended.)

Location:
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
Bette Condiotti Theater
5409 Snyder Lane
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
(707) 588-3400
www.spreckelsonline.com

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A View From The Bridge
North Bay Stage Company
March 17th – April 2nd, 2017

Arthur Miller’s award-winning play A View From the Bridge comes to the LBC, produced by North Bay Stage Company.

It’s the story of Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, a man who holds family and honor above all else — and yet betrays them both. Eddie is infatuated with the orphaned niece he’s raising as a daughter, but when she falls for one of her aunt’s recently immigrated cousins, their lives are set on a tragic course.

Showtimes:
March 17, 18, 24, 25, 31, Apr 1 @ 8:00pm
March 19, 26, Apr 2 @ 2:00pm

Tickets:
$28 General
http://northbaystageco.org/index.php/order-tickets/

Location:
North Bay Stage Company
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
50 Mark West Springs Road
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 546-3600

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Russian River Confluence
Shone Farm, Forestville
Friday, March 24, 2017

The Russian River Confluence is a unique event envisioned to culminate and inspire a series of ‘beyond sustainability’ conversations and gatherings intended to tap the collective capacity of the Russian River Watershed community.

The Russian River Confluence will engage you as a stakeholder in the watershed, encourage storytelling and identify actions to promote a holistic approach to the watershed that ensures its resiliency and renewal.

If you live in, and care for, the Russian River Watershed, we hope you will plan to attend this landmark event!

Presented by:
The County of Sonoma, Economic Development Board, Regional Parks, Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, Sonoma County Water Agency, Sonoma Resource Conservation District, Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District, LandPaths, Russian Riverkeeper, Dry Creek Rancheria, and The Story of Place Institute.

Tickets:
$75 which includes all meals, the conference program and a reception highlighting a variety of local, sustainably grown organic food and beverage sourced from farms and artisans throughout the Russian River Watershed, and served by local student volunteers with the Ceres Community Project.
Space at this event is limited. Please register today!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2581028

A reception, hosted by Sonoma Resource Conservation District, will feature live music from Sonoma County’s own Cahoots!

Location:
Shone Farm
7450 Steve Olson Lane
Forestville, CA 95436

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The Women’s Balcony – JCC Israeli Film Festival
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

The opening film of the festival – this is a rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power and rejecting extremism. When during a bar mitzvah celebration, the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem collapses, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic, young Rabbi Dovid appears to be the congregation’s savior after the accident, but slowly he starts to take control, pushing his fundamentalist ways. This leads to a gender rift in the community and tests the women’s friendships.

Tickets:
$10 1:00pm (Matinee)
$13 7:30pm

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

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Wayward Winds Quintet
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Friday, March 17, 2017 @ 07:30pm

The Wayward Winds Quintet performs a diverse selection of chamber music from baroque to contemporary.

Members include:
Neil Herring (clarinet)
Kathi Jacobs (flute)
Ruth Johnson (oboe)
David Poe (horn)
Kelly Stewart (bassoon)

For More Information:
Linda Galletta
(707) 829-4797

Tickets:
$15 General

Location:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
282 S. High Street
Sebastopol, California 95472

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The Life and Art of Isadora Duncan
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday March 19th, 2017 @ 4:00pm

In honor of International Women’s History Month, OCA presents a celebration of the life and art of California Native Daughter and legendary dancer Isadora Duncan. Director, solo dancer and Duncan expert Lois Flood (Diablo Dance Theater) movingly interprets the original choreography of Isadora Duncan and her classical aesthetic dance movement. She brings the ‘Mother of Modern dance’ to dramatic life with flowing classical costumes and historical narration about Isadora’s many contributions as a dancer, writer, political activist and revolutionary feminist.

These lyrical, dramatic and heroic dances, inspired by natural movement, are set to exquisite classical music by Chopin, Schubert, Gluck, and others.

This unique dance performance is also a history lesson about the revolutionary dancer and feminist who boldly rejected the cultural and legal restrictions placed on women in the early 1900’s; a subject still relevant today.

Fine refreshments will be available for sale.

Tickets:
$15 General
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2883850

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

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Living In Common: Roland Jacopetti with Peter Coyote
Art Museum of Sonoma County
March 16th, 2017 @ 6:00pm

Communal living in the 60’s was embraced as a lifestyle choice in order to enjoy the countercultural ideals of returning to agrarian roots from the industrial, eschewing money for barter, and the importance of the group over the individual. Every commune was different: some were deeply religious communities while others were completely secular. Drug use was allowed or encouraged on some hippie communes and forbidden on others. Some were strictly self-sufficient agrarian societies, but other communes participated in capitalism by owning businesses. There was no “one-size fits all” model, and over time, each hippie commune developed its own culture, rules, and personality over time.

The panel features a select group of former commune residents:
Maura McCoy and Noelle Jan Barton, who are producing a documentary, Olompali, A Hippie Odyssey, about Olompali’s Chosen Family commune
Larry Otis, another former Olompali resident, is a musician and songwriter, and has played for Ike and Tina Turner, Billy C. Farlow, Motown and Bobby Womack
Alexandra Hart, who lived at Morning Star Ranch during its first summer and is the author of Native Funk & Flash: An Emerging Folk Art
And Peter Coyote, who is a famous actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks, one of the founders of the Diggers and actor and writer for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Coyote spent time at the Olema, Black Bear Ranch, Forest Knolls, Trinidad, and Salmon Creek communes. Two of Coyote’s books will be for sale at this event, and he will be available to sign copies.

The moderator for this panel will be Roland Jacopetti, radio host for Sonoma Spotlight and Something Completely Different on KRCB. Jacopetti is a former resident of Morning Star Ranch.

The RECEPTION begins at 6:00pm, the TALK begins at 6:30pm.

Tickets:
$10 Members
$15 Non-members
http://www.sonomacountymuseum.org/eventdetails.aspx?EventId=30927

Location:
Art Museum of Sonoma County
505 B Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 579-1500

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Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival
Sebastopol Community & Cultural Center
Saturday, March 11th, 2017 @ 1:00pm – 8:00pm

This annual event is held at the Sebastopol Community & Cultural Center located at 390 Morris Street. The Folk Society and the California Bluegrass Association have worked together to put on some great shows over the years.

This year’s lineup includes:
True Life Troubadours
Greenhouse
Jim Hurst
Guitar Workshop w/Jim Hurst
Ukulele Workshop w/Gary Sugiyama
Rita Hosking
Evie Ladin Band
Good Ole Persons, Reunion

For more information:
www.cbaweb.org
Mark Hogan (707) 479-5529
Steve DeLap (707) 861-9446

Tickets:
$35 General advance
$40 General at the door
$30 SCFS/CBA members advance
$35 SCFS/CBA members at the door
Available at:
Peoples’ Music in Sebastopol and Last Record Store in Santa Rosa.
https://www.cbaweb.org/Events/Sonoma

Location:
Sebastopol Community & Cultural Center
390 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472

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On The Map – JCC Israeli Film Festival
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 @ 1:00pm & 7:30pm

Are you ready for a David vs. Goliath Israeli story in English that actually put Israel on the map?

Still demoralized after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel was hungry for a collective, uplifting event. “On The Map”, the fast-moving, emotional and awe-inspiring documentary, recounts the story of how one team from Tel Aviv, no one thought could win, toppled the four-time defending European Champions – the Red Army team CSKA Moscow- brought the first ever European-Cup to Israel and put Israel firmly on the map. The film combines the pulse-pounding action of a high-stakes game with an incendiary political situation at the height of the Cold War, to deliver a film that honors Israeli heroes, mesmerizes fans of the game and captures the spirit of a nation triumphant and victorious against all odds.

Narrated by Bill Walton and featuring Tal Brody; the action doesn’t stop!

Israel 2015, 78 min, English and Hebrew w/English subtitles

Tickets:
$10 1:00pm (Matinee)
$13 7:30pm

http://www.jccsoco.org/main/israeli-film-festival/

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

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