Katie Ketchum will present her musical one-woman show, “Impressions of Mary Cassatt; American Painter,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16, at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot St. Ketchum, composer, playwright, pianist and singer, was born in California and studied composition at the [...]
Tickets are on sale for the 25th annual B. R. Cohn Charity Events Fall Music Festival, to be held in September at Cohn’s winery in Glen Ellen. The festival opens at 6 p.m. Sept. 23 with an auction and dinner, featuring TV celebrity chef Guy Fieri of Santa Rosa as [...]
Painters Mary Jarvis and Suzanne Edminster invite artitst and neighbors to celebrate at the first ‘Summer Barracks Party’ from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at The Barracks, 3840 Finley Ave., Building 32, Barracks 107 and 221, in Santa Rosa. The art on display will include work [...]
The Wine Country Film Festival will screen “Even the Rain,” a nominee for best foreign language film at the last Academy Awards, at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. Released in Spain as “Tambien la Lluvia,’ the drama weaves together three [...]
The Schulz Museum will host appearances by three prominent women cartoonists this month. Hilary Price, creator of "Rhymes with Orange" will teach a master class for adults interested in cartooning, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday, March 20. Cost: $32 for museum members; $40 for non-members. Advance reservations [...]
Osprey Orielle Lake, artist, environmental activist and author of "Uprisings from the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature," will talk about her book at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Copperfield’s Books, 2316 Montgomery Drive Santa Rosa. Lake is the director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, on [...]
Tired of hearing the same old, mass-marketed music? Then you'll want to go to “Songwriters in the Round,” with Steve Seskin, Craig Carothers and Don Henry, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, at the Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeview St., Petaluma. Musical fads come and go, but Seskin, [...]
Regular readers know the drill by now. People all over the county have rallied to help Lynn Prime, Digital Projects Librarian at Sonoma State University, identify some of the hundreds of photos taken by students as part of historical preservation course during the ’70s. The few background notes [...]
Sometimes a band's name is enough to make you stop and at least notice where the group is playing. It's hard to top a name like Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band. The six-piece funk band from Asheville, N.C., rolls into the HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol, [...]
Lynn Prime, Digital Projects Librarian at Sonoma State University, is looking for people with long memories. Working her way through some 850 photos, taken during the ’70s by students in the college’s historical preservation course, she has stored some 300 in the digital archives so far. She has [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.