Sonoma County’s contemporary dance fans have two chances to see local performances by the internationally recognized Axis Dance Company of Oakland. Axis, known for choreography that integrates dancers both with and without physical disabilities, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at the Glaser Center, [...]
Jazz pianist Noam Lemish, born in Israel and educated at Sonoma State University, now lives in Toronto, but he’s coming back to see us this month. The Sonoma Valley Jazz Society will present the Noam Lemish Trio, including bassist Jim Kerwin and drummer George Marsh, from 7 to [...]
Massive Monkees, a high-energy break dance crew, performs Monday, April 29, on the Sonoma State University campus in Rohnert Park. Formed in Seattle in 1999, the Massive Monkees were on the fourth season of the MTV show "America's Best Dance Crew" in 2009. In 2012 they won the international b-boy [...]
The appearance of jazz legend Diane Schuur with the United States Air Force Commanders Jazz Ensemble on April 13 at Sonoma State University has been canceled due to budget cuts to the Department of Defense as a result of sequestration, an SSU spokesman said. The 7:30 p.m. concert [...]
Sonoma State University has announced its spring concert series, including a performance by jazz singer Diane Schuur. Backed by the USAF Commanders Jazz Ensemble, Schuur will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 13 in the Green Music Center’s Weill Hall on the Rohnert Park campus. The concert is free, but tickets [...]
Sonoma State University’s outdoor art collection got a boost today (Thursday, Aug. 23) with the installation of the late Berkeley sculptor Stephen De Staebler's “Winged Figure Ascending, 2011” near the new Green Music Center box office. The bronze statue is on loan to SSU from the artist's estate [...]
TV host, author and humorist Bill Maher will perform Oct. 20 in the new 1,400-seat Weill Hall on the Sonoma State University campus in Rohnert Park. Tickets go on sale online at 10 a.m. Friday, July 27, for $49.75, $69.75 and $89.75 at www.rbpconcerts.com and www.ticketmaster.com. Phone: (831) [...]
Christina Baker, an assistant professor in the American Multi-cultural Studies department at Sonoma State University, found a teachable moment in this year’s Academy Award nominations. In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Oscar, as best supporting actress as the mammy in “Gone With [...]
Petaluma native Bill Vartnaw has been named Sonoma Couty's seventh poet laureate, and will be honored at 3 p.m. Jan. 29 at the county's Santa Rosa Central Library, Third and B Streets. Vartnaw has been writing poetry for more than 35 years. He founded Taurean Horn Press in 1974, and [...]
If you feel sometimes that the modern world is driving you to distraction, perhaps you ought to try driving yourself to abstraction as an antidote. Drive down to the Sonoma State Unversity Art Gallery on campus in Rohnert Park to see "Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction," the new exhibit opening Thursday, Nov. [...]
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.