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North Bay Suicide Prevention Hotline Training
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Ongoing

Sonoma County Department of Health Services – Behavioral Health Division provides resources for people and their loved ones that are experiencing

North Bay Suicide Prevention Program
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Ongoing

Sonoma County Department of Health Services – Behavioral Health Division provides resources for people and their loved ones that are experiencing depression

With September come football games that actually matter, open season on California tree squirrels (daily limit of four) and the opening of the new artistic season for many North Bay theatre

Northern Sonoma County Fire Preparedness Fair
Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds
Sunday, September 29, 2019 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

“Not Alone” – Film Screening & Community Discussion on teen suicide.
Mill Valley Community Center
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Driven by a desire to understand why her

Novato Elks Lodge Charity Golf Classic
Indian Valley Golf Club
Monday, October 7, 2019

Join us for the

Novato Elks Lodge Charity Golf Classic
Indian Valley Golf Club
Monday, October 7, 2019

Join us for the

Word by Word host, Gil Mansergh, welcomes a return visit withnovelist and particle physicist Ransom Stephens and his newest

Our Word By Word conversation for august is the novelist, nonfiction author and podcaster, Patricia Volonakis Davis, Better known as Patricia

Novelists who write inside of their calling. D.J. Green is a geologist and writer who brings her love of the planet into a drama that ranges from the external challenges of earthquake prone Turkey to the inner lives of an American family living there in her book No More Empty Spaces.

Historian and archivist, Lynn Downey talks about her interests in Western fashion and dude ranches in her novel set on one, Dude or Die.

Both authors join host Suzanne Lang on A Novel Idea.

Award-winning novelist Jamie Ford joins host Gil Mansergh for Conversations With Writers. Ford has followed his beloved novel The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet with a much-anticipated second

Gil Mansergh once again welcomes the celebrated novelist and former Sonoma County resident, T.C. Boyle for an hour-long conversation on Word By Word. They chat about T.C.’s newest novel “San Miguel”

Gil Mansergh once again welcomes the celebrated novelist and former Sonoma County resident, T.C. Boyle for an hour-long conversation on Word By Word. They chat about T.C.’s newest novel “San Miguel”

NUTS
Left Edge Theatre
September 6 – 29, 2019

Set in a courtroom in New York’s Bellevue Hospital,

Word By Word host Gil Mansergh welcomes the NYT bestselling historian Julia Flynn Siler with her newest work, The White Devil’s Daughter.

Subtitled The Women Who Fought Slavery

It’s hard to fathom that this effort to develop and establish Food Studies programs, and therefore an all new academic discipline, happened way back in 1996.
Since that time some form of this good work has emerged all across the country. Some of the extraordinary people who pioneered and lead this good work have gathered their own writings and that of other smart folks and have produced a wonderful, important book, “Practicing Food Studies.”
Today, you’ll hear directly from these educators and editors of the book: Amy Bentley, Fabio Parasecoli, and Krishnendu Ray, and, of course, from the powerhouse who made it all possible, Marion Nestle. Marion wrote the forward for the book.

Obi Kaufmann Presents
Ecological Connectivity and Restoration in Art and Science
Finley Community Center
Tuesday, February 11,

A Novel Idea comes from  9000 ft above sea level in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, where Suzanne M. Lang brings you her conversation with Obi Kaufmann on his latest work, The Forests of California, a follow-up to the best-selling The California Field Atlas, and The State of Water. Kaufmann’s work is filled with art, science, poetry, and maps, all infused with his love of California. 

A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photos: Courtesy of the author)

Occidental Community Choir
Winter Concerts 2019
Occidental Center for the Arts

Now in its 41st year, the consistently melodious OccidentalCommunity Choir offers up a winter concert

Occidental Community Choir
Winter 2017 Concert – Alleluia Anyway
December 2nd – 10th, 2017

OCC ushers in the holiday season with its unique blend of original compositions, old favorites, and contemporary

Occidental Community Choir
Winter Concerts 2018
Occidental Center for the Arts
November 30th – December 9th, 2018

Born around a bonfire in the town of Occidental in 1978, the Occidental

Occidental Holiday Crafts Faire
Occidental Community Center
December 8th – 9th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

The Occidental Community Council presents the annual Holiday Crafts Faire, highlighting over 35

Oceans Flamenco en Vivo
Santa Rosa Arts Center
Friday, June 14, 2019 @ 8:00 pm

An evening of Spanish Flamenco music and dance featuringdancer Savannah Fuentes, guitarist Pedro Cortes, and

Word By Word host Gil Mansergh has a conversation with former police officer, detective, hostage negotiator and forensic artist Robin Burcell, the Award-winning author of the Kate Gillespie series featuring the

October Zero Waste Eat Local Challenge
Sebastopol Farmers’ Market
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Off the Page Readers Theater – Transformation
Copperfield’s Books
Friday, January 24, 2020, at 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 25, 2020, at 7:00

It won’t be long until we start seeing our local Sonoma coast salmon at the supermarkets. Scientists and officials are deciding when to open the commercial salmon season at the Pacific

12th Annual Old Grove Festival
Armstrong Redwoods SNR
Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

Billed as Progressive New Grass in the Redwoods, the Annual Old Grove Festival takes place at

Old Grove Festival
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve
Saturday, September 15th, 2018 @ 4:30 pm – 9:30 pm

The Annual Old Grove Festival, Pickin’ in the Woods, takes place at the

Old Grove Festival
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve
September 14 & 15, 2019 @ 4:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Oliver!
6^th Street Playhouse
November 15 – December 15, 2019

Tony Award and Academy Award-winning Oliver! brings to life

Olli Soikkeli & Cesar Garabini Duo
Occidental Center for the Arts
Friday, April 20th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

We are pleased to welcome back the Finnish guitar sensation Olli Soikkeli, who

JCC Sonoma County Film Festival
On the Banks of the Tigris
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017 @ 2:00 pm

The JCC Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival is here again for

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

Suzanne Lang is on the road and her guest, journalist Brad Herzog, brings us his own travelogue in Detour 2020, a Cross-country Drive through America’s Wrong Turns —his deep dive into the year of COVID, social unrest and racial division, and the presidential election that seemed to represent a turning point for the American ethos.

A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photos: Courtesy of the author)

Having male teachers of color in the classroom improvesoutcomes for students of color.

Fewer than 10 percent of California’s

Across the state, the number of teachers of color inCalifornia isn’t keeping pace with the number of black and brown

One Love Diversity Festival
Santa Rosa Junior College
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

The Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) Student Government Assembly, Office of Student Success and Equity, and the Office of

One Stone – World Premier Performance
Cinnabar Theater
February 10th – 19th, 2017

Through the magic of puppetry, drama, music and projections, One Stone explores the scientific discoveries, the complex character

Onye & The Messengers!
Occidental Center for the Arts
Saturday, September 30th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

Renowned Nigerian percussionist and performer Onye Onyemaechi leads this electrifying Afro world beat band comprised

Onye and the Messengers
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Saturday, September 1st, 2018 @ 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Onye and The Messengers is a Sonoma County based Afro World Beat

Many playwrights strive to create poetry on stage, hoping to put such elegant words in the mouths of their characters that audiences will sit stunned and shaken, transported from their seats

One thing about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival that surprises a few newcomers is that only about four or five of the eleven shows they do each year are by William

Every year in spring, when people hear me talking about the shows that just opened at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, they get confused.

“Wait . . .

Orientation for Laguna Docent, Guide & Greeter Training
Laguna de Santa Rosa
Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 10:00 am

Orientation includes an overview of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, the work

Orientation for Laguna Docent, Guide & Greeter Training
Laguna de Santa Rosa
Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 10:00 am

Orientation includes an overview of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, the work

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Ongoing classes

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is a unique learning community for adults age 50 years old or better. OLLI offers the very best continuing