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Healdsburg Mayor Leah Gold has resigned – effective at the end of June. This was the result of a controversy over what some in the community saw as racial insensitivity. To

Laguna Docents Training
Laguna De Santa Rosa
Spring 2020

Learning Laguna

Learning to Love Aging
Wednesdays At Hospice
May 9th, 16th, 2018

Kay Mehl Miller, Ph.D, Psychotherapist, Teacher, and Author based on her book, ‘Living with the Stranger in Me: an Exploration

Season Showcase 2017
Left Edge Theater
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 @ 6:00pm

Come see Left Edge Theatre’s Second Annual Season Showcase 2017 and participate in

Left Edge Theater
2018-2019 Season

The Naked Truth
By Dave Simpson
Directed by Argo Thompson
September 7th – 30th, 2018
The U.S. premiere of the British smash comedy hit.

With no date in sight for the resumption of live, in-house theatre, Left Edge Theatre becomes the first North Bay company to move forward with a full season of streaming productions beginning with Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Sweat. The show is available for streaming through September 27th.  

The play opens with a parole officer (played by Corey Jackson) interviewing two recent parolees – Jason (played by Skylar Bird), whose face sports a black eye and white supremacist tattoos, and Chris (played by Sam Ademolah), a young African-American who has found solace in religion. How these two are connected and what event precipitated their imprisonment will be revealed over the show’s time-shifting two-plus hours as it addresses issues of economic inequality, race, immigration, union-busting, and what despair can do to friends and family over the span of eight years. 

A Reading, PA blue-collar bar tended by Stan (played by Mike Pavone) and his barback Oscar (played by Anthony Martinez) is the favorite watering hole and home-away-from-home of good friends and factory line co-workers Tracie, Cynthia, and Jessie – played by Jill Zimmerman, Serena Elize Flores, and Lydia Revelos. Cynthia’s announcement that she’s applying for a management position seems to sit well with her friends until she gets the position and has to announce plant reductions and layoffs. Labor unrest grows, latent prejudices are exposed, friendships crumble, and soon the bar’s status as neutral territory is horribly revoked.

Director Argo Thompson has given this streaming production a more cinematic look, eschewing the infamous Zoom “Brady Bunch” boxes for single screenshots. Another improvement was replacing green screen background projections with individual set pieces that were constructed in the actors’ homes and on the Left Edge theater stage. Several scenes were pre-filmed including a fight scene which didn’t come off particularly well and raised some questions in my mind with regard to COVID-safe practices.

Technical challenges with live-streaming still exist. Camera focus issues, inconsistent audio, and ragged transitions continue to be the norm. The cast must double as crew and, despite the occasional blip, handles those duties with aplomb.

The performances delivered by the diverse cast are generally strong. Actors with significant film and television experience (like Pavone and Zimmerman) seem more comfortable with the medium, but each actor has their moment.

At its core, Sweat is an examination of how those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder tend to devour each other to survive when it would be better to direct their appetites to those on top. It’s powerful food for thought.

Left Edge Theatre’s Sweat is available for streaming through September 27.  For more information, go to leftedgetheatre.com

Legal Aid of Sonoma County
Fire Disaster Services Available
Ongoing

If you are a victim of the October wildfires, you can get assistance with insurance and FEMA claims, regardless of income

Lesley Brabyn of Salmon Creek Farm speaks publicly about the real reasons the Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market has to
relocate after 40 years in the Veterans Building parking lot.

LGBTQI Oral History Project
Listening For A Change
Two day-long workshops

Listening for a Change received funding from the LGBTQI Giving Circle of the Community Foundation Sonoma County to implement a

Sometime after the Callahan family moved to thirty-four acres of bucolic Sonoma County near Petaluma, former nurse and bar certified lawyer Cindy Callahan realized that our pastoral region produces rich grasses, as high as an elephant’s eye. Her solution to a growing problem was sheep. Soon enough she became a passionate shepherd and then, logically, an award-winning cheesemaker.

Callahan passed away in early June of this year, leaving her longtime partner and son Liam, along with his wife Diana, to run what has become a beacon of fine cheese making. Liam joins host Clark Wolf to tell the family story and to honor the memory and hard work of a pioneer and a generous, warm and talented mother who has been an inspiration to many far and wide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black lives matter. Suzanne Lang explores the injustices of Jim Crow American and the valor of an all-Black battalion whose D-Day contributions have been largely ignored until now with author Linda

 

 

 

Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter: Celtic Harps, Rare Instruments & Wondrous Stories!
Occidental Center for the Arts
Saturday, April 7th, 2018 @ 8:00 pm

Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter are a

Lisa See launched her literarycareer with the non-fiction book “On Gold Mountain.” The story chroniclesher great-great grandfather’s journey from China

 

 

 

Listening for a Change Annual Fundraiser
Jackson Country Day School
Saturday, Aug. 18th, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Listening for a Change promotes understanding and acceptance of human diversity

Little Shop of Horrors
Cinnabar Theater
August 30 – September 22, 2019

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood sci-fi smashmusical, Little Shop Of Horrors has devoured the

Little Women – The Musical
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
November 24th- December 17th, 2017

Spreckels Theatre Company presents a musical version of Little Women, bringing life to the semi-autobiographical classic

Live Music Lantern
Habib Koité Concert
Monday, October 30th, 2017

“We provide self care in the form of live music to educators and social service providers.”

We are Live Music Lantern.

You may have heard that veterans of Vietnam settled a suit in the 1980s related to exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange. You probably don’t know that civilians who tested the

Got time on your hands this December? Here’s something to add to your list of must-listens. Learn about Environmental Justice by subscribing to our new podcast Living Downstream.

During this

Native American traditions could be the key to tamingCalifornia’s destructive wildfires

More than a half dozen fires broke out across NorthernCalifornia last weekend. They are now nearly extinguished but serve as

This week we’re previewing “Living Downstream,” our Environmental Justice podcast. Today, a story from Richmond, California. Reporter Claire Schoen (SHONE) calls this episode “Smackdown: City Hall versus Big Oil.” Her guide

We hope you’re enjoying the holidays with friends and family. Take a moment to consider that many farmworkers who help grow and pick the food for our feasts live in precarious

What if the government invited you to live in affordable housing – then told you that the ground on which those apartments were built was polluted with lead and arsenic. Yes,

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

Abraham Entin Book Launch & Reading
Arlene Francis Center
Sunday February 3rd, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

Abraham Entin Reads from his new Book LIving on The Fringe, as well as sing

In a world of theatre based on movies and television shows, why not Shakespeare? Such is Illyria, a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night first produced Off-Broadway in 2002 and now running

Sonoma County teens are confronting big issues, like climatechange and social justice, head on.

Environmental activists and concerned community membersrallied at a town hall last week to discuss options for confronting

For many students, traumatic experiences may hinder theirability to do well in school.

Santa Rosa Author Rafael Vazquez published

As deportations increase across the country, one SonomaCounty group has a plan to protect undocumented immigrants.

The Trump administration is planning immigration raids inten major cities across the U.S. starting

Back for its second year, the NPR Student Podcast Challenge wrapped up in June.

Among two thousand

Ever wonder how local issues get a national voice? Find out what NACo does and why it matters to Sonoma County.

Many Sonoma County residents are still struggling to recoverafter losing income during the Kincade Fire.

Many nonprofits are running

The State of California is suing the Trump administration over an order that aims to block undocumented immigrants from being

There is no national religion. But an Episcopal Church inthe Nation’s capital is called the Washington National Cathedral.

Two weeks ago, the Washington National Cathedral released astatement titled “Have We

Mouthful explores the other side of local sheep farming, wool, with Joe Pozzi of PureGrow Wool, Amy Chesnut of Sonoma Wool Company, Deborah Walton of Canvas Ranch and Mimi Luebbermann of

JCC Sonoma County Film Festival
Long Story: Short Films
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm & 7:30 pm

The JCC Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival is here again for its

Mouthful welcomes Lorelle Saxena, whose has been voted best acupuncturist in Sonoma County for the last five years. Lorelle also wrote the popular blog ayearofcongee.com and just launched a new blog,

Lorri Duckworth of Duckworth Family Farm in Sebastopolannounces the opening of its inaugural U-Pick Blueberries weekend.

Podcast: Play in new

Mid-June, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors adopted a $1.78billion budget for the next fiscal year. The new budget resulted in $14 millionin unfulfilled funding requests and cut nine county jobs

Lost in Yonkers
Ravel Players, Healdsburg
March 30th – April 15th, 2018

Neil Simon’s Pulitzer-winning play.

Yonkers 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with

Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas hit North Bay stages, first with the Raven Players production of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers. Simon, whose best-known works are comedies tinged with a little melancholy (The

This November, California will hold a historic, all mail-in voting election. This means that every registered voter will receive a ballot in the mail. But in Sonoma County, residents who lost their homes may not have a new address. KRCB’s Adia White spoke with Deva Marie Proto, Sonoma County Clerk, Recorder, Assessor and Registrar of Voters.  Adia starts by asking how residents should vote by mail if they recently lost their home. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Locations of all 20 official drop boxes in Sonoma County can be found at https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/where-to-vote. 

Love Yourself: A Message of Hope and Help
Sonoma Academy
Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 3 PM – 5:30