2008

Performances & Events

JANUARY

"Truth to be Told" Salon: Take Three Poets and Call Me in the Morning, Join three Sonoma County poets as they respond to each others' poems and to cues and queries from the audience. Their poems are rife with incongruity, joyful abandon, wry insight and great appreciation for life.

After refreshments, B.Sue Stephenson and David Farrell, on guitar, will bring to life poems and music, followed by the YB2 Band performing original songs with Theadora Block on guitar and violin, Kerry Yates on bass, Raphael Block on vocals, plus guest musicians. Raphael Block's work is woven from the fabric of love, death and the ever surprising moment. Karl Frederick writes as if intoxicated by Life, and invites the listener to share a glass from the unseen vineyard. With deceptively simple style and imagery, B.Sue Stephenson's poems lead through territories of human uncertainty, surprising strength and uncommon insight. 7:30 pm, Music Studio, $15

Sunday 14   Westword: Second Sunday Poetry Reading, 4pm, Library, $1

Thursday 17  Gallery Talk: Alchemy of ReUse, 7pm, Main Gallery, $7 General $5 SCA Members

Saturday 19  Gilbert & Sullivan Sing-Along, 7:30pm, Music Studio, $8

Friday 25       

Recycled Instrument Performance A Performance and Demonstration of Recycled Musical InstrumentsIn conjunction with the Alchemy of ReUse Exhibition in the main gallery, Sebastopol Center for the Arts invites you to enjoy an eclectic evening of sight and sound.

Come join local recycle artists as they jam on musical instruments made from reused materials. The evening will include short presentations by the musicians on how they constructed their instruments, performances, and audience participation in hands-on demonstrations. 4pm, Music Studio, $12 general, $10 SCA Members, $8 Children under 15

FEBRUARY

Saturday 9   "Truth to be Told" Salon: Meryl Juniper & Friends. An evening of evocative and poignant performance art produced by Meryl Juniper's "Tumbleweed Expressions".

The night will include the freshness of improvisation, text, dance, vocalization, theater, music, and story-telling in Motion. Witness, enjoy and be moved by the depth of expression these North Bay Performance Artists can conjure.

Performers wlill include: Meryl Juniper, Maria Freebairn-Smith, Karin Demarest, Thalia DeWolf, Claire Drucker, and many more special guest. 7:30pm, Music Studio, $15

Sunday 10   Westword: Second Sunday Poetry Reading, 4pm, Library, $1.

Friday 15    Casual Concert: An Evening of Piano Duets, Noted pianists Barbara Shepherd, Doris Norman, Sue White, Carolyn Tewari, Georgia Fauss, Judy Sabin, Angela Coons, Charlotte Ellis, Larry Flor, Stassya Pacheco and Marjie Ankenny combine their talents to present selections from Schubert, Khatchaturian, Bizet, Prokofiev, Beach and Dvorak. 7:30pm, Music Studio $8 - $15 sliding scale admission

MARCH

Saturday 1   Children's Theater: Tim Hayes, " Pinocchio" 11am, Music Studio, $6 children $ 8 adult      

Sunday 2     Children's Theater: Tim Hayes, "Pinocchio" 11am & 2pm, Music Studio, $6 children $ 8 adult

Saturday 8    

"Truth Be Told" Salon: Mark Growden & Friends. Mark Growden is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who has recently moved to the are. Fort Worth Weekly refers to Mark as "Part Bluesman, part avantgardist, he's an avatar of Bohemian weirdness." While Comet mag says he is "Fiery, earthly, and sublimely sensual." "A SIGHT AND SOUND YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS." S.F. Bay Guardian. 7:30 pm, Music Studio, $15

Sunday 9    Westword: Second Sunday Poetry Reading, 4pm, Library, $1

Friday 14    Casual Concert: Under the Radar, Under the Radar is an acoustic band that runs the gamut from bluegrass to blues to swing to folk & country. Though the personnel in the band has changed a bit from it's humble beginnings, the basic band is a quartet with occasional special guests sitting in. The band features Kevin Russell on guitar, banjo, resophonic guitar & vocals; Ted Dutcher on bass & vocals; Layne Bowen on mandolin, guitar & vocals; Michael Capella on guitar, resophonic guitar & vocals. This group is all about having fun making music they love. 7:30pm, Music Studio, $12

APRIL

Friday 11  Casual Concert: VOT Music 7:30pm, Music Studio, $20

Saturday 12   "Truth Be Told" Salon: Selena Polston & Friends, 7:30pm, Music Studio, $15

Sunday 13   Westword: Second Sunday Poetry Reading, 4pm, Library, $1