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2018 CMSA Convention Flamingo Hotel - Santa Rosa, CA November 14th – 18th, 2018 Held at the beautiful Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa, the 2018 convention is hosted by the Aurora Mandolin Orchestra, the Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble and the San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra. “Come play with us!” The convention kicks off on Wednesday afternoon with a set of workshops and the first En Masse Orchestra rehearsal with returning conductor Dr. Jim Bates, followed by the Welcome Party in the evening. Evening concerts featuring our guest performers and our three host orchestras will take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. You can also look forward to open mic concerts, daily workshops on classical and non-classical topics, and late night sight-reading and other ‘jams’. Friday includes our Gala banquet and raffle. The general CMSA membership meeting is Sunday morning, a last chance to spend time with bleary-eyed, sore-fingered friends. Guest Performers: Dorina Frati & Takumi Mamiya Pre-Convention Workshop: No

Zen Fest Sebastopol Masonic Center Saturday, November 17th, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Handcrafted treasures and gifts Buddhas and Spiritual Practice Supplies Delectable homemade jams and treats Buddha’s Attic rummage sale Books and antiques Plus, silent auction and raffle items! A benefit for Stone Creek Zen Center. Location: Masonic Center 373 North Main Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 Just across from the Safeway (707) 829-1129 stonecreek@sonic.net

Play It Forward Annual Fundraiser Arlene Francis Center Saturday, November 10th, 2018 @ 6:00 pm The Play It Forward Music Foundation is raising funds to continue providing music lessons and music gear to those who need it most! Be part of our annual fundraiser concert, wrap up our online auction, celebrate all the great programs and the people that make this happen! We will have plenty of food, beer and wine... plus a taco truck! Live music performances from The CopperCats and The Sanctions! Check out our online auction: https://www.biddingOwl.com/PIFMusic The CopperCats: https://www.facebook.com/thecoppercatband/ The Sanctions: https://www.facebook.com/SanctionsBand/ Tickets: $25 – Or, pay what you can. Location: Arlene Francis Center 99 Sixth Street Santa Rosa, CA 95401 (707) 528-3009

Book Launch: Sail Cowabunga! A Family’s Ten Years at Sea Occidental Center for the Arts Sunday, November 11th, 2018 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ”No, we didn’t make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us”, Petaluma author Janis Lasky Couvreux writes in her memor, Sail Cowabunga! A Family’s Ten Years at Sea. From Bordeaux, France to San Francisco, California, her memoir follows this Franco-American couple and their two young sons across the Atlantic Ocean and into a ten-year journey at sea. Through their adventures and misadventures, tragedies, and glories across four continents, the Couvreux family rarely had a dull moment living on the water. Janis chronicles in vivid and lively detail how they fended off a midnight intruder, sailed to the microscopic St. Peter and St. Paul rocks on the equator, explored the jungles of French Guiana and Devil’s Island, and sailed through Cuba in the turmoil of the late 80s. Janis Lasky Couvreux is an award-winning writer, journalist, Franco-American,

JCC Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival The Last Suit Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 @1:00 pm & 7:00 pm The 23rd JCC Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival has a great selection of films for you. The festival begins with The Last Suit. Some people are their own worst enemy, but with determination, sincerity, and charm, they can still achieve their goals. Such is Abraham, an 88-year-old tailor, a Holocaust survivor, who sets out on a quest to fulfill a promise he had made at the end of the war. He is difficult to like, but impossible not to love. He clashes with everyone whose help he needs, but seems to be mysteriously blessed, as they help him along the way, revealing the best in humanity in a way that makes this bittersweet road movie uplifting and life-affirming. Winner of 3 audience awards. Drama, Spain/Argentina, 89 min. Spanish with English subtitles Underwritten by Alan Hyman Tickets: $13 General $10 General matinee Season passes available! https://jccsoco.ticketspice.com/jccsoco-jewish-ff-2018 Lo

Special Benefit Evening: Voices of Grief and Melanie DeMore Sebastopol Grange Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Final Passages presents a screening of the 40-minute documentary, Voices of Grief. Plus a live performance by Grammy-nominated East Bay vocalist Melanie DeMore! Voices of Grief explores the discouragement in our culture for the normal grief and mourning process while at the same time offering a new perspective on how to honor, transform and integrate our grief. The film is based on the interplay of teachings from contemporary authors, poets, and spiritual teachers coupled with the stories of our group participants as we companion one another in our group support work. Interviewed in the film is the evening’s featured guest, Bay Area-based Melanie DeMore. Melanie will share empowering and healing music in a very special live, vocal performance and will speak to questions and share commentary after the film. Melanie was a founding member of Grammy nominated vocal ensemble Linda T

Ustad Shaffaat Khan & East Meets West Paul Mahder Gallery Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm Brave New Music will present the world-renowned Indian classical musician Ustad Shafaat Khan at the beautiful Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg. Maestro Khan and his ensemble East Meets West has enthralled audiences around the world with their unique presentations of Indian music on sitar, tabla, vocals and guitar. They will perform Sufi inspired compositions and multi-cultural fusion music ranging from western classical, jazz, and rock, to flamenco, and African inspired rhythms. Mr. Khan’s musical heritage goes back to the 16th century. Some of his many CD recordings have been produced by Dr. Deepak Chopra. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Tickets: $25 General http://bravenewmusic.org/tickets Location: Paul Mahder Gallery 222 Healdsburg Avenue Healdsburg, CA 95448

Sonoma Changemakers Dinner Prelude at the Green Music Center Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm 10,000 Degrees invites you to the inaugural Sonoma County Changemakers Dinner in celebration of our cherished community partners who deliver transformative change in the lives of our students and their families. 10,000 Degrees is a leading College Success nonprofit in California. Our mission is to achieve educational equity, and support students with need to access and complete higher education so they can positively impact their communities and the world. Together, we can change the world, one student at a time, ONE DEGREE at a time! Tickets: $100 - Individual $1,200 – Table Host for eight persons http://www.10000degrees.org/event/2018-sonoma-changemakers/ Location: Prelude at the Green Music Center 1801 E Cotati Ave. Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Winterblast! SOFA Arts District Saturday, November 17, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm Join us for WinterBlast, the SOFA art neighborhood’s annual stree! There will be food, family fun, musicians, entertainers, the SOFA parade and lots of art. SOFA is an arts neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California with approximately 40 artist studios, some galleries, small and locally owned shops and great places to eat. WinterBlast is the largest event held by SOFA each year (think of it as the poor man’s Mardi Gras). The centerpiece of the celebration is a sofa parade. You are welcome to create a sofa for the parade; it needs to be mobile and not gas-powered. Typically, people push the sofas through the short parade. Parade sofas line up in the parking lot north of Atlas Coffee at 4:30 pm on the 17th. There are two parades during the event. Admission is FREE. Location: SOFA Art District 463 Sebastopol Avenue Santa Rosa, California 95401

Sonoma Changemakers Dinner Prelude at the Green Music Center Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm 10,000 Degrees invites you to the inaugural Sonoma County Changemakers Dinner in celebration of our cherished community partners who deliver transformative change in the lives of our students and their families. 10,000 Degrees is a leading College Success nonprofit in California. Our mission is to achieve educational equity, and support students with need to access and complete higher education so they can positively impact their communities and the world. Together, we can change the world, one student at a time, ONE DEGREE at a time! Tickets: $100 - Individual $1,200 – Table Host for eight persons http://www.10000degrees.org/event/2018-sonoma-changemakers/ Location: Prelude at the Green Music Center 1801 E Cotati Ave. Rohnert Park, CA 94928

JCC Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival Who Will Write Our History Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm & 7:00 pm The 23rd JCC Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival has a great selection of films for you. The festival continues with Who Will Write Our History. In 1940, a secret Jewish group called Oyneg Shabes was formed in Warsaw, driven by the question “Will the Germans write our history, or will we?” They decided to document life in the Ghetto, risking their lives daily. This moving tribute mixes the most important surviving in-the-moment archives with new interviews, rarely seen footage, and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Warsaw Ghetto. It tells the story of the ingenuity and courage, optimism and persistence of the group’s heroes, and their fight to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda with the ultimate weapon – the truth. Q&A with the film’s director Roberta Grossman will follow both screenings. Documentary, USA, 2018, 95 min. English/Yiddish/Polish with English Subtitles U

YWCA Sonoma County Domestic Violence Awareness Month Thru Sunday, October 28, 2018 YWCA Sonoma County is pleased to announce the myriad outreach and awareness raising events for its 2018 October– Domestic Violence Awareness Month campaign. Highlights include: Thursdays ALL month – Wine Tasting at Wilibee’s (3rd & D in Santa Rosa) all proceeds benefit YWCA – and 20% of bar tabs throughout the month benefit YWCA Thursday, October 25th – “Dinner & a Movie” join us for a “Dine & Donate” at Mary’s Pizza and the Summerfield Theatre screening of “Power & Control, DV in America” – see flier for details – graciously sponsored by Kaiser Permanente & Clone Printing Saturday, October 27th – You’ll find YWCA Sonoma County at the Amaturo Sonoma Media Group’s Women’s Expo, A Wine Country Lifestyle Event for Women, at Graton Resort’s Grand Ballroom. “Rule of Thumb” – honor victims of domestic violence by using purple polish on your thumbs - The 'rule of thumb' has been said to derive from the belief

Outside Mullingar Raven Players Healdsburg October 25th - November 4th, 2018 Anthony and Rosemary are two introverted misfits. Anthony has spent his entire life on a cattle farm in rural Ireland, perfectly suiting his painful shyness. Rosemary lives next door, determined to have him, while watching the years slip away. Their journey is heartbreaking, funny as hell, and ultimately deeply moving. By John Patrick Shanley Directed by Ron Nash Opening Night Bubbly on October 25th, after 8:00 pm show. Sunday Post-Show Discussions October 28th & November 4th, after 2 pm shows. Performances: October 25th, 26th, 27th, November 1st, 2nd, 3rd @ 8:00 pm October 28th & November 4th @ 2:00 pm (Post-Show Discussions) November 1st @ 8:00 pm (Thursday Value Night) Tickets: $25 Adults $20 Senior 65+ $10 Student w/ID $15 Thursday Value Night Adults & Seniors https://www.raventheater.org/ Tickets also available at Copperfield's in Healdsburg & Santa Rosa. Location: Raven Theater Heladsburg 115 Nort

A Pilgrimage: The Sculpture & Photography of Genevieve Willson Barnhart Sebastopol Center for the Arts October 25th – December 2nd, 2018 A rare retrospective exhibition by California artist Genevieve Willson Barnhart will feature Barnhart’s bronze sculpture, jewelry, and black and white photography. This show charts an artistic career spanning more than 80 years. Influenced by trips to medieval pilgrimage sites in Spain, France and Portugal with her husband Raymond Barnhart, Genevieves’s earlier sculptures are small environments, with figures that suggest the human condition. In the late 1980’s her work began to evolve. Undulating curves, hollows, and secret places continued to reflect the nature and spirit of place, while helmets, towers, ladders and stairs began to appear. As always, her sculpture continued to be informed by her manipulation of the wax sculpting material and her memories of architecture and carvings along medieval Pilgrimage routes. Barnhart’s black and white photographs, developed

The Great God Pan Cinnabar Theater October 12th – 28th, 2018 Taylor Korobow, who so delicately and lovingly directed The Quality of Life in 2016, returns to Cinnabar to stage this deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology, and pathology. Jamie’s life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a budding journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Deeply compassionate, THE GREAT GOD PAN tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is unloosed into the world. Written by Amy Herzog Directed by Taylor Korobow The Great God Pan runs 80 minutes with no intermission. For your enjoyment, our lobby and concessions, complete with specialty cocktails and facilities, will open 45 minutes prior to curtain. Join us! We will be hosting a Talkback with the cast on Sunday, October 21st immediately following the show. This production is made possible by a gift

Noam Lemish and Amos Hoffman: Jazz From Israel and Elsewhere Schroeder Hall – SSU Main Campus Thursday, October, 11, 2018 @ 6:30 pm Jewish Music Series continues with Amos Hoffman and Noam Lemish. Pianist, improviser and composer Noam Lemish is a multi-faceted artist whose performances and compositions, often characterized by intense lyricism and energy, defy categorization. Based in Toronto, Canada, Lemish is presently engaged in a diverse array of projects including, among others, a quartet with Israeli jazz guitarist/oudist Amos Hoffman. Lemish and Hoffman will play works from their recently released album titled Pardes —an inspired blend of jazz, North African, Latin and melodies that come from various Jewish communities across the Middle-East and Eastern Europe. Free Admission Location: Schroeder Hall Green Music Center Sonoma State University 1801 East Cotati Ave Rohnert Park, CA 94928 (707) 664-2880

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute OLLI @ SSU Fall Course Preview OLLI is a unique learning community for adults age 50 years old or better. OLLI offers the very best continuing education with no tests and no grades. Distinguished SSU faculty and other Bay Area educators enjoy sharing their expertise with OLLI students, whose life experience and curiosity enrich the exchange of ideas. OLLI at SSU is one of over 100 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes nationwide. The program is supported by student fees, donations, and the earnings on an initial endowment generously provided by the Bernard Osher Foundation. Joining OLLI at SSU means discovering new friends, new knowledge, and new ways to bring meaning and enjoyment to your life. Courses are taught in six-week sessions (Fall, Winter, and Spring) at two locations. Areas of study range across many subjects: Arts Contemporary Issues Food & Wine Natural Sciences Social & Political History World Cultures New students and Oakmont residents receive $20 off o

First Friday Live: Phil Lawrence & The I-Believers Occidental Center for the Arts Friday, October 5th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm Well-known mandolin musician, composer, teacher and radio host Phil Lawrence www.phillawrence.com) will be celebrating both his 65th Birthday and his latest CD releases with a brand new band of super talents! The I-Believers, featuring Richard Loheyde on violin, Eddie Guthman on bass, Rick Fulkerson on guitar, and percussionist Kim Atkinson will be playing original music from two of Phil’s newest CD projects, ‘Mandolin Heaven’ and ‘Blue Fire’. Come enjoy the talent and the celebration! Fine refreshments. Dance space. Wheelchair Accessible. Tickets: $15 at the door Location: Occidental Center foe the Arts 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA 95465 (707) 874-9392 info@occidentalcenterforthearts.org

Raven Players Midterm Mini Rep Raven Performing Arts Theater September 21st – October 6th, 2018 In time for Midterm elections, the Raven Players present two contemporary plays about complex issues we face in these tumultuous times. The plays will be presented in repertory on alternate performance days. Time Stands Still September 20th - October 6th An adventurous couple, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, try to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy and confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. Directed by Caitlin Ferrante. Performances: September 20th, 22nd, 28th, October 4th, and 6th @ 8:00 pm September 30th @ 2:00 pm Church & State September 21st - October 7th A topical look at gun violence, religion and politics that is simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting. Directed by Steven David Martin. Performances: September 21st, 27th, 29th, ad October 5th @ 8:00 pm September 23rd & October 7th @ 2:00 pm Tickets: $25 Adult $20 Senior (65+) $10 S

Art After Dark Downtown Healdsburg, Plaza Street Friday, September 28th, 2018 @ 6:00 – 9:30 pm Building community through the arts, Art After Dark is a community-building event series presented June, August, and September by Healdsburg Center for the Arts Presented in partnership with the City of Healdsburg’s Community Services Department, the final event will take place September 28th, 2018, from 6:00 – 9:30 pm on Plaza Street, between Center and East Streets Scheduled entertainment: 6:00 pm Introduction 6:05 pm Pasarela de Ropa Tipica 6:35 pm Transition 6:50 pm 100,000 Poets for Change 7:10 pm Transition 7:20 pm Loz Bluz 8:20 pm Transition 8:30 pm Tom Shader 9:30 pm Conclude Admission is free. Location: Healdsburg Center for the Arts 130 Plaza St. Healdsburg, CA 95448 (707) 431-1970 HealdsburgCenterfortheArts.org info@healdsburgcenterforthearts.org