WHAT’S HAPPENING
Check out what’s going on in your neighborhood and the community.
Editor’s note: Many events are canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We recommend contacting the event host before attending to check.
Sunday
COMMUNITY
Chico Art Center: All virtual. “Birds of a Feather” exhibit opens today. Northern California artists’ works of birds, both imagined and real, in all media, sizes and skill levels. Member showcase still available. Open Studios Art Tour through July 31 features individual online galleries by northern California artists. Art and crafts online; learn about creative processes and may book individual sessions with artists. chicoartcenter.com. ChicoOSAT.com, 8958726, chicoartcenter@att.net.
Museum of Northern California Art (monca):
Virtual. Pop-Up museum tour, “Selfie 2020.” Juried exhibition about “self” after the first 10months of 2020 and COVID. Exhibition features over 40unique works of art that reflect artists answers to a set of questions about their life and work; Did they change physically, mentally? Did their art take on a new life? Tour Website, www.monca. org/current-exhibition, and monca’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OwRkt QUFel. 487-7272.; contact@monca.org.
Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology: Virtual. Activities and online learning for families, K-12 learners and college students in the tour. Also new exhibition tour. csuchico. edu/anthmuseum/virtuallearning/virtual-exhibits. 898-5397. Gateway Science Museum: Free online content for all ages at www. csuchico.edu/gateway and social media platforms. Everything from astronomy to Zoology. Explore recorded lectures, fun videos, downloadable activity sheets. Hands-on NGSS standardsbased science kits available in Lending Library for weekly check out to K-12 teachers, home-schools and families. Kit reservations online (no fee).
Janet Turner Print Museum: Virtual exhibit. Work of Emeritus printmaking professor Marion Epting, first Black faculty member hired at Chico State in a tenure-track position (honored with Turner Prize for Excellence in the Arts 2018⁄2019). Interview with artist; recollections by former students. www. csuchico.edu/turner. 8984476.
Gray Lodge Wildlife Area: Sunrise to sunset. 9,100 acres of protected wetlands with trails, bird-watching, fishing and hunting. Selfguided nature trails. 3207 Rutherford Road, Gridley. Gray Lodge naturalist office, 846-7505.
Faith Lutheran Church:
1 p.m. COVID-19 Phone Prayer Group. To join, email billaugros@gmail.com. Vitalant Blood Drive: 7:30 a.m.-12 p.m. blood donation, 6 a.m.-10:30 a.m. platelet donation. 555 Rio Lindo
Ave. Call 877-258-4825 or 893-5433 to confirm today’s hours.
HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Al-Anon: 3-4 p.m. Serenity Sunday. Email alanon. nc.d3@gmail.com for a Zoom invitation. Alateens welcome. 334-6734. northerncaliforniaal-anon.org. 334-6734.
Catalyst Domestic Violence Services: To talk to a crisis counselor, call the 24-hour crisis/referral line, 1-800-895-8476. Call the same number for individual counseling. catalystdvservices.org.
Northern Valley Talk
Line: 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Non-crisis peer to peer telephone service to the community seven days a week. Toll free number is 855-582-5554. Works in partnership with Butte County Department of Behavioral Health and Tehama County Health Service Agency.
Alcoholics Anonymous: Butte-Glenn online AA meetings. aabutte-glenn. org. Many meetings today. Narcotics Anonymous: Go online to greaterbuttena. org/meetings for complete listings and updates for all remote/Zoom meetings. Posted weekly for Sunday through Saturday. 24-hour Hotline 1-877-669-1669. Mail: 916North A.S.C., PO Box 8556, Chico CA 95927. Overeaters Anonymous:
6 p.m. Zoom. Meeting ID: 354 706 510. Password: 541336. By phone: (1) (669) 900-9128. Weekly.