Arts + Entertainment
Mendocino Music Festival continues through July 25 The Mendocino Music Festival continues through Sunday, July 25. The concerts, each one-hour in length, in the comfort of Cotton Auditorium, Fort Bragg, with health measures for your safety. Here’s a preview of the remaining concerts: July 22, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands; July 23, Festival String Orchestra; July 24, Perla Battala; July 25, Festival Big Band with Kim Nalley. Tickets are now on sale. For more information on tickets and schedule, please visit mendocinomusic.org.
Willits Center for the Arts presents three artists
Featuring artists Nancy New, Anita Elliott-wagenet and Suzi Long, the show runs through July 25. The Gallery is located at 71 E. Commercial St., (next to the Noyo Theater). They are open Friday through Sunday, 11a.m. to 5p.m.
Symphony of the Redwoods four outdoor summer concerts
The Symphony of the Redwoods presents four outdoor concerts at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens and at Mendocino Presbyterian Church on July 25 through Aug. 15. All concerts will be professionally miked to enhance the outdoor music listening experience. Concerts will be presented free of charge as a thank you gift to our community.
The first summer outdoor concert presented by Symphony of the Redwoods will feature Paul Mccandless with Charged Particles at 2:30 p.m. at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Event Lawn. A gifted multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mccandless is known for beautiful performance on oboe, English horn, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, and a collection of folk flutes. The second of four concerts, on Sunday, Aug. 1, Kathleen Reynolds, and Friends are featured at 2:30 p.m., on the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Event Lawn. Kathleen Reynolds, principal flute of the Symphony of the Redwoods, Mendocino Music Festival will perform a program with violinist Marcia Lotter, cellist Corinne Antipa, and viola player Jeff Ives. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D-major, as well as other classical trios and quartets for flute and strings, will fill the air.
For more information on the above concerts and the concerts on Aug. 8 and 15, visit symphonyoftheredwoods.org.
Art in the Gardens is back! Art in the Gardens 2021 will be held Aug. 6-8 at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. The event will be quite different this year, but all the same, they will be celebrating art and community amongst the dramatic summertime blooms of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Pick your own experience during this year’s three-day event. Activities will include daily art workshops, the “Saturday Soirée” (garden party, auction, and Featured Artist reception), and festivities on the Event Lawn featuring art vendors, live music, food, and drinks. The featured artist this year is Carolyn Zeitler. For more information, visit gardenbythesea. org.
Mendocino Art Center reopens Gallery Store
The Mendocino Art Center has reopened its Gallery Store to the public after being closed due to COVID-19. The Gallery Store features one-of-a-kind, handcrafted artwork created by accomplished Northern California artists, including a diverse selection of functional and sculptural ceramics, jewelry, paintings, textiles, glass works, legacy artist artwork, art books, and an expanded photography collection with images by Rita Crane, Natalie Knott, Jonathan Pazer and Larry Wagner.
For the reopening, the Mendocino Art Center has also curated pieces from its archives by renowned artists, including Howard Wheatley Allen, Larry Bencich, Dorr Bothwell, Judith Hale, Ellen Howard, Ryan Jensen, Bill Martin, Mark Monsarrat, Emmy Lou Packard, Olaf Palm, Charles Reid, Robert Rhoades, Kiyoshi Saito, Jan Stussy, Maxine Stussy Frankel, Janet Turner, Anthony Wolking, Henry Yan, Toshi Yoshida and William Zimmer. The Mendocino Art Center is located at 45200 Little Lake St., Mendocino. For more information, call 707937-5818or visit mendocinoartcenter.org.
Grace Hudson Museum’s “Postcards From Mecca” exhibition
The Grace Hudson Museum’s fascinating exhibition “Postcards from Mecca” runs through Sunday, Aug. 22. Welcome back to physical, in-person exhibitions at Grace Hudson. They are now open Wednesday-friday, 11a.m. to 4p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Closed on Monday and Tuesday. The museum is located at 431 S. Main St., Ukiah. For more information, call 707-467-2836 or visit gracehudsonmuseum.org.
Kelley House Museum’s summer exhibit
The Kelley House’s summer exhibit, “Quilted Iconic Buildings of Mendocino” runs through Aug. 31. The museum is open Fridaysunday, 11a.m. to 3p.m. Twenty-five different historical buildings are colorfully rendered on 18” x 18” quilt squares, individually pieced and stitched by members of the Ocean Wave Quilters. In an extraordinary display of history meets art, iconic buildings are brought to life, including the Temple of Kwan Tai, the Presbyterian
Church, the Maccallum House, the Kelley House Water Tower, and many others. Each handmade quilt square is accompanied by a black and white photo and history of the building.
In July of 2019, one of the Ocean Wave Quilters members, Cindi Jo Willey, issued a challenge to guild members to make 18” x 18” quilts of Mendocino’s iconic buildings, to be completed by July of 2020. Nine of our members accepted the challenge. The pandemic delayed the original deadline, but they are excited to reveal the results at the Kelley House Museum. The Ocean Wave Quilters is a 70-plus member guild that meets monthly and contributes to the community in a myriad of ways, including quilts for newborns, dresses for Hope for Women International, touch quilts for patients, and masks during the pandemic. Special thanks to Ocean Wave Quilter Sharon Lau for coordinating this exhibit. For more information, visit kelleyhousemuseum.org.
2nd Annual Art Under Twenty Exhibition:
Virtual Show
Willits High School’s Visual Arts Department is pleased to present the 22nd annual Art Under Twenty Exhibition. Their virtual show features young and talented artists from Willits and Laytonville and runs through Aug. 31. For more information, visit willitscenterforthearts.org.
WCA participating in North Coast Otters Public Initiative
Willits Center for the Arts is participating in the North Coast Otters Public Arts Initiative live and in person to September 2021. North Coast Otters is a community ‘treasure hunt’ or ‘festival tour’ to find sculptures painted by local artists, with an aim to celebrate life, water, and otters; support local businesses; and raise funds for student projects. WCA’S Otter is painted by Kathy Croomer and Lynne
Whiting. Seek sightings and selfies with 108 otter sculptures on display at participating shops, restaurants, galleries, and visitor centers that have reopened with COVID-SAFE guidelines. In addition, the project encourages community members to participate in the ongoing ‘citizen science’ river otter records study by consistently reporting when and where wild river otters are observed throughout the North Coast region.
For further information on the treasure hunt see: https://otterart.humboldt.edu/treasure-hunt. The gallery is located at 71 E. Commercial St. Gallery hours are 11a.m. to 5p.m., Friday to
Sunday.
Mendocino Theatre Company
The long intermission is almost over, and the Mendocino Theatre Company is busy getting ready to welcome you back to the theatre in September. For more information, visit mendocinotheatre.org.
Pacific Textile arts is beginning to open again
Pacific Textile Arts is an educational nonprofit existing to support, share and celebrate the Fiber Arts, All volunteers and staff are vaccinated, and they hope you will be too. A return to monthly Program Series meetings is planned for September, as well as Gallery exhibits and openings. At this time, the campus, located at 450 Alger St., Fort Bragg, is open only on Wednesday mornings, 10:30 a.m. to noon. Please continue to observe COVID protocols. Check out their newly redesigned webpage at pacifictextilearts.org for information about membership, classes, exhibits, members’ work for sale, events, library listings, textile collection, and more. For more information, call 707-409-6811, or email pacifictextilearts@mcn.org.
Winesong 2021! Save the dates!
Winesong 2021 Live and Virtual will be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 10 and 11, 2021. It will be a safe series of events, both inperson and virtual. For more information and to RSVP to let them know that you are planning to be part of the celebration, visit winesong. org.
Linda Pack’s ‘For the Love of Reading’
Due to the prompt and critical emergency updates on July 7, 2021 the on-air broadcast of For the Love of Reading: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE was joined “in Progress”, at six minutes into the program. Therefore, the Introduction and first half of Part One, The Window, were not heard.
The complete episode is now available at this podcast link: https://share. transistor.fm/s/e976b218 If you missed hearing any or all of this most recent For the Love of Reading broadcast on KZYX, or would like to share this or any of the programs with others, you will find the links to all the Podcasts and Audio files at www.lindapack.net.
A new edition of “For the Love of Reading” airs at 8PM ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY of every other month BEFORE RADIOGRAM on Mendocino County Public Radio, KZYX&Z 90.7 FM, KZYZ Willits and Ukiah, 91.5 FM, Fort Bragg 88.1 FM (times and dates may vary)
MTC’S One-minute Radio Theatre
Take a minute to enjoy Mendocino Theatre Company’s One-minute Radio Theatre, every Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. on local public radio station KZYX.
For more information, visit mendocinotheatre.org.
Up Close Hnd Clhssichl Up Close and Classical is a podcast series which takes a close look at the lives of classical composers and musicians. Each episode focuses on a composer, a theme, or a collection
of works that have recently been presented in concert by Symphony of the Redwoods and the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra. Through musical excerpts, historical context, and insightful conversations with musicians, Up Close and Classical invites you to lean in and listen closely to the music you love. From Bizet to Ravel, Dr. Philip Lenberg’s podcast focuses on some of the most influential
French composers of the late 19th century. For more information, visit symphonyoftheredwoods.org.
Chlifornih Arts Council updhtes
The latest California Arts Council updates, plus important links and resources for California artists, cultural workers and creatives on the coronavirus pandemic can be found by visiting their website at — Arts and Entertainment listings by noon on Friday to events@advocate-news. com. Art openings are listed the week of First Friday in Fort Bragg and Second Saturday in Mendocino. Please contact us about how to publicize paid classes and workshops.