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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport Cinema 5 is once again offering its free summer movie series for children.
The movies are shown every Thursday through Aug. 3. Doors open at 9 a.m. with the movies starting at 10 a.m. or earlier if the auditoriums fill up. Arrive before 10 a.m. for the best seating.
One auditorium will be set aside for those with sensory sensitivity, sponsored each week by People Services. Sensory sensitive shows will start at 9:15 a.m. They will turn the volume down and keep the lights up so everyone is comfortable. Guests are welcome to stem or script or generally move about in whatever way is comfortable for them.
All ages are welcome to the weekly showings on a first-come, first-served basis.
The cinema will offer a $4 drink and popcorn special at the snack bar.
The lineup for the rest of the summer is as follows:
– June 29: “The Secret Life of Pets,” rated PG for action and some rude humor. Runs one hour, 35 minutes.
– July 6: “Ice Age: Collision Course,” rated PG for mild rude humor and some action/peril. Runs one hour, 35 minutes.
–July 13: “Storks,” rated PG for mild action and some thematic elements. Runs one hour, 35 minutes.
–July 20: “Trolls,” rated PG for some mild rude humor. Runs one hour, 35 minutes.
–July 27: “Sing,” rated PG for some rude humor and mild peril. Runs one hour, 50 minutes.
–Aug. 3: “The LEGO Batman Movie,” rated PG for rude humor and some action. Runs one hour, 45 minutes.
For more information visit http://www.lakeportcinema.com/kidshows/ .
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Kelly Madigan lives in Nebraska and this poem is from her book, The Edge of Known Things, from Stephen F. Austin University Press. Did you think that you were all that different from a porcupine? Well, poetry reaches for and seizes upon connections, and here's an example of that.
Porcupine
You think we are the pointed argument,
the man drunk at the party showing off
his gun collection, the bed of nettles.
What we really are is hidden from you:
girl weeping in the closet among her stepfather's boots;
tuft of rabbit fur caught in barbed wire; body of the baby
in the landfill; boy with the shy mouth playing his guitar
at the picnic table, out in the dirt yard.
We slide into this world benign and pliable,
quills pressed down smooth over back and tail.
Only one hour here stiffens the barbs into thousands
of quick retorts. Everything this well-guarded
remembers being soft once.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited submissions. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2013 by Kelly Madigan, “Porcupine,” from The Edge of Known Things, (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2013). Poem reprinted by permission of Kelly Madigan and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2017 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Art Center, or MAC, begins its third workshop series as part of the Resilience project – “Painting Resilience” – on Sunday, June 18.
Resilience is open to adults of all ages and teens ages 12 up. All levels of experience novice to professional are encouraged to attend.
The project consists of classes in four art disciplines: Photography, poetry/written word, painting and drawing/printmaking.
Classes are generally held on Saturdays but this week Painting Resilience will take place on Sunday because of Middletown days.
Next week, on Saturday, June 24, MAC will offer a drawing and printmaking class. Each class session costs just $5 or $60 for a full workshop series (12 sessions). Participants can come to as many or as few classes as desired.
Classes will cycle through the first through fourth Saturday of the month until May 2018. Check the MAC Web site for scheduling exceptions due to holidays.
All classes run from noon to 5 p.m. to correspond with Lake County Transit buses. MAC can help with bus passes and subsidize the cost of class if needed.
The public is invited to participate, collaborate and create in a year-long project that includes spoken word performances, guided nature walks and other community events that culminate in countywide exhibits, and a printed chapbook of writings and images.
“The first in a series of three summer classes called ‘Just Paint’ are based on the Intuitive Painting Process,” explained artist and instructor Sage Abella. “Here, we tap into our feelings and intuition through the act of painting. We explore our relationship with our own creativity and how it can support growth and blossoming in other parts of our lives. Nature’s resilience and regeneration after the fires teaches us that we too can spring back, grow new shoots, clear old things and make room for new ways to express ourselves in our individual and wild complexity. Over the next 3 months painters will play with 3 ways we interact with our experience of nature: through animals, the elements, and nature’s cycles.”
Abella’s classroom welcomes you with bright colored paints, jars of brushes and big pieces of white paper suggesting endless possibilities. Some participants have never picked up a brush in their life, some paint all the time.
“The beauty of the class is that it doesn’t matter if you’ve painted before because what we are all really doing is opening up a conversation with our intuition and everyone has an intuition. We are born creative!” Abella said.
Join Sage Abella at MAC this Sunday, June 18, from noon to 5 p.m. Bring a lunch or snacks. The next class will be Saturday, July 15. Bring painting clothes or a smock.
Resilience is funded through a Local Impact grant from the California Arts Council with additional local business and community support. Come take advantage of this exciting creative opportunity.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Wine Studio is hosting a book signing party with author Barbarajo Bloomquist for her book, “Triptych,” on Saturday, June 17, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Bloomquist grew up in an artistic and musical family, and earned a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from San Francisco State University.
Formerly a resident of Lake County, she is currently writing poetry and short stories in Reno, where she lives near her children and grandchildren.
In this novel, “Clare,” a young artist and student of Buddhism, flees from a dangerous situation in San Francisco to seek refuge in the rugged back country of Maine, shadowed by a mysterious incorporeal trio of figures, each with a lesson for her to learn if she is to prevail against fear.
Lake County Wine Studio is a gallery for display of arts and a tasting room, wine bar and retail shop for the fine wines of Lake County.
Artists’ shows are held on a monthly basis with art and wine receptions held the first Friday and subsequent Saturday of each month.
The gallery is located at 9505 Main Street in Upper Lake. It is open Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 7 p.m., and Friday from 1 to 8 p.m.
For more information call Lake County Wine Studio at 707-275-8030 or 707-293-8752.