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COBB, Calif. – Cobb Mountain Artists presents its 12th annual Open Studio Art Tour on Saturday, June 20, and Sunday, June 21.
The tour takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
You are invited to come to members' studios to view and purchase an amazing variety of art, from bowls to elaborate paintings and everything in between. Ask the artists about their process and inspiration and stumbling blocks.
Many of the studios will be hosting guest artists from around the county, too.
Maps will be available at Mountain High Coffee, Cobb; The Loch Lomond Store, Loch Lomond; the Middletown Art Center, Middletown, and all participating studios. And, there are studios open in Middletown as well as Cobb.
New this year, the Middletown Art Center will have a preview of participating artists' work from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 19. The event includes live music. So begin the tour by having an evening out at Middletown's Friday Night Live.
For more information call Alana at 707-928-8565.
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COBB, Calif. – The Friends of Boggs Mountain (FOBM) cordially invite the community to a delightful melding of music and nature with Karen Rhoads at the classical piano on Saturday, June 27, at Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest.
Rhoads will play from 10 to 10:45 a.m. and again from 11:15 a.m. to noon. Admission is free.
Rhoads is a Cobb resident and FOBM board member. While growing up in Springfield, Ill., she studied piano with several teachers, most notably, with well-known instructor, George Ecklund.
“I had drifted away from my music over many years. As my parents aged and became ill, I wanted to reach back to good times when we enjoyed music together,” said Rhoads.
The head of the Santa Rosa Junior College music department put Rhoads in touch with Dr. Rudolph Budginas to help her get back “in the groove.”
“Rudolph not only has a performance career; he is that rare genius who also teaches brilliantly,” she adds.
Rhoads will play favorite selections by Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin, Grieg and Kuhlau, providing introductory comments about each piece.
The community is invited, and children are welcome. Bring folding chairs or blankets, and relax and enjoy the music in a shady grove at Boggs.
The site is wheelchair-accessible with assistance. Refreshments will be provided.
Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest is at the end of Forestry Road, about 1.5 miles north of Cobb off Highway 175.
For more information, contact Karen at 707-321-4964 or email
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – La Voce del Vento Chamber Players present “Brasstasticks” on Sunday, June 21, at 3 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre.
The brass quintet’s featured musician is Gary Miller who plays alongside R. Dale Spencer, Mike Thompson, Brynn Stirling and Jacob Turner.
The program includes selections from the music of George Gershwin and such fanciful pieces as “The Flight of the Tuba Bee” and “Zombie Apocalypso.”
Reserved seat tickets are $20 and $15, and are available online at www.soperreesetheatre.com ; at the theater box office, 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Fridays; or at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
For more information call 707-263-0577.
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I once knew an artist who seemed to live on those little envelopes of free sugar that one can find on tables in restaurants. And he took the little “watercolor pans” of jelly, too, stuffing his pockets.
Here’s a poem by Ned Balbo, who lives in Baltimore, about another sugar snatcher.
The Sugar Thief
If it was free, you taught, I ought to grab it
as you did: McDonald’s napkins, pens,
and from the school where you were once employed
as one of two night shift custodians,
the metal imitation wood wastebasket
still under my desk. But it was sugar
that you took most often as, annoyed
on leaving Dunkin’ Donuts, pancake house,
and countless diners, I felt implicated
in your pleasure, crime, and poverty.
I have them still, your Ziploc bags of plunder,
yet I find today, among the loose
change in my pockets, packets crushed or faded—
more proof of your lasting legacy.
American Life in Poetry 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 2010 by Ned Balbo, “The Sugar Thief,” from The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, (Story Line Press, 2010). Poem reprinted by permission of Ned Balbo and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2015 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. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.