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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Art House Gallery will hold its Third Friday Art Gala this Friday, April 19.
The event takes place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the gallery, 15210 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake.
There will be a new art show to view, refreshments, live music and a chance to meet and mingle with artists.
This is Clearlake's only art gallery, so come out and support the arts by attending.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visit the gallery online at http://thearthousegallery.net/ .
For more information call 707-994-1716.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Soper-Reese Community Theatre's popular “Third Friday Live” event will feature the Fargo Brothers April 19.
The performance will take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the theater, located at 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The Fargo Brothers deliver a brand of blues and roots rock and roll with a fire and intensity that only three decades and more than 3,000 live shows together can bring.
Check out their Web site at http://www.reverbnation.com/thefargobrothers .
The theater has an open dance floor and table or loge seating. Snacks and beverages are available for purchase.
Tickets are $10; there is open seating.
Tickets are available online at http://www.soperreesetheatre.com ; in the box office on Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., telephone 707-263-0577; at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; at the Tallman Hotel, 9550 Main St., Upper Lake, telephone 707-275-2244; and at the door.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Theatre Co.’s production of “Rumors” by Neil Simon is scheduled to open at Gard Street School Auditorium on April 26.
“Rumors” is a comedy. “You start laughing at the beginning of the first act and you never stop. That’s why I am in it,” said Tim Fischer.
Who is Tim Fischer? In this show, he is Lennie Ganz, husband of Clair Ganz (played by Jenna Radke).
“Tim has a face that is made out of putty. He can make it do anything he wants it to do. Just looking at him makes me laugh,” said Radke. “He is a natural.”
Perhaps this is the reason that Fisher chose to get a degree in Theatre Arts from Sonoma State.
“I couldn’t get enough of being on the stage,” he confessed. “I learned all the technical aspects of stage craft but getting a reaction out of an audience as an actor is what I lived for. That’s what still turns me on. When you know you have given an audience just what they came to see, that is a thrill.”
When Tim Fisher is not on the stage, however, he teaches English at Lower Lake High School. How then did a young man who is so enamored with theatre become a teacher? He discovered another passion, “almost by mistake.”
“I was living in Southern California, hoping to do something with acting but being a fry cook instead. I hated it,” said Fischer. “I saw an ad for a private school that needed teachers and I applied. They hired me as a sub … and I loved it. After a while, I went back to school and got my master’s in education. I found out that teaching was a calling I didn’t know I had until quite a way down the road, but it’s great. The kids are great. I get the same satisfaction out of reaching them that I get out of reaching an audience when I am acting. In a way, the two passions are sort of knitted together.”
The versatility of Tim Fischer is not confined to teaching and comedy. Recently he played Harding, a dramatic role in ”One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He will also be remembered as the irrepressible Frenkenfurtur in LCTC’s version of “The Rocky Horror Show.”
Fischer is a happy man right now. “I am in a great place where I can do both of the things I love at the same time. Life is good.”
“Rumors” will run at Gard Street Auditorium in Kelseyville from April 26 through May 12, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets are available at Wildhurst Tasting Room in Kelseyville, 707-279-4302, and The Party Shop in Lakeport, 707-263-7800). Online purchases of general seating may be made at www.lakecountytheatrecompany.org .
For more information, call 707-279-2595.
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There’s something wonderful about happening upon a musician playing for his or her own pleasure, completely absorbed in the music. Jeff Daniel Marion is a fine poet from east Tennessee. And here’s a woman playing the bagpipes.
Playing to the River
She stands by the riverbank,
notes from her bagpipes lapping
across to us as we wait
for the traffic light to change.
She does not know we hear—
she is playing to the river,
a song for the water, the flow
of an unknown melody to the rocky
bluffs beyond, for the mist
that was this morning, shroud
of past lives: fishermen
and riverboat gamblers, tugboat captains
and log raftsmen, pioneer and native
slipping through the eddies of time.
She plays for them all, both dirge
and surging hymn, for what has passed
and is passing as we slip
into the currents of traffic,
the changed light bearing us away.
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 2012 by Jeff Daniel Marion, whose most recent book of poems is Father, Wind Publications, 2009. First appeared in Still: The Journal, an online publication, Winter 2013. Poem reprinted by permission of Jeff Daniel Marion. Introduction copyright 2013 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.