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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – This Christmas holiday the Konocti Unified School District’s seventh and eighth grade drama program will be presenting their annual Christmas musical.
This year’s play is “A Snow White Christmas.”
It will be held in the Lower Lake High School’s multipurpose room on Friday, Dec. 14, and Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets will be $5 dollars for everyone.
The cast is 32 members strong consisting of students from Pomo, Burns Valley and Lower Lake Elementary.
The cast includes Kalysta Ann Howard, Cate Oswalt, Cataleena Steward, Angelina Acosta, Jessie Salazar, Dallas Kuckowicz, Chloe Cox, Samantha Lopez, Cecelia Hendren-Brown, Natalie Carte, Mariah Bickham, Ryan O’Bryan, Anthony Madero, Rachel Loren Cabral, Rebecca Chavez, Victoria Cuellar, Krystal Mohn, Jamara Richardson, Austin McGrath, Mia Vandagriff, Janet Perez, Briana Galvez, Sami Caires, Sophia La Rose, Karlee Weese, Jessica Teixeira, Savanna Randall and William Vizena.
A few high school drama students also will be making guest appearances and co-directing: Patrick McGeogh, Colby Callhan, Michelle Kimbsey-Bailey, Cedalia Schofield and Mira Porsley.
Also joining Ms. Lahr in her directing duties is Tiffany Sillert.
“This year’s cast is very talented,” said Lahr. “For many of the kids this is their very first play that they have participated in. It’s very exciting to see all of this young talent getting involved. It will help keep the high school program strong.”
There will be a short intermission during the show. Baked goods and last minute Christmas shopping will be available.
For additional information call Tracy Lahr at 707-994-6471, Extension 2735.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council will host its monthly First Friday Fling on Dec. 7.
The event will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport.
The First Friday Fling will introduce the work of Steve Bellah, Terry Durnil and Bonnie Sears.
Currently on display are the works of Ray Farrow, Ruth Morgan, Xian Yegan, Jill Taylor, Lois Feron, Shelby Posada, Leonora McKenzie, Pat Courtney, Carol Yanagitsubo, Gary Simpson and Leah Adams.
Musical performers will include David Neft on piano and Linda Brown on the harp.
This month the Linda Carpenter Gallery will feature an exhibition of original miniatures by local artists.
Also taking place in December is the gallery’s painted bottle silent auction fundraiser. Vote for your favorite and make a bid.
Bell Hill Winery will pour its vintages. Finger food also will be offered.
For more information contact the Lake County Arts Council, 707-263-6658.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. –Second Sunday Cinema will mark the holidays with a film celebrating the intersection of spirituality and humanity.
“The Way” will be shown on Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave. in Clearlake.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for snacks and socializing. The film, which begins at 6 p.m., is free.
“The Way” stars Martin Sheen as a cantankerous ophthalmologist who is very invested in his son becoming a doctor. So he’s rather angry when his son drops out of med school to walk “The Way,” a 500-mile-long path through France and Spain, the Camino de Santiago, that pilgrims have been walking for 1,000 years.
His son is accidentally killed very early in his walk, and Tom goes to Europe to claim his body for burial back home.
But when he picks up his son’s backpack and guidebook, Tom has a sudden change of heart, choosing instead to cremate the body and bring the ashes with him as he completes his son’s trek.
He’s eventually joined by three unlikely others, all with their own agendas, stated and unstated. As one might guess, the pilgrimage is more challenging and eventful than one might guess at the start.
Every one of the four is truly imperfect, and everyone wants to run away at times. But sticking with their commitment to themselves and each other, each slowly realizes – makes real – what they really need.
This is a documentary-like, intimate yet powerful film made as a labor of love by Sheen and his other son, Emilio Estevez.
Though both Sheen and Estevez say many “miracles” occurred during the filming trek, neither sees this as a film for Christians only, nor does it come across that way.
This is a film about human beings who need to connect, not only with God, but with each other and ultimately, with themselves.
Barbara Christwitz will lead a discussion after the film for those who wish to participate.
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Shadow play is among the few free entertainments left, and it must go on delighting children all around the globe.
Derek N. Otsuji lives in Hawaii, and here’s his reminiscence.
Theater of Shadows
Nights we could not sleep—
summer insects singing in dry heat,
short-circuiting the nerves—
Grandma would light a lamp,
at the center of our narrow room,
whose clean conspiracy of light
whispered to the tall blank walls,
illuminating them suddenly
like the canvas of a dream.
Between the lamp and wall
her arthritic wrists grew pliant
as she molded and cast
improbable animal shapes moving
on the wordless screen:
A blackbird, like a mynah, not a crow.
A dark horse’s head that could but would not talk.
An ashen rabbit (her elusive self)
triggered in snow
that a quivering touch (like death’s)
sent scampering into the wings
of that little theater of shadows
that eased us into dreams.
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 ©2011 by Derek N. Otsuji. Reprinted from Descant, 2011, Vol. 50, by permission of Derek N. Otsuji and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2012 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.