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The call will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 55 First St. in Lakeport.
Actors will meet in the lunch room on the second floor's east wing.
They are creating a database for a variety of paid, nonpaid and deferred projects.
Please bring a headshot and resume if you have one, as well as any demo reels, voice over samples and your identification.
You will come in, fill out an application, pay $20 – which will go toward processing and a Web site that will be available to casting directors and directors – and be interviewed.
While you await you also will have the opportunity to have new headshots done or updated. The cost for headshots is separate.
The company will hold more auditions to be open to union actors in the future.
For questions or to RSVP call 707-413-0413 or email
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COBB, Calif. – The fifth annual Cobbstock, set for June 11, will feature a local music teen wonder who got his start right here at home.
One of the event's youngest performers is 12-year-old Connor Gill, who will perform as the second act at 1:30 p.m.
The wunderkind performer has been taking guitar lessons from Mark’s Mountain Music since he was 7, and started his musical career at the age of 10 when he was called to the stage to play with blues legend Buddy Guy at the Marin Civic Center.
That same year he placed second at the “Lake County Has Talent” contest with a blues jam, and took home a first place ribbon from the Lake County Fair Talent Show the following summer.
He is a regular performer at the Mountain High Coffee “Open Mic Night” night on Cobb, and has appeared as a special guest with The Lost Boys.
He recently opened a sell-out show for The Lost Boys at the Soper-Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
For more information on Connor Gill, visit Facebook, or view his YouTube Channel, http://youtube.com/connorgillbrosband.
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Old Time Bluegrass Festival at Anderson Marsh State Historic Park will not be affected by the fact that the park is among the 70 parks slated for closure by the state Department of Parks and Recreation, according to the Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association (AMIA), producers of the event.
AMIA has been assured that any park closure will not occur until after the Festival is held on Sept. 10.
The Sixth Annual Old Time Bluegrass Festival features continuous music on two stages, with an array of Northern California and local musicians and bands that are well-known in the world of bluegrass.
The event also features day-long activities for children, an art exhibit, craft vendors, great food, a wine and beer garden, musicians’ workshops and fiddling, clogging and spinning demonstrations.
The festival is a wonderful community event that also serves as a fundraising opportunity for many local groups, says Henry Bornstein, who is helping to organize the Festival for AMIA.
Organizations participating include the Explorer Scouts, the Children’s Museum of Art and Science (CMAS), school groups that have booths to sell food or drinks and Carlé Continuation High School, which raises vital funds by helping to set up and break down the event.
The Bluegrass Festival is an important fundraiser for AMIA, which works to support the Park in a variety of ways, including funding vital maintenance at the Park and leading interpretive nature walks and tours of the historic ranch house.
According to AMIA Board President Roberta Lyons, the members of AMIA are committed to working to keep the Park open despite the current closure notice.
The state Department of Parks is working on a mechanism that will allow an operating agreement to be entered into with non-profits and other organizations that would allow the Park to remain open, at least on a limited basis.
When this mechanism is approved, AMIA, along with other local partners, plans to pursue such an agreement.
For more information, go to www.andersonmarsh.org or call 707-995-2658.
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Joe Paddock is a Minnesota poet and he and I are, as we say in the Midwest, “of an age.” Here is a fine poem about arriving at a stage when there can be great joy in accepting life as it comes to us.
One’s Ship Comes In
I swear
my way now will be
to continue without
plan or hope, to accept
the drift of things, to shift
from endless effort
to joy in, say,
that robin, plunging
into the mossy shallows
of my bird bath and
splashing madly till
the air shines with spray.
Joy it will be, say,
in Nancy, pretty in pink
and rumpled T-shirt,
rubbing sleep from her eyes, or
joy even in
just this breathing, free
of fright and clutch, knowing
how one’s ship comes in
with each such breath.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2009 by Joe Paddock from his most recent book of poetry, Dark Dreaming, Global Dimming, Red Dragonfly Press, 2009. Reprinted by permission of Joe Paddock and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2011 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.