Join friends and family to celebrate the life of Steve Sanfield. This memorial is scheduled to take place in the amphitheater that Steve helped to create. A tent will be placed on the lawn in case of inclement weather. Please carpool. 1 to 4 PM Open to the Public
Sekar Jaya’s gong kebyar, angklung, gender wayang and dancers present a blissful evening of new and traditional gamelan works. Enjoy the celestial sonorities of gamelan as they are cradled in the arms of Nevada City’s tall pines. Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a sixty-five member company of musicians and dancers based in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]
Join Amigo Bob Cantisano for a visual and oral journey through Northern and Central Italy and Greece. Amigo visited many organic farmers during a six week sojourn this fall. You will learn the latest from Terra Madre, the Salone del Gusto, Slow Food, pioneering organic farmers, the worlds largest farm equipment show, life in the […]
We continue to broaden the scope of our traditional February show to focus on studies of the body as form. This can be interpreted to mean figure drawings, interpretations of the body, formal expressions inspired by the body, and other art that express the body as a sensual and psychological subject. Erotic art is still allowed to be […]
Tracing the banjo from its West African roots to the New World, UC Berkeley-trained ethnomusicologist Bill Evans performs musical examples from the 1700’s to the present day on a variety of vintage instruments, ranging from an African ekonting to a mid-19th century minstrel banjo, a modern bluegrass banjo and even an electric banjo. From an […]
Probosci is a collaboration between violinist Timba Harris (Secret Chiefs 3, Estradasphere) and guitarist Gyan Riley (Eviyan, Terry Riley). Both composers, whose work is featured in John Zorn’s Tzadik Records Composers’ Series, contribute to the interplay between composition and improvisation, steeped with intricacy and shape-shifting energy. On this duo’s debut album, Time to Feed, they […]
In honor of Black History Month, Bill Drake will present “Almost Hereditary: The Roots of Racism in My Southern Family,” a rich presentation with stories, readings, poems, and slides. The readings will be from the diary of Bill’s great-great-grandmother whose sons fought in the Civil War and whose family owned slave plantations in Mississippi. Bill […]
Membership has its privileges! To reward our loyal members for their dedicated support, we’re throwing our annual party. This event is FREE for members and you may join or renew at the door. Come out early to mingle with friends, and stay late to dance! This event is a pot-luck. Members should bring a savory […]
The Valentine Erotique variety show returns. An annual benefit for the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, this erotic extravaganza features an array of poetry, a chocolate dessert contest and other sensuous entertainment that you won’t want to miss. Bill Gainer, Lytton Bell and Bo the Whiskey Yogi will headline the poetry and be accompanied by […]
SHOW IS CONTINUING AS SCHEDULED. WE ARE ON GENERATOR POWER. “I believe every sound you listen to informs your ears, and therefore your musical perspective. We grew up hearing the sounds of nature, rather than the sounds of cities,” says Bee Eaters co-founder Tristan Clarridge. Perhaps it was their free lifestyle growing up in a […]
