Lake County CA Arts Council Index Page

Shortcuts to the Near Future, Theater News, Main Street Gallery News, Music and Dance, Poetry Information, Local Media, Links of many kinds, Calendar 2010, Visual Arts Notices

LCAC
Founded
1981

website started
2002

site last
Serviced
9/1/2010

Updated every Wednesday,
pretty much.
Email info received after 9AM on Wed. will be used the following week.

MAIN STREET GALLERY and LAKE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
325 N. Main St., P.O. Box 247, Lakeport, CA 95453
Phone 707 263-6658
Fax 707 263-3933

NOW SHOWING IN THE GALLERY

* Writer's Workshops will continue the first Thursday of the month from 7 to 9 under the gentle and encouraging guidance of Lake County's former Poet Laureate. This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation. No fee~

* Richard Seisser continues his weekly Pastel classes on Tuesdays from 1 P.M. until 4. All levels of talent are invited to the afternoon of painting and comaraderie. Fee is $10~

* A class in Oil techniques will be offered by Cathy Gale whose 18 years of study in Italy have helped to develop her unique style. For a description of the class offering and materials and class fees, please contact the Gallery or Cathy at 245-5983.

Please contact Gallery Chairperson, Richard Seisser if you have an interest in offering a class or displaying in the Gallery.

Shortcuts to the
Near Future
See the Calendar for a more complete listing

SEPTEMBER

Writing Workshop

With Mary MacMillan; Main Street Gallery, Lakeport, 6:30 ~ 8:30, free.

Artists' Reception

The Main Street Gallery, Lakeport; 5pm - 7pm (An opportunity to meet the artists in the new show, music, refreshments)

OLD TIME BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL

5th ANNUAL

Saturday, 10am - 7pm, Rain (under cover) or Shine. ADA Accessible

Click for Ticket Prices & Online Purchasing

Tulip Hill Winery's
Wine and Food Pairing
and Concert in the Garden

Twice as Good

3 - 7 PM. $10 includes wine and "slow food" pairings. Bring blanket or lawn chair. Hwy 20 and Bartlett Springs Road, Nice. Info: 274-9373, X100 $5.00 from every concert ticket sold to Operation Tango Mike. More info...

Second Saturday Open Mic

MOUNTAIN HIGH COFFEE AND BOOKS, 16295 Hwy 175, Cobb (Next to Hardester's Market)
(707)928-0461
Capacity 40 ~ Amp Available ~ 3 songs per round WiFi Hotspot ~ Local Art Displayed ~ Outdoor Seating Available

DOUBLE BILL ~

The Age of Stupid

The Man Who Planted Trees (and Grew Happiness)

Second Sunday Cinema,
The Clearlake United Methodist Church,14521 Pearl Ave., Clearlake.
open 5PM for double feature. Free
Info at 279-2957 and here...

MISSION STATEMENT

The specific purpose of this corporation is to advocate, encourage and develop arts and cultural activities in Lake County by coordinating, developing, sponsoring and providing assistance in the area of arts and cultural endeavors.

TO CONTACT

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
SHELBY POSADA
shelby-posada5@att.net

OFFICE DIRECTOR
BETTY LOU SURBER
surber@att.net

GALLERY DIRECTOR
RICHARD SEISSOR
nunyet614@aol.com

WEBMASTER
XIAN YEAGAN
xian@saber.net

Full listing of LCAC Board and Volunteer positions
here...

The Mountain High open mic in Upper Lake is dark right now.

New open mic at Silk's , 14825 Lakeshore Dr.,Clearlake. Monday nite 8 pm to Midnite. Hosted by Kevin, manager. Acoustic music, comedy and poetry. 995-7455 Over 21 crowd.

from Flipper, our Open Mic correspondent

MEMBERSHIP

application form download PDF file here 25 kb

application form download JPG file here

FROM TIME TO TIME
WE NEED TO BRING YOU TIMELY INFORMATION THAT DID NOT MAKE IT INTO THE ARTNOTES
OR IN SOME WAY IS URGENT. WE DO THIS BY SENDING EMAILS TO THOSE MEMBERS WHO HAVE GIVEN US THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES, AND TO OTHER FRIENDS WHO WOULD LIKE TO GET THEM.

IF YOU WOLD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT THIS ADDRESS, WITH "EMAIL NOTIFICATION"
IN THE SUBJECT LINE.

Thanks,
Xian

The Lake County Arts Council is a self-funded non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to:

Assist artists of all disciplines to create and market their work;

Assist residents of Lake County to find and enjoy local art and artists;

Assist in the creation and marketing of entertainment
and entertainment venues in Lake;

Create a positive image in California and around the world
for the arts in Lake County.

In addition, we seek to have fun with and inform our membership. Being a member of the LCAC has its own rewards. Being a volunteer is more satisfying yet.

VISUAL ARTS NOTICES

New "calls" page for new media, here...

calling

calling

This is your chance! Click this link to read

local and world-wide, updated weekly.

LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS
3 HOURS MONTHLY, COBB

Art Gallery News and Blogs from Around the World

Gallery shows, the art business, plein air, art groups, contests, etc.

News Articles and Blogs on the subject of Film

Mainly documentary film, film making, and film festivals

Available for additions thru Oct. 30. Canvases will be auctioned at FFF, Nov. 5. More info here...

NSFS Online Forum on Independent Art Initiatives We are happy to announce the launch of a new discussion forum hosted on the No Soul For Sale website. Our hope is to continue the dialogue from our recent festival events and provide an ongoing platform for constructive conversation on topics concerning independent art initiatives. We invite you to participate. Starting topics include "Defining independent", "Local and international platforms for "independents", "Institutions and Markets", and "New independent models".	To access the forum, visit http://nosoulforsale.com and then select the "Join the discussion" tag located adjacent to the No Soul For Sale logo at the top of the page. ---------------------- No Soul For Sale is a festival that brings together the most exciting non-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists' collectives and underground enterprises from around the world. Neither a fair nor an exhibition, No Soul For Sale is a convention of individuals and groups who devote their energies to art they believe in, beyond the limits of the market and other logistical constraints –- it is a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art.
EcoArts: Lake County Sculpture Walk is a five-month exhibit of sculptures at the 107-acre Middletown Trailside Nature Preserve County Park, 21435 Dry Creek Cutoff/Hwy 175, in Middletown. Works of art by local, Bay Area, and national artists, who have given their time and material to create a public art installation, will be on display from June through October. The park is open from dawn to dusk every day and admission is free. Read the rest here... More info here...
Sailboats and Steamboats and Other Things that Float Beautiful historic photographs depict life on Clear Lake between 1866 and the early 1900’s. Residents and tourists alike traveled the waters in passenger steamboats to get from place to place before the roads were built. Also a new exhibit "Mount Konocti Rediscovered," in anticipation of the opening of the mountain to the public. Stop by this summer and enjoy both of these interesting new exhibits.
ART IN THE BARN-BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL. the Gallery and the Anderson Marsh Bluegrass Festival Committee have joined forces to organize and present "Art in the Barn" at this years festival at Anderson Marsh in Lower Lake, Ca. on September 11, 2010. Info on participation here...

THEATER
BULLETINS

Upcoming shows

Benefit for the Soper-Reese
at the Soper-Reese!

Dinner Theater to Die For

Theatrical Notices of various kinds performances, auditions, meetings, etc. Please send us your information for posting
Community Theater News, Blogs and Website Links international updated weekly pretty much.	Community Theater Green Room... - http://www.communitytheater.org/forum This is a website and blog you will probably value if you love theater and are interested in theater arts.	North Bay Theater Group Listings for theatrical productions in neighboring counties.
In response to public requests, we have started a new news page for News Articles and Blogs on the subject of Film (mostly documentary and art film, so as to not duplicate lots of info in the commercial press)

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Mendo Lake Singers meets at 7PM Tuesdays in the Four Square Church, 1125 Martin St., Lkprt. Ladies aged 16 and older are invited to learn to sing 4 part harmony, make new friends and have fun. Info: Chris, 263-5215 or Betty Lou, 263-4721.

S C H E D U L E P R O G R A M S		A B O U T T H E C L P A
	LINK TO CLPA SITE

The Konocti Fiddle Club plays for all occasions. more...

New open mic- Kelsey Creek Coffee , 930 N. Main St. (Old Pardini Appliance Store), Lakeport, Ca Beer and Wine available. No phone. Every Sat. 6 pm acoustic music only. Run by Jim Williams owner of Strings and Things 262-0622, call him for further info. Large coffee shop with concrete walls.

Halau Ha'a Kea o Kinohi
Traditional Hawaiian Hula
Monday evening in Middletown
for class info 707-272-0972
http://halauhaakea.org/

Wednesday evening in Clearlake
for class info 707.995.0481
dance@konoctidanceacademy.com

Choreographers, Teachers,
and Dance Schools of Lake County
Here.....

A Page of Dance Festival
and Dance School News
from Around the World
HERE....

29^th Annual
SPRING DANCE FESTIVAL
May 1 & 2,
the first time at the Soper-Reese

TO SEE A SLIDESHOW OF THE DANCES,
CLICK HERE...

Media Notices Art Media or Media About the Arts
Community Radio News Worldwide; follow this link, get the latest here!
DIGICULT is an online/offline Italian platform, created to spread digital art and culture worldwide. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. DIGICULT is based on participation of more than 40 professionals, representing a wide Italian Network of critics, curators and journalists in the field. DIGICULT is the editor of the magazine DIGIMAG, which focuses on some cultural and artistic issues like internet art, hacktivism, electronica, video art, audiovideo, art & science, design, new media, software art, performing art. http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/board.asp	Pad.ma, short for Public Access Digital Media Archive, is an interpretative web-based video archive, which works primarily with footage rather than “finished” films. Pad.ma provides access to material that is easily lost in the editing process as well as in the filmmaking economy, and in changes of scale brought about by digital technology. Unlike YouTube and similar video sites, the focus here is on annotation, cross-linking, downloading and the reuse of video material for research, pedagogy and reference. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non- commercial use. http://basekamp.com/about/events/padma Basekamp is a non-commercial organization of people researching and co-developing interdisciplinary, self-organized art projects with other individuals and groups in various authorship-blurring configurations for the past decade. We use our Philadelphia space, along with temporary camps in other locations, as a home base to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint experiment to develop new models of relations within overlapping art communities. The goal is to continue proposing collaboration as a practical and theoretical stance, and to participate in its evolution.
CologneOFF, a new concept in art cinema. A networked festival which includes a networked jury, networked contributions, networked screenings, and networked audiences. Now in its fifth year, CologneOFF takes place in the virtual and in the physical simultaneously, first, through the on-demand festival website, and second, through traditional screenings offered by cooperating partner festivals. In addition, each CologneOFF festival from 2006 to the present, is permanently available for on-demand viewing online. More...
CURRENT KPFZ SCHEDULE KPFZ has a new website. http://community.kpfz.org	Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) The CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund has issued a request for proposals for a new weekly primetime series that includes content that will expand viewership and usage, reaching an adult audience on-air and online that reflects the diversity of the 40- to 64-year-old U.S. population. Deadline: September 15 For more information: Visit http://www.pbs.org/difund/.
We are running out of space for the calls for art, so we are beginning a new page for calls for new media such as video, web art, digital art and so on. You will find it here...

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	NEW Two poems from Jim Lyle! Poem for Vacant Love and When the Rocks Cry Out
NEW what do you ask the man who knows everything We'll continue our song by Pauline Denise Keil-Stocker
	NEW Stopping at Renker’s Farm by Mary McMillan

Poetry Pages Index

Writers' Circle

First Thursday of the month,
6:30-8:30 p.m. to share writings, give constructive feedback or just listen and enjoy.
With former Poet Laureate Mary McMillan

Main Street Gallery
325 N. Main St., Lakeport

The Mountain High open mic in Upper Lake is dark right now.

New open mic at Silk's , 14825 Lakeshore Dr.,Clearlake. Monday nite 8 pm to Midnite. Hosted by Kevin, manager. Acoustic music, comedy and poetry. 995-7455 Over 21 crowd.

from Flipper, our Open Mic correspondent

HEY, POETRY NOTICES!

POETRY NEWS!
LINKS TO PERIODICALS, LINKS TO BLOGS. NEWS ABOUT POETRY WORLDWIDE.

William Stanley Merwin succeeds Kay Ryan as Poet Laureate and joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in the position, including Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Richard Wilbur.

During a 60-year writing career, Merwin has received nearly every major literary award. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, just recently in 2009 for "The Shadow of Sirius" and in 1971 for "The Carrier of Ladders."

Librarian of Congress Appoints
W.S. Merwin Poet Laureate

Read article here....

LAKEPORT – A special media workshop is being planned to assist local community groups and nonprofits in understanding how to submit articles and events for publication. The workshop will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 28, in the upstairs community meeting room at Umpqua Bank, 805 11^th St., Lakeport. Free.

Lake County Record-Bee News Editor Mandy Feder 707-263-5636, Extension 32 and Lake County News Editor and Publisher Elizabeth Larson Larson at 707-274-9904will host the workshop.

They will explain how to format and submit press releases so groups can take advantage of free publicity opportunities offered by the media. Topics will include the dos and don'ts of press releases, formatting guidelines for photos and documents, a brief introduction to Associated Press style, tips for succinct writing and how to establish relationships with publications.

"Creative Expressions" welcomes readers' original poems and stories. This special publication is edited by Lake County Poet Laureate Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga.
It comes out on the fourth Saturday each month in the Lake County Record-Bee.
Submissions can be mailed to Lake County Poet Laureate, PO Box 782, Middletown CA, 95461 or e-mailed to russellgonzaga@gmail.com.

Posted by: Alan Bigelow Link:http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com

"This Is Not A Poem" is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time....The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com


	LAKE COUNTY HAS A NEW POET LAUREATE, RUSSELL REZA - KHALIQ GONZAGA

Also, do not forget the
Family Open Mics Around Clear Lake!

openmic

Of course, all of these events are free and open to the public.
More information Here....

Three Essays on Esthetics by Jim Lyle

ON REALISTIC AND NON-OBJECTIVE ART

USING “GOOD” WORDS

Freedom and the Creative Process

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed

Poet Laureate, Cal.
Carol Muske-Dukes California’s poet laureate.
More here.....

Lake County Writers meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the Lower Lake Historic Schoolhouse Museum. The group welcomes interested writers of all levels and genres.

California poetry events, see this online calendar:
http://www.coloredhorse.com/WritingPoetry/PoetryEvents/
Theresa Whitehill Poetry, Writing, Letterpress Broadsides
Web Log: Investigative Poetics
Hot off the Press: A Grammar of Longing: Poetry, Theresa Whitehill

2nd Sunday in Willits
Willits Open Reading
7:00 pm
Every second Sunday
Open reading, any art form welcome
at the Muse
30 East Francisco Avenue, Willits
Sunday, July 11, 2010Contact: David Partch, 707 459-7054

CITY OF UKIAH POET LAUREATE
At the April 15, 2009 meeting of the Ukiah City Council, Theresa Whitehill was confirmed as the City of Ukiah's Poet Laureate, for a two-year term.
Poets Laureate Emeritus, City of Ukiah
David Smith-Ferri, 2006 - 2009
Linda Noel, 2004 - 2006
Armand Brint, 2001 - 2004
For information about the Ukiah Poet Laureate program, write to P.O. Box 865, Ukiah, CA 95482 or E-mail: laureate@mcn.org; for information on the ukiaHaiku Festival, a production of the Ukiah Poet Laureate Committee, visit ukiaHaiku.org

CITY OF POINT ARENA POET LAUREATE
Fionna Perkins is the Poet Laureate of the city of Point Arena, appointed as a lifetime position by the city council.

LYNX
A Journal for Linking Poets
Table of Contents

Deadline for submission of work is
September 1, 2010.

Next Lynx is scheduled for October, 2010.

Hi Xian,
For the past couple months, we've been running a local news outlet on the internet. We've gathered quite a following, but we're hoping to beautify our site (and our future print newspaper) while promoting local artists! Take a look at our new web site and tell us what you think!
Thanks for your time, Brian Rushing, the Lake County Manifest, www.lakecountymanifest.com

more info here...