Arts & Entertainment

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What’s Happening at Occidental Center for the Arts Now

Dear friends and supporters of the arts: I hope you are all safe and warm, and finding ways to keep yourselves entertained. As you know, OCA has put all of its activities on hold for the duration of the County’s shelter-in-place order. So far, we have rescheduled all ticketed events through May, and will resume small classes and group meetings as soon as the authorities deem it safe to do so. We’ll all miss getting together for the Fool’s Parade, now cancelled as well, but we look forward to lots of clever foolishness in 2021.In the meantime, there is an […]

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March Book Releases by LGBTQI Authors

In honor of March as National Foreign Language Month, here is your favorite word (book) in seven languages with which you may, or may not, be familiar! Azerbaijani-Kitab; Estonian-Ramat; Farsi-Ketabi; Luxembourgish-Buch; Mongolian-Nom; Zulu-Incwadi. And here are all the LGBTQ Knigi(Russian) you can add to your shelf this month. In the captivating Fiebre Tropical, by Lambda Literary Fellow Juliana Delgado Lopera, a young protagonist grapples with a chaotic new life and an intense, but troubled, relationship. Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother […]

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Book Review: “Cantoras” by Carolina De Robertis

Cantoras tells the stories of five queer women in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay; of the homes they build, first and foremost a shack that the five buy together in Cabo Polonio, “the edge of the world,” the site of their retreat from dictatorship; of the community they sustain through abductions, separations, relocations; of the romantics they dare embrace despite criminalization, familial obligation, and each other. The novel spans more than three decades and tracks the everyday despair of living through dictatorship and the cautious optimism of returning to democracy. Cantoras tells the story of five queer women who find in one […]

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Book Review: “gods with a little g” by Tupelo Hassman

Irreverence defines every decision in Tupelo Hassman’s new novel, gods with a little g. From the beginning, the main character, Helen Dedleder, demands your attention by telling you not to bother paying attention. In the first chapter, she describes waving a sign that reads, “Keep going,” at the people flying over her town of Rosary, California. Rosary’s name is no accident—the author chose it in order to riff off the religious connotations of the word. gods with a little g is full of prayers, evangelists, Bible thumpers, holier-than-thou hate mongers, gay bashers, porn-hoarding believers, and a gang of teenage malcontents, the not so […]

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Most North Bay Concerts & Events Canceled or Postponed

Here’s a partial list: From the Sebastopol Center for the Arts In light of the current coronavirus pandemic, and with heavy hearts, the leadership of Sebastopol Center for the Arts has decided to postpone all public events, gallery exhibits, programs and classes. This includes the postponement of the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. We believe it is time to step back from our public activities and focus on the health and safety of our staff, volunteers and audience. We will maintain our current staffing, but will be closed to the public until further notice.  The Center’s leadership, board and executives are […]

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Join Reading Cinemas in Rohnert Park for a ‘Marty Party’

Reading Cinemas celebrates an iconic director, the one and only Martin Scorsese, in a month-long retrospective featuring four of his timeless, and quotable, films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino. Shows start at 7 p.m. every Wednesday, beginning March 4, with all tickets $8.50. Tickets are available at the box office, or guests may conveniently purchase tickets in advance online, or through the Reading Cinemas US app. For more information please visit ReadingCinemasUs.com, or follow us on Facebook @RohnertPark16, or on Twitter and Instagram @ReadingCinemas. SCORSESE SERIES SCHEDULEReading Cinemas Rohnert ParkEvery Wednesday in March TAXI DRIVER (1976)MARCH 4 @ 7PMSuffering from insomnia, disturbed […]

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Book Review: “Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?” by Jameson Currier

Here he is in all his glory. The supposedly perfect gay archetype. Handsome, virile, muscled, and perhaps with his most glaring attribute, his unavailability. Jameson Currier explores many themes in his latest collection of short stories, but the elusive “one that got away” is central to most of them. The results are a wry, witty, often self-deprecating take on desire from the more mature gay man’s point of view. The protagonists of many of these stories are settled, nuanced, experienced, and yet still filled with longing. Their days as a beauty, if they were ever perceived as that, are behind […]

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5th Annual Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival Kicks Off with Trans Drama

The Jewish Community Center (JCC) presents the 5th Annual Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival, March 3-31, at Rialto Cinemas Sebastopol. The festival seeks to nurture an appreciation of Israeli culture in Sonoma County, exploring the human stories and important issues facing Israeli society, and the larger world. The 2020 films focus on issues of gender identity, love at old age, the pull between secular and orthodox, and the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, and include comedies, dramas, international award winners, and a Bay Area premiere. Israel has a robust and prolific film industry, many films of which never grace our screens – the JCC is proud to […]

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Occidental Center for the Arts’ Literary Series presents The Ice Palace Waltz by local author Barbara L. Bae March 1

Sunday March 1st, 2-4 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts’ Literary Series presents The Ice Palace Waltz by local author Barbara L. Baer. Her latest novel explores remembered stories of tragedy and loss following two early 20thcentury stock market crashes. In this compelling saga, she weaves the lives of two Jewish immigrant families who come together in a riveting saga amid the financial and social turmoil of early 20th Century America. Klezmer music will welcome audience in, then selected readings with a slide show, a Q&A facilitated by Judith Moorman, followed by book sales and signing. Admission is free, and all donations gratefully accepted.  Refreshments, Jewish nosh, […]

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Occidental Center for the Arts Literary Series with Local Author Barbara L. Baer

March 1 Occidental Center for the Arts’ Literary Series presents The Ice Palace Waltz by local author Barbara L. Baer. Two Jewish immigrant families come together in a riveting family saga amid the financial and social turmoil of early 20th Century America. Selected readings with slide show, Q&A, book sales & signing. Free admission, all donations gratefully accepted. Refreshments by donation, wine/ beer for sale. OCA: 3850 Doris Murphy Way, Occidental, CA. OCA’s facilities are accessible to people with disabilities. For more info: occidentalcenterforthearts.org or 707-874-9392.

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