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Antic in a Drain

Environmental ; Film/Video ; Literature/Poetry ; Nonprofit ; Sports/Outdoors ; Theatre ; Traditional Arts

Antic in a Drain combines circus and bouffon to develop extreme characters and tell stories from the fringes, igniting dialogue and change within communities around ignored or taboo social issues. Antic in a Drain has developed three shows available for booking: The Greatest Monkey Show On Earth, a primate circus extravaganza that takes a satirical bite out of animal/human agency, premiered in 2014 after an Artist Residency at the San Francisco Circus Center, then toured to the Edmonton and Vancouver Fringe Festivals in Canada that same year, receiving a four-star review from Global News and the inaugural Artistic Risk Award in Vancouver. In 2016 Antic in a Drain was Artist-in-Residence at Kinetic Arts Center, where the second version of the Greatest Monkey Show was workshopped and performed. It was nominated for two 2016 Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Makeup and Costume Design and won for Costuming. Bucko: Whaleman!, a high seas whaling voyage that launches a satirical harpoon into the heart of human greed and natural resource consumption, premiered on Hyde Street Pier at San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park in 2017. Tempting Fate, a satirical sideshow entertainment reflecting the house of mirrors called climate change, premiered at Little Boxes Theater in 2019. The show was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle by Lily Janiak and was nominated for seven Theatre Bay Area Awards, including Outstanding Solo Production, Outstanding Direction of a Specialty Production, Outstanding Creative Specialties for Mask AND Puppet Design, Outstanding Costume Design, and Outstanding Sound Design. The show won for Outstanding Creative Specialties for Mask Design.

Arena Theater

Music ; Nonprofit ; Special Events ; Theatre

Arena Theater is a 1928-vintage vaudeville theater and film palace, restored in 1996 to an Art Deco style, state-of-the-art entertainment venue with generous support from local artisans and financial donations. Arena Theater Association is an all-volunteer community, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that maintains Arena Theater and brings live performances and artists to the stage of this Mendocino Coast venue.

Flynn Creek Circus LLC

Commercial Business ; Dance ; Festivals ; Kids/Family ; Music ; Nonprofit ; Special Events ; Theatre ; Travel

Flynn Creek Circus was founded in 2002 as a rurally-based, circus-theater company. Since then Flynn Creek Circus continues to offer entertainment to all ages and opportunity to artists. Touring in their big top tent, the show presents International, award-winning talent to the smaller villages and towns of the Pacific Northwest. Flynn Creek Circus has influenced the advent of several new arts organizations in the Mendocino County area including: Mendocino Center for Circus Arts, Stars, Circus Mentors Inc and the Mendocino Dance Project Our Mission is to radically inspire audiences by demonstrating disciplined artistic and athletic risk.

Folklight Film Club

Association/Club/Group ; Dance ; Festivals ; Film/Video ; Music ; Nonprofit ; Special Events ; Theatre ; Visual Arts

Folklight Film Club is a wine club-inspired membership experience around making a movie. Members attend unique events, get behind the scenes, and influence the movie being made. It’s the world’s first farm-to-table film. Membership enrollment is open now, space is limited, and enrollment closes in the fall. Sonoma, Napa, Marin, and Mendocino residents are eligible for membership. EVENTS: Table Read: The table read is the first time a screenwriter hears the script they’ve written read out loud by a group of actors who may or may not end up in the film. This is one of the important first steps of creating a narrative feature film, and you get to be there from the beginning. Red Carpet Oscar Party: Get red carpet ready and gather with club members to celebrate movie making’s biggest night. Games, red carpet interviews, wine, and surprises will be some highlights of the evening. Panel Discussion with Filmmakers & Cast: Fresh after wrapping principal photography on your film, get together with the cast and creative team to hear about the process and ask anything you’d like to know. Gallery Show: Enjoy art in multiple mediums inspired by themes from your film, mingling with members, and wine. Member-made Short Films: Get in front of or behind the camera and make a short film! Guided by Folklight professionals and our student crew, you make a short film in one day. Folklight Member Shorts Festival: Enjoy an evening of short films created by you! Film Inspo Concert: An interactive, 360° concert featuring re-imagined moments and music from beloved films. More details than this would ruin the surprise. Concert of the Original Soundtrack: A concert of original music created for Folklight’s feature film, with performances from the singer/songwriters, presented with a twist. Members’ Red Carpet Premiere: Be the first to see and celebrate the world’s first farm-to-table film. Walk the red carpet and become a part of film history in Sonoma County and beyond. ENGAGEMENT: Tell Us Your Stories Survey: This survey is where you plant the seeds of inspiration for the world’s first farm-to-table film. Be a Location Scout: Do you own or manage somewhere? Do you want to see it in your film? Be a Casting Director: Watch audition videos and vote for your favorite to play a role in your film. Choose the name of your film: Choose your favorite name from a list created by our screenwriter and director. Choose your film’s poster design: Choose the design that you think most captures the eye and the essence of your film. Video & email updates getting you behind the scenes of your film’s progress: We take you behind the scenes and show you every step of creating your film. You decide where the money goes: Should your film secure distribution and make money, you choose whether the money goes into growing our education program, to our scholarship fund, toward continued filmmaking (Folklight Film Club is a 501(c)3 (pending) nonprofit), or to the local 501(c)3 charitable organization of your choice. SWAG: Digital access to you feature film Digital download of the original soundtrack Digital access to the making-of documentary Learn more & become a member: https://folklightfilmclub.com

Gloriana Musical Theatre

Dance ; Kids/Family ; Music ; Special Events ; Theatre

Gloriana Musical Theatre is dedicated to the production of high-quality entertainment for our community while providing opportunities for cultural enrichment, creative development, and self-discovery through the art of theatre. GLORIANA MUSICAL THEATRE, originally known as THE GLORIANA OPERA COMPANY, was founded in 1976 with Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado as its first offering at Crown Hall in Mendocino, 1977. Gloriana Musical Theatre is one of the oldest performing arts groups in Mendocino County. Since 1976 Gloriana Musical Theatre has Presented the Broadway Experience to the Mendocino coast and its Visitors. With talented directors, performers, choreographers, costume lighting and set designers, back stage staff, and volunteers. GMT has brought exciting musical theatre, Rock ‘n’ Roll revues, A Cappella performances, magic shows, and young performer productions acted by our young actors – many who have completed our Young Performers Musical Theatre Workshops. And we applaud our audiences, sponsors, and donors. Without their support, Gloriana’s stages would be bare, its seats empty. Our mission is to inspire, educate and entertain.

Gloriana Studios

Dance ; Educational ; Kids/Family ; Music ; Theatre

Gloriana Studios offers theatre arts classes including acting, singing, dance and script writing/study for people of all ages. We also include workshops culminating in children’s theatre productions.

Larry Spring Museum

Educational ; Environmental ; Film/Video ; Gallery/Museum ; Kids/Family ; Literature/Poetry ; Media ; Music ; Nonprofit ; Special Events ; Theatre ; Visual Arts

The Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics is a small museum that displays the works of self-taught artist, experimenter and vernacular Renaissance man, Lorenz “Larry” Spring (1915 – 2009). The Museum is located in Larry Spring’s original storefront at 225 E. Redwood Avenue, Fort Bragg. Currently, the Museum’s aim is to animate Larry Spring’s DIY spirit of amateur inquiry as a means to open up the collection to new possibilities. We imagine the Museum as a constellation of at-hand art and science resources where diverse citizens engage through collaborative, community-based programs.

Mendocino College Recording Arts Program

Educational ; Music ; Theatre

https://www.mendocino.edu/the-arts/art/art-gallery/current-exhibits/music-recording-arts

Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department

Educational ; Theatre

The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department offers an AA degree with an emphasis in either Theatre or Dance, as well as an AA Degree for Transfer in Theatre Arts and a CTE certificate program in Technical Theatre. The curriculum includes courses in acting, dance, literature, film, directing and technical theatre. Students may elect to take individual courses to enrich their college experience or commit to a full program though the degree and certificate sequences and the immersive Conservatory Cohort Experience. The Theatre Arts Department is closely allied to the Music Department which offers related courses in voice, opera and musical theatre. The department offers an annual season of plays, dance performances and an annual festival of original short plays in two campus theatres.

Mendocino Theatre Company

Nonprofit ; Theatre

The historic black-box stage has been the site of over 200 productions since the company’s founding in 1976. The comfortable lobby boasts a full bar offering cocktails, beer, wine and a variety locally made treats. The theatre sits at the northeast quadrant of the Mendocino Art Center campus.

School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education

Arts Council/Alliance ; Dance ; Educational ; Kids/Family ; Nonprofit ; Special Events ; Theatre

School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education (SPACE) is an acclaimed afterschool performing arts program serving youth ages infant through 18. SPACE, located near downtown Ukiah at 508 West Perkins, offers an innovative year-round program that has become a vital beacon for hundreds of children and their families. Our program emphasizes diversity, youth leadership, cross-cultual arts, social issues, and exemplary training in the arts. The curriculum may address issues of social, environmental and cultural awareness and activism such as distribution of resources, unlearning racism, gender stereotyping and/or sexual orientation. SPACE’s mission is to empower our youth to discover and trust in their innate ability to be creative, responsible and compassionate individuals through effective training in dance, theater, music and cultural education. After collaborating for ten years directing Performing Arts Summer Camp and other projects, Laurel Near & Paulette Arnold founded Near & Arnold’s School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education in 1995. Both women have been teaching young people since 1981. All our staff are experienced performing arts educators or practicing artists. They are selected for their special ability to relate to young people’s training, social and developmental needs. We are also proud of our “Teacher Training & Youth Leadership Program” which nurtures young people who have the skills and interest to become teachers. A priority of SPACE is the Scholarship Program, which provides access for all interested youth. The community, through fundraising events, donations, and grants, supports the program. Forty percent of families receive some financial assistance for tuition. SPACE functions as a safe space for youth to explore, express and reshape daily challenges through physical, vocal, and emotional creative growth. SPACE has been awarded and recognized by statewide foundations and is a living example of the power of art to affect individuals and change the consciousness and landscape of Mendocino County.

Ukiah Players Theatre

Nonprofit ; Theatre

Ukiah Players Theatre is a professionally managed nonprofit community organization in residence at the Ukiah Playhouse. We are committed to providing our rural audiences with a wide range of theatre experiences including the classics and contemporary plays as well as original theatre pieces created for, by, and about our community. Ukiah Players Theatre was founded in 1977 by an eclectic group of theatre artists who, for several years, produced plays, musicals and readings in rented halls in and around Ukiah. A coalition of community leaders joined forces in 1980 to begin plans to build the Ukiah Playhouse with donations of labor and materials. After signing a $1/year lease with the City of Ukiah for the land, Phase I of the Playhouse opened in 1982. A sizable grant from the Irvine Foundation completed Phase II in 1988, adding shop space, costume storage, dressing rooms and a box office to the 138-seat auditorium facility. Over the years the Playhouse has been home to the Ukiah Children’s Theatre, the School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education, Mendocino Ballet, public education programs, business and training seminars, film series, weddings and has even served as a polling place. Since its inception in 1977, Ukiah Players Theatre has presented well over 100 main stage plays and musical productions. Over the years UPT has also developed several innovative programs, including the biennial New American Comedy Festival and a number of grant-funded community based theatre projects. The Ukiah Playhouse serves as a training ground for performers, directors, playwrights and technicians, and houses a theatre which nurtures an intellectual and spiritual vitality within the community.

Willits Community Theatre

Theatre

2017 will be Willits Community Theatre’s 40th year in service to the arts appreciative community in California’s Mendocino, Humboldt, Sonoma and Lake Counties …. and beyond! WCT is proud to present an annual season of new and classic plays every year. From humble beginnings in 1977, WCT has developed into a well-established organization, presenting live theater throughout the year. Primarily a volunteer organization, Willits Community Theatre was incorporated in 1979. In 1988, it hired its first Artistic Director, Linda Palmer, a professional actor/dancer/director who is best remembered for her performance (as the ex-wife) in Bob Fosse’s 1979 film All That Jazz. Subsequent artistic directors have included screenwriter/director Lanny Cotler (films: The Earthling, 1981, as writer, and Heartwood, 1996, as writer and director) and John LeFan, long a mainstay with San Francisco’s Artaud Theatre Group. Most recently, the legendary Mike A’Dair held this position for many productive years. Now, an Artistic Direction Committee of six persons selects each season for the Willits Community Theatre.

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