February 2009

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
81st Annual Academy Awards - Hollywood, February 22, 2009

Latinas: The Spirit of California
The California Museum, Sacramento- through April 30, 2009
Isabel Allende, Maria Ruiz de Burton, Dolores Huerta,
Vikki Carr, Anna Maria Arias, Rita Moreno and many more

SHANGRI L.A.: Architecture as a State of Flux
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, February 7-March 27

Center for Asian American Media - San Francisco
Lula Washington Dance Theatre - Los Angeles
Russian River Chamber Music: Ives Quartet - Windsor, February 13

Heart's Gathering
Poetry, Laureates & Music for Valentine's Day
Diane di Prima, Michael McClure, California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes,
US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and 2005-8 California Poet Laureate Al Young,
performing with bassist Dan Robbins. host: Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Sponsored by KPFA, Poetry Flash and Moe's Books
Berkeley - February 14

The Good Life - California Watercolors, 1930-1950
The Irvine Museum, through May 16, 2009

Lewis deSoto: BEFORE AFTER
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art - through March 28, 2009

Gerald Clarke Jr: One Tract Mind
C. N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis - through March 1, 2009

Life in California: 1930-1950
Scene Paintings from the Sally and David Martin Collection
Santa Barbara Historical Museum - through March 1, 2009

Harlem of the West...Revisited!
Jazz Heritage Center, San Francisco - through March 7, 2009

Freight and Salvage - Berkeley
__Women of Bluegrass: Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys,
Nell Robinson & Red Level, Rita Hosking & Cousin Jack
February 9, 2009
__Country Joe McDonald - Tribute to Woody Guthrie
February 28 and much more!

Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County

The Art of San Juan Capistrano

California, Seen: Landscapes of a Changing California, 1930-1970
Long Beach Museum of Art - through April 1

The Writers Guild Foundation
BEYOND WORDS
2009 WGA and Academy Award Nominees Panel
Moderator: Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
Panelists include: Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire),
Dustin Lance Black (Milk), Tom McCarthy (The Visitor),
Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight)
and Eric Roth (Benjamin Button)
Beverly Hills - February 5, 2009

Pinole Community Playhouse
James Lapine and William Finn: Falsettos
through February 7

A Traveling Jewish Theatre - San Francisco

Orange County Playwrights Alliance

Bakersfield Community Theatre

San Diego Latino Film Festival - March 12-22

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John Williams' Inauguration Quartet - AP
on KDFC Videos

Tom Killion and Gary Snyder
Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints - Heyday

Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor - Chronicle Books

Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Apocalypse Mañana
Opera Electronica for the New Millenium,
Calaca Press

Yiyun Li, The Vagrants, Random House

Fresno Grand Opera

American Composers Festival:
Hollywood's Golden Age
Pacific Symphony, Orange County
February 26-March 2, 2009

San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Joan La Barbara on New Albion
jeffrey roden, seeds of happiness, New Albion

Night of the Living Composers New Music Works, Santa Cruz, March 7, 2009

State Street Ballet - Santa Barbara
Patricia Rincon Dance Collective:
__Fairytales from the Fringe
Encinitas, February 20-21, March 6-7, 2009
Deborah Slater Dance Theater - San Francisco
Dream Dance Company - Oakland
Ballet Afsaneh - San Francisco Bay Area

House of Blues - San Diego
NOFX, San Diego Rocks! Zappa Plays Zappa, Les Claypool,
Gospel Brunch, and much more

Yoshi's
Pete Escovedo & Family
Oakland, February 13-15

St Mary's College of California
Creative Writing Reading Series - Moraga

Jane H. Hill & Rosinda Nolasquez
Mulu'Wetam: The First People
Malki-Ballena Press

April Durham and Olive Martin
Common Objects, Beyond Baroque

In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt
catalog of an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum

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