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March 2009

Crossroads Irish-American Festival
San Francisco, March 7-15, 2009

Native Voices at the Autry - World Premiere:
Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light
by Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) - Director: Randy Reinholz (Choctaw)

Los Angeles, March 12 - 29, 2009

Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts - Santa Rosa, April 1, 2009

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - New Releases
Jorge Liderman: Many Moons, Albany Records
also available at the Musical Offering in Berkeley
__Jorge Liderman - San Francisco Chronicle

Spencer Jon Helfen Fine Arts
California Modernist Paintings and Sculpture

Beverly Hills, through March 28

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2008 SECA Award - Bay Area Artists: Tauba Auerbach,
Desirée Holman, Jordan Kantor and Trevor Paglen
through May 10, 2009

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum


Mills College Music Festival
the Arditti Quartet Plays Music by Mills Composers
Oakland, March 8

Plus Fred Frith on April 5

8th Annual New Music Festival - Cal State Fullerton
The Composer/Performer in the 21st Century

March 18- March 21, 2009

Ostad Manoochehr Sadeghi - Art of Persian Music

Oakland East Bay Symphony: New Visions/New Voices Commissioning Project
Scott Amendola, Benedikt Brydern, Rebeca Mauleón
and Narada Michael Walden

Peninsula Symphony: Concerto Fest
featuring Bay area soloists Zachariah Spellman, tuba
Rufus Olivier, bassoon, and Heidi Hau, piano

San Mateo, Cupertino - March 20-21 2009


Gathering Tribes - Albany
American Indian Trading Company - Calistoga
Two Feathers Gallery - Palm Desert

Sacramento International Film Festival
March 22 - April 5, 2009
__ California History Day - March 29

BEALL Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine and other venues
Scalable Relations
faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network

work by Sheldon Brown, Beatriz da Costa, Sharon Daniel,
George Legrady and Angus Forbes, Antoinette LaFarge
and Greg Niemeyer and more
through March 14, 2009


Merced Multicultural Arts Center
California Centered: Printmaking

March 6-May 6, 2009

Oceanside Museum of Art
LOWBROWart: Nine San Diego Pop Surrealists

through May 24, 2009

California Historical Society
Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness
from the New Deal to the Present

Sacramento - through August 15, 2009


North Bay Opera - Fairfield

Livermore Valley Opera

Jewish Music Festival
Bay Area - March 21 - April 2, 2009

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles

SFJAZZ

San Jose Jazz


Opera Santa Barbara

Joan Baez

Grateful Dead

Carlos Santana

Walela

Wang Fei

Annie Sampson - Globe Records

Counting Crows

Frank Zappa

Mama Cass


The Celtic Arts Center of Southern California

Sonoma County Museum
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Santa Rosa - March 15, 2009

Nanette Fynan's Fiddle Fancier:
"The Irish Immigrations"

United Irish Societies of San Francisco
Saint Patrick's Day Parade and Festival
March 14


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Los Angeles Ballet
works by George Balanchine
and World Premiere by Los Angeles Choreographer Jennifer Backhaus
March 2009

Isadora Duncan Dance Awards
San Francisco - March 23, 2009

2009 Geography of Hope:
Celebrating Writing on Farming & Rural Life

Point Reyes Station - March 20-22, 2009
Chair: David Mas Masumoto

di Rosa Preserve
(un)Natural - Bay Area artists interpret nature

Napa - through June 13, 2009

Michael Sakamoto

AXIS Dance

Nancy Karp + Dancers: Dances 1977-2003
commemorative book with photos, essays,
scores, and music CD

Pegasus Theater: TAPAS 2009
new works by playwrights from Monte Rio,
San Francisco, Mill Valley, Guerneville,
Berkeley and Santa Rosa
Monte Rio - through March 15

Independent Television Service
Actors Alliance of San Diego
KPCC - Pasadena

D. A. Powell
Chronic, Graywolf Press

Nancy Hopkins
These Are My Flowers:
Raising a Family on the Big Sur Coast
- Letters of Nancy Hopkins

Henry Miller Library

Nancy Boas
Society of Six - California Colorists
new foreword by Charles Eldredge
University of California Press

Scott A. Shields
Artists at Continent's End
The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907

University of California Press


Aris Janigian
Riverbig: A Novel, Heyday

Robinson Jeffers - Tor House Foundation
- Publications and Bookstore

June Jordan's Poetry for the People:
Poetry in the Community
La Peña - Berkeley, March 19, 2009

host: Aya de Leon

Sara Houghteling
Pictures at an Exhibition: A Novel
Random House

In Celebration of the Muse
Cabrillo College and Poetry Santa Cruz
Aptos, March 7, 2009

hosts: Amber Coverdale Sumrall
and Dena Taylor


Orinda Arts Council
Point Arts Guild - Point Richmond

Richmond Arts & Culture Commission

Institute of Modern Russian Culture - USC
Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association
Maharashtra
Croatian American Cultural Center

Ventura County Arts Council
Nevada County Arts Council
Arts Council of Mendocino County

California Arts Council

California Council for the Humanities


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