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Summer 2009

Celebrate Dance Festival
San Diego, August 2009
over 65 companies from the San Diego area perform at Balboa Park

Stern Grove Festival - San Francisco - Summer 2009
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet
Inouye Jazz, Joan Baez, Blame Sally, The Lyrics Born Re-View

West Wave Dance Festival - San Francisco, July 12
Joe Goode Performance Group: Traveling Light,
San Francisco Mint - July 30 - August 9, 2009

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow
- through August 16, 2009

Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling,
The Getty, Los Angeles
- through August 9

Crown Point Press: Seasons Club 2009: A Selection of Available Prints
San Francisco - though August 29, 2009

Robert Bechtle, Tom Marioni, Gay Outlaw, William Wiley, Laura Owens and more

Berkeley Art Center: Perceive & Connect
Katie Baum, Jeanine Briggs and Indira Martina Morre
through July 26, 2009

Southern California Indian Center - Pow Wow: July 31-August 2

2009 Chicana/o Biennial
MACLA, San Jose
- through August 8, 2009


Bonnie Raitt and Taj Majal Tour the Country
The "BonTaj Roulet" from Williamsport, PA
to Rancho Mirage, CA - Summer 2009

New Albion Records
__ Lou Harrison
__ Joan La Barbara
__ Pauline Oliveros
__ Morton Subotnick
__and more

2009 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra - Conductor: Marin Alsop
Nine premieres and a tribute to the Grateful Dead

August 2-16, 2009 - Santa Cruz

ATT San Jose Jazz Fest - August 7-9, 2009

Rancho Nicassio: 2009 Summer BBQs on the Lawn!

Music at Kirkwood: July 30- August 2, 2009

Mendocino Music Festival
Maria Muldair. The Festival Orchestra, Alexander Markov,
Susan Waterfall and more
- July 11-25

35th Annual Scottish Highland Games
Oakland, July 11- 12, 2009
The Browne Sisters and George Cavanaugh, Prince Charles Pipe Band,
Sacramento Pipe Band, MacIntosh Pipe Band, Banshee in the Kitchen,
Tempest, Pladdohg, Irish Pipers of San Francisco

Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra
Summer Sing 2009
- August 13

The Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble


Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles

Huntington Beach Art Center

Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

Swarm Gallery: [SUB]URBAN
New paintings by Claire Baker and R. Reynolds
Oakland - through August 2, 2009

California Japanese Ceramic Arts Guild

Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies at UCSB


Ojai Studio Artists

Lafayette Gallery

Bolinas Museum


Yolo County Arts Council

Merced County Arts Council

Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County


American Film Institute

Sacramento Film & Music Festival
- Summer 2009

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival - July 23-August 10

Outfest 2009 - Los Angeles - July 9-19

2009 Cinema Orange
Newport Beach - through September 27, 2009


Joann Gilmartin Sings with Strathclyde Police Pipe Band

Wicked Tinkers
performing at the 144th Annual Scottish Highland Games in Pleasanton September 5-6, 2009


Napa Valley Festival del Sole - July 17-25, 2009

Los Angeles Philharmonic
July 4th Fireworks Spectacular with John Fogerty

Hollywood Bowl

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Independence Day Celebration - Michael Morgan:
Conductor - Oakland East Bay Symphony

Richmond Waterfront, July 3, 2009

Big Brother and the Holding Company and Janis Joplin: The Lost Tapes

Chicano Rock!: The Sounds of East Los Angeles

Highways - Santa Monica

LaborFest - San Francisco, July 5 - July 31
film, visual art and dance plus
LaborFest BookFair & Poetry Reading
Art and Labor Today
Jobs for Artists!
Coit Tower Walk and 75th Anniversary of the Murals
WPA Bus Tour and much more

Professional Musicians of Central California


MIX: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers MCASD La Jolla - through September 6, 2009

Arts and Culture Progams on KPFA - Berkeley

EdgeFest Los Angeles History Project
Los Angeles - July 13, July 20

The Arab American Cultural Center of Silicon Valley
Grand Opening - San Jose - July 18, 2009

Center for Asian American Media

California Opera Arts & Education Festival
Fresno - July 14 - August 3, 2009


National Arts & Disability Center - UCLA

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
The New Works Festival
Summer 2009

Berkeley Rep: Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
July 9-23, 2009

Write Act Repertory - The Freeway Series 2009
Los Angeles writers and Write Act Rep artists
Hollywood - through August 1, 2009

Dell'Arte Company: Mad River Festival
Blue Lake - through July 12, 2009

Sierra Repertory Theatre - Sonora

Pegasus Theater - Guerneville


Books and Readings

First Light:
Five Photographers Explore Yosemite's Wilderness

Charles Cramer, Karl Kroeber, Scot Miller, Mike Osborne, and
Keith S. Walklet; Introduction by Bob Hansen

Heyday

Chris Townsend, The Art of Bill Viola
Thames & Hudson

The Judy Grahn Reader
Aunt Lute Books

Claudia Jurmain and William McCawley;
O, My Ancestor: Recognition and Renewal for
the Gabrielino-Tongva People of the
Los Angeles Area

Foreword by Kevin Starr
Heyday

Kevin Bruce, Large Art in Small Places
- Discovering the California Mural Towns

Random House

Carlos Francisco Jackson
Chicana and Chicano Art - ProtestArte

University of Arizona Press

Bruce M. Pavlik
The California Deserts An Ecological Rediscovery

UC Press


Poetix - Southern California Poetry

Los Angeles Black Book Expo
August 9, 2009

Sacramento Poetry Center

Point Reyes Books

Summer Books
Berkshire Books - Concord

2009 Steinbeck Festival
Salinas, August 6-9, 2009


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