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MENDOCINO, Calif. – The Redwood Community Chorus Fall Concert will take place Friday, Dec. 11, and Saturday, Dec. 12.
It will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 11 and 2 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Mendocino Presbyterian Church, 44831 Main St., Mendocino.
Admission is Free. A donation is requested.
The Trebl’d Women will open the concert with a medley of songs.
Music from Christian and Jewish traditions plus the English folk carol “The Holly and the Ivy,” and the carol “Angels We Have Heard on High” are included.
A highlight is the song “Inscription of Hope” with words inscribed on the walls of the cellar of the Cologne Cathedral, where World War II Jewish refugees hid from the Nazis.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The 1945 comedy, “Christmas in Connecticut,” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sydney Greenstreet, screens at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport on Tuesday, Dec. 8, with show times at 1 and 6 p.m.
The story begins with a war hero (Dennis Morgan) who wins a Christmas dinner to be prepared by a popular magazine’s housekeeping expert (Stanwyck) in her lovely rural home in Connecticut.
The publicity stunt, dreamed up by the magazine publisher (Greenstreet), fails to take into account that the expert doesn’t live in Connecticut and she can’t cook.
It’s the perfect screwball farce and a perennial holiday favorite.
The movie is sponsored by John H. Tomkins Tax Consultants and is rated G. Run time is 1 hour, 41 minutes.
Entry to the film is by donation.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com .
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Local artist Michelle Price will host a stemware painting party at the Lake County Wine Studio from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28.
Price will guide participants in painting their own wineglass and they can opt to paint a glass for themselves or as a gift for a friend.
Paints, tools and a wine glass will be provided along with a glass of wine for sipping for $20 per person.
If participants want to make a matched pair or set of painted glasses, additional stemware will be available for purchase.
Price was born in Lyon, France, lived in New York for several years and then moved to the Bay Area in the early 1970s, where she studied Beaux Arts and obtained a degree in cosmetology, massage therapy and health education. She later graduated from the International Tour Management Institute of San Francisco.
In 2000, Price relocated to Lake County where she became inspired to return to art and developed her own style of expressionism in glass art and acrylic and oil paintings.
Some of her paintings have been influenced by her many years of Latin dancing and specializing in ChaCha, Rumba, Meringue and the Argentine Tango, which Price taught a few years ago with the Reach Out Program. Her artist name, Michou, is her signature on all of her artistic creations.
Price has served on the Arts Council Board of Lakeport and has shown some of her works at the Main Street Gallery and Bell Hill tasting room in Lakeport, Featherbed Railroad B&B in Nice and the Alpine Café in Lucerne. Some of her finished and in progress artwork can be viewed on her Facebook page, Michelle Price Art Creations.
For reservations and additional information, contact Susan Feiler at 707-293-8752.
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Marge Saiser is a Nebraskan who has written a number of deeply moving poems about love. Here’s one for our holiday season:
Thanksgiving for Two
The adults we call our children will not be arriving
with their children in tow for Thanksgiving.
We must make our feast ourselves,
slice our half-ham, indulge, fill our plates,
potatoes and green beans
carried to our table near the window.
We are the feast, plenty of years,
arguments. I’m thinking the whole bundle of it
rolls out like a white tablecloth. We wanted
to be good company for one another.
Little did we know that first picnic
how this would go. Your hair was thick,
mine long and easy; we climbed a bluff
to look over a storybook plain. We chose
our spot as high as we could, to see
the river and the checkerboard fields.
What we didn’t see was this day, in
our pajamas if we want to,
wrinkled hands strong, wine
in juice glasses, toasting
whatever’s next,
the decades of side-by-side,
our great good luck.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They do not accept unsolicited submissions. Poem copyright ©2014 by Marjorie Saiser, “Thanksgiving for Two,” (2014). Poem reprinted by permission of Marjorie Saiser. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
