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LAKEPORT, Calif. – La Voce del Vento Chamber Players present the third in a series of chamber music concerts on Sunday, March 1, at 3 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre.
The program includes the world premier of a woodwind quintet composed by Eureka resident Michael Kibbe.
Additional woodwind quintets to be performed are by Haydn, Dich, Milhaud, Durocher and Persichetti.
Featured artists are Patricia Jekel, flute; Beth Aiken, oboe; Nick Biondo, clarinet; Ann Hubbard, bassoon; and Randy Masselink, horn.
Reserved seat tickets are $20 and $15, and are available online at www.soperreesetheatre.com ; at the theater box office, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Fridays; or at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
For more information call 707-263-0577.
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Lower Lake High Drama Department will perform its annual Comedy & Tragedy Night on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m., in the Lower Lake High multipurpose room.
The evening will be filled with talented actors performing award-winning monologues, duet scenes and the one-act play entitled, “So You Wanna Be A Cheerleader,” which received a Silver Medal at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival in Folsom.
The Lenaea Festival, which was held Feb. 6 to 8, hosted 62 high schools and had 1,290 participants.
“I was so proud of our kids! We competed against some big schools. To receive one medal would’ve been great, but we brought home three,” said Lower Lake High drama teacher Tracy Lahr.
The evening will be filled with laughter and perhaps some tears. It’s a night that you don’t want to miss.
Tickets are $5 at the door.
For questions call 707-994-6475, Extension 2735, or 707-295-7806.
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NORTH COAST, Calif. – Five young writers (ages 16-25) will be able to attend the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference Aug. 6 to 8 on a full scholarship.
The “5 Under 25” scholarships are merit-based; no entry fee is required.
Applicants, please submit an application form, writing sample and brief cover letter between March 15 and May 15.
The three-day conference takes place at the Mendocino campus of College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg.
For detailed information check the Web site at www.mcwc.org .
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The Dalai Llama has said that dying is just getting a new set of clothes.
Here’s an interesting take on what it may be like for the newly departed, casting off their burdens and moving with enthusiasm into the next world.
Poet Kathleen Aguero lives in Massachusetts.
Send Off
The dead are having a party without us.
They’ve left our worries behind.
What a bore we’ve become
with our resentment and sorrow,
like former lovers united
for once by our common complaints.
Meanwhile the dead, shedding pilled sweaters,
annoying habits, have become
glamorous Western celebrities
gone off to learn meditation.
We trudge home through snow
to a burst pipe,
broken furnace, looking
up at the sky where we imagine
they journey to wish them bon voyage,
waving till the jet on which they travel
first class is out of sight—
only the code of its vapor trail left behind.
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. Poem copyright 2013 by Kathleen Aguero from her most recent book of poems, After That, (Tiger Bark Press, 2013). Poem reprinted by permission of Kathleen Aguero and the publisher. 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. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
