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KELSEYVILLE, CA – Local artists of Konocti Art Society will be holding their annual sale, art show and raffle during the Kelseyville Pear Festival at the Westamerica Bank on Main Street in Kelseyville, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24.
This year’s raffle is a wonderful selection of hand painted and decorated “Artsy Gourds” done by Konocti Art Society artists.
A portion of the raffle proceeds will benefit Kelseyville’s Lake Family Resource Center which serves our community by providing assistance to families.
During the month of August, the community may preview the “Artsy Gourds” at the Main Street Gallery in Lakeport.
All during September the gourds will be on display in the Westamerica Bank in Kelseyville.
On Pear Festival day, Sept. 24, oil paintings, acrylics, watercolors, ceramics, and silk paintings will be available for purchase.
This is a once-a-year opportunity to purchase originals, prints, cards, jewelry and sculpture from local artists.
Raffle tickets will be sold in the Westamerica Bank on the day of the Pear Festival, and the drawing will be at 3 p.m. Tickets are $1 each or six for $5.
On Friday, Sept. 23, the festival kickoff features cowboy singer/poet Dave Stamey in concert and a western style barbecue.
This event is held at the Wildhurst Tasting Room courtyard, 3855 Main St., Kelseyville, starting at 5 p.m. The gourds will be on display and raffle tickets will be sold.
Konocti Art Society artists participating in the art show and/or raffle will be Judy Cardinale, Diana Constable, Pat Courtney, Barbara Funke, Jan Hambrick, Annette Higday, Barbara Kossen, Jeanne Landon-Myers, Barbara LeVasseur, Diana Liebe, Karen Magnuson, Gaylene McComb, Ruth Morgan, Carolyn Morris, Marie Newsom, Patty Oates and Diane Tembey-Stawicki.
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They play every Thursday for lunch from noon to 12:45 p.m.
They always need musicians and you don't have to be a senior citizen to join the band.
Visit the band's Web site at www.reverbnation.com/harmoniouswhale or call Flipper at 707-263-3391.
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Auditions will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, and Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the Lakeport Senior Center, 527 Konocti Ave.
Roles exist for 10 men and three women of all ages.
The show, written by James Rosenberg, will be directed by Deon Pollett and Linda Schreiber from Pollett Players.
The play will be the first two weekends in October. A dinner will be served on opening night with the play.
Dates and times are 5p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30; 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2.
The following weekend the show will occur at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7, and Saturday, Oct. 8, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9.
The production also needs help with costuming, painting, set building, lighting and sound.
For more details visit www.pollettplayers.com or call 530-710-2353.
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Humans first prized horses for their strength and speed, but we have since been captivated by their beauty, their deep eyes and mysterious silences.
Here’s a poem by Robert Wrigley, who lives in Idaho, where the oldest fossilized remains of the modern horse were found.
After a Rainstorm
Because I have come to the fence at night,
the horses arrive also from their ancient stable.
They let me stroke their long faces, and I note
in the light of the now-merging moon
how they, a Morgan and a Quarter, have been
by shake-guttered raindrops
spotted around their rumps and thus made
Appaloosas, the ancestral horses of this place.
Maybe because it is night, they are nervous,
or maybe because they too sense
what they have become, they seem
to be waiting for me to say something
to whatever ancient spirits might still abide here,
that they might awaken from this strange dream,
in which there are fences and stables and a man
who doesn’t know a single word they understand.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2010 by Robert Wrigley from his most recent book of poetry, Beautiful Country, Penguin Books, 2010. Introduction copyright ©2011 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.