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LAKEPORT – At this time of year, dancers are ready to begin showing the results of their work over the winter. Across the country, there are dance festivals in the spring, in those areas lucky enough to have enough dancers, dance groups, and dance schools to put together a good two-hour show.
On May 2 and 3, Lake County's own long-lived Spring Dance Festival will be held, with 130-plus dancers doing 38 dance numbers.
Performances will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 2, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at the Marge Alakszay Center, 350 Lange Street, in Lakeport. Doors will open a half-hour before each performance.
The county is blessed to have a real wealth of dance talent and great opportunities for that talent to be nurtured and presented. There are schools and groups for young talent and for mature dancers; for clogging and for ballet; for belly dance and for ballroom; for hula and for hip-hop. This festival will have all of those represented, and more.
The crew has had a lot of experience producing this show. The lighting, sound and backstage teams have worked together many times now, and the performance ticks over like a watch. The dancers have been practicing these dances for months.
The presentation is dramatic on the great stage at the Marge Alakszay Center, and the entertainment energy quotient is as high as one can experience safely. Boring people will be on hand to restore you, if you become excessively entertained.
And since it is a benefit for the Lake County Arts Council, the tickets are not expensive. The best seats are only $15, and there are discounts for students, seniors and children, but all tickets are $1 more at the door.
To get tickets beforehand, you can go to Catfish Books in the Willow Tree Plaza or Wild About Books in Clearlake. To get the prime reserved seats, while there still are some, you have to go to the Main Street Gallery in Lakeport, where you can also get all those other tickets as well, and which you can call at 707-263-6658 for further information.
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Dwyer will be among more than 20 contemporary authors and poetic artists featured at “LitFest 2009, A Celebration for Word Lovers.” The public is invited to enjoy writing workshops, readings by the novelists and poets, and opportunities to meet the authors.
Food from Schat’s Bakery and the Mendocino College Latino Club will be available. For more information about LitFest 2009, call the Mendocino College Library at 707.468.3051 or visit the event website, www.mendocino.edu/litfest.
The one-day literary festival is sponsored by the Mendocino College Foundation, the Friends of the Mendocino College Library, and several additional supporters, noted John Koetzner, head librarian at Mendocino College.
Mendocino resident Dwyer was added to the program when fiction writer Josh Bazell canceled his appearance due to personal reasons, according to Koetzner. Dwyer’s “Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein” is a nominee finalist for the 2009 Northern California Book Award in Fiction. It is also a finalist for the 2008 Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction from ForeWords Magazine and is the winner of the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group’s 2008 “Indie” Book Award for Historical Fiction.
The celebration will feature additional readings by fiction writers Hal Zina Bennett, Marc Bojanowski, and Sheldon Siegel, and by poets Dan Barth, James BlueWolf, Armand Brint, Armando Garcia-Davila, Mary Norbert Korte, Jim Lyle, Linda Noel, Mary McMillan, Richard Schmidt, David Smith-Ferri, Sandra Wade, Theresa Whitehill, and Carolyn Wing Greenlee.
Writers Jody Gehrman, Kim Green, Charlotte Gullick, Rebecca Lawton with Jordan Rosenfeld, Amy Wachspress with Terena Scott, and Jean Hegland will offer workshops. It is recommended that writers who want to attend the writing workshops sign up in advance by visiting the LitFest website, www.mendocino.edu/litfest.
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MIDDLETOWN – The screenings for the April Coyote Film Festival include the multi-award winning film “Audience of One” by Michael Jacobs and the animation, “And Then Suddenly,” by Oded Naaman on Saturday, April 25.
There will be two showings: a late matinée at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Calpine Geothermal Visitor Center, 15500 Central Park Road, Middletown.
The entire program will be approximately two hours including a question and answer session with Jacobs.
“Audience of One” is cinema verité about the making of a film by Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco.
Chris Garcia, Austin American Statesman, sums up the film in his review. “Save for George Lucas, everyone needs a powerful excuse to make a big-budget sci-fi adventure epic. Richard Gazowsky, pastor of the Voice of Pentecost Church in San Francisco, stated, God told him to. Gazowsky's grand movie idea is a futuristic retelling of the biblical tale of Joseph, with alien creatures, elaborate sets, costumes and special effects. He calls it ‘Star Wars meets The 10 Commandments,’ and, looking heavenward, prays, ‘Jesus, we are shooting this movie for you, an audience of one.’ Michael Jacobs' ceaselessly engaging, scrupulously nonjudgmental chronicle of Gazowsky and his flock going full-bore into a massive, $100 million film production is the ideal picture … where passion, can-doism, jots of naïveté and gobs of faith converge for cinematic dream-weaving. As the doc's main character, Gazowsky is endearing and sweet, a sanguine if irresponsible Quixote who enlists our goodwill — his movie is patent folderol, yet you cheer for him — before squandering it with faith-bloated hubris.”
The animation, “And Then Suddenly,” by Oded Naaman, will begin the screening. A private moment of enlightenment is converted to a fable, illustrated using symbolism, imagination and a bit of self humor.
Tickets are $10 at the door and $5 for kids 16 and under. Fresh popcorn and concessions are also available.
Coyote Film Festival is a fundraising arm of EcoArts of Lake County, a non-profit dedicated to bringing visual art opportunities and ecologic stewardship to the residents and visitors of Lake County.
For more information visit: www.EcoArtsofLakeCounty.org.
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