LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Rotary is sponsoring the Brazilian group “Getting the Show on the Road” on Sunday, Oct. 19.

The group of talented young people will perform at the Marge Alakszay Center at the Lakeport Unified School District campus, 250 Lange St.

The show starts at 5:30 p.m.

The performance is free, although donations are welcome.

Getting the Show on the Road is a cross-continental music, dance and acting performance tour.

Traveling across the United States, young artists from the favellas of Rio de Janeiro will perform classic Brazilian songs, original musical compositions and dance routines plus unique interpretations of Brazilian and American songs.

For more information visit www.gettingtheshowontheroad.com or www.facebook.com/showontheroad .

MENDOCINO, Calif. – Fort Bragg Center for the Arts presents the The Farallon Quintet, on Sunday Oct. 19.

The concert will begin at 3 p.m. in Preston Hall, 44831 Main St. in Mendocino.
 
This dynamic Bay Area ensemble is the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the clarinet quintet – string quartet plus clarinet – repertoire. 

The ensemble is made up of Bay Area musicians who are principal players in such orchestras as the San Francisco Ballet, Santa Rosa Symphony, Marin Symphony and the Sacramento Philharmonic.

The group takes its name from the Farallon Islands, located off the coast of San Francisco. They represent the group’s inspiration, which is founded in the simplicity and beauty of nature.

They will be joined by pianist Tanya Gabrielian, who gave a stunning recital in the FBCA series two years ago. 

Their varied program includes a work for viola by Benjamin Britten, The Ravel String Quartet, the Sextet by Aaron Copeland and Overture on Hebrew Themes by Prokofiev. Tickets are at Fiddles and Cameras, and Harvest Market in Fort Bragg, and Out of This World, Mendocino.

For more information call 707-937-1018.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Blues and rock ‘n roll band, The Hip Replacements, will appear at the Soper Reese Theatre at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 as part of the theater’s Third Friday Live Series.

The group features Jim Williams on guitar plus vocals, “Mojo” Larry Platz on guitars, and Tom Aiken on keyboards.

The dance floor will be open.

The group will be playing in place of the previously announced Double Standyrd.

All seats for “Third Friday Live” are $10.

Tickets are available online at www.soperreesetheatre.com ; at the theater box office, 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; or by phone at 707-263-0577.

Tickets also are available at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St. in Lakeport, Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is conducting an art contest to select the design for the state’s 2014-2015 upland game bird stamp.         

The California Upland Game Bird Stamp Art Contest is open to all U.S. residents ages 18 and over.

Entries will be accepted through Dec. 12, 2014.

This year’s stamp will feature the Gambel’s quail, and art contest entries must include at least one Gambel’s quail.

Entries will be judged on originality, artistic composition, anatomical accuracy and suitability for reproduction as a stamp and a print.

The contest will be judged by a panel of experts in the fields of ornithology, conservation, art and printing.

The winning artist will be selected during a public judging event, with the date and location to be announced later.

An upland game bird validation is required for hunting migratory and resident upland game birds in California.

The money generated from stamp sales must be spent on upland game bird-related conservation projects, education, hunting opportunities and outreach.

CDFW sells about 200,000 upland game bird validations annually.

Any individual who purchases an upland game bird validation may request their free collectable stamp by visiting www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/collectorstamps/ .

For collectors who do not purchase a hunting license or upland game bird validation or for hunters who wish to purchase additional collectible stamps, an order form is also available on the website.

For contest information and entry forms, please visit www.wildlife.ca.gov/Upland-Game-Bird-Stamp .

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – A one-time date change is on tap for November’s Fiddlers Jam at Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum.

While jams are typically held the first Sunday of each month, a fundraiser activity in the barn the night before November’s first Sunday has resulted in a change to Nov. 9 for the next jam.

The museum will be open as usual, but the Jam will push out to the second Sunday, with the fiddlers playing in the barn from noon through 2 p.m.

Note: This is only for the month of November. In December and going forward, the schedule will revert to the first Sunday.

You can still come and enjoy the museum with all of its latest acquisitions and displays any Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The stage stop, operated by the Lake County Historical Society, is located at 9921 Soda Bay Road (Highway 281) in Kelseyville. 

Learn more about the Saturday, Nov. 1, fundraiser to benefit the museum’s new blacksmith shop at www.elystagestop.com or www.lakecountyhistory.org , check out the stage stop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/elystagestop or call the museum at 707-533-9990.

UKIAH, Calif. – Now in its 11th year, the Friends of the Mendocino College Library, an affiliate of the Mendocino College Foundation, is offering its fall reading series. 

This series will kick off with well-known Ukiah Poet Laureate Bill Churchill.

The first reading, with Churchill, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in room 4210 on the Mendocino College Ukiah Campus, 1000 Hensley Creek Road in Ukiah. Room 4210 can be found upstairs in the new college library.

Churchill is currently serving as the Ukiah poet laureate and teaches at Mendocino College and Santa Rosa Junior College, where he also has been a California Poet in the Schools since 1998.

His publications include Song of Seasons, Controlled Burn, Durmiendo Con Fantasmas/Sleeping with Ghosts and El Velo/The Veil.

Churchill's work has been included in journals such as First Leaves, Americas Review, Santa Clara Review and Frontera-Esquina.

He also has been a featured poet at the Summer Dream Poetry Festival in Vancouver, B.C. in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Following the reading, there will be an open mic session to allow audience members to recite their poetry. Sign ups will take place prior to the reading and during the break.

Additional authors in the series include Lake County Poet Laureate Casey Carney on Nov. 16 at Mendocino College’s new Lake Center in Lakeport, and novelist Waights Taylor Jr. on Nov. 20 at the Ukiah Campus.

For more information, please check the college Web site at www.mendocino.edu or call 707-468-3051.