LOWER LAKE, Calif. –The Lower Lake High Drama Club will present its annual “Comedy and Tragedy Night” on Wednesday, Feb. 13.

The show will begin at 7 p.m. in the Lower Lake High School multipurpose room, 9430 Lake St.

Cost of admission will be $5. All proceeds will go towards a new sound system for the upcoming Musical, “Fame” which will be presented in May.  

The students took their act on the road as they competed in the 57th annual Lenaea Drama Festival Feb. 2-3 in Folsom.

The festival welcomed 50 high school theater programs from Northern California offering a venue to provide feedback to student performances of one act plays, monologues, scenes and songs.

The festival provided response and workshops from statewide professional theater artists to all student participants.

“The students who participated in this year's event were both experienced on stage and first-timers,” said Program director, Tracy Lahr.  

The One-Act that Lower Lake performed was entitled, “Hard Candy.” The play was directed by student-director, Sarah Christensen.  

The cast included Jon Duncan, Patrick McGough, Amanda Guajardo, Cristian Mendez, Tiffany Sillert, Luis Ruiz, Michelle Kimsey-Bailey, Colby Callahan, Zef Roofener, Avrill Pier and Sadie Sheldon.  

Also participating in the festival in the monologue category were Megan Smith, Julia Johnson, Avrill Pier and Michelle Kimsey-Bailey.  

Taylor Klemins/Patrick McGough and Michelle Kimsey-Bailey/Tiffany Sillert competed in the duet scene category.

For additional information please call 707-994-6471, Extension 35.

COBB, Calif. – Cobb Mountain Artists presents featured artist Glenneth Lambert, who will talk about his ceramics and more recent digital photography, and have work to show, as well as some slides of his pieces.

The event will take place beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, at The Artisans Realm, 16365 Highway 175, Cobb.

In 1977 Lambert began the study of ceramics, art and science at Cypress College in Southern California.

Initially a science major, he was quickly lured to change his major to art by a dynamic ceramics teacher, who arranged for Lambert to attend a two-week workshop in Aspen, Colo., with internationally known ceramic artist Paul Soldner. This influence and continued art courses addicted him to art for life.  

He then transferred to San Francisco State, earning a bachelor’s degree and art teaching credential.

Lambert has shown his work in San Francisco and the North Bay region. He has bounced around the North Bay ever since, working in schools and programs, and has remained involved with community art efforts.  

He settled down in Cobb approximately eight years ago and is currently building a clay studio in his home.  

He will be be sharing both his ceramic work and recent digital photography.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Soper-Reese Community Theatre's Third Friday Live event on Feb. 15 will feature the local band Blue Collar.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the show taking place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the theater, located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.

Blue Collar plays a variety of music, from rock to folk, R&B, south, rock-a-billy and country.

There will be a bistro-style setting with tables and an open dance floor. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase.

The cost for tickets is $10 per person.

Tickets can be purchased from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, at the Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St. in Lakeport; tickets also are available at the Soper-Reese box office on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., telephone 707-263-0577.

Online ticket purchases also can be made at www.soperreesetheatre.com .

MENDOCINO, Calif. – The Mendocino Chamber Players will perform Sunday, Feb. 24.

The concert will begin at 3 p.m. at Preston Hall, 44831 Main St. in Mendocino.

This lively program includes Brahm's Clarinet Quintet; Schickele's String Quartet No. 1, titled “American Dreams”; and Lyric and Ostinato by quintet member, Jeff Ives.

The group includes Marcia Lotter, Tamara Dyer, Jeff Ives, Joel Cohen, and Eric Van Dyke.

Tickets cost $20 and are available at Harvest Market and Tangents in Fort Bragg, Out of this World in Mendocino, at the door and at www.symphonyoftheredwoods.org .

For more information call 707-937-1018.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Second Sunday Cinema will show “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” on Feb. 10.

The movie will be shown at Clearlake United Methodist Church, 14521 Pearl Ave. Clearlake, near Mullen.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the film beginning at 6 p.m.

The film showing is free.

“Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” by director Peter Joseph is a two-hour, 42 minute film which continues what the prior two films of the Zeitgeist Film Series started: a critical look at the “Zeitgeist” or “spirit /awareness of the time.”

Zeitgeist is pronounced “zitegiste,” with two long i’s, as in “bite.”

Unlike the first film, “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” does not attack Christianity, which alienated many viewers. Further, this third film delves far more more broadly into the causes of the major problems of our time.

“Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” focuses on the very fabric of the social order: monetary-market economics, and explains it with great clarity.

Many in the world today have come to see some very basic flaws in the economic system we share. Large scale debt defaults, inflation, industrial pollution, resource depletion, rising cancer rates and other signposts have emerged to bring the concern into the realm of “public health” overall. But very few consider the economic paradigm as a whole as the source.

After a review of (a lot) of info, “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward” concludes with suggestions for changing the System that is attacking our lives.

This is a long film, so SSC suggests you bring a small flat pillow. If the majority prefers, they will take a 10 minute intermission mid-film.

If you’ve followed this column through a good part of the seven years we’ve been publishing it, you know how hooked I am on poems that take a close look at the ordinary world. Here’s a fine poem by Eamon Grennan, who lives in New York state, about bees caught up against a closed window.

Up Against It

It’s the way they cannot understand the window
they buzz and buzz against, the bees that take
a wrong turn at my door and end up thus
in a drift at first of almost idle curiosity,
cruising the room until they find themselves
smack up against it and they cannot fathom how
the air has hardened and the world they know
with their eyes keeps out of reach as, stuck there
with all they want just in front of them, they must
fling their bodies against the one unalterable law
of things—this fact of glass—and can only go on
making the sound that tethers their electric
fury to what’s impossible, feeling the sting in it.

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 2010 by Eamon Grennan from his most recent book of poems, Out of Sight: New & Selected Poems, Graywolf Press, 2010. Poem reprinted by permission of Eamon Grennan and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2013 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.