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Occidental Gypsy. Courtesy photo.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – Back for another performance after their knockout concert last year, Occidental Gypsy, a red hot gypsy swing and fusion group, will appear on the Soper Reese Theatre stage on Wednesday, June 20, at 7 p.m.

Tickets are now on sale at $20, 18 and 15.

This nationally touring acoustic act championed by critics and fans, has played to packed houses at the legendary Nighttown in Cleveland, Green Mill in Chicago, Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis, World Cafe Live, Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, The Ark in Ann Arbor, the Blue Wisp in Cincinnati and many others.

This year, they will be headlining at the biggest Django Festival in the U.S.

Occidental Gypsy has shared the stage with greats like Rikki Lee Jones, Jorma Kaukenen, Stanley Jordan, Joe Sample, and David Bromberg. Bromberg said, “These guys have great singing, fantastic guitar and violin work, and high energy originals that leave the crowd crazy. An awesome band.”

Tickets are available at www.soperreesetheatre.com; at the theatre’s Box Office, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; or at the theatre Box Office two hours before show time.

The theatre telephone is 707-263-0577; Travel Center phone is 707-263-3095.
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From left, Val Nixon, president of the Lake County Land Trust; Trinity Taylor, first place winner in the K-5 photo category; and Conni Lemen-Kosla, co-founder of Lake County Rural Arts Initiative, at the Art & Nature Day on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Rodman Preserve near Upper Lake, Calif. Courtesy photo.


LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Land Trust and the Lake County Rural Arts Initiative partnered on May 5 to have a wonderful event at the Land Trust’s Rodman Preserve.

The event kicked off with a photography walk along the Rodman Preserve’s nature trail and included a family hike, local art exhibits, yoga for kids, hand-painted tattoos, live music, plein-air stations, scavenger hunts, nature journaling, and educational nature booths. It was a lovely day.

The student photo contest was a huge hit with amazing cash prize winners for kids of all ages.

From left, Maddy Brewster, the first place winner of the 6-8 photo category, and Conni Lemen-Kosla, co-founder of Lake County Rural Arts Initiative at the Art & Nature Day on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Rodman Preserve near Upper Lake, Calif. Courtesy photo.

The photos were of the local nature and close to one hundred photos were submitted. We have some very talented student photographers and nature lovers growing up in our county.

Art & Nature Day was instituted as a way to participate in and support “Take it Outside California,” a statewide initiative designed to connect Californians with great outdoor spaces.

To learn more about Lake County Rural Arts Initiative go to www.lcrai.org and to discover the ongoing activities of the Lake County Land Trust go to www.lakecountylandtrust.org .


Hailey Trejo, the first place winner in the 9-12 photo category at the Art & Nature Day on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Rodman Preserve near Upper Lake, Calif. Courtesy photo.
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The Resilience project at the Main Street Gallery in Lakeport, Calif. Photo by Middletown Art Center staff.


LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Friday, June 1, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., the public is invited to Lake County Art Council’s Main Street Gallery in Lakeport for the First Friday Fling and an opening reception of work created during the Resilience project.

The exhibit includes vibrant paintings from the Resilience project’s Soul Painting and Drawing the Inside Out classes, exhibited in half of the main gallery, as well as prints and photographs created during the project.

The Resilience chapbook of poetry and images will be available to peruse and pre-order. The exhibit will be on view until July 2.

The Main Street Gallery is located at 325 N. Main St. in Lakeport and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Inspired by Nature’s resilience as a mirror for our county’s recovery after devastating wildfires, the MAC’s Resilience project has provided opportunities for adults and teens, to reframe the fire experience, which impacted us all directly or indirectly, into creative expression and aesthetics.

More than 220 individuals ranging in age from 12 to 85 have attended affordable classes in photography, creative writing, painting and printmaking once or many times since June 2017.

“In addition to the healing and enriching aspects of art-making, a key goal of our project is to weave art into daily life throughout Lake County,” said artist and Project Director Lisa Kaplan. “To this end, we are opening Resilience project exhibits in multiple locations throughout the County, and publishing our chapbook called Resilience, a community reframes disaster through art, which includes powerful writings and images that were created or reworked during the Resilience project. It’s a moving and beautiful collaborative effort by participants that honors our collective recovery.”

MAC continues to spread and share the healing power of art with this new exhibit at Main Street Gallery, the 4th of 7 exhibits opening countywide.

On June 9, the Fore Family Vineyards Tasting Room in Kelseyville will host and open another Resilience exhibit from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Additional exhibits of Resilience work will be on view at Clearlake City Hall and at the Adventist Health Hospital Mountain View Café in Clearlake in the weeks to come.

On May 26, MAC opened its Resilience: Art In Dialogue with Nature exhibit at the art center, which is a hybrid of the EcoArts tradition and the resilience theme. The impressive exhibit is on view Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Fridays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Earlier this month Resilience exhibits were installed at Lakeport City Hall and at the Lake County Courthouse. Both are open to the public during their regular business hours. Each of these exhibits further MAC’s goal of embedding art in public spaces and connecting distant corners of Lake County through the arts.

MAC is grateful to the California Arts Council, Adventist Health, Lake County Arts Council and other local partners, agencies and businesses for their support of Resilience and their ongoing commitment to assisting MAC in providing local, affordable, quality access to the arts and art-making.

The Middletown Art Center is located at 21456 Highway 175, at the junctions of Hwy 29 in Middletown.

Join the folks at MAC this weekend and throughout the year for a variety of community and cultural events including First Friday Art Walks, classes, musical performances, film screenings, dances, farmers market and more.

Registration for MAC’s Adventures in Art and Storytelling summer camp, an extravaganza of visual and performing arts for children kindergarten through ninth grade has also begun.

Visit www.MiddletownArtCenter.org to learn more about what’s happening at MAC and to be part of a burgeoning arts and culture scene in Lake County.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Take a journey to the world of Fado, often described as the Portuguese version of the blues, in recognition of Portugal Day on Sunday, June 10.

The concert will take place at 7 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.

This concert presents Fado as interpreted by Ramana Vieira, a Northern California native of Portuguese descent who has been described by The New York Times as an American at the forefront of the Fado resurgence.

The San Francisco Examiner calls her “the Rising Star in World Music." Her authentic and individual style, brilliant musicality, and colorful heritage has broad appeal.

The audience will be immersed in an evening of the romantic, yet haunting rhythms of Fado, the folk music of Portugal.

Fado, which literally means fate or destiny, is the most widely recognized genre of Portuguese music, dating back to early 19th century, Lisboa. Traditionally, fados are dramatic ballads expressing love, loss and redemption.

Vieira is performing here in Lake County in recognition of Portugal Day which celebrates the death of Portugal’s national literary icon, Luís de Camões, who died on June 10, 1580.

De Camões has been compared to William Shakespeare in his mastery of the language while his poetic masterpiece, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), has become an icon of Portuguese literature.

Fado has Moorish musical roots and is often associated with pubs, cafés and restaurants.

Originating in 1820s Portugal, this style of singing is characterized by poetic lyrics related to the elements of love, loss, redemption and occasionally humor. These ballads evoke the emotion of “saudade,” a yearning for something lost.

Tickets are $20. Open seating. Tickets are available at www.soperreesetheatre.com, at the theatre’s Box Office, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St., Lakeport, Monday-Friday from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm; or at the theatre Box Office two hours before show time. Theatre telephone is 707-263-0577; Travel Center phone is 707-263-3095.
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“Police Academy.” Courtesy photo.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – The GenX Cinema series presents a double feature celebrating 1980s film classics with “Police Academy” and “Revenge of the Nerds” screening on Saturday, June 16, at 7 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.

Entry is by donation.

No host beer bar will be open; additional refreshments will be on sale at the concession stand including popcorn and candy.

The 1984 comedy, “Police Academy,” is directed by Hugh Wilson, and stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall. So dopey and sophomoric you can’t help but love it. In fact, this film spawned six sequels and an animated TV series. Rated R. Run time is one hour and 36 mins.

Undeniably lowbrow but surprisingly sly, “Revenge of the Nerds” (1984) has enough big laughs to qualify as a classic in the slobs-vs.-snobs subgenre. Rated R. Run time is one hour and 30 mins.

Both films are sponsored by Valenzuela Tire & Wheel and by The Nerd Cave.

The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com.


“Revenge of the Nerds.” Courtesy photo.

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