WHEEL OF LIGHT – April 2013
One of the most interesting and dramatic times of the year is Spring Solstice. The Sun passes from Pisces to Aries, leaving the sign with the least focus on self and the greatest awareness of Self and entering the sign that brings renewal to the individual expression of the life force. While Pisces can be dreamy and ethereal, Aries is assertive and present. This pattern is reflected in the transits this month as six planets will be in Aries at various times. The most significant of these alignments is a conjunction of the Sun and Mars.
Seeking Animals Real and Imaginary
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, the 29-year-old nonprofit focused on arts and art education in the Healdsburg community, announced the subject of its next exhibit will be “Beauty in the Beasts,” to open for viewing on Aug. 17.
But first they’re soliciting artwork in any...
Just a Man: ‘The Mountaintop’ at The 222
By Harry Duke
Healdsburg’s The 222 concludes its season of professional drama with The Mountaintop, co-directed by Aldo Billingsley and Rebecca Novick. Playwright Katori Hall’s imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on Earth runs through April 14.
It’s late in the evening of...
‘Harlem Nutcracker’ in Concert at the Raven
Now widely known as The Harlem Nutcracker, it was one of several suites Ellington and Strayhorn wrote for Columbia, as well as film scores and other work. “One of the things that he and Columbia Records talked about was him and Billy Strayhorn doing a sort of Nutcracker Suite” just in time for the Christmas 1960 record-selling season, Marcus Shelby said.
County’s arts and culture organizations generated $80.4 million annually
25 percent increase in economic impact since 2005