Arts & Entertainment
The Secret’s Out! The Mill Valley Music Festival Takes Over Friends Field on May 7!
None other than Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals have been tapped to kick off the new festival, which also features funk-jam band Lettuce, Nashville psychedelic-folk rocker Liz Cooper & the Stampede; Latin Grammy Award-winning Venezuelan disco-funk trio Los Amigos Invisibles; and the Bay Area-based La Doña, a Latin-Alternative music project from Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea.
Read MoreThe Terra Schools Host Lunar New Year Festival – Feb. 5, 10am-12pm
On Saturday, Feb. 5 from 10am-12pm, Xa and her team are hosting a Lunar New Year Festival on their campus at 70 Lomita Drive. The event – outdoors and with plenty of space for social distancing – will feature Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese programs, performances, phenomenal raffles prizes and multicultural activities.
Read MoreNwandu’s Electrifying Play ‘Pass Over’ Hits the MTC Stage – Thru Feb. 20
Marin Theatre Company returns this week with acclaimed playwright Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s provocative, electrifying play Pass Over, which reopened Broadway after the pandemic closures and drew “blazingly theatrical and thrillingly tense” raves from The New York Times.
Read MoreSweetwater Unveils Surprise Show Feat. Multi-Talented Garage Rock Hero Ty Segall – Feb. 8
Ty Segall, a longtime pillar of the Bay Area’s garage rock scene, is set to perform with his Freedom Band on February 8, just on the heels of the COVID-driven cancellation.
Read MoreThink Big: Local Art Galleries Launch ‘Mill Valley Art Dealers Association’
A collective quartet of renowned local galleries – Seager/Gray Gallery, Desta Gallery, Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery and Robert Green Fine Arts – have launched the Mill Valley Art Dealers Association to raise our community’s profile as an arts destination.
Read MoreSweetwater Music Hall Taps Chris Porter as Talent Buyer
The Sweetwater Music Hall team announced this week that they’ve hired Chris Porter to fill one of the most critically important cogs in the live music industry – the talent buyer.
Read MoreMill Valley’s Multi-Hyphenate: Once Around Owner Takes on New Role at Throckmorton Theatre
“This theater is knee deep in creative souls and people and projects. My role is to kind of tease out of these wonderfully creative people and identify projects they want to do and then go raise the money for them to bring it to fruition. It’s also much more exciting for people who want to give.”
Read MoreCheck Out Jackie Sherman’s ‘Remnants Of My Soul’ Art at MV Chamber – Thru February
For her latest show, artist Jackie Sherman says the works “are a snapshot in time of this lifelong journey. My aim is to expose the power in the vulnerable act of displaying raw, visceral works that show life as it often is: messy, beautiful, scattered, and stitched together piece by piece.”
Read MoreMt. Tam Church Hosts ‘Hope & Joy’: An Evening of Organ Music and Readings – Jan. 30
On January 30th, 5-5:30pm, Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church is hosting an evening of organ music and readings to celebrate the new year and to look towards the future with a focus on hope and joy.
Read MoreThe Indispensable – and Now Digital – Mill Valley Community Map Has Arrived
Vitality – eating, drinking, shopping, exploring, gathering and inspiring – is our north star. But you’ve got to able to find it. We’ve got you covered.
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