Posts Tagged ‘Arts & Entertainment’
Who Would You Like to See Us Try to Book for the 2024 Mill Valley Music Fest?!?
Bottom line: we’re committed to fine-tuning this event and earning your support in 2024. We won’t fix everything for everyone – good luck trying to get 10,000 people to agree on their 10 favorite bands – but we’re committed to making you proud of the Mill Valley Music Fest.
Read MoreThe 2023 Mill Valley Music Fest Is In the Books – We Are Incredibly Grateful For Your Support, We Welcome Your Feedback and We’re Excited to Start Building for 2024!
Bottom line: we’re committed to fine-tuning this event and earning your support in 2024. We won’t fix everything for everyone – good luck trying to get 10,000 people to agree on their 10 favorite bands – but we’re committed to making you proud of the Mill Valley Music Fest.
Read MoreDouble the Juneteenth: Mill Valley’s Freedom Festival on Downtown Plaza Is June 17, Marin City’s Follows on June 19
There are pair of Juneteenth in our neck of the woods, starting with the Freedom Festival, which is on June 17th from 11am-3pm on the Downtown Plaza in Mill Valley. Two days later, the Marin City community galvanizes around the theme of “Ascension: And Still We Rise,” Marin City’s 7th annual Juneteenth Festival at Rocky Graham Park, starting at 9am.
Read MoreMill Valley Chamber Hosts Award-Winning Painter Elizabeth Geisler’s Latest Work in June – First Tuesday Artwalk Is Tuesday, June 6th, 5:30-7:30pm
Best known for her water reflection paintings, Geisler creates images that reside somewhere between photorealism and abstraction. Up close, the color use and brushwork read as abstraction, but from a distance, they blend into a more representational depiction.
Read MorePoet and/the Bench to Showcase ‘Peripheral Visions’ Mixed Media and Collage by SF Artist Jamie Kelty – Runs June 6 – Sept. 30
The raw materials and meticulous details in Jamie Kelty’s collages and mixed media paintings are magical worlds she creates to reflect memories, history and a crafted world of design.
Read MoreTam Valley Juggernaut The Junction to Host a Live Performance by LA-Based Supergroup ‘Circles Around the Sun’ – June 28
“In this metamorphosis, Circles Around the Sun spans both heartbreak and hope,” the band says. “Doors close; windows open; new directions extend themselves in mysterious ways. But sometimes you know it’s real from the first beat. It just clicks. It’s just how Neal would want it. It’s Circles Around The Sun.”
Read MoreGet a Glimpse of the Sights & Sounds of the 2023 Mill Valley Music Fest!
A gorgeous selection of 2023 Mill Valley Music Fest photos by Jon Bauer.
Read MoreThat’s a Wrap – ‘Immediate Family’ Receives Audience Choice Award at 2023 DocLands Documentary Film Festival
DocLands Documentary Film Festival concluded May 14 after five days of in-person screenings at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center with the announcement of the overall 2023 DocLands Audience Choice Award for Denny Tedesco’s “Immediate Family,” which chronicles the journey of a group of close friends who became the premiere studio band for the musical icons of the ‘70s and beyond, giving us a backstage tour of rock history.
Read MoreHappy Feet Dance School Eyes 45th Birthday, Readies Performances at Dominican University – May 20-21
The performances are titled “What a Glorious Feeling,” showcase preschool through high school dancers as well as adult students. Both shows feature our advanced ensemble dancers performing original choreography to a Singing In The Rain suite.
Read MoreDocLands Documentary Film Festival Returns May 10-14, Opens With The Indigo Girls & Closes With ‘Razing Liberty Square’
When Mill Valley Film Festival organizers at the California Film Institute dove into launching the inaugural DocLands documentary film festival several years ago, they did so with the wind of an ever-growing MVFF behind them, as well as the knowledge that documentary filmmaking had taken a quantum leap forward in terms of both quality and popularity.
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