Enjoy an evening of European music and dance at Chubritza Statewide Folk Dance Songs Part 1 happening tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Synapsis ($5-$20 sliding scale). The local supergroup plays traditional folk dance songs from a wide variety of European countries, including Bulgaria, Ukraine, Greece, Northern Macedonia, Albania, Turkey and more. Chubritza will perform at […]
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Arcata Playhouse’s Family Fun Series is Back
Arcata Playhouse’s Family Fun Series is back! Discover the magic of the Arcata Playhouse’s feel good annual event happening March 31-April 16 in the Creamery District. Look for the big top circus tent to catch headlining performers David Gonzalez with Cuentos: Tales from the Latino World, clown duo Coventry & Kaluza, singer/songwriter and fiddler Laurie […]
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and the Logger Bar’s New Ownership
What? Somebody bought The Logger Bar? It better not be some out-of-town, big-money developer who’s gonna — what’s that you say, it’s Michael Fields (formerly) of Dell’Arte? Well, OK then! As Fields takes the helm from long-time owner Kate Martin, the beloved watering hole is throwing an Irish Ceilidh (Gaelic for “party”) this St. Patrick’s […]
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Zero to Fierce Kicks off Saturday
For the sixth year in a row, Playhouse Arts presents its womxn’s festival: Zero to Fierce 2022: Listening Out Loud, celebrating creative womxn’s work, from Saturday, March 5 to Sunday, March 13 (free and ticketed events, no one turned away). Some of this year’s highlights include: local Black artists Mona Loki (Mo Harper-Desir) and All’Love […]
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Butoh Medea at Dell’Arte
Don’t miss the avant-garde theatrical dance performance Butoh Medea on Saturday, March 5, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 6, at 2 p.m. at Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre ($20, $15 student/senior). This special presentation features Yokko, an actor and interdisciplinary artist from Japan who won Best One-Woman Show for Butoh Medea in 2014 and has toured the […]
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2021 in Pictures
It’s been a pandemic year of daily walking for my wife and me, and we never left Humboldt County. From January through April, we continued to explore our local trails and enjoyed the wildlife and emerging spring flowers without attending any events or gatherings. Once we got our Moderna vaccination shots No. 1 and No. […]
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Photos: Migrations and Shoes
Described by organizer Laura Muñoz of Playhouse Arts as an ensemble-created multi-disciplinary, multicultural performance event, Migrations: Walking Together proved a fun and fascinating walk in the parks and other locations of Arcata on Saturday. It began in the Creamery District with a lovely dance performance and shoes — lots of shoes — and ended with a […]
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Photos: Baduwa’t Festival Gathers the People
Last Wednesday through Sunday, a memorable Baduwa’t Festival: A Gathering of the People (formerly known as the Mad River Festival) took place in Dadiqhoughuk (Blue Lake) at Dell’Arte’s outdoor performance spaces. To the chagrin of a few turned away at the door, a well-publicized policy required a vaccination card or proof of a recent negative COVID-19. […]
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Dell’Arte International Baduwa’t Festival July 14-18
The Dell’Arte Inaugural Guild presents Dell’Arte International’s five-day-and-night outdoor Baduwa’t Festival: A Gathering of the People (formerly the Mad River Festival), July 14-18 at Dell’Arte. The festival, featuring live theater, films, a circus, live music and and the popular Red Light Cabaret, is a collaboration between Dell’Arte, the Wiyot Tribe, Circus Nonsense and local organizations […]
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Flamenco Performance Friday at Bayside Community Hall
Click your heels and snap your fingers for the return of Seattle-based flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes, who brings her new work Flores de Verano Flamenco en Vivo to the Bayside Community Hall on Friday, July 9 at 8 p.m. ($25, VIP seating in the first 2 rows $38, VIP seating benefactor $55, students $18 child […]
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One Minute Dances, Allison Russell at Zero to Fierce
While you’ve got a minute, spin through the One Minute Dances presented as part of the Zero to Fierce Festival, featuring live and pre-recorded pieces by dancers, actors, musicians and performance artists on Friday, March 12 at 7 p.m. ($5). And if you dance along, who’s to know? Along with the zillion other offerings you […]
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The Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival, Feb. 4-11
If you’re kicking yourself because you missed Temple Beth El’s Yiddish Music Festival last year, don’t kvetch, it’s back! The Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival, a celebration of Yiddish and Sephardic culture, music and cuisine, is happening Feb. 4-11 via Zoom. The event was renamed this year in order to include increased diversity of […]