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JOAN THORNTON - PAINTINGS at TOBY'S

Event Date: 
Friday, July 1, 2016 - 9:00am to Sunday, July 31, 2016 - 5:00pm
Event Description: 

Paintings and Artist Books

Art Book Furniture by Larry Golden

July 1 to 31, 2016

OPENING PARTY Sunday JULY 3, 2 - 5 PM

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Event Location: 
Toby's Feed Barn
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment

Music @ the Printshop: Bryan John Appleby, Gospel Flatters

Event Date: 
Sunday, July 10, 2016 - 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Event Description: 

Join us for a night of acoustic music at the printshop! Bryan John Appleby, Seattle- based singer/songwriter, will be playing songs from his latest LP, The Narrow Valley. It’s lush, complex, cinematic, and dramatic. "Part Devendra Banhart, part Damien Jurado... Appleby, writes lush folk songs that invoke a sweet vulnerability as they draw you into his world.

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Event Category: 
Music

Film and Panel - "Death Makes LIFE Possible" June 20th @ 6:30 PM

Event Date: 
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Event Description: 

WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES & San Geronimo Valley Community Center present the film:

"Death Makes Life Possible"

Monday, June 20th @ 6:30

SGV Community Center

Followed by panel discussion with producer Marilyn Schlitz, WMSS staff and folks from Hospice By the Bay and Marin Commission on Aging.

Join neighbors to delve into the mystery all of us face!!!

 

Questions? Mark Solomons 415.663.8148 x103 or mark@...

 

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Event Location: 
SGVCC
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment
Fire Symposium Designed for West Marin Residents
General Classes
Health & Fitness

Celebrate At Toby's

Event Date: 
Saturday, June 4, 2016 - 12:00pm to 9:00pm
Event Description: 

The a Western Weekend organizing commitee has met periodically over the past few months to better organize and coordinate the Western Weekend events.  While the parade on Sunday is what people come from near and far to see, the events on Saturday can serve as the annual community day.  Toby's Feed Barn is the center for the Saturday events with a program that can appeal to old and young alike.

4-H West Marin Fair–12am-4:00--Awards at 3pm

Gallery Route One-Artists in the Schools reception

Latino Photography Project & Salsa Contest 4-6pm

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Event Location: 
Toby's Feed Barn
Event Category: 
Fire Symposium Designed for West Marin Residents

Gallery Route One exhibits: Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Sukey Bryan, and Kellie Flint

Event Date: 
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 11:00am to Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 5:00pm
Event Description: 

Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Place Markers

Center Gallery

Sukey Bryan: Glacier Visions

Project Space

Kellie Flint: From My Failure to Ours

Annex

 

May 13 – June 19, 2016

Reception: May 15, Sunday, 3-5 pm - Artist Talks 2:30 pm

Salon: Sunday, June 19, 4-5 pm

 

Mary Mountcastle Eubank

Place Markers      

In Place Markers, Mary Mountcastle Eubank makes images that speak to the meaning of place: the way we mark it through time and the visual narratives we create to explain it. 

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Event Location: 
Gallery Route One
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment

Cuba: Literary and Art Tour

Event Date: 
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Event Description: 

As the first program in the Armchair Travel Series, join Maureen Cornelia and Elizabeth Fenwick as they bring Cuba to us through film and photographs this Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Point Reyes Library. We’ll learn about Murelando, a community arts project that works with children of the barrio and other highlights from an Art and Literary Tour led by American author, Tom Miller. Elizabeth will share her own experience in Cuba through her gorgeous photographs.

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Event Location: 
Point Reyes Library
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment
Fire Symposium Designed for West Marin Residents

Kids’ Musical Theater presents "Press Start - A New 8-Bit Musical"

Event Date: 
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 7:30pm
Event Description: 
Press Start is a wacky comedy about vintage video games characters putting on a musical fundraiser!  Press Start transports you inside the bright, pixelated world of video games with hilarious and heartfelt musical numbers.

 

KMT provides the opportunity for children to explore the skills of acting, improvisation, singing and dance through musical theater. Teamwork is emphasized as they work together on this production.

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Event Location: 
Dance Palace
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment

The Past in 3-D: Historical Maps with Dewey Livingston, Mapping Today with Richard Vallejos

Event Date: 
Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 7:00pm
Event Description: 

Maps provide one of the best views into the past, offering fascinating documentation of places at various times in our history. Historian and mapmaker Dewey Livingston shows some of his 3-D relief maps that depict Tomales Bay and parts of east Marin more than a century ago. Dewey will be joined by Richard Vallejos of Inverness, who will discuss new mapping techniques using digital technology.

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Event Location: 
Point Reyes Library
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment
Environmental
lecture

S.P.ROUT Seed Library's West, West Marin Revival Seed Swap in Bolinas

Event Date: 
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 5:30pm to 9:00pm
Event Description: 

The S.P.R.OUT Seed Library would love to see you seedy folks at our revival seed swap next Friday, the 18th, 6pm...
Seeds, Music, Meal-share, libations...

bring seeds (partial packages ok:), starts/cuttings, garden stuff that you would ike to share... well labled and with as much geeky info as you can stand to write down (see the descriptor list below).

Seed Swappin' new to you? Check out the How to Swap Seeds attachemnt below for the skinny.

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Event Location: 
Bookstore
Event Category: 
Art & Entertainment
Fire Symposium Designed for West Marin Residents
Health & Fitness

Join the Party!

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 12:00am
Event Description: 
California Bookstore Day
Our 14th Anniversary

 

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Event Location: 
Bookstore
Event Category: 
Fire Symposium Designed for West Marin Residents
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