Page 66 - Sonoma County Gazette October 2018

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
-$15, 6:30p-9p, Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Hwy 12, Sebastopol, finalpassages. org/film-oct/, info@finalpassages.org
Oct 11 ~ Conscious Light - film on the Devine Life and Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, his focus on finding and demonstrating a way to enable all human beings to truly be free of the life of pain and suffering and death. Rialto Cinema, 6868 McKinley St, Debastopol. INFO: facebook.com/consciouslightfilm
Oct 18-21 ~ 2018 Alexander Valley Film Festival - Domestic and international films, documentaries, short films, special programs, winners from the Student Film Competition, The Clover Theater, 121 E 1st St., Cloverdale, CA, 707-893-7150, avfilmsociety.org
Sonoma Film Institute
FREE, $5 parking fee, Sonoma State University, 101 E. Cotati Ave., Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, Rohnert Park, sfi.sonoma.edu
Oct 5, 7 ~ Music For The Eyes - Visual Music - Animation, light manipulation, electronic feedback. 7p, Oct 7, 4:30p
Oct 12, 14 ~ Tokyo Story - Couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their children. Oct 12, 7p, Oct 14, 4:30p
Oct 19, 21 ~ Until The Birds Return - Three stories showcase the Algerian landscape. Oct 19, 7p, Oct 21, 4:30p
Oct 26, 28 ~ Pickup On South Street - New York street drama. Oct 26, 7p, Oct 28, 4:30p
Oct 12,13 ~ 2018 16th Annual Sebastopol Cemetery Walk - Colorful actors present six dramatic performances depicting snapshots in the lives of Sebastopol. $40, St.Stephens Episcopal Church, 500 Robinson Rd, Sebastopol, brownpapertickets.com/event/3504402
Oct 12 - Oct 28 ~ The Night Alive by Conor McPherson - A play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations. Main Stage West, Sebastopol, mainstagewest.com
Oct 12 - Oct 28 ~ The Great God Pan - A dramatic off-Broadway triumph by Obie Award-winning playwright Amy Herzog. $15-$30, Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd North, Petaluma, 707- 763-8920, cinnabartheater.org
By Diane McCurdy
As the Supreme Court moves inexorably to
the right there are those who have offered to donate their organs to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Both reviled by some and raised to icon status by others, Ruth soldiers on in her own
By Date
Oct 18 ~ Best of the Fest – Documentary Films - Shorts Program #2 - Three Red Sweaters, Kodachrome Elegies, Negative Space, Shooting War, Best of Luck With the Wall. $12, 12p, 7p Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High St, 707-829- 4797, sebastopolfilmfestival.org
Oct 28 ~ Coco - Young Miguel loves music despite his family's ban on it. $4-$6, FREE 2 and under, Rio Theater and Cafe, 20396 Bohemian Highway, Monte Rio, 707-520-4075, riotheater.com/calendar
Oct 2 ~ The Bicycle Revolution - Follows 15 students cycling 12 cities, exploring the challenge of creating bicycle-friendly cities. FREE. 7-8:30p, Sports Basement, 1970 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa, 707- 545-0153, bikesonoma.org
Oct 4-14 ~ 41st Annual Mill Valley Film Festival - Best in Independent and World Cinema., facebook.com/ MillValleyFilmFestival
Oct 10 ~ Let's Talk About Death - Film and Discussion - Watch the Disney Pixar movie Coco and join us for a lively and educational discussion afterward. $5
By Date
Thru Oct 7 ~ Guys and Dolls - High rollers and the gals who love them! $22-$35, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W 6th Street, G.K. Hardt Theatre, Santa Rosa, 707-523-4185, 6thstreetplayhouse.com/
slow, carefully thought out manner.
At 85 she is the oldest member of the court
and says she will continue there as long as her mental faculties remain shar. As of now
they are acute. Documentarians Julie
Cohen and Betsy West have given us a mostly adulatory look at the life and times of Ms. Ginsburg.
She was born in Brooklyn to Jewish
emigrant parents. Her family was not
particularly religious but they did belong to
a synagogue where Ruth absorbed the tenets
of that faith. She attended Cornell University
where she met her husband Martin and they
married when she graduated. He developed
testicular cancer at an early age and Ruth
cared for him and their children and still
made the Harvard Law Review. Martin was
as light-hearted and jocular as Ruth was
serious and dedicated. He became a highly
successful and respectful lawyer in his own
right and was never threatened by his wife’s achievements.
Ironically Ruth has become a pop culture personality.
Ruth’s academic credentials were always sterling but she still struggled with her career. At Harvard a professor asked, “How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?” Nominated to the Appellate Court by Jimmy Carter and the the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton, Ruth has been a life-long supporter of women’s rights and gender equality. Her biography is listed chronologically here but is presented more artfully in the film juxtaposing present and past to enhance certain points which makes facts a lot more interesting.
Another film will be released later this year called On the Basis of Sex and it will focus on Ruth’s struggle for
An annual Sebastopol tradition of ceremonial Pomo dances by youth and adults in traditional regalia. FREE, 12-1p, Sebastopol Plaza Gazebo, 6908 Weeks Way, Sebastopol, pomoproject.org
women starring Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer. Ruth has survived colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and has had a stent put in her coronary artery.
Ongoing
Reader's Theatre Group ~ Read a script adapted from literature, and the audience picturing the action from hearing the script being read aloud. FREE; 2nd & 4th Tue; 7p, Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, 707-829-2176, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Because of her liberal, progressive leanings, there are those of us who pray she’ll live forever.
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Even the title of her story is a play on the name of the deceased rapper, The Notorious BIG. She is a tiny dynamo and we see her in the gym doing push ups and lifting weights wearing a t-shirt with the meme “Super Diva”. She enjoys showing her collection of lacy collars that spice up the dour robes that judges wear. She has even had a praying mantis named for her and is constantly satirized on Saturday Night Live.
Thru Oct 7 ~ Tapas Short Play Festival
We see her in the audience at an opera. She is rapt. Her love of opera is what precipitated her unlikely friendship with fellow judge Antonin Scalia who was her political polar opposite. She is always mentioned
on list of the “most powerful” or the “most influential” women.
Oct 4-14 ~ Durang Durang - Award- winning American author Christopher Durang’s best-known one-act comedies! Pay-what-you-can preview on Oct 4 at 7:30p. Directed by Sandy Ziviani $12-$25, Cloverdale Performing Art's Center, 209 N. Cloverdale Blvd., cloverdaleperformingarts.com
Oct 5-14 ~ How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Tracing the journey of the Garcia family’s flight from a dictatorship country to New York City. Parking $4, SRJC’s Newman Auditorium, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, 707- 527-4307, theatrearts.santarosa.edu
Oct 14 ~ Sonoma County Pomo Dancers
- Written by Bay Area playwrights $15- $18 7:30p and 2p. Mt. Jackson Masonic Lodge, 14040 Church St., Guerneville. INFO: 800-838-3006, pegasustheater8. brownpapertickets.com
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