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Calendar
from Marin March 2022
THEATER / COMEDY / MUSIC / MUSEUMS / EVENTS / FILM / TALKS EDITED BY CHRISTINA MUELLER
ARTS & LECTURES
MAR 15–20 La Sylphide
Ballet choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Seasons” reimagines the story of a Scotsman who is enchanted by a spirit in this program known for challenging choreography and use of en pointe for aesthetic rather than acrobatic purposes. sfbllet.org
MAR 18–19 City of
Ghosts Inspired by his 30 years in San Francisco and the city’s resilience, adaptation and evolution, choreographer Joe Landini designed this dance meditation on loss and memories as a part of civic life. odc.dance
MAR 24–MAY 1 Fefu and Her Friends
Utilizing the multistoried, multiroomed Strand Theater as a nontraditional theater space, this story is told as the audience, broken up into groups, tour Fefu’s home, where a comedy-drama of eight women gathering at a New England country home in 1935 unfolds in gossip, flirtations and provocations. act-sf.org
MAR 31 Dance
Downtown Kicking off a series of events that celebrates the company’s five decades of dance is this reprise of two seminal works by ODC founder and artistic director Brenda Way that exemplify the company’s emotional and virtuosic choreographic style: “Investigating Grace” and “Speaking Volumes.” odc.dance
William Wiley
MAR 31–APR 24 Hotter
Than Egypt Set in the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution, this play looks at a couple’s journey to Cairo to celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary — when troubles brew it draws in their newly engaged Egyptian tour guides. marintheatre.org
MUSIC
MAR 6 Reimagining
Sondheim Fifty composers come together to interpret the works of the recently deceased, legendary musical and film composer and lyricist, as played by pianist Anthony De Mare. gmc. sonoma.edu
MAR 10–11 Airplane
Family Members of Jefferson Starship, Grateful Dead, Bob Weir’s Rat Dog and others join together to perform Paul Kantner’s “Blows Against the Empire” in honor of the album’s 50th anniversary. sweetwatermusichall.com
MAR 12 Judas Priest
A premiere 1980s’ metal band known as much for studs, leather and bleached hair as for their 1984 album “Screaming for Vengeance” pairs up with Queensrÿche for a one-two headbanger of a show. thefoxoakland.com
MAR 13 Russian Chamber Orchestra
Featuring violinist Jennifer Cho tackling “The Devil’s Trill” sonata by Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini (a Vivaldi contemporary), this program welcomes spring with works by Haydn, Debussy and Shostakovich. russianchamberorch.org
MAR 20 Peter and
the Wolf Prokofiev’s symphony is typically an introduction to orchestral works for children more familiar with YouTube; the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra will be playing, sitting side-by-side with the professionals on stage. marincounty.org
MAR 27 Quartet San
Francisco This tango concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of tango maestro Astor Piazzola turns the work of a standing-whileplaying group into a feat of athleticism from cellist Andrés Vera that is akin to the dance itself. chambermusicmill valley.org
MAR 29 Billie Eilish
The teen singing sensation (she’s 19) and youngest-ever winner of a Grammy for Album of the Year hits the road in support of her latest album, Happier Than Ever. chasecenter.com
COMEDY
MAR 10 Pauly Shore
The stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his 1990s’ MTV show “Totally Pauly” jumps back onto the stage at Cobb’s in San Francisco. cobbscomedy.com
MAR 27 Bobby Collins
“The Tonight Show” veteran not only has a gift for precise physical timing and impeccable audience insight — his skillful dissection of everyday life delivers uproarious stories with effortless flair. montalvoarts.org
FILM
MAR 10–17 Mostly British Film Festival
Opening with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in The Duke and closing with the documentary The Beatles and India, movies from English-speaking countries that are not the United States take a turn in the spotlight. mostlybritish.org
OPENS MAR 18 A Song
for Cesar Civil rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez’s legacy is burnished through the music of the era in this documentary that includes archival photographs and footage and interviews with Carlos Santana, Cheech Marin, Maya Angelou and Chavez’s United Farm Workers cofounder, Dolores Huerta. rafaelfilm.cafilm.org
MAR 27 The General
Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent film is considered one of the great actionadventure films of all time, here accompanied with live music by organist Cameron Carpenter. sfsymphony.org
MUSEUMS
THROUGH APRIL 3
William Wiley The San
Jim Henson
Francisco Art Institute graduate and Woodacre resident until his death in April last year is honored with a retrospective that pulls together a range of works dating back to 1970. bolinasmuseum.org
THROUGH MAY 15 Nature x Humanity
Bringing together knowledge, principles and tools from art, architecture, design, engineering and science, this review of Oxman Architects from 2007 to the present asks the question: “What is the role of an architect in the age of climate change? sfmoma.org
FEB 23–MAR 20 What
Is Art For? This tribute to William Wiley, a Marin artist who passed away last year, honors his preference to showcase famous and unknown artists on a level playing field and features works by Wiley, Patricia Leeds, Debbie Dicker and others. marinmoca.org
MAR 12–JULY 10
Alice Neel This retrospective considers a 20th-century champion of social justice and features a multitude of her paintings, drawings and watercolors, as well as a section dedicated to the artist’s stint in San Francisco. deyoung. famsf.org
MAR 31–AUG 14 Imagination Unlimited
With more than 25 beloved puppets and more than 150 artifacts, this show attempts to capture the groundbreaking work of Jim Henson and his creative teams as they built stories and worlds that represented the breadth and diversity of the very messy and sometimes confusing real world. thecjm.org
EVENTS
THROUGH APR 27 Bauhaus Typography
at 100 The inaugural exhibition from the Letterform Archive, which opened in November in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, features the work of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and other typographic contributors and explores the school’s unique legacy in graphic design. letterformarchive.org
ONGOING The Art of
the Brick Walk beside a 20-foot-long T-Rex dinosaur skeleton, come face-to-face with a giant skull or marvel at a sculpture of a man ripping his chest open with thousands of yellow — you guessed it — LEGO bricks — cascading out in an all-things LEGO exhibition from contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya. artofthebrickexhibit.com
MAR 1, 8 With Harry
NYU adjunct assistant professor and Marin resident Harry Chotiner returns to The Lark Theater for a live group discussion of a pre-chosen movie. larktheater.net
MAR 3–6 Barrel Tasting
Weekend Sonoma winemakers fling open their cellar doors for tastings direct from the barrels in a weekend-long event hosted by Sonoma Wine Road. wineroad.com
MAR 24 Conversations About Landscape
Part of the After Dark program at the Exploratorium, this discussion series turns up the music and the disco lights and invites guests to grapple with a theme that this time looks at environmental change through geography, ecology, environmental sciences, policy, design and the arts. exploratorium.edu
MAR 30 Bomba Night
The dance floor will be open when multimedia artist Dizzy Jenkins takes the stage to teach the rhythms and the cultural and spiritual significance of Puerto Rico’s traditional dance and musical style. events.kqed.org
MAR 23–27 Sonoma International Film Festival Celebrating its 25th year, this walkable, allencompassing eating, drinking and movie-watching event in downtown Sonoma is chockablock with films and food. Iconic chef and TV host Jacques Pépin will be honored in person this year with the first-ever Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) Culinary Excellence Award and a $10,000 honorarium to the Jacques Pépin Foundation at the Devour! Chefs & Shorts dinner on March 24. Chef Joanne Weir, co-owner of Sausalito’s Copita restaurant and the forthcoming Copita in San Jose, headlines Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places Lunch Presented by Northern California Public Radio on March 25. A three-course meal inspired by her PBS cooking and travel show, plus show highlights, await ticket holders. Good eats aside, the event is always a showcase for noteworthy new films — more than 100 are planned — with visiting filmmakers and talent on hand to discuss their projects. The festival has long prioritized the community, and actively works to support and sustain creative endeavors at Sonoma Valley High School, donating more than $725,000 to the Media Arts Program since its 2002 launch. What will pique your interest? sonomafilmfest.org
