Fall 2017 Danville Cultural Arts Insert

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2017–2018 SUPPORT THE ARTS IN OUR COMMUNITY

Village Theatre The Town of Danville presents top notch entertainment at the Village Theatre.

Thursdays @ the VT is a program that is sure to get you out and about enjoying popular local bands as well as classic movies from yesteryear.

Live Music Series:

All shows start at 7:30 pm, General Admission: Presale $15, Door $20 Fog City Swampers: September 21 The Fog City Swampers have been rocking Northern California and beyond since 2003 with classics by artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, CCR, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, and many more. Whether you’re a Mississippi Queen or a Simple Man, the Fog City Swampers are sure to serve up a generous helping of rock and roll goodness!

Dirty Cello: November 9 Dirty Cello brings a high energy and unique spin on blues and bluegrass. Led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca Roudman, Dirty Cello is cello like you’ve never heard before. From down home blues with a wailing cello to virtuosic stompin’ bluegrass, Dirty Cello is a band that gets your heart thumping and your toes tapping!

Classic Movie Series:

Movies start at 7:30 pm, General Admission: $5 Wouldn’t it be great to see one of your favorite movies up on the big screen again? Revisit two classic films with us! Bring the whole family for an evening of fun and fresh popcorn. Your paid admission even gives you a chance to win one of our great movie themed prizes in our raffle!

October 5: Hocus Pocus (1993) PG December 7: A Christmas Story (1983) PG

The Jazz Room Series

Presale: $25 Adults, $15 Students, At Door: $30 Adults, $20 Students The Town of Danville is proud to present world class jazz musicians in an intimate, cabaret like setting. The Jazz Room, created by jazz vocalist Eve Marie Shahoian, features talent from around the globe and from our own Bay Area backyard.

September 29: Jeff Denson Quartet with California Jazz Conservatory Blue Ensemble November 11: The Kelly Park Big Band with special guests

Comedy with Liz Grant & Friends

General Admission: Presale $17, At Door $20 Stand-up comic Liz Grant brings a host of Bay Area and L.A. comedians to a brand new monthly comedy series at the Village Theatre!

September 14, October 26 November 2 & December 6

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www.villagetheatreshows.com

PRESCHOOL PERFORMANCE SERIES

All shows start at 10:00 am, General Admission: $5 The Town of Danville continues to bring high quality, professional and unique entertainers to the Tri-Valley area. Whether you have a teeny one, toddler or you yourself are just a kid at heart, you are sure to enjoy the variety of magicians, jugglers, and musicians who fill the Village Theatre with giggles and laughter each month. Artist may be subject to change.

September 8: Juggling and unicycles with Earth Capades October 6: Ventriloquist Steve Chaney & his puppet partner Cornelius Crowe November 3: Octopretzel returns! One of the Bay Area’s most popular bands!

December 1: Award-winning Zappo the Magician January 5: Circus Juggling with Bri Crabtree

Performing Arts Classes

All shows start at 6:00 pm, General Admission $6 Children, $12 Adults Sunshine Vocal Performance: August 22 & November 21

Theatre Performance Workshop

General Admission $8 Children, $10 Adults, $8 Seniors The Littlest Santa: November 30-December 3, 2017 Thursday, 9:30 am, school performance Friday, 7:00 pm Saturday, 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm Sunday, 2:00 pm

Teens on Broadway

General Admission $8 Children, $10 Adults, $8 Seniors January 6 at 8pm & January 7 at 2pm

Village Theatre Art Gallery

FACE IT

Upcoming Events at the Art Gallery Mystical Forest by Zoe Medlin

MIXED MEDIA MEETS MELTED WAX

Exploring Modern Interpretations of an Ancient Art Form

August 31–October 14, 2017 Opening Reception: Thursday, August 31, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Take a visual voyage into the richly layered and visually complex world of encaustic paintings, created by three Bay Area women artists. Encaustic is a form of painting that is done by adding pure color pigment to heated beeswax. The word encaustic comes from the Greek word enkaustikos and this art form was practiced be the Greek artists as early as 5th century. The resulting paintings are multifaceted and invite the viewer to look a little closer at the true color and the movement of the wax as it is “frozen” in time on the panel.

(925) 314-3460

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.”

—Vincent van Gogh November 2 – December 16, 2017 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 2, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

This exhibition will showcase Generation Z artists, a generation raised in the era of “selfies” and social media. In lieu of the camera, the most artistically talented students under the age of 18 have been invited to reveal their artistic interpretations of themselves through their paintings and drawings. From realism to abstraction guests to the gallery will revel in this collection of various self-interpretations.

WILD

Artwork that Captures the Beauty of Wild & Endangered Animals

January 11- February 24, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 11, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Viewers of this exhibit will be awed by the grace and beauty seen in wild animals. The aim of this exhibition is to bring awareness of the necessity to protect the earth’s most vulnerable animals. Bay Area artists show off their many talents through portrayals of animals and insects in drawing, painting and sculpture.

www.villagetheatreartgallery.com

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Danville Children’s Musical Theater

The Danville Children’s Musical Theater The Danville Children’s Musical Theater, produced and directed by Pam Greenan, has been presenting terrific shows to the audience of San Ramon Valley for 25 years. This group is the oldest, largest and more professional of the children’s acting ensembles in the San Ramon Valley.

Danville Children’s Musical Theater is a California non-profit corporation, dedicated to enriching the lives of young people by providing a vehicle for them to perform in the Musical Theater. Its two-production season is co-sponsored by the Town of Danville. Young people ages 10–16, inclusive, are invited to audition. Casting is by audition only.

There is a participation fee.

For more details, visit the Danville Children’s Musical Theater website at www.danvillecmt.com or email Pam Greenan at pamelagreenan@yahoo.com.

Guys and Dolls, Jr.

Auditions: Monday, August 23, 2017, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm Village Theatre

Performances: November 16, preview peformances 3:00 pm & 5:00 pm Opening Night: November 17, 7:30 pm November 18, 24 & 25, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm;

The Sound of Music, Jr.

Auditions: Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm Village Theatre

Performances: March 22, preview peformances 4:00 pm & 6:00 pm March 23 & 30, 7:30 pm; March 24 & 31, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm

Buy Tickets Online

www.villagetheatreshows.com or at the Danville Community Center, 420 Front Street, 8:30 am–5:00 pm, or call (925) 314-3400 Children (up to age 18) $8, Adults $10, Seniors $8

Contact

The Village Theatre Box Office: vtboxoffice@danville.ca.gov

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www.danvillecmt.com (925) 314-3400

Eugene O’Neill Coming In September!

18th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival Co-Sponsored by the Town of Danville, in Partnership with Role Players Ensemble and the National Park Service, the Eugene O’Neill Foundation presents...

Wild Irish Tales Told Tall this Fall . . .

TELLING TALES In 2017, we celebrate the wonderful tradition of the drama, stories, and music of the Emerald Isle. The 18th Eugene O’Neill Festival celebrates the great tradition of Irish storytelling with powerful and playful productions of American and Irish dramas.

This year’s Festival promises to be a blockbuster that includes timeless works by Eugene O’Neill and John Millington Synge, along with many other colorful events in downtown Danville, and at the O’NeillNational Historic Site in the Danville hills.

PARKS & PLAYS: A HIKE TO TAO HOUSE

September 10 at 9:00 a.m.

A moderate hike from the O’Neill Commemorative on Front Street, across from the Danville Library, to Tao House in the Danvillle hills.

Advance registration by e-mail: taohouse.eonf@gmail.com. Free.

Tours of Tao House: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sun-

days at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., by reservation. No reservations needed on Saturdays at 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, and 2:00 p.m. Shuttle departs from Museum of the San Ramon Valley. Call National Park Service for details at (925) 838-0249.

Forty-Three Years of Preserving the Legacy of America’s Greatest Playwright in Danville

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

by John Millington Synge (1907)

September 1-17 at the Village Theater A rollicking comedy of Irish manners and mores. Presented by Role Players Ensemble Tickets at www.villagetheater.org.

A TOUCH OF THE POET by Eugene O’Neill (1942)

September 16-30 at the Old Barn, Tao House Set in the populist America of Andrew Jackson, an Irish tale of a Bostonian Irish war hero and braggart who fancies himself as a gentleman and honored soldier. Presented by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation.

Tickets at www.villagetheater.org.

Additional Festival Features “BALLADS AND BLARNEY”

An Evening of Traditional Irish Music and Story-Telling September 7 at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Join us as we bring a taste of Irish culture to San Ramon Valley with traditional Irish banter, music and story-telling, featuring performers from San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Center. Admission $20.00, includes refreshments

“THE SECRETS OF O’NEILL’S DANVILLE”

September 9 at 1:00 p.m. from the O’Neill Commemorative across from the Danville Library. A guided walk in downtown Danville, led by Beverly Lane. on Front Street. Free.

Register online!

In the fall of 1974, a small group of Tri-Valley residents came together for the first meeting of what was to become the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House.

The focus then, as it is today, is to preserve the home of “The Father of American Drama.”

Above: Eugene O’Neill & His Irish Wolfhound: “The one thing that explains more than anything about me is the fact that I’m Irish.”

(Eugene O’Neill in a letter to his son.)

Tao House was saved because of their efforts, and is now maintained as the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site by the National Park Service.

The site is open to visitors, and offers programs that celebrate O’Neill work and his impact on theater in America.

Working closely with the National Park Service, the O’Neill Foundation provides educational and community programs at Tao House where playwright O’Neill and his wife Carlotta lived from 1937–1944, and where O’Neill wrote his most important and final plays, including Long Days Journey in Night, A Touch of the Poet, The Iceman Cometh and others.

Eugene O’Neill—the only American playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature—and also received four Pulitzer Prizes. Tao House at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site remains a place of inspiration and beauty to all who visit even today.

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For details about programs & performances throughout the year visit: www.eugeneoneill.org 5

Role Players Ensemble The Main Stage Season Friday/Saturday, 8:00 pm, Sunday, 2:00 pm Village Theatre, 233 Front Street, Danville

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD

by John Millington Synge

The Town of Danville and Role Players Ensemble Present the 2017–2018 Season Role Players Ensemble is celebrating its 33rd season of presenting high-quality professional theatre in Danville. We are committed to being a center of creative and theatrical activity in the cultural life of the community and an asset to the Town and community members.

The axiom “art is meant to entertain, educate and enlighten” is a powerful one. Like the creative process, this season will go on a journey, with the hope of coming out a little bit differently on the other side. Otherwise, why take the trip in the first place?

A phrase from Hamlet is especially poignant here: “thinking makes it so.” Thinking can bring joy or terror at a moment’s notice. Thinking can change people’s feelings from one second to the next. Thinking can either color an individual’s inner world or change an entire society. With this in mind, Role Players presents a season of plays that explores the various ways thinking can shape the reality of the world in which we live.

Buy Tickets Online

www.villagetheatreshows.com or at the Danville Community Center, 420 Front Street, 8:30 am–5:00 pm, or call (925) 314-3400

Subscribe Now and Save

4 play season: General $112; Senior $104 3 play season: General $84; Senior $78

Please note, a $3 service charge per ticket is included in the price of each season ticket package. Subscribe before June 1 and receive two free tickets to bring friends; subscribe after June 1 and receive one free ticket to bring a friend.

Ticket Prices for Individual Plays

General $30; Seniors $28; Students $20 Please note, a $5 service charge per ticket will be added.

Group Rate, 10 or more: $20 per ticket A $5 service charge per ticket will be added to each group ticket order.

Role Players Ensemble PO Box 304 Danville, CA 94526

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September 1–17, 2017 Produced in association with The Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House A young man comes to town with a wild story about killing his father.

Instead of condemning him, the people of the village are fascinated with the tale and elevate the young man to hero status until his “story” follows him to town. Synge’s satire caused riots when it first opened and has been met with riotous laughter many times since. The most Irish of Irish plays, Playboy embodies the very spirit of telling tales!

ANGEL STREET (Gaslight), by Patrick Hamilton

October 20–November 5, 2017 Isabella Manningham fears she is going mad under the influence of her mysterious and dashing new husband. The stakes become deadly when a detective arrives with a theory about Mr. Manningham’s sinister motivations. Best known under the title Gaslight after its successful screen adaptation, Angel Street is a Victorian thriller that still resonates today.

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

February 2–18, 2018 After years of being held under the power of humans, the animals have driven man from the farm. Being considered the smartest of farm animals, the pigs decide to gather the animals together to establish a new “egalitarian” social order in contrast to the oppression experienced under man for centuries. Is such a society possible? George Orwell, who recently returned to the ranks of best-seller, spins a cautionary tale for our times and all times.

THE ROVER by Aphra Behn

April 13–29, 2018 Willmore, Belvile, Fredrick and Ned are sailors on shore leave seeking adventure and love. Each of them has a different idea of what constitutes said adventure and love. All of them meet their match in one way or another in this exceedingly funny restoration romp. Aphra Behn, a playwright and woman ahead of her time, truly launched the phrase “the battle of the sexes.”

Role Players Ensemble Annual Fundraiser: March 17, 2017 Sneak Peek Presentations: Role Players, in partnership with the

Danville Library offers a “sneak peek” presentation into the production of each play at the Danville Library prior to the opening of each show.

www.RolePlayersEnsemble.com

(925) 820-1278

Alamo Danville Artists’ Society ADAS General Meetings

We invite a professional artist to demonstrate their painting techniques.

Our meetings are the second Tuesday evening of each month at 7:30pm, (except November is a Sunday afternoon meeting at 2:00) ADAS Meetings are free and open to the public at the Alamo Women’s Club at 1401 Danville Boulevard in Alamo. Professional artists are invited to demonstrate technique. Join us for lively conversation and a unique art experience.

September 12, 7:30 pm: James Kroner, Oil Painter James will present a demonstration of his painting techniques and a discussion with participants. www.jameskroner.com

Sunday meeting November 5, 2:00 pm: Philippe Gandiol, Oil Painter Philippe will present a demonstration of her painting techniques and a discussion with participants. www.philippegandiol .com

October 10, 7:30 pm: Charles Muench, Landscape Painter Charles will present a demonstration of his painting techniques and a discussion with participants. www.charlesmuench.com

www.adas4art.org

Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlamoDanvilleArtistsSociety

Danville Community Band The Danville Community Band (DCB) plays on in its second decade with its continued musical presence in Danville, the San Ramon Valley, and beyond. The DCB met for the first time September 20, 2001 under the baton of Danville resident and founding director Dr. Lawrence E. Anderson. The band continues providing exciting and enriching musical entertainment under the direction of Dr. Robert Calonico, also director of bands at U.C. Berkeley.

The Band’s musicians are dedicated volunteers from Danville and a large radius of surrounding communities. They represent diverse professions, students and retirees, and their ages range from teens to 70+.

Since 2005 the DCB has awarded 20 new musical instruments to local students as part of its community outreach Student Instrument Scholarship Program and is proud to continue supporting the musical community in this manner.

The band rehearses Monday nights from 7:00–9:00 pm.

There are changes currently pending regarding our future rehearsal location, so please watch our website and Facebook page for more information about the band’s membership details, rehearsal schedule, musician needs and updated concert information.

www.danvilleband.org

2017–2018 Season

Rossmoor Fall Concert October 22, 2017; 3:00 pm For Rossmoor Residents & Guests

Memorial Day Observance May 28, 2018; 10:30 am Oak Hill Park

Christmas Concert December 2017 Date and Location TBA

Season Finale Concert June 2018 Date and Location TBD

Spring Concert March 25, 2018; 2:00 pm Blackhawk Museum, Danville

Danville Town Independence Day Parade July 4, 2018, 8:30 am Corner of Hartz Ave. & Hartz Way.

Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/danvilleband

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Museum of the San Ramon Valley TOTALLY TRAINS

June 24 – August 27 The main layout of the Model Train exhibit has two elevations with 4 running trains, scenery, bridges, a trestle, tunnel and a village with a replica of the Museum, the former Southern Pacific Depot. A secondary layout features a number of working accessories. On display are items from three private collections of model trains dating from the early to mid-1900s. They include Lionel & American Flyer Standard gauge and Marx O gauge. Don’t forget to purchase our totally trains family pass! *Special Museum Hours during Totally Trains: Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 am–1:00 pm, Sunday, 12:00 pm–3:00 pm

CHRISTMAS AT THE TASSAJARA SCHOOL

November 21–December 31 The tradition continues with this popular exhibit— including features from the Tassajara One Room School, a model train, unusual historic holiday presents and unique gifts from the Museum’s store.

The Museum will be open November 24 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm following the Danville Tree Lighting.

THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA

September 8–November 5 An exhibition of historic tools and artifacts, finely worked baskets, models,animals and photos showing how California’s first indigenous people lived prior to the coming of the Spanish missionaries.

205 RAILROAD AVENUE IN DANVILLE Museum Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 1:00 pm–4:00 pm Saturday, 10:00 am–1:00 pm | Sunday, 12:00 pm–3:00 pm

For the latest news of events, exhibits and programs at the Museum, please visit our website at www.museumsrv.org, call (925) 837-3750 or email srvmuseum@sbcglobal.net.

Discover Danville Arts: 2017 Events August

Totally Trains; see above Sunshine Vocal Performance; page 2 Mixed Media Meets Melted Wax, page3

September

Live Music Series, page 2 Jazz Room Series, page 2 Comedy with Liz Grant, page 2 Preschool Performance Series, page 2 Playboy of the Western World, page 5 A Touch of Poet, page 5 Ballads and Blarney, page 5 The Secrets of O’Neill’s Danville, page 5 Parks and Plays, page 5 ADAS artist demonstration, page 7

October

ADAS artist demonstration; page 7 Angel Street; page 3 Indian Life; see above Movie Series: Hocus Pocus, page 2 Comedy with Liz Grant, page 2 Preschool Performance Series; page 2 Rossmoor Fall Concert, page 7

November

ADAS artist demonstration; page 7 Christmas Memories; see above Live Music Series, page 2 The Jazz Room Series, page 2 Comedy with Liz Grant, page 2 The LIttlest Santa.; page 2 Face It; page 3 Guys and Dolls, Jr.; page 4 Preschool Performance Series; page 2 Sunshine Vocal Performance; page 2

December

Christmas Memories; see above Movie Series: Christmas Story, page 2 Comedy with Liz Grant, page 2 Preschool Performance Series; page 2 Christmas Concert, page 7

Coming in 2018…

January:

Wild; page 3 Preschool Performance Series; page 2 Teens on Broadway; page 2

February:

Animal Farm; page 6

March:

Sound of Music, Jr.; page 4 Blackhawk Automotive Concert; page 7

April:

The Rover; page 6

May:

Memorial Day Observance; page 7

June:

Season Finale Concert; page 7

July:

Independence Day Parade Concert; page 7