Upcoming Classes & Events with Sheana Davis

March 21, 2009 at 5:39 pm (Calendar, Sonoma)
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March 21 Petaluma Artisan Cheese Festival 12:45 Artisan Cheese & Craft Beer Class with Sheana Davis www.artisancheesefestival.com

March 21 & 22 Heart of Sonoma Valley Enkidu serving Fresh Pate, Sonoma County Cheeses and Enkidu Roasted Chicken Wellington Vineyards serving Delice de la Vallee, Wild Mushroom Bagna Caulda www.heartofsonomavalley.com

March 22 Petaluma Artisan Cheese Festival Cheesemaking Demo with Sheana Davis, 1:00 with Relish Culinary Adventures Cheese Tasting with Sheana Davis 11:00-4:00 www.artisancheesefestival.com

April 5 Women Winemakers of Sonoma Valley Linda Trotta, Teresina Vintners , Lynda Hanson, Hanzell Winery , Carolyn Craig, Larson Family Winery Moderated by Heather Irwin, The Press Democrat Online Biteclub 1:00-4:00, doors open 1:00, conversation from 2:00-4:00 $20.00 per person, tickets available at Readers Books. Admission includes a flight of wines made by women winemakers in Sonoma Valley. Sonoma Valley Women’s Club 574 1St St. East, Sonoma, Ca. 95476

April 14 Cheeses and Beers of the Pacific North West www.cheeseschoolsf.com

April 19 Relish Culinary Adventures, Cheesemaking Class with Sheana Davis, The Epicurean Connection www.relishculinary.com

May 31, 2009 “From the Farm to the Table” Meet your local Sonoma Valley Farmers from Oakhill Farm, Green String Farm, Sonoma County Farm Trails, Sonoma Ecology Center, Sonoma Community Garden and more! $20.00 per person, tickets available at Readers Books. Sonoma Valley Women’s Club 574 1St St. East, Sonoma, Ca. 95476

Please contact Sheana Davis for additional information 707-935-7960 or sheana@vom.com Sheana Davis The Epicurean Connection P.O. Box 1916 Sonoma, CA. 95476 707-935-7960 phone & fax 707-235-9530 cellular sheana@vom.com www.sheanadavis.com Eat Responsibly * Act Locally * Respond Politically

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OxRoast Sunday in the Plaza

May 29, 2008 at 8:32 am (Calendar, Small Town Life, Sonoma)

Sonoma Community Center
SVVGA Beneficiary
artwork by Elizabeth Tashman

Annual Ox Roast

This Sunday, June 1
OX ROAST
Sonoma Plaza
music · food · wine · beer · fun for the whole family
11am-5pm
$10

Tell your family and friends, it’s almost time for the 41st Annual Ox Roast! Ox Roast 2008 takes a saucy turn this year with the addition of a “Sauce Your Ox” competition. This new competition was cooked up by food bosses Steve Jones and John Kelly who thought it would be fun to pair the traditional roasting of the beast with a contest pitting sauce makers against one another and letting the public decide who best sauces their ox.

All you need to do to participate is come down to the Sonoma Plaza on Sunday, June 1, from 11:00a.m. until 5:00p.m., buy a plate of Ox Roast, choose your sauce, and cast your vote!

To best capture the essence of this year’s event, the Sonoma Community CenterOx Roast 08 asked artist Elizabeth Tashman to create the 2008 Ox Roast poster artwork.  Elizabeth studied painting and printmaking in school and spent her early career as a textile designer.  Her continued interest in textile design informs her Ox poster, with its repetition of shape and color.

Elizabeth Tashman began her association with the Community Center when she moved to Sonoma in 1999, teaching summer art camps until she became a full-time art teacher for Sonoma Charter School in 2002. She has become a pivotal SCC faculty member as SCC builds its teen art program, where she will teach printmaking, encaustic, and old furniture refinishing.  She once again will teach SCC summer art camp program in 2008.  T-shirts featuring the Ox Roast artwork will be available for sale on June 1.

Meal tickets for Ox Roast will be available for purchase in advance at the Community Center. Ox plates are $10. Proceeds from Ox Roast benefits the arts and cultural programming of the Sonoma Community Center.

For more information and to purchase Ox Roast tickets, call the Sonoma Community Center at 938-4626, ext. 1 or e-mail us at scc@vom.com or visit our website at www.sonomacommunitycenter.org.
Sonoma Community Center
276 East Napa Street
Sonoma, California 95476
707.938.4626

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Update from the Sonoma Community Center

May 18, 2008 at 10:55 am (Calendar, Small Town Life, Sonoma)
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Upcoming Events
New Theater Production
Lilla and Andy Recommend!
Conversations in Clay
More Theater!
Ox Roast
Nature Series


Sonoma Community Center
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cultivating community

Opening June 12!
Sonoma Community Center presents
Renegade Players’ production of
Falstaff
 directed by
Aiden O’Reilly

Aidan O’Reilly was born in San Francisco in 1985. He has been working in the theater since he was eight years old and has performed on stages in England, Scotland, Switzerland and the U.S. He recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where he received his BA in Acting Studies. When he was fourteen he started his own acting company, The Renegade Players, with his friend Sacha Szwarc. Their first project was a production of Cabaret which scandalized his local high school faculty so much that the Renegade Players were banned from performing on campus. Since then they have produced many other productions including  an original piece, Blasphemous Filth, a comedy about the Apocalypse written by Aidan O’Reilly and Sacha Szwarc. O’Reilly’s last project was the sold-out production of Macbeth at the Sonoma Community Center last fall. He will be joining the American Shakespeare Center  in Staunton, Virginia this up-coming summer for their touring productions of Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Comedy of Errors.

The Company: Bob Smith, John O’Reilly, Rick Love, Julia Holsworth, Kate Horn, Marty O’Reilly, Jaime Love, Richard Thompson, Nancy Noleen, Gaberiel Velasco, Don Mahoney, Aidan O’Reilly, Nathalie Tedrick, Chris Wall and Philip Sales.

Sonoma Arts & Lectures
Lilla and Andy Recommend!

Louise Erdrichlouise erdrich
The Plague of Doves
Thursday, May 8, 7:00pm
Andrews Hall
$15

Louise Erdrich’s mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery: the unsolved murder of a farm family in small-town Pluto, North Dakota. The Plague of Doves is one of the major achievements of Louise Edrich’s considerable body of work, a quintessentially American story and the most complex and original of her books.

Saturday, May 10, 4:00pmPatricia Wells
Patricia Wells discusses her memoir,
We’ve Always Had Paris, and
Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France
co-written with her husband, Walter Wells
$15
Note: held at Sonoma Valley Woman’s Club,
574 First Street East, Sonoma

Patricia Wells, long recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, have lived in France for more than a quarter century. They are as close to being accepted as “French” as any non-natives can be. In this delightful memoir they share in two voices their experiences–the good, the bad, and the funny–offering a charming and evocative account of their beloved home and some of the wonderful people they have met along the way.

For tickets, call the Center office, 707-938-4626, ext. 1.

Sonoma Arts & Lectures
Conversations in ClayAnnabeth ceramic

Annabeth Rosen In Conversation with Jim Melchert
Friday, May 9, 7:30pm
Join these two ceramic artists as they share their experiences in the studio when allowing the unexpected to happen.

Annabeth Rosen received her BFA from NYS State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Presently she teaches at University of CA, Davis holding the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair.

Private Tour of the di Rosa Preserve Collection
by Curator Michael Schwager
Saturday, May 10
10:00am
A talk by di Rosa curator Michael Schwager on the evolution of Bay Area ceramic sculpture, followed by docent-led tours of the di Rosa Preserve collection focusing on ceramic sculpture.

Conversations In Clay is held in conjuction with the di Rosa Preserve exhibit, Bay Area Ceramic Sculpture: Collection In Context  which runs March 29-May 17 at the di Rosa Preserve. For more information about the exhibit, visit their website at www.dirosapreserve.org

Sonoma Community Center Backstage Theater presentsHigh Road
High Road to Doomsday
A One-Man Show with
Jeff Falconer
Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31
8:00 p.m.
$15

High Road to Doomsday is a tragi-comic exploration of the Human Condition, full of music, loving satire, dark humor, and stubborn optimism. The tone of the show is mock-scholarly, with additional tips of the satirical hat to evangelical preachers and self-help luminaries. Think Joseph Campbell, Wayne Dyer and Jimmy Swaggert stranded on a desert isle with just one microphone.

Jeff Falconer calls his approach “loving satire” because he himself has
been, or is, guilty of all the human excesses and foibles he lampoons. Jeff
has been an active performer for most of his life and loving satire peppers
his three solo CDs, as well as a fourth with longtime collaborator Dennis
Cordellos. High Road to Doomsday is Jeff’s first one-man show.  Jeff is
married and lives in Sonoma Valley, California.

For more information or to register, call 707-938-4626, ext. 1.

Mark your Calendars
2008 OX ROAST FEATURES SAUCE CONTEST!
Sunday, June 1
Ox Roast 08
Tell your family and friends, it’s almost time for the 41st Annual Ox Roast! Ox Roast 2008 takes a saucy turn this year with the addition of a “Sauce Your Ox” competition.  This new competition was cooked up by food bosses Steve Jones and John Kelly who thought it would be fun to pair the traditional roasting of the beast with a contest pitting sauce makers against one another and letting the public decide who best sauces their ox. All you need to do to participate is come down to the Sonoma Plaza on Sunday, June 1, from 11:00a.m. until 5:00p.m., buy a plate of Ox Roast, choose your sauce, and cast your vote!

artwork by Elizabeth Tashman

Meal tickets for Ox Roast will be available for purchase in advance at the Community Center. Ox plates are $10. Proceeds from Ox Roast benefits the arts and cultural programming of the Sonoma Community Center.

For more information and to purchase Ox Roast tickets, call the Sonoma Community Center at 938-4626, ext. 1 or e-mail us at scc@vom.com or visit our website at www.sonomacommunitycenter.org.

Sonoma Arts & Lectures
Valley of the Moon Nature Lecture Series:snow leopard

Thursday, June 5, 7:30pm
Saving The Elusive Snow Leopard
Dr. Rodney Jackson, Founder & Executive Director
Winner of the Rolex Award
$5

Rodney Jackson, Ph.D., director of The Snow Leopard Conservancy, is the leading expert on snow leopards and their high mountain habitat.  He has led the Conservancy in its efforts to develop direct partnerships with the local
people to create conservation and education activities that grow from within the communities.  Dr. Jackson is one of six finalists for the prestigious 2008 Indianapolis Prize for conservation.  Born in South Africa, Jackson
received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate from the University of London
and his master’s degree from the UC Berkeley.  When not roaming the
12-country territory of the snow leopard, he resides in Sonoma, California.
Sonoma Community Center
276 East Napa Street
Sonoma, California 95476
707.938.4626

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Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition is having a party and you’re invited

June 1, 2007 at 4:57 pm (Health Care, Small Town Life, Sonoma)

The Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition is having a party and you’re invited.

WHEN:  Sunday, June 3 (that’s THIS Sunday)
TIME:    12 – 4 PM
WHERE:  On the Plaza
WHY:  Because our work is done!

The Coalition issued it’s final report, made it’s presentation to the Board and is having copies of the report prepared to go out with both papers soon, so it’s time to celebrate! (whether you like the outcome or not — it’s done and we’re celebrating!)

We’ve decided to celebrate in conjunction with the OX ROAST on the Plaza on Sunday.  There will be Food, Drink, Music nearby — and we couldn’t have done a better job organizing such a celebration.

We’re all meeting on the SouthWest corner of the Plaza, just south of the new Duckie Pond.  It’s a do-it-yourself pot luck with the main course being OX, (slabs of ox or ox sausages, and maybe even a vegetarian option) courtesy of the OxRoast!

You can purchase the various Ox Plates to support the Community Center, but let’s jazz it up by bringing something that you might like to share with others, food or drink-wise.

I think  that in this part of the Plaza there aren’t any tables, so bring your most fun picnic blanket or quilt, a some dinnerware and  eatin’ and drinkin’-ware might be nice, in case you decide to partake of someone’s pot luck dish — there might be some fancy desserts, any closet pastry chefs out there?  With all day Saturday and most of Sunday to make some great dishes, there might be some good food to supplement the OxRoast fare.

Bring your significant other, children, grandchildren, even great-aunt bessie, if she’s in town and make this our last fling to say goodbye to the weekly Monday meetings and celebrate the work we’ve done together.

If you feel like kicking it up a notch and bringing your frisbee or other urban toys, why not?!

So, that’s the best we can do for this fond farewell get together.  Plan to be there Sunday, June 3 between 12 and 4, though the OxRoast goes from 11-5 with music all day and  the best music (in my opinion) coming from 3 – 5 Gator Beat will be playing on the main stage.

Save me some of the Fancy Desserts and Good Wines, I’ll be coming from my Sunday Marin Farmer’s Market, and won’t get there til 3-ish!  Too Bad!

No need to RSVP… Just show up with your party pot luck dish and blanket or quilt — you’ll fit right in!

Shelley Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith Farms
707.935.3420

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Big Weekend in Sonoma, June 2-3

May 31, 2007 at 4:34 pm (Calendar, Sonoma)

An art show in the plaza, the annual Ox Roast, Car Races, the Hit the Road Jack footrace and a Francisco Goya exhibition are just part of the fun this weekend in Sonoma. Full details available at:

www.sonomavalleycalendar.com

All weekend:

INFINEON RACEWAY Wine Country Classic

Annual Art and Artisan Show at the Sonoma Plaza

Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos at the SV Museum

Saturday, June 2nd:

10:00 AM
Harvest Market at the Community Garden
Volunteer Days at Sonoma Garden Park

7:00 PM
Live music at The Lodge at Sonoma

7:30 PM
Music at the Little Swiss

Sunday, June 3rd:
Ox Roast in the plaza

8:00 AM
Hit the Road Jack XX wine country run /walk

5:00 PM
Music at the Little Swiss

6:00 pm
Live Music at Murphy’s Irish Pub

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Update from the Sonoma Community Center – OX Roast Sunday

May 30, 2007 at 2:27 pm (Calendar, Small Town Life, Sonoma)

Sonoma’s Hometown Event!
OX ROAST
ON THE PLAZA
SUNDAY, JUNE 3
THE DAY’S EVENTS
Ox is the Main Event
Kick up your heels
Get a T-shirt
Hit the Road Jack
Join the Sonoma Community Center
OTHER NEWS
Center of the Universe Café will not be held in June–we’ll see you July 7!Summer classes and Art Camps begins June 18!
ox Dear Veronica,

Kick-off Sonoma’s hometown summer events by gathering for
the 40th annual Ox Roast barbecue “Hit the Road, Ox!” on
Sunday, June 3 in the Sonoma Plaza starting at 11:00 am.Hosted by the Sonoma Community Center, this most local and
traditional of big barbecues will share the stage with a full day of
events for the community! Join us for a full day of fun and festivities!

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Ox is the Main Event!


The Ox Roast main event is the delicious beef, secretly seasoned and slow roasted for seven hours. The barbecue is served by Community Center volunteers, and is accompanied by fresh sourdough rolls from Basque Boulangerie, corn on the cob, and a mixed green salad.

Full meal Ox plates are $10
Ox Sausage plate are $8
Children’s plates are $4

Soft drinks, beer, and wine are also available for purchase.

Tickets for the lunch may be purchased in advance through the Community Center.

 

Gator Beat 2

Kick up your heels!

Dancing!

Mobility, the United States Air Force rock and roll band, will begin the entertainment at 1 pm.

Gator Beat, a local favorite, will play their own brand of South Louisiana music combining Cajun, Zydeco and New Orleans Funk rhythms to get the audience dancing at 3 pm.

and More!

· Ox mascot will be making surprise appearances.
· Sonoma Charter School will offer face painting throughout the afternoon.
· Hip hop dance performance by P.U.R.E.

No admission fee is charged to enjoy the day’s festivities.
 

 

ox tshirt Get a Commemorative T-shirt and Wine Glass!
Cool t-shirts and wine glasses emblazoned by the bold image of this year’s ox will be on sale at the Sonoma Community Center and on the day of the event as well.

The artwork, created by local artist Keith Wicks, features a beautiful ox running near the Sonoma plaza.

 

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Hit the Road Ox!

This year’s theme, “Hit the Road Ox”, celebrates the collaboration between the Sonoma Community Center and the Valley of the Moon Boys and Girls Club who sponsor the annual “Hit the Road, Jack” foot race on the same day.

 

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Support the Sonoma Community Center!

The Ox Roast is a benefit the Sonoma Community Center, so your participation on Sunday supports arts, cultural and education programs in Sonoma!

The non-profit Sonoma Community Center brings to the Sonoma Valley a broad range of cultural, educational, recreational, and community service activities. It also strives to preserve and restore its historic building and provides affordable space for community activities.

June is our membership drive month, so become a member today!

We are located at 276 East Napa Street in Sonoma, so come by or call the SCC office at 707-938-4626 x1.
Thank you for your interest and support!Sincerely,The Sonoma Community Staff and Volunteers

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