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$100,000 FOR FITCH MOUNTAIN PUBLIC ART
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CITY SEEKS PROPOSALS BY MARCH 10 FOR ‘PERMANENT’ IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
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Photos courtesy of TEDx Sonoma
Professional artists are invited to submit ideas and qualifications for a signature public art project as part of the Fitch Mountain Access Improvement project, the City of Healdsburg announced this week. The Fitch Mountain Art Committee is seeking an artist to design and implement a permanent (site-specific) public art project on Fitch Mountain, the 991-foot peak on the city's eastern boundary, surrounded on three sides by the Russian River. “Fitch Mountain is a Healdsburg icon, and now that it’s open to the public, we want to enhance the experience of reaching the summit,” said State Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire, who spearheaded the acquisition of Fitch Mountain as a city-owned preserve while he served on the Healdsburg City Council and later as a Sonoma County supervisor. McGuire helped secure funding for the art project, up to $100,000 in Coastal Conservancy funds that will pay an artist or team of artists to create, transport and install a work of art that reflects and celebrates the natural landscape and experience of being on Fitch Mountain. This public art opportunity is for one artist or team of artists to create an installation that reflects and celebrates the natural landscape and experience of being on Fitch Mountain. The preserve includes hiking trails that will be improved this spring in another city project.
ONE-MAN BAND Rick Adam spreads joy to TEDx attendees at last year’s event, at the Jackson Theater. This year’s event is Saturday, March 4.
TEDx Sonoma County Returns With ‘This Is Us’ BOLD IDEAS EXPLORED IN UPCOMING MARCH 4 LECTURE EVENT By Christian Kallen
TEDx Sonoma County, the short-form lectures made popular by the likes of Bill Gates, Jane Goodall and Stephen Hawking, is returning on Saturday, March 4, to the Jackson Theater in Santa Rosa. This year’s theme is “This Is Us,” reflecting the topic of inclusion. “We will be gathering in person, full strength, for the first time in three years—though we will continue to offer people the option to tune in virtually, either individually or with a watch party, at home,” said TEDx
Sonoma County board member Linda Streb of Healdsburg. “TEDx events are specifically designed to inspire and bring people together,” Streb said. “The board’s goal is to leverage the power of this unique platform to foster deeper connections and provide people with more exposure and understanding of their neighbor’s ideas.” TED talks are styled in the form of short, direct talks of 18 minutes or less. TED began in 1984 at a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design lectures were combined. Today, TED talks cover almost all topics—from science to business to global issues, in more than 100 languages. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia, though independently run TEDx
events help share ideas in communities around the world. This will be the eleventh year of TEDx Sonoma County. This year’s theme, “This Is Us,” reflects the board’s decision to “reposition and expand the event to include a wider representation of voices,” said Streb, and enable a greater number of communities to benefit from ”ideas worth spreading”—the slogan of the Technology-Entertainment-Design concept that gave rise to TED talks. Among this weekend’s speakers is Melissa Nelson of The Culture Conservancy, on “Native Hands, Native Lands” or Indigenous rights and revitalization; educator Larkin O’Leary of the Common Ground Society on fostering differences; and clinical psychologist and author Jonah Paquette on “The Happiness Factor.”
Another of the 13 speakers is Dr. Ed Lu, who was a NASA astronaut for 12 years, flew aboard the Space Shuttle twice, and on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, where he did a six-month tour. He is the co-inventor of the Gravity Tractor, a controllable means of changing the trajectory of an asteroid. Tanya Knipplemeir and the UPside Dance Company are known for modern dance and performance art in unconventional settings, and are also scheduled on the program. Full details about this year’s speakers are available at tedxsonomacounty. com/speakers.
DANCE GROUP IN NEED OF NEW PRACTICE, PERFORMANCE HUB SPACE
performances by the UPside Dance Company, dance films and live music with local Americana band Mr. December, all followed by a dance party with DJ Glitterfox, set to last as late as 11:30pm. The two dance films are from the UPside Dance Company, a contemporary dance company founded in Healdsburg in 2012 by Kate Ahumada and Tanya Tolmasoff. The local group emphasizes “bringing contemporary dance to unconventional spaces,” according to their website. After Yoga On Center lost its 401 Center St. lease in 2021, the local UPside Dance Company lost its home and now operates out of Santa Rosa Junior College. With the pandemicrelated closure of other studios in town, such as the Healdsburg Ballet, the company has yet to find a place to dance in Healdsburg. The HDC has just been
MARCH 4 LAUNCH PROGRAM AT THE RAVEN INCLUDES LIVE DANCE, FILM AND A DJ By Christian Kallen
Photos by Mikala Kennon
HIGH STEPPING Erin Meyers, manager of Healdsburg
Dance Collective and a member of UPside Dance Company, during a performance at the previous SHED in Healdsburg.
A new group of dance-related teachers, students and professionals, the Healdsburg Dance Collective (HDC), will premiere with “Let’s Dance,” a show and dance party at the Raven Theater on Saturday, March 4. The launch event begins at 7:30pm and will include
TEDX TALKER Melissa
Nelson, of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, will speak on 'Native Hands, Native Lands' at the TEDx Sonoma County lectures on March 4.
“This Is Us” will take place from 1–4:30pm at the Jackson Theater on the Sonoma Country Day School campus in Santa Rosa. There will be two roughly 90-minute sessions with an intermission in between. Registration for attendance is currently ongoing, at tedxsonomacounty.com. established as “a hub for all things dance” in Healdsburg by a group of local professional dancers and dance teachers, who recognized the need for a dedicated space for dance in town. “With space at a premium, local dancers have had to move their practices to neighboring cities to teach, rehearse and create new work,” said Erin Meyers of the Healdsburg Dance Collective. “Local parents of young dancers must transfer their kids to Windsor, Santa Rosa or Cloverdale to find classes.” HDC’s ultimate goal is to operate out of a shared community space dedicated to dance, where HDC’s founders and other local teachers can provide dance education and performance opportunities for children and adults. Such a center could eventually draw choreographers and companies ➝ Dance Group, 6