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ALWAYS FREE Lighthouse Peddler ALWAYS FREE Lighthouse June 2019 Peddler The Guide To Music, Events, Theater, Film, Art, Poetry, and Life on the Mendocino Coast A Transcendent Blues Experience! Vanessa Collier at Arena Teater June 29. Regular readers of the Lighthouse Peddler For those of you who know of Collier and know my deep afection for live music. And her multifaceted chops, tell your friends. She we’re fortunate that the venues on the coast" is exactly what “Blues on the Coast” is about. large and small"give us the opportunity to see Consider this appraisal: “Tere’s a young lady so many great players. Te thoughtful people [Vanessa Collier] came on stage with me, I who created the “Blues On Te Coast” series forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto at Arena Teater have contributed mightily to saxophone, and man, she was amazing.” Tose the live music scene. Welcome to June at Are- are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue na Teater. Vanessa Collier will take the stage of American Blues Scene, describing an im- on Saturday, June 29, 7:30pm. Doors open at promptu performance with Vanessa Collier on 7:00pm. Tickets are $20 online, at local outlets, the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. and at the door. VANESSA COLLIER cont’d on page 13 Boonville Poet Bernadete Restuccia In Point Arena June 20 Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers Featured Poet At Tird Tursday Poetry & Jazz and Friends A Fundraising Concert On Tursday, June 20, at 7:30pm Te a regular performer, blessed with a lot of kindergarten, energy for creative projects Tird Tursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Se- support from friends and classmates. Te seeped back into her life. She started pro- June 9 at Gualala Arts ries will feature Boonville poet Bernadete college was primarily focused at the time in ducing poetry again and reciting at local Te Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers & Friends Restuccia. Te reading will take place at the the visual and performing arts programs that open mics, Te Anderson Valley Grange Va- return for a late spring concert at Gualala Arena Market cafe and will begin with live ofered both a creative and kinetic commu- riety Show, the Not So Simple Living Fair in Arts. Te Bell Ringers will be joined by improv jazz and an open mic with jazz im- nity of inspiration for her writing. She took Boonville for the past two years at their cab- local singers and musicians for a fun-flled prov; the reading will conclude with more classes in poetry and performance, and also aret evening, and other county celebrations. concert for all ages on Sunday, June 9, live improv jazz. participated in a study abroad program in It- She is also an actress with the Anderson Val- 4:00pm, at Coleman Hall. Tickets are $15 Ever since she was aly where she got to take a ley Teater Guild and just recently fnished in advance, plus $5 day of event. Youth 7-17 a litle girl in suburban workshop class on poetry. her fourth production with the Guild. She free with adult. Te concert is a beneft for New Jersey, Bernadete Among the pastoral set- also performed in a “Women’s Authentic the Coastal Seniors’ Meals on Wheels. wrote poetry. Fre- tings, and keen awareness Monologues Performance” directed by El- Four and a half octaves of English hand- quently feeling out of of her Italian heritage, in- len Weed. bells, with chimes, will ring on several en- place, her journal was spiration continued to be One of Bernadete’s major focuses in her semble pieces including “A Song of Love,” her sanctuary and her alive and well. poetry is unity. In her words, “Trough his- “Alleluia! Rejoice and Sing,” “My Heart best friend. In sixth Afer graduating col- tory there has always been tactics to keep grade in a Catholic el- lege, she made a bold de- humans separate from each other. In an age ementary school, her cision to travel the coun- of social media and overwhelmingly trigger- frst taste of public try. Tis decision proved ing propaganda, we all need to embrace the speaking was read- to be a profound rite of humanness that connects us; the heart that ing from the Bible at passage that lasted for is in all of us. Tere is so much power avail- church. At the podium, fve years. She travelled able to us if we decide to stand up together as nervous as she was, and spent time in twenty to achieve it. Tese strategies of separation she knew there was eight states, camped and are carefully organized to keep us from this something important hiked in forests, beaches, power. We can only change the world to- beginning. “It just felt and canyons. She lived gether.” Nature is also a powerful moti- right to be up there. and worked on Organic vation in her writing, because, as she says, Will Go On,” and “Andante in F Minor.” It was an immediate vegetable and fruit farms “When we are in tune with the powerful Singing is always part of this group. Vocal- gut reaction. I enjoyed speaking in front of and intentional communities for a season at truths and miracles of nature we realize the ist Sita Milchev will join the bell ringers as a group of people, and that fact was more a time. She also did her share of frolicking at reality of being earth citizens.” Tese power- will Remi Alexander, Linda Bostwick and powerful than the fear of it.” In high school festivals and concerts; music and dance be- ful themes are integral to life, and Bernadete Cinnamon Rippey. she was involved in a public speaking club ing two of her other great loves. During these believes they are the key to a beter future: Local musicians will also join the bell that travelled the county and competed in fve years, Bernadete sent out group emails “To just do what we can, in our families, our ringers. Dan Laux on hammered dulcimer,” tournaments. She mostly read poetry and regularly (before Facebook) to family and friends, our social circles, our communities, Karl Young on shakuhachi, Japanese fute, once had the honor to read her own po- friends, sharing stories and discoveries of to connect through our hearts, this will help. Mary Visher and Cyndy Solomon will play etry that had just recently been published. her travels. Spanning from in poetic refec- We need to all do our parts to reach out and the fute duet on recorders on. Te irre- “Tat’s when I realized the power and the tions on nature, to eccentric characters she connect. In a time of adversity and isolation, pressible Eric Kritz will join the bell ringers vulnerability of speaking in front of a group met, and synchronistic moments, Bernadete we can nurture connection every day, we can on clarinet. of people,” she remembers. “I was on the shared a world with her ninety four recipients make a diference.” Tere is something for everyone in this. edge of my seat, I couldn’t get enough.” that some of them wouldn’t have ever known Children are invited and encouraged to While studying Literature and Philosophy otherwise. Tird Tursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by Te atend at no cost if they have an accompa- at S.U.N.Y Purchase College, Bernadete be- Afer fve years of a nomadic lifestyle, she Tird Tursday Poetry Group, many anonymous nying adult. More information is available came a regular at the Open Mic series taking found Anderson Valley and eventually had donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it from Jeanne Jackson at (707) 884-1761. place at the college. Eventually she became a son named Jaden. Once Jaden entered has received fom Te James Irvine Foundation. Mendonoma Health Alliance Presents "Healthy Habits" Chinese Acupuncture Q&A • June 5 Acupuncture is a medical practice that is Whether you have a specifc question or used worldwide and gaining popularity in are just interested in learning more, this is a the United States. Mendonoma Health Alli- good time to get answers to your questions ance (MHA) invites you to a speical event with Special Guest Demetra Markis, L.Ac. Wednesday, June 5, 2019 from 5:30pm to Healthy Habits is a FREE community 6:30pm at the Elaine Jacob Center, Suite E, program of RCMS led by Dr. Afsoon Foo- 38550 South Highway One, Gualala, 95445. rohar with assistance from the Mendonoma Tis is an open presentation and Q&A. Health Alliance (MHA). • What is acupuncture? For more information, call (707) 884- • How might it work? 9434 or call MHA at (707) 412-3176. No • Is it safe? reservations needed . just drop in! Enjoy • What conditions can be treated? a healthy snack and a chance to win a door • What should be expected during prize! MHA's website is: an acupuncture treatment? www.mendonomahealth.org. Pg 2 Lighthouse Peddler, June 2019 Advertisers Index From The Editor's Desk • Feel like transcending? Catch Vanessa Collier at Arena Teater, June 29. (Cover). • Action Network 14 • KTDE 18 • Meet Poet Bernadete Restuccia at 3rd Tursday Poetry in Pt. Arena, June 20. (Page 2). • Anchor Bay Store 4 • KZYX 11 • Need Needling? Mendonoma Health Alliance's Acupuncture Q&A June 5. (Page 2). • Arena Frame 8 • Litle Green Bean 4 • Hearing Bells? It's nothing bad. Your hearing the Bloch Bell Ringers. June 9. (Page 2.) • Arena Pharmacy 13 • Lof, Te 16 • Heard of Johnny Steel? Get a lif from his comedy at Arena Teater, June 15. (Page 4).• • Arena Tech Center 18 • Mar Vista 8 • Hear about the casting call? Really.
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