Mysteries of the Round Drop-In LABS
Jul
24
to Aug 1

Mysteries of the Round Drop-In LABS

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Artist-in-Residence Ursula Brookbank is converting the Larry Spring Museum into a LAB, where you are invited to experiment with local materials, prisms, mirrors, archival images, sound, and natural phenomena to reveal the secrets and cellular mysteries of the round. Conjuring is encouraged. Results will be used in the HAPPENING on Aug 9 and on the fabric Redwood Round.

Hours

Thurs July 24, Noon to 5 PM

Fri July 25, Noon to 3 PM

Sat July 26, Noon to 6 PM

Thurs July 31,    4 PM to 7 PM 

Fri Aug 1,           5 PM to 8 PM  

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Mysteries of the Round GATHERINGS
Jul
24
to Aug 2

Mysteries of the Round GATHERINGS

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GATHERINGS  

Thurs July 24 6 PM – 8:30 PM: SOIL & LAB MATERIALS COLLECTION WALK.

Welcome guest artist Ursula Brookbank to Fort Bragg as she joins local artists Anne Beck and Shoshanna Zambryski-Stachel on a walk to collect soils and other natural materials for the SOIL CHROMOTOGRAPHY gathering, the drop-in LAB, and the HAPPENING. During the walk, we will collect soil samples from under the Redwoods in Otis Johnson Park, coastal sediments from Glass Beach, samples from the Mill Site, and other magical materials suitable for projection. Please bring bags/containers for your findings. Meet in front of the Museum at 225 E Redwood. The walk duration is approximately 2 hours.

Fri, July 25, 4 PM to 7 PM: COMMUNITY MARK MAKING GATHERING
Bring your curiosity and imagination to the Museum and join Ursula Brookbank in a community mark-making session. We will be using natural materials, handmade charcoal, twig brushes, stamps, and rubbings to create marks for the HAPPENING and the fabric round. 

Sun, July 27, 11 AM to 4 PM: SOIL CHROMATOGRAPHY GATHERING 
Soil chromatography is a simple photographic process that separates a soil's mineral, carbon, and humus content, resulting in pictographs resembling tree rings. While largely used by environmental artists, this process was once a method for farmers to assess their soil's health — the healthier the soil, the more complex the chroma in the pictograph.

The workshop will be led by Shoshana Zambryski-Stachel, who is known for her experimental analog photographs printed on eggshells. Since moving to the Mendocino Coast, she has continued to work and play with non-traditional natural and organic materials. Shoshana’s background in darkroom photography and passion for the natural world come together in this workshop; soil chromatography is a perfect blend of how chemistry can illustrate and illuminate the intricacies within the composition of our natural world.

For our workshop, we will be using soils collected locally on our SOIL COLLECTION WALK from the Redwood Forest, the Fort Bragg Mill Site, Glass Beach, and the grounds of the Larry Spring Museum. You are also welcome to bring a dry soil sample of your choosing to test. Masks will be provided as participants will be working with ground soils and a silver nitrate solution. We will experiment with using filter paper and fabric for our pictographs. The results may be used in the Mysteries of the Round HAPPENING and on the fabric round timeline as a record of the life that pulsates beneath our feet.

Wed July 30 Noon to 6 PM: COMMUNITY MARK MAKING AND WRITING GATHERING
What would the Redwood Round reveal if we asked what it has witnessed? Share your imaginings on overhead projection materials to be used in the HAPPENING and on the fabric round.

Sat Aug 2 5 PM to 8 PM: COMMUNITY MARK MAKING AND SHADOW PUPPET GATHERING. We will create marks and shadow puppets using supplied and found materials for the HAPPENING and inclusion on the fabric round. ALSO, check out the results of our SOIL CHROMATOGRAPHY experiments

RSVP to director@larryspringmuseum.org for the gatherings. Space is limited.

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Mysteries of the Round HAPPENING
Aug
9
8:30 PM20:30

Mysteries of the Round HAPPENING

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The MYSTERIES OF THE ROUND performance is the culmination of the experiments conducted in the LAB and the GATHERINGS in an immersive sound, projection, and performance HAPPENING.

In Spring Commons. Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave.

This is an outdoor event. FREE.

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Live Music in Spring Commons: Animal Piss It's Everywhere
Jul
22
5:30 PM17:30

Live Music in Spring Commons: Animal Piss It's Everywhere

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Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave
$10
This is an outdoor event

Animal Piss, it’s Everywhere Hailing from the fertile climes of the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, the band culls together an East Coast ensemble of some heavy hitters, including members of Sunburned Hand of the Man, Weeping Bong Band, Jow Jow, The Pigeons, Bunwinkies, and Wet Tuna. The assembled rabble, led by Clark Griffin and Shannon Ketch, have a way of harnessing the hangdog hues of barback country. Quite a few bands have hooked into the Cosmic American landscape of late, threading their slivered riffs through the smoke-ringed ranks of ‘70s country’s more psychedelic offerings. Still, APIE stands out as capturing something more than the quivering tones left lingering in the air after Burritos' gigs and New Riders' romps. The band taps into the kind of beat-down desperation that made some of the best outsider country catch hold.

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Nuestro Norte / Our North
Jul
11
5:00 PM17:00

Nuestro Norte / Our North

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Are you interested in local histories that have not been widely shared?

MendoLatino and The Larry Spring Museum invite you to our bilingual reception of Nuestro Norte/Our North, an exhibition featuring Latino history through the photographs, stories and heirlooms of local families.

Everyone is welcome / Todos bienvenidos

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mehraban brasil ebaugh & the lodestones
Jul
5
6:00 PM18:00

mehraban brasil ebaugh & the lodestones

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Live music in Spring Commons

Ali Mehraban, Marcelo Brasil & Ryan Ebaugh are San Diego based improvisers working with duel saxophones, powerfully rhythmic drums, little instruments, dense textures, and frenetic playing.

The Lodestones (bay area) are an original creative force, playing their own strain of cryptic yet welcoming country inflected astral folk music.

The duo consists of Jeffrey Rocketmild Jefferson on guitar and pianist Dena Goldsmith Stanley.

$10 at the door

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VINTAGE HOOPLA
Jun
28
11:00 AM11:00

VINTAGE HOOPLA

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Join vintage collectors and dealers throughout Fort Bragg for a fun day perusing treasures from bygone days! Items to be found include furniture, collectibles, clothing, tools and so much more! A comprehensive map of the day’s participating venues will be on display at the Larry Spring Commons, Gates open at 11 so stop in and learn where to get your next cool find!

Vintage Market: 11 AM - 4 PM
Karaoke: 6 PM til ?
Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave.

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PRIDE COMES TO FORT BRAGG!
Jun
21
11:30 AM11:30

PRIDE COMES TO FORT BRAGG!

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June 21 2025
11:30 AM - March
Noon - Celebration in Spring Commons
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Mendocino County Safe Space Project is thrilled to announce the first-ever LGBTQIA2S+ Pride March and Celebration in Fort Bragg, California, taking place on June 21, 2025! Join us starting at 11:30 am on Laurel Street between Main and Franklin, and march with us to the Larry Spring Museum from noon until 4 pm with live music, DJ, drag show, and speakers. This historic event is not just a celebration; it’s a powerful statement of love, acceptance, and community resilience.

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BRAGGING RITES: AN ART EXPLORERS FILM
Jun
18
8:00 PM20:00

BRAGGING RITES: AN ART EXPLORERS FILM

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Join us for the intergalactic premiere of BRAGGING RITES: An Art Explorers Film

Seeing is believing! Riffing on the quirky, improvisational vibe of 1990s indie classic Slacker, Bragging Rites invites audiences to experience Fort Bragg through the eyes and ears of some of its most creative inhabitants, the all-ages cohort of artists who meet and make at Art Explorers. With gentle, supportive mentorship from members of Echo Park Film Center Collective, participating artists learned cinematic skills and made a collaborative film that celebrates small-town community in all its glorious connectivity, oddity, banality and wonder

Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave.
FREE!

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REDWOOD TIME: JUNE SEWING AND MARK MAKING SESSIONS
Jun
6
to Jun 29

REDWOOD TIME: JUNE SEWING AND MARK MAKING SESSIONS

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During these sessions, we will continue to sew tree rings, add the current timeline markers, research, and strategize for planetary, geological, and seismic timelines. Perhaps we should consider magnetic time as it relates to Larry's free-flying spheres!

Drop in on any or all of these dates in June:
June 6,  5 - 8 PM
June 8, 1 - 4 PM
June 22, 1 - 4 PM
June 29, 1- 4 PM

FREE. No experience necessary! 

All sessions take place at the Larry Spring Museum, 225 E Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg

Thank you to the Community Foundation of Mendocino County for your generous support!

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O Canada! Experiments in Love & War
May
30
8:30 PM20:30

O Canada! Experiments in Love & War

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Friday May 30

8:30 PM

$15 - Mendocino Film Festival passes are not valid at this venue

225 E Redwood Ave. This is an outdoor presentation.

O Canada! Experiments in Love & War

The Larry Spring Museum launches our summer film program with a presentation of the 4K remastered experimental amnesiac film ARCHANGEL (1990) by Canadian auteur Guy Maddin. Set during Canada's involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution, it explores the themes of love, loss, memory, patriotism, and the roots of war through early cinematic conventions. Join us for a strange and magical evening.

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Live Music in Spring Commons: Slow Motion Cowboys and Whip Appeal
May
10
7:00 PM19:00

Live Music in Spring Commons: Slow Motion Cowboys and Whip Appeal

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SLOW MOTION COWBOYS

New Orleans’ Slow Motion Cowboys are the soulful country ramblings of songwriter Pete Fields. Prevalent these days in the New Orleans magnetic country scene, Pete and his band play often to the dancing crowds of southern Louisiana and beyond bringing an uptempo groove behind razor sharp lyrics culled from the struggle of modern times. With roots in CA, New Mexico and Texas the band has worked stages throughout the South and Southwest building a strong following through their releases on the Muscle Shoals’ label Arkam Records.  In 2025 they will be touring their new record “Wolf of St. Elmo” to be released this spring, with dates booked across the country and a UK tour in the Fall. Have a listen here.

WHIP APPEAL

On a big wooden stage in front of a wide wooden dance floor, THE WHIP APPEAL is like a fifteen-member band in a long, scattered line, shoo-be-doo’ing an off-kilter chorus towards a bottom-shelf country nightcap. In the cave they’re more like a three-piece jazz band, improvising rock and roll, cutting straight to quarter-inch tape. Described last week at BJ’s Bywater Lounge, where they play once, sometimes twice a month, as “The Velvet Underground meets Townes van Zandt.” Have a listen here.

Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave

$10 at the door

Fancy floral refreshments by Esther Liner

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Wild Clay Bead Making in Spring Commons
May
3
4:30 PM16:30

Wild Clay Bead Making in Spring Commons

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Join us for a late afternoon of bead-making using wild clay gathered sparingly from the paint pot mud volcanoes east of Fort Bragg. Guest artist Ona Rynearson will discuss her experiments with this clay and lead a meditative bead-making session. This gathering is all within the context of Redwood Time, and these beads and miniature sculptures will find a place on the fabric model of the Redwood Round that we are collectively creating.

Questions we may ponder are: How can these small bits of local earth best demarcate events or concepts in expanded historical timelines? How can we document seismic history? Planetary returns? Geological time?

We hope you’ll join us in getting a little messy, playing with these questions, and bringing plenty of your own curiosity.

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Another Man's Trash reception
May
2
6:00 PM18:00

Another Man's Trash reception

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Gus brings you: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure box”

Like Larry Spring, Gus’s approach to making is about reconfiguring found objects and natural materials into something new. Urban discards become landscapes, reptiles, and human figures, which imbue his objects with a kind of joy and absurdity while reconnecting them to the natural world.

His installation features:

"Broken pinball

Spoon wheel

Bottle cap snake

Soft nails

Bread tab houses

As well as pieces from:

Cork man’s army

Block city

And other things I could have thrown away

But maybe should have."

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Dr Pickled Herring and the Cacaphoniacs: Pranks for Hire!
Apr
1
9:00 AM09:00

Dr Pickled Herring and the Cacaphoniacs: Pranks for Hire!

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Play an April Fool’s prank while supporting the Larry Spring Museum

Musical pranks for hire on April 1st!

Prank your friends and enemies this April Fools by hiring an inane band to play loud terrible music outside of their house. See their show on March 30th, and sign them up! Join us in our quest for nonsense and disquiet.

$20 suggested donation. Email Nathan Maxwell Cann for details!

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Poisson D'Avril
Mar
30
11:00 AM11:00

Poisson D'Avril

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The 4th Annual Poisson D’Avril triumphantly returns to the Larry Spring Commons on March 30th with a festival of fools, including paper fish crafts, absurd games, pranks, and stargazy pie. Performances by Théâtre de la Liberté and introducing the maddening Cacophoniacs! Musical pranks for hire on April 1st!  Festivities run 11-3pm. Dress up in a fishy costume!

11am: Doors Open
12pm: Fishy Feast & Crafts
1pm: Rotten Egg Race + Fish Costume Contest
2pm: Theatre de la Liberte presents “Dr. Pickledherring & the Cacophoniacs”

We invite you to get outside and enliven our neighborhood. If you want to participate as an artist, musician, performer or as something we have yet to think about, please email the maître des cérémonies Nathan Maxwell Cann.

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A Peoples History of North American Music
Dec
14
7:00 PM19:00

A Peoples History of North American Music

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Heads up, Mendocino County!

Hummingbird Records and the Larry Spring Museum are presenting a very special evening with Eric Isaacson, one of the founders of the incredible record label/shop Mississippi Records in Portland Oregon.

This presentation will be held indoors at the Larry Spring Museum/Lost Coast Found at 7 pm on Saturday, Dec 14th, 225 Redwood Ave, Fort Bragg. $10 admission and limited seating! Get here early!

A People’s History of North American Music is a lecture/film/slideshow that attempts to tell the entire history of North American music in ninety minutes guiding you through this whirlwind presentation of archival film, sound clips, and images.

Subjects include:
Examples of industrialization devolving the human race to become dumber while other animals are getting smarter.
The insane early American Puritan’s visions of a utopian musicless society.
How The Church Of Scientology saved the record industry - A brief history of Mississippi Records and details about the many chips on their shoulders.
The dystopian world of Spotify and Al music.
Hopeful messages about the future.


“Overall, it’s the story of how the powers that be try to control music and people throughout history finding ways to work outside Puritans, corporations, and tech lords’ systems despite these social engineers’ best efforts. Don’t worry, it’s a fun telling of this tale with lots of great music, images, and wild stories.”

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Dia de los Muertos
Nov
2
2:00 PM14:00

Dia de los Muertos

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Join us for the 2nd annual Dia de los Muertos in Spring Commons. Celebrate the return of our ancestors on this culturally significant day. Featuring food, music, art and a community ofrenda.

Free and family-friendly

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Fall Vintage Market
Oct
26
11:00 AM11:00

Fall Vintage Market

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All things fall and vintage are happening in Spring Commons on Sat Oct 26th. We have one of a kind theatre costumes created for the SF Opera and the Pickle Family Circus available for your Halloween needs, live music with Chris Cisper, Erica from Frankie and the Lost Souls and Kevin Patrick Radley, knife sharpening, walk up haircuts and more!

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Mushroom Dye and Ink-making work session
Oct
6
10:00 AM10:00

Mushroom Dye and Ink-making work session

In collaboration with Pacific Textile Arts and the Mendocino Mushroom Club, we are offering a FREE mushroom dye and ink-making work session to dye threads for the fabric redwood round. If you would like to join the session, just drop in on Sunday Oct 6 between 10 and 5. If you have mushrooms you would like to contribute, please send us a DM.

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Jake Levinson Band
Oct
4
6:00 PM18:00

Jake Levinson Band

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Jake "Pies" Levinson and Asa "Fries" Gillespie have been an internationally touring musical duo for the last 20 years. Their sound is deeply influenced by American roots music, with soulful undertones, country twang, and funky rhythms.

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Silvacola film screening
Sep
12
7:00 PM19:00

Silvacola film screening

The Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics, in partnership with the Mendocino Film Festival, is proud to present Silvicola, a documentary that explores the human impact on forests through breathtaking vistas and poignant vignettes set in Canada's Pacific Northwest.

"At once stunning and sobering… An artfully engaged work […] that tackles the issues of deforestation through an unexpected lens… The growing desire to preserve the last of these elder giants is the beating heart of the film."

Madeline Lines, POV magazine

Film will be followed by a discussion. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3XdTpES

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Twig Harper Live
Sep
2
6:00 PM18:00

Twig Harper Live

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Hummingbird Records presents James Twig Harper Johnston, an electronic sound artist based in Los Angeles. Raised in Florida, Harper cut his teeth in Flint Michigan, playing guerrilla shows on homemade hacked electronics in Scheme, Mini-Systems, and Nautical Almanac. Coming up with fellow Michiganders Sightings, Wolf Eyes, and Andrew W.K., Harper co-founded Hanson Records with Aaron Dilloway and, later in Baltimore, Heresee Records with Nautical Almanac’s Carly Ptak.  His music and performances have been characterized by an incredible sense of trickery and playfulness – even foolishness – but in earnest and with careful consideration. Recent performances by Harper opening for Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon have found him sharing his own advancements in pure chaos systems, unfolding with full-range dynamism and sheer joy.

$10-$20 sliding scale

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Classic Summertime Film: JAWS
Aug
22
7:00 PM19:00

Classic Summertime Film: JAWS

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Join us for a classic summertime film screening of JAWS

Hosted by the Noyo Harbor Blue Economy and the Evil Scrunchies

Film intro by the Evil Scrunchies at 7 PM

Film starts at 7:30

Bring a small chair, blanket, & beverage

Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave

Entry by donation

Thanks!

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Redwood Time Drop-In Sewing Circles
Aug
8
to Aug 17

Redwood Time Drop-In Sewing Circles

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This is the pattern we’re following to construct the fabric model of Fort Bragg’s redwood monument, whilst ruminating on the various meanings and metaphors of Redwood Time.

Please come join us in sewing this week and next. We’re so close to being finished this phase: only the bark (those little pieces around the outer edge) and the {existing} timeline markers remain to be cut out and sewn into a large section, then all the large sections will be sewn together, somewhere with a very large table or floor!

Sewing sessions:

Wednesday, August 7, 1-5

Thursday, August 8, 1-5

Friday, August 9, 1-5

Wednesday, August 14, 1-5

Thursday, August 15, 1-5

Friday, August 16, 1-5

Saturday, August 17, 1-5

+ Evening Hours by appointment

Hope to see you all here!

Redwood Time is supported by a Humanities for All project grant from California Humanities, for which we are immensely grateful.

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SUMMER CAMP SANDALWOOD X GONZO TOUR
Jul
23
6:00 PM18:00

SUMMER CAMP SANDALWOOD X GONZO TOUR

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Live Music

On Tuesday, July 23rd, we have a full evening of music lined up with LA-based indie folk band sandalwood as the headliner. They are on tour promoting their new release, worn out joy.

6pm        Doors. Enter by the gates  beside 225 E Redwood Ave. $10 suggested donation

6:30pm   SOMOS

7:15pm   Andy Tavo

8pm        Gonzo

9pm        sandalwood

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