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.”

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

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!

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.

We are spending the weekend at one of our favorite places @pacific_textile_arts. If you are Redwood Time - curious, drop by and see where we are with the project, or join us for a sewing circle

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.

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

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

Avante-folk puppetry by Théâtre de la Liberté

Enter though the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave

Donations welcome

Live acoustic Americana by Cousin Jimbo and Friends.

Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave

Outdoor event

Donations welcome!

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!

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

Help construct the fabric model of Fort Bragg’s redwood round and contribute to the conceptual development of our new community-generated timelines

We invite you to help construct the fabric model of Fort Bragg’s redwood round and contribute to the conceptual development of our new community-generated timelines. Come on over to discuss the current timeline, share your ideas for new ways of marking time, cut out pattern pieces, and help hand-stitch the fabric into its final form. Sewing experience would be nice, but not necessary! We are serving tea and snacks.

At the center of our “Redwood Time” project is a re-envisioning of the monumental Redwood Round on Fort Bragg’s Main Street. But before we reconsider our relationship to this memorial erected in 1943 in honor of the founders of Fort Bragg and the natural majesty they encountered here, we first need to understand what they intended to memorialize. What – specifically – does this Redwood Round that stands at the heart of Fort Bragg celebrate? And more importantly, how can a historically-informed understanding of this mid-20th century memorial help us understand our own relationship to the land they claimed and named?

Join us on July 20th as former Fort Bragg resident and current UC Davis professor of English and American Studies Jeff Solomon draws upon the historical record and recent cultural and ecological scholarship to illuminate the history behind the memorial and the people it celebrates.

We’ll take a close look at the timeline it presents, the contested histories of settlement and progress that it celebrates (or overlooks), and then connect all of that to a discussion about the redwood forest that remains as its own form of memorial.

Hello music heads of Mendocino County! First Friday (July 5th) this week is taking off on Redwood Ave in Fort Bragg - coming in from the Sierras for a concert in the Commons at the Larry Spring Museum, @humming_bird_recs present The Lodestones! Lodestones are an original creative force, playing their own strain of cryptic yet welcoming country inflected astral folk music. The duo format consists of singer-songwriter Jeffrey Rocketmild Jefferson on guitar and pianist Dena Goldsmith Stanley. Gates open at 5 with music at 6. $10 donation for the band please! C'mon down for this amazing event. It's going to be a peak summer weekend, let's enjoy it together with great live music right in downtown Fort Bragg.

As Summer opens, we'll embark on a day-long illuminating introduction to natural magic, astrology and music. Rooted in antiquity and flowering in the Renaissance, natural magic harnesses sonic, botanical and cosmic energies for self-discovery and transformation. Astrologer/herbalist Debbie Stapleton and musician/soulworker Brian James guide participants through a multi-sensory workshop on each planet's themes, herbs, time cycles and musical tones.

Participants take home a workshop booklet to guide ongoing reflection and practice.

Introduction to Natural Magic

• Overview of natural magic and its historical roots.

• Introduction to the seven traditional planets, their archetypes, and time cycles

Planetary Attributions

• Introduction to each planet's herb, stone, and sound. Known as "sunthemata" (Greek for "token or symbol), these attributions in the Neo-Platonic tradition form a "chain of correspondences" that binds the cosmos to humanity and the natural realm.

• Live demonstration of musical modes corresponding to planetary energies.

• Sampling of planetary hand-crafted incense.

Interactive Sound Meditation

• Participants practice sounding the modes associated with each planet.

• Group reflection and meditation to contemplate each planet's themes.

Responsive Mark-making

• Participants may create painted reflections with watercolor on watercolor paper throughout the workshop.

• At the end of the day, there will be time to experiment with translating potent or meaningful imagery onto dyed fabric scraps from the round using handmade inks distilled from last fall's dye workshop. Then, these will be pinned to the Redwood Round in a particular location or time that resonates with each individual participant. 

This event is a part of Redwood Time, a multi-year project made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Redwood Time program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summer Solstice 2024 coincides with a Full Moon, bringing the luminaries of dawn and dusk into perfect polarity and poetic dialogue on the longest day of the year. The Sun, enduring and constant through the ages, and the Moon, shape-shifting every night, invite us to contemplate the annual turning of the seasons that the Sun initiates and the monthly Lunar journey that shapes intimate growth cycles.

We ponder: How many solstices have the redwoods seen? How long has the Sun shone upon them, contributing warmth, growth, and stimulating photosynthesis? How many Lunar phases have illuminated and shadowed the forests at night? Do redwoods dream?

Vocalist Debbie Stapleton and multi-instrumentalist Brian James present a two-part sonic experience inspired by these themes, co-creating spontaneous compositions by building layers of circular loops that evoke the radiance of the Sun and the mysterious mood of the Moon. The journey culminates with an invitation to the community to contribute to the composition, engaging in a dialogue with the cosmos as the sun sets and the moon rises, transporting us from kronos (linear clock time) into kairos (the eternal and sacred moment).

This event is a part of Redwood Time, a multi-year project made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the Redwood Time program do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Bring your stand-up, short stories, and spoken word to Spring Commons this First Friday! Hummingbird Records is bringing the music, and Hard Head Bread is bringing the baking!

5 - 7 PM

Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave

Join us on Saturday June 1 for an expanded cinema performance of Wu Li Leung’s SIGNALS. The multi-projector performance explores the mind of a redwood tree from the future and its relation to humans and the earth.

7:30: Synth Music by Pan-Struck

Food by petite percebes

8:30: Performance

This event takes place in Spring Commons. Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg

$15

Mendocino Film Festival Passes not valid at this special event

Make way for a menagerie of forest critters as they present a zoological spectacle of climatic proportions. ‘The Real’ Smokey Bear, Hooty the Owl and Bennie Bark Beetle present masterful acts of anthropocene mockery. Humanfolk both young and old, bear your teeth, clap your paws and roll around in the dirt as you objectify and cackle like coyotes at the cute vitriol of your animal friends as they present ‘Where Do We Go From Here’!

Created by Ross Travis and his Antic in the Drain cohort, Travis plays 15 characters and uses a powerful mix of irreverent comedy, tragedy, ritual, acrobatics, kinetic sculpture and interactive play to investigate the life of the non-bipedal.

Supported by the California Arts Council and Upstate California Creative Corps

Spring Commons on May 12 at 2 PM. Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave

Not to be missed!

Donations Welcome.

Join LatCo in Spring Commons on First Friday!

Live Music from Balle Exclusivo, Raffle and a Pop-up Boutique

Find out about Latino Outdoors, Ballet Folkorico, Meno Latino with Loreto and Diana, Club de Lectura la Lechuza at the Fort Bragg Library and Ask Cristal Muñoz about the city government and school board.

Enter through the gate beside 225 E Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg

Hope to see you there!

Welcome to Spring! On First Friday April 5, we welcome avante-folk puppetry troupe, Théâtre de la Liberté for their performance and book launch of "Wreath of Sausages for Balzak".

Friday, April 5th, 2024

Spring Commons

Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave, Fort Bragg

5:30 PM

Entrance by Donation

Avante- folk puppetry in Spring Commons

$5 suggested donation

Meet in Spring Commons for an introduction and discussion about the project.

Carpool to gathering walk.

Return to Spring Commons - look at the pattern, collected fabrics, and dye materials.

$10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Participation capped at 12 people
Enter through the gates beside 225 E Redwood Ave., Fort Bragg

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEH. Visit calhum.org
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this installation and performance do not necessarily represent those of California Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.