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The Firehouse Arts Center will present acclaimed storyteller and children’s songwriter Bill Harley in a virtual performance about school on Friday, April 9.
Author and illustrator Elaine Drew will introduce writers and artists to the fun and benefits of cartooning during a Pleasanton Art League online meeting at 7:30 p.m., on Monday, April 12.
The Bothwell Arts Center will offer a 5-week series of classes, “Shaping Tomorrow’s Visionaries,” designed to inspire students to examine issues, develop principles, and appreciate diversity, community, humanity and the environment.
The Bankhead Theater is scheduled to reopen for screenings films in May at 20% capacity.
Former Livermore schoolteacher Patricia Boyle has written a young adult fantasy, “Traitor in the Realm,” about a teenage artist and her foster brother who become trapped in a magical world where they must balance a desire to return home against rescuing a medieval kingdom from a royal traitor.
The Hindu Community and Cultural Center of Livermore this month awarded more than $20,000 in grants to 27 organizations.
Doris Miller – a longtime resident of Sunol – has written down her adventures as one of the first civilian Americans to help the Philippines recover from the devastation of World War II in her book, “Welcome to Luzon.”
The Museum on Main in Pleasanton will reopen to the public on Tuesday, March 23, with a traveling exhibit that focuses on several recently naturalized American citizens.
The Bankhead Theater in Livermore marked the one-year anniversary of the COVID shutdown with a live performance by Jackson Rohm in the plaza, on Friday, March 12. Organizers lit up the front of the building, honored the date with signage, kicked off a small fundraising campaign, and opened t…
Former California poet laureate Dana Gioia will discuss “Does Poetry Matter in the Modern World?” during an online meeting of the Tri-Valley Writers at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 20.
The Museum on Main will resume its Ed Kinney Speaker Series with virtual performances beginning with “An Afternoon or Evening with Lady Bird Johnson” as portrayed by actor Gay Storm, on March 24.
In an early St. Patrick’s Day celebration, the Firehouse Arts Center will present a virtual concert featuring the acoustic Celtic group We Banjo 3 at 2 p.m., on Saturday, March 13.
The Livermore Art Association (LAA) has taken a bold step in moving programs to an online format with the innovation and skill of its dedicated members.
The Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center will offer “Vineyard Vibes and More,” a series of free online shows featuring local musicians and comedians, on five Sunday evenings during March and April.
Fairlands Elementary School’s fifth-grade class spent the past six weeks working on a living-museum project to celebrate Black History Month in Pleasanton.
The Livermore-Amador Symphony is making a performance of the children’s classic, “Peter and the Wolf,” available online and illustrated with drawings by third-grade students at Smith Elementary School in Livermore.
The East Bay Holocaust Education Center, a new nonprofit organization based in Pleasanton, is sponsoring an artwork, writing, and video contest open to high school students in the East Bay area.
The Livermore Shakespeare Festival has commissioned California playwright and actress Diana Burbano to create an original play focusing on local scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and how they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new Quest Science Center exhibit at the Bankhead Theater Gallery views the beauty of nature through the lens of science, math and computer programming.
In her 44 years, Senait Mesfin Piccigallo has traveled more, experienced more and prevailed over more than most people even hear about others going through, making her the quintessential author for a book about living as an immigrant in the U.S.
The Livermore Valley Opera is offering a free, online concert, “Isn’t It Romantic,” for Valentine weekend.
While the Livermore Art Association Gallery is closed, they have opened an online store.
Literary agent Laurie McLean will discuss the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the publishing industry at a meeting of the Tri-Valley Writers on Saturday, Feb. 20. The Zoom-based meeting will begin at 2 p.m.
The Livermore Art Association is soliciting original work for its first-ever online art show and sale, to be held Thursday, Feb. 25, through March 31.
Visit Tri-Valley, a destination marketing organization, and the San Francisco-based U.S. Cultural & Heritage Marketing Council will host two virtual meetings in February to discuss the development of a local cultural and heritage tourism plan.
Local artists Kathleen Hill and Brenda Struiksma set up a new display art walk at Republic Square at Livermore, a new shopping area scheduled to open in 2021, adjacent to San Francisco Premium Outlets. The works range from landscapes and abstracts using a variety of media to handcrafts, incl…
Livermore Reads Together (LRT) is a community reading program featuring the powerful graphic novel series March, co-written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and illustrated by Nate Powell.
Two local groups, Quest Science Center and the Rae Dorough Speaker Series, will join Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center to present a series of National Geographic Live virtual speaker events running from January through April 2021.
Nana-Dictta Graves has garnered many titles during her life — internationally acclaimed professional fine micro-mosaic artist, restoration and conservation specialist, hat designer, healing arts practitioner, moderator, keynote speaker, and expert strategist on creative vision are just a few.
LIVERMORE — Orchestra aficionados, friends and colleagues are mourning the loss of a longtime resident and kindred spirit.
REGIONAL — Since it opened in 2007, the Bankhead Theater has welcomed a diverse range of artists and audiences, bringing them together to share the rich experience of live music and performance.
The Wild Vine Writers — a group of women authors based in Livermore — recently published its second book with a goal of helping their community.
The developer of Republic Square at Livermore, a new shopping area scheduled to open in 2021, is sponsoring an outdoor art walk featuring the works of 38 San Francisco Bay area artists.
Ludwig van Beethoven famously said, “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
The Cantabella Children’s Chorus will present a free online holiday concert on Saturday, Dec. 19. The link to the 40-minute concert will be available throughout the evening, beginning at 4 p.m., at www.cantabella.org.
Firehouse Arts Center has signed up with We Banjo 3 to offer a virtual holiday concert with a Celtic flair – “A Winter Wonderful.”
This December, Music For You is hosting their “Winter’s Joy” Benefit Concert to celebrate the holiday season.
The Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center will be offering virtual holiday entertainment this year featuring local favorites such as the Oregon-based band Pink Martini and Canadian master fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy.
Like many acting troupes, Encore Players of Livermore has been working on ways to bring performances to the community while conforming to shelter-in-place restrictions.
Dawn Benson displays Scoring Chix recycled cleaning pads on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center’s outdoor Mini Art Mart at the Bankhead Plaza. The event featured handmade art and decorations for Christmas. (Photos - Doug Jorgensen)
The Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center will host an outdoor Mini Art Mart at the Bankhead Plaza on Saturday, Dec. 5.
Documentary street photographer Tao Guan will discuss his Museum on Main exhibit, The Pleasanton Ones, in a YouTube presentation at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 5.
Local artists painted holiday scenes on the front windows of the Bankhead Theater. The project was initiated as part of the Holiday Signs and Sounds effort, which is coming up in December. All the work is being done by volunteers across all age groups. (Photos - Doug Jorgensen)
More than 430 patrons of the arts “attended” a virtual benefit for the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center on Nov. 21, raising nearly $200,000 through sponsorships, ticket sales, raffles and online auction, and other donations.
Music is helping a group of seniors in Pleasanton stay socially connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two artists popular with local audiences – pianist Jon Nakamatsu and Celtic fiddler Natalie McMaster – have been added to the lineup for the “Best of the Bankhead,” a virtual benefit for the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center, at 6 p.m., on Saturday, Nov. 21.
The Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council (PCAC) conducted a virtual Zoom competition, “Youth Excellence in Arts Awards” in Music and Literary Arts, on Nov. 6 and 8.
The County of Alameda announces the Alameda County Arts Relief Grant Program to assist nonprofit arts and cultural organizations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two student violinists have been named winners in the 48th annual Competition for Young Musicians sponsored by the Livermore-Amador Symphony Association.
