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Art Share April Activities with CNPS

By Kali Cozyris on April 11, 2021 at 6:30AM

The North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society’s 2021 Wildflower Show goes virtual this year, hosting creative, interactive and informational opportunities to appreciate wildflowers all month long during April. On now, enjoy activities such as viewing Little Free Wildflower Art Galleries that will pop up at businesses and homes around the county, leaving miniature works of your own art in any of the Take-One- Leave-One galleries (map and details online) or Zooming into online wildflower presentations every Friday night in April.

SoHum Girls Streaming Live from the Arcata Playhouse this Saturday

By Kali Cozyris on April 9, 2021 at 6:30AM

Listen up, live music lovers — David Ferney at Arcata Playhouse has some news. “The Arcata Playhouse is back with live music.

ERRP Managing Director Pat Higgins would
rather be under water.

Weekly Zoom Series about the Eel River Watershed Starts this Week

By Kali Cozyris on April 8, 2021 at 1:30PM

The Eel River Recovery Project is hosting weekly Zoom meetings about the Eel River Watershed from April 9 through May 28. "Eel Zoom" is a new, happy-hour-timed presentation (bring your own beverage) on topics of interest about the Eel River watershed. Presentation topics include fish population trends, Sacramento pikeminnow management, flow, salmon parks, forest health, salmon run trends, how watersheds work, toxic cyanobacteria and more.

A Pandemic Poetry Reading with Laureate David Holper

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on April 4, 2021 at 11:23AM

When the city council appointed David Holper Eureka’s first poet laureate in 2019, it was supposed to last a year. Then again, a lot of things turned out differently than planned in 2020 and the term was extended.

EV Charger Access Lecture

By Kali Cozyris on April 4, 2021 at 6:30AM

The future is electric but Where Will We Charge our Electric Cars? Three HSU grads discuss that and more Monday, April 5 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Online.

Humboldt County Brewing Company at Broadway and Harris staff in 1909.

Early Breweries on Tap at Humboldt County Historical Society Program

By Kali Cozyris on April 2, 2021 at 6:30AM

Humboldt’s hop history is on tap for this month’s Humboldt County Historical Society Program, Mercantile Brewing in Humboldt County, happening Saturday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m. via Zoom. Presented by Michael Berry, this journey back in time chronicles every commercial brewery known to have operated in Humboldt County from 1854 to the present day — and shows how early brewers struggled in a competitive market. There are limited slots.

RCAA Plant and Seed Exchange

By Kali Cozyris on April 1, 2021 at 1:13PM

Although a bit windy, these spring days have been fine. Gardeners are in their yards pushing bulbs and seeds into the ground coaxing the colors of spring.

Holly Sepulveda's ceramic "Face Planters."

Last Look at Outer Space's BIPOC Art Show

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on March 31, 2021 at 11:03AM

If you're in Old Town today, swing by Studio 424 and peer through the windows for a last look at the Outer Space Arcata' Phantom Gallery Exhibit "All Colors Are Beautiful," an assemblage of work by 18 local BIPOC artists curated by Taylor Snowberger and Julio Cesar Torres. The window gallery space was donated for the show by photographer and Journal contributor Mark McKenna.

Gary Sommers and Susan Abbey as Robert and Cait.

RCT's Bloomsday Back for One Night Only

By Kali Cozyris on March 26, 2021 at 12:00PM

Jaunt back to the Emerald Isle with Redwood Curtain Theatre to revisit a sweet, heartwarming love story whose telling was cut short by unforseen circumstances. In March of 2020, the pandemic shut down the final performances of RCT’s Bloomsday when there was so much more love (and brilliant perfomances) to give. ’Twas a cryin’ shame.

Garden-y Things Happening This Week

By Kali Cozyris on March 26, 2021 at 6:30AM

Spring is here and there are glorious garden-y things happening this week — good for your yard and good for your soul. Stop by the Benefit for the Fortuna Garden Club on Saturday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Fortuna River Lodge and pick up bright and delightful daffodils to color your yard.

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