Arts & Culture

Arts, Exhibits & Performances

Museum Mondays for Little Ones

Mar 31, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025

March 31: A pinch of luck, a dash of fun, and a morning of glee! Build a rainbow from your own pot of gold, craft a pair of leprechaun-catching binocu...

Pirates of Penzance: Live

May 23, 2025 - Jun 21, 2025

Prepare for a riotous Cornish beach bash with Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. This isn’t your typical pirate tale. Instead o...

Cabinet of Curiosities: Painting Exhibition by Lucy Martin

Jun 3, 2025 - Aug 2, 2025

Lucy has always loved the surprising and mysterious — the odd or unusual — in nature. Her botanical art focuses mainly on fungi and lichens,...

Grace & Glorie: a Curtain Theater Production

Jun 6, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025

An odd-couple dramedy. Grace and Glorie by Tom Zeigler, looks at grief and loss with both tenderness and humor. Grace, a 90-year-old cancer patient, c...

Broadway Under the Stars: Best Night Ever

Jun 12, 2025 - Jun 22, 2025

Are you ready to be part of the three unforgettable experiences that thousands have already enjoyed? We encourage you to be emmersed in Transcendence...

Bright Star Play

Jun 13, 2025 - Jun 29, 2025

Cinnabar Theater concludes its thrilling 52nd season “On the Road” with Broadway’s Bright Star, directed by Nathan Cummings. This poign...

Juneteenth: A Live Play Reading

Jun 19, 2025

The staged reading play follows the history of a Black family living in the USA. We first meet them in act one 1865. the day Juneteenth is introduced...

Second Annual “Black Is Beautiful” Juneteenth Block Party

Jun 19, 2025

Strange Constellation is a BIPOC-led vintage clothing shop & art space located in Santa Rosa's SOFA Art District. On Thursday, June 19, we will be...

Opening Reception for Dotto Mon Amour

Jun 21, 2025

Usher Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition by Ina von Wunsch, whose intense, emotionally charged portraits and stylized human forms, reminisce...

International Fiber Arts Exhibition Opening

Jun 22, 2025

At Sebastopol Center for the Arts, we believe art has the power to connect, comfort, challenge, and inspire — and fiber art does all of that and...

School of Rock: Live on Stage

Jun 27, 2025 - Jul 5, 2025

Based on the hit movie School of Rock – The Musical, the story follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit o...

The Princess Bride: A Young Actors Stage Production

Jun 27, 2025

William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love that's thri...

Woodwork Exhibition Opening for Bruce Johnson

Jun 28, 2025

The Museum is honored to present Bruce Johnson: Sculptor, a landmark exhibition celebrating the life, vision, and legacy of one of Sonoma County’...

Art on the Plaza

Jul 4, 2025 - Jul 5, 2025

Art on the Plaza returns to the heart of Sonoma on Saturday, July 4 & 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the historic Sonoma Plaza. This free, family-fr...

Art on the Plaza

Jul 5, 2025

Art on the Plaza returns to the heart of Sonoma on Saturday, July 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the historic Sonoma Plaza. This free, family-friendly o...

The Nightmare Show: Queer Horror Variety

Jul 11, 2025

For the first time ever, Nightmare Show is venturing beyond San Francisco to find the beautiful weirdos of Sonoma County. Join us Thursday, July 11, a...

Second Saturday Cartoonist: Janelle Blarg

Jul 12, 2025

Meet, watch, and talk to Janelle Blarg (aka Janelle Hessig), Bay Area writer, cartoonist, and multimedia humorist whose first publication, "Tales of B...

Petaluma Art & Garden Festival

Jul 13, 2025

One of Petaluma’s most cherished summer traditions returns! The 22nd Art & Garden Festival is a vibrant, family-friendly celebration of creat...

Wine Country Yarn Hop

Jul 18, 2025 - Jul 20, 2025

Join us for the 13th annual Northern California yarn lovers experience from July 18 - 20!The Wine Country Yarn Hop consists of five shops located in t...

Hindsight: Ten-Minute Play Readings

Jul 19, 2025 - Jul 20, 2025

Now in its fifth year, our annual play festival showcases original short plays from around the world that are topical, creative, thought-provoking, an...

Live Comic Reading: You and Me on Repeat

Jul 19, 2025

Join local cartoonists to celebrate the release of "You and Me on Repeat," the debut graphic novel by Mary Shyne. Hear a reading from Shyne’s rom...

Flavors of Spain

Jul 25, 2025 - Jul 26, 2025

Guests are invited to an unforgettable evening in Sonoma Wine Country at the St. Francis Winery & Vineyards Flavors of Spain Flamenco Wine Dinner,...

Broadway Under the Stars: Beautiful – The Carole King Musical

Aug 7, 2025 - Aug 17, 2025

Are you ready to be part of the three unforgettable experiences that thousands have already enjoyed? We encourage you to be emmersed in Transcendence...

Flamenco Show & Dinner

Aug 9, 2025

The urge to clap will be hard to resist during this riveting performance showcasing the art of Flamenco dancing, a Spanish tradition you won't want to...

Broadway Under the Stars: Ladies of Broadway

Sep 4, 2025 - Sep 14, 2025

Are you ready to be part of the three unforgettable experiences that thousands have already enjoyed? We encourage you to be emmersed in Transcendence...

Savor Sonoma County’s arts scene your way.

Sculpture gardens tucked into hills and intimate performance venues in charming small towns join major performing arts centers like the Green Music Center and Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in sharing the arts. Each Sonoma County community has its own style of artistic expression. Look for one-of-a-kind souvenirs by artists, jewelry makers, artisans, and more in galleries and studios countywide.

Stroll from gallery to gallery in Healdsburg, visit the oldest continuously operating artists' cooperative in California, or take in a show at Jack London State Historic Park.

With thousands of artists and more than 20 performing arts companies in Sonoma County, you’re sure to find something special where Life Opens Up.

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