Featuring the musical stylings of the Mendocino College Jazz Band students, led by Director Phillip Lenberg. FREE to all!
For more information about the Mendocino College Music Program, please visit our webpage, here.
Produced by Eryn Schon-Brunner Original dance works, live music, and visual arts collide in celebration of student, alumni, faculty, and guest artist's work. Contemporary, ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, Middle Eastern, Ballet Folklorico performance art, and more will enliven the Mendocino College Center of Visual and Performing Arts Theatre on May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at 7:30 pm, and May 4th at 2 pm! Join us Friday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm for a gala featuring wine and hors d'oeuvres catered by the Mendocino College Culinary Department. Performance follows at 7:30 pm. And be sure to visit the gallery exhibition of student work in College Art Gallery!
Don't miss this family-friendly event!
Tickets: $15 all ages - available online at artsmendocino.org, at Mendocino Book Company (cash/check only), and at the door (as available).
A passionate celebration of Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz—the 7-time Grammy-nominated Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today. He fuses a wide range of jazz, world music, and electronic elements with his Afro-Cuban roots to create a fresh and original urban sound—all with a Latin jazz heart. Experience the brilliance of Omar Sosa on stage with his amazing collaborators: multi-reed player Sheldon Brown, Josh Jones on drums, and Ernesto Mazar Kindelan on baby bass.
Tickets:
For more information, visit the Ukiah Community Concert Association webpage, here.
Co-directed by nationally acclaimed solo artist Dan Hoyle, Broadway and Hollywood actor Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, and Mendocino College Theatre Director Reid Edelman, this culmination of a year-long project will be an original production based on a Mendocino County theme and utilizing the innovative “journalistic theatre” process developed by Dan Hoyle.
For more information about the Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department, please visit our webpage, here.
A satisfying blend of traditional and modern styles, this is Bluegrass music at its best. Now in their 20th year, with seven acclaimed albums and two Juno nominations, the Jaybirds are simultaneously innovative and unadorned, sophisticated and stripped-down, happily old-fashioned and 21st-century contemporary. In addition to mandolinist and composer John Reischman, the Jaybirds consists of guitarist Patrick Sauber, brilliant lead vocalist Trisha Gagnon, Canadian banjo picker Nick Hornbuckle, and fiddle virtuoso Greg Spatz.
Tickets:
For more information, visit the Ukiah Community Concert Association webpage, here.
The Ukiah Symphony Orchestra is a community-based orchestra located in the city of Ukiah, California, comprised of musicians from Ukiah and the surrounding communities. Founded in 1979, we have been providing continuous, regular seasons of orchestral music for Ukiah and the surrounding communities for more than forty years.
The three artists featured in Mendocino College Gallery's latest exhibition create works that consider the implications of our human imprint on nature. Art that creates a deeper awareness of the environmental impact of our actions and inspires a shift toward more sustainable living is Heather Law's passion.
Kala Stein works at the intersection of craft, design, and sustainability, exploring notions of beauty and loss in the natural world.
Evan Hobart describes his work as, "A platform to discuss the past, present, and future, utilizing the intersection of humanity and nature to comment on modern-day life." He continues, "My work examines today's world and elaborates on many of its facets such as global climate change, politics, war, religion, society, over-development, and possibly the eventual extinction. Unpleasant as it is to confront some of these issues, it is the work (obligation) of the artist and teacher, now and in the past, to do so - in a creative and thought-provoking way."
All three artists work primarily in the medium of ceramics.
Free and open to the public!
Light refreshments will be served.
Regular Gallery Hours:
Mendocino College Gallery is located in the Center Theatre Lobby:
1000 Hensley Creek Rd., Ukiah
Join us for the Krenov School’s class of 2025 Mid Winter Exhibition at the TC Space gallery in downtown Fort Bragg. As always, our class has produced an exceptional body of work. On display will be examples of the fine skills, attention to detail, and sensitivity that our students have striven for in their first semester’s work.
The show is free to the public and will be open for viewing daily, 10 AM – 6 PM.
For more information, please visit the Krenov School webpage here.
Don’t miss the 32nd annual Professional Pianist Concerts, a collaborative production by the Ukiah Community Concert Association and Spencer Brewer, and a benefit for the Mendocino College Recording Arts Club, the Allegro Scholarship Program, and the Ukiah Community Concert Association.
This utterly fun and stimulating series features the finest regional pianists inviting you into their onstage “living room” and, throughout the performance, trading stories and melodies with two pianos on stage to accommodate impromptu collaborations.
The event is legendary and an annual sellout because of the diversity and quality of a multitude of styles of music, spiced with humor throughout the show.
Tickets are $25 for open seating and $30 for the “I wanna see the hands” section.
Tickets go on sale the second week of December and make great Christmas gifts!
Available at the Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, Mazahar in Willits, and through Brown Paper Tickets. If not completely sold out, tickets may be available at the door.
For more information: 707.463.2738
From the whimsical and humorous to the punk and dark, each piece created by Spencer and Esther is one of a kind. By creating “new compositions” from vintage or unusual objects, they inspire viewers with a sense of delight, surprise, and sometimes awe.
Regular Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays: 12:30 - 3:30 PM
Wednesdays: 10:30 - 12:30 PM
Thursdays: 12:30 - 3:30 PM
and by appointment
Mendocino College Gallery is located in the Center Theatre Lobby:
1000 Hensley Creek Rd., Ukiah
For more information about the gallery, please visit the Mendocino College Art Gallery webpage here.
