Local nonprofit Cooperation Humboldt will host the third annual Artists Dismantling Capitalism conference on Saturday, Feb. 29 at the Creamery District in Arcata from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Sanctuary co-operators and Studio Artist Hazel Rickard will be hosting the “Designing a Society” workshop at 3 p.m.

This Symposium will be highly participatory, offering 16 workshops facilitated by artists, community members and others. Workshops will focus on a wide range of topics including theater, hip hop, artist spaces, spirituality, and more. In addition to local community members and artists, the conference will feature visiting facilitators including Kwame Braxton and Abrianni Perry of Cooperation Jackson, MS. and Ali Meders-Knight & Mel Figueroa from Chico

“The aim of Artists Dismantling Capitalism is to bring together artists, culture workers, social change agents and anyone and everyone who knows that we can collectively create a society that is loving, compassionate, inclusive and beautiful,” said Cooperation Humboldt organizer Ruthi Engelke. “We are very excited that for the third year, we are able to offer a wide variety of workshops to the community that explore how we may create that society through the power of creativity and art.”

The Cowtown Serenaders with Hazel Rickard & Kyle Butz
Doors at 6:30, show at 7:00, $10-25 at the door

Sanctuary organizers Tayloranne Finch and Daniel Nickerson are excited to share their most recent work with the community, a collage performance of song, story, and performance art called “A Trip to Cowtown.” Featuring the Incredible Collapsible Magical Marionette Music Box, this work was first performed as part of the Eureka Fringe Festival in 2019. It tells the story of Peggy Pilgrim and Toe-Tapping Tommy, two wandering spirits who become friends in a world where all travel and spontaneity has been banned by the Good Government. This show will also be a celebration of the release of the Cowtown Serenaders first full-length album, “Dream Songs for the Endless Weekend,” recorded at the Sanctuary last fall. Former artist resident Hazel Rickard and Kyle Butz will be providing an opening set of music.

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Daniel Nickerson and Tayloranne Finch create work as the Cowtown Serenaders to combine their interests in music, art, storytelling and performance. Their recordings and shows are characterized by acoustic sounds, natural materials, and fable-like stories, woven together to create a living tapestry of alternative Americana.

https://www.thecowtownserenaders.com/

Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00
$10-25 at the door
The Sanctuary, 1301 J St, Arcata

For the past three years, Olypmia-based folksinger Palmer T Lee has stopped in at the Sanctuary with the Lowest Pair, his duo collaboration with another great Northwest songwriter, Kendl Winter. This time around, he’ll be performing solo, sharing material from a new album of songs, “Winebringer.” A copy of the record was deposited in the Sanctuary’s collection last year, and it has proven to be a good friend to have during these cold months. Joining him on this tour will be Humbird, the songwriting outlet of Minneapolis-based Siri Undlin.

Hosted by the Kinetic Paranormal Society.
Help us celebrate the roundest number of them all! 3.14159..

PIE, Pizza, Drinks! Games, Prizes, Music, Dancing and Puppets!

This party is a fundraiser for the Kinetic Paranormal Society’s race team and will feature bingo, raffles, and a puppet karaoke contest where YOU can enter to sing a duet with a puppet from the KPS!

Live Music from: The Cowtown Serenaders, Los Peridos, Drip Torch, and more dance party after that.

Doors open at 5:00, Puppet show by the KPS at 5:30. Sliding scale: $5-25

Doors at 7:30, music at 8:00
$10-25 at the door

Two experimental musicians and sound artists from the east coast will be passing through our hall as part of a 40 date tour that will take them all over the U.S. Their music is a fascinating eddy of sounds, brittle and beautiful, and we’re looking forward to an evening of entrancing sounds.
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Will Karmis is a musical improviser, guitarist and songwriter. Weaving together the expressions of drone poetry and song, their music exists between states of untethered ambient improvisation and reflective folk. Cycles, lines of desire, and streamed consciousness are threaded throughout Will’s work.

www.braidingtogetherforever.today

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On tour to support their new release “Shellbody,” Paulastretch composes lush, ambience zones from the dungeon of circuit bent tape players and lo-fi samplers. Echoing samples form percussive dots connected by decaying drone swells.

https://paulastretch.bandcamp.com/album/shellbody

Come the second Sunday of the month from 6pm to 9pm for sewing & mending night.

Suggested donation of $5 – $20

Call Debbie with questions.
(707) 822-4221

Come and join us every second Friday evening in the meeting room to see a rotating variety of artists. Exhibitions are two months long, see our newsletter for current artist(s) being featured.