What's Happening in Sebastopol this Week? August 8-14
Got plans for this week? You do now...
Sebastopol Businesses Imagining Our Cohesive Future
Tuesday, August 9, 7 pm at Copperfield’s, 138 North Main Street, Sebastopol. Free
The Sebastopol Downtown Association invites you to a collaborative conversation about the future of downtown. Bring a big heart, an open mind, and a desire/vision for what you want to see in our community. We will use empathy, listening and visioning to create a collaborative exploration for how businesses can come together to support each other and create a thriving downtown community. Sign up here.
Peacetown
Wednesday, August 10 at The Barlow, Hopmonk and Gravenstein Grill
Here's this week's line-up
Doc Craft at BBQ Smokehouse Bistro, 4 to 8 pm
Bohoss Boogie Boys at the Foundry, 4:30 to 7 pm
Sol Horizon in the Blue Ridge Kitchen Backyard, 5 pm to 7:30 pm
Proud Mary at Crooked Goat Brewery, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
The New Skye Band at Hopmonk Tavern, 6 to 8:30 pm
SOR All Stars at School of Rock stage, 4:30 to 7:30 pm
JP Soden  at the Community Market Stage
John Trubee at Seismic Brewery, 7 to 9 pm
Ruti Cellli & Kim Atkinson at Gravenstein Grill, 7 to 9 pm
Flynn Creek Circus presents Balloons, Birds and Other Flying Things
Thursday, August 11 -14 , multiple times at the Sebastopol Grange, $80-$400
A father gives a balloon to his daughter and instills a lasting memory that follows her throughout their life journey together. The 2022 season show is a series of real memories submitted by our audience and interpreted in wild acrobatics, comedy and awe-inspiring stunts. Deeply personal vignettes string together a larger story about the illusive, fleeting nature of time and how it transforms, defines and inspires us. Internationally award winning talents from around the globe come together in this star-studded cast of creators. This is the show everyone will be talking about this Summer. Sign up here.
Chrysalis Dance Core Presents: A Benefit for Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Friday, August 12, 7 pm at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 High St., Sebastopol. $20
Chrysalis Dance core is offering a fantastical benefit show to raise funding for Sebastopol Center for the Arts to continue our mission of honoring diversity, encouraging creative excellence, and providing a welcoming gathering place for the community to experience art, make art, share art and celebrate creative thought. Sign up here.
Magic Design Workshop
Saturday, August 13, 10 am at Chimera Arts and Maker Space, 6791 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol. $95
You will learn specialized crafting, sleight-of-hand and creativity techniques for adapting magic effects to your projects. You will learn how to create optical illusions and apply principles of the art of magic to your to your designs. You will learn how to make objects magically appear, transform, and vanish. Most important of all, you will learn how to think like a magician to create surprise and wonder in your preferred media. Sign up here.
Gravenstein Apple Fair
Saturday and Sunday, August 13-14 at Ragle Ranch Park
The 49th annual Gravenstein Apple Fair will return in 2022 at Ragle Ranch Park in Sebastopol. Bring the whole family for live music, arts & crafts vendors, local food and drink, contests and games, workshops, farm animals, and of course our world-famous heirloom Gravenstein apples! There will be a apple pie contest and apple-themed activities galore.
Buy Tickets: https://gravensteinapplefair.com/
Downtown Makers Market
Saturday, August 13 in the Downtown Plaza
The Makers Market is held in the downtown plaza the second Saturday of every month. Local vendors are encouraged to participate once or regularly. Contact the SDA if interested in setting up a booth! sebastopoldowntown@gmail.com
Head West Marketplace
Saturday and Sunday, August 13-14, starts at 11 am in The Barlow
HEAD WEST is a regional, outdoor retail marketplace. Find artisan and vintage items from sellers from the Bay Area and North Bay.
HEADS UP FOR NEXT WEEK:Â Social Media Marketing: Reaching Your Goals with Kerry Rego. This Business Lab Lecture Series is happening Thursday, August 18, at 5:30 pm at The Livery CoWork, 6940 Burnett Street, Sebastopol. $15. Sign up here.
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