CINNALOUNGE
Free w/$500+ membership
CinnaClub Members (memberships of $500+) are invited to join members of board and staff for preshow soirées in intimate settings, where fascinating speakers enlighten and enliven. First come, first served.
On the Verge
La Bohème
Ella, The American Dream
Is He Dead?
Emmeline
On the Verge October 2, 2009
467 Amber Way, Petaluma
Speaker: Dr. Kevin McLin, Professor at Sonoma State University - Space Science Education and Public Outreach at Sonoma State University
McLin grew up in Northern California, in Ukiah and in Davis. He attended the University of California, Davis, where he received a BS in physics. He then studied astronomy/astrophysics in graduate school, earning a Master's degree in astronomy from the University of Washington and his Doctorate from the University of Colorado. While at Colorado he worked for a time in JILA with Andrew Hamilton on the supernova remnant S Andromodae, the relic from the historical supernova 1885A. Kevin did his thesis work in CASA with John Stocke, where he looked at the relationship between intergalactic Lyman-alpha absorption systems and galaxies in the local universe.
La Bohème October 30, 2009
Dimensions Galleria, 115 Petaluma Blvd N. Petaluma, 5:30 pm
Speaker: Donal Pippen, Aritistic Director of Pocket Opera San Francisco
Donald Pippin's approach to opera is to tell the story in the clearest manner possible. He once said that there is "a whole category of operas where, if you don't know the story on the way to the theatre, you won't know it on the way home, either." With Pocket Opera presentations it is really possible to know the plot of the opera on the way home. Pippin brings the story to life via his nationally recognized English versions of opera libretti, in which he translates the spirit of the work rather than word by word, with complete fidelity to the composer's musical intentions.
Ella, The American Dream January 15, 2010
Location: Pelican Art Gallery, 143 Petaluma Blvd. N. (707) 773-3393
Speaker: Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
University of California, Berkeley
A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Waldo Martin was among the first African American undergraduates to enter Duke University. After receiving his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, he taught for nine years at the University of Virginia, and since 1991 has returned to U.C. Berkeley as Professor of History. For three years, he has been co-director of summer NEH seminars at Harvard’s Du Bois Institute on teaching the history of the civil rights movement. He is the author of The Mind of Frederick Douglass and Brown V. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents.
Is He Dead? Sunday, April 11, 2010
Location: Pelican Art Gallery, 143 Petaluma Blvd. N. (707) 773-3393
Speaker: Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor, Stanford University
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University, is the author or editor of 34 books on Mark Twain, including Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices, The 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Book of Animals (article about Twain's animal welfare concerns) and The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work. She is the scholar who recovered Mark Twain's forgotten play "Is He Dead?" in the archives, published it, and guided it to a critically acclaimed first-ever run on Broadway in 2007– 08. She is a past president of the American Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America.
Emmeline May 29, 2010
Location: TBA
Speaker: Helen Grieco
Grieco is a self defense instructor, nonprofit director, therapist, media consultant and social activist with more then 20 years of successful grassroots organizing experience on issues affecting women, girls, youth and the queer community. Grieco is also an author and has produced several films for women and girls on their health and safety. Greico's newest venture is Founder of Brave People, to learn more about this group, visit www.bravepeople.org/
