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BREAD AND ROSES PERFORMANCE
Join us for this performance presented in collaboration with Bread & Roses and West Marin Senior Services, providing periodic fun and entertaining 45-minute concerts immediately following
the weekly Thursday Senior Luncheon!
Thursday, May 1, 1:15 p.m./ free

ACTING LOCALLY: A SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL TO BENEFIT THE DANCE PALACE
Local playwrights Scott McMorrow and Murray Suid present five plays, performed script in hand. Anna & Tolstoy reveals the novelist’s love affair with his famous character. We Count Bathrooms takes a comedic peek at inter-faith relationships. Building Better Mousetraps reveals the darker side of improving on a bad thing. Come This Way is a sitcom pilot about spirituality and sperm.
Calling Long Distance won first prize in a national one-minute play contest.
Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, 7:30 p.m. / $10 suggested donation

DEL SOL QUARTET: RING OF FIRE
Come join the Del Sol in celebrating the release of its latest CD, Ring of Fire!  Enjoy an afternoon of beautiful music surveying composers of the Pacific Rim.  Composer Chinary Ung will be in attendance, and the performance will feature his Spiral X which Del Sol premiered at the Library of Congress on the library’s legendary Stradivarius collection.
Sunday, May 4, 4 p.m. / $20 general, $15 seniors, $7 students;
Dance Palace members $15 general, $13 seniors, $7 students

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GARDEN LECTURE AND DEMONSTRATION SERIES
A demonstration and discussion by Will Minor and Rufus Blunk
 on how to grow shiitake mushrooms in your own backyard
Monday, May 5, 6 p.m. /free

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES
The Inverness Garden Club Community Projects Committee will present an workshop on gardening for butterflies. Barbara Deutsch will share a video of her garden, adapted to welcome and provide for butterflies. She will talk about ways to become more aware of butterflies and how to invite them into your garden.
Everyone is invited to this free event.
Friday, May 9, 7 p.m. / free

DANCE PALACE KIDS MUSICAL THEATER PRESENTS ONCE UPON A SHOE OR THE RHYMES AND MIMES OF MOTHER GOOSE AND HER TRAVELING TROUBADORS 
Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home and move to an old sneaker. To save the shoe, the children decide to put on a show. Will the children be able to save the shoe for Mother Goose or will they have to move to the old sneaker? Join us for this charming Dance Palace Kids Musical Theater Mother’s Day show. This program is made possible in part through a grant from the Bill Graham Foundation.
Saturday and Sunday, May 10, 3 p.m. / $8 general, $5 seniors, $4 teens and kids

THE FLAME OF LOVE: THE LEGEND OF TRISTAN & ISEULT
The long, dark nights of Medieval Europe were rich with stories. But one legend was told and beloved beyond all others: The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. Filled with love, passion, magic, and death, it captivated the listeners because it was the very mirror of their own hearts, minds and souls. And to raise the telling beyond the power of words there was music: the vielle, the harp, the drum, the psaltery, and the singing voice. All this made for evenings of brilliance and enchantment throughout the Dark Ages. In The Flame of Love, Celtic harpist Patrick Ball and The Medieval Beasts bring this same enchantment. into our own time and place
Saturday, May 10, 8 p.m. / $16 general, $14 seniors, $5 teens and kids

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FIRE SAFE LANDSCAPING
Presentation will be highlighted by the film Marin on Fire, co-sponsored by the
National Park Service and EAC. Monday, May 12, FREE

UNREASONABLE WOMEN – CELEBRATING CODEPINK!
CodePink-Women for Peace has made headlines with its colorful, bold approach to activism. Learn more about this unique group – how innovative approaches can energize local activist organizations. Join singer/songwriter Betsy Rose, poet Brenda Hillman, and national and local speakers from
CodePink in an inspirational, informative evening.
Friday, May 16, 7:30 p.m. / $15 to benefit CodePink

ADVENTURES OF A DESERT QUEEN: A MEETING WITH GERTRUDE BELL
Gertrude Bell was a lone woman in the male Muslim world of the Middle East, a famous author who wrote about the Arabs, an acknowledged archeologist, a courageous traveler who dined with china and crystal and
dressed in extravagant clothes. The first woman to be taken into the British Imperial Service,
she was the most powerful woman in the British Empire in the years after World War I.
This one-woman show is written and performed by Betsey Means.
Saturday, May 17, 8 p.m. / $16 general, $14 seniors, $5 teens and kids

MUSIC OF BACH & BRAHMS
West Marin Music Festival presents the West Marin Festival Singers and Orchestra, conducted by Carol Negro, performing Brahms’ Fest-und Gedenkspruche, Bach’s Orchestral Suite C Major,
and Bach’s Missa Brevis in G minor.
Sunday, May 18, 4 p.m. / $15 general, $10 students, $3 youth under 18

WEST MARIN 4-H FAIR & LIVESTOCK SHOW 
This 4-H learning fair offers the opportunity for 4-H youth to enter projects they have worked on throughout the year and be judged. The feedback they receive from the judges helps them to prepare for more competitive county fairs. Still exhibits in woodworking, foods, arts and crafts, sewing, knitting, posters, and photography will be on display in the main space. The livestock exhibits and judging will take place outside in the back parking lot. The club will also sponsor a food booth offering donuts, coffee and juice in the morning, and barbecue and drinks at lunch, plus homemade baked goods.
Saturday, May 31, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. / free

TEA DANCE WITH THE ALBANY BIG BAND 
Dust off your dancing shoes, and come swing, foxtrot, and waltz with the big band sounds of the Albany Big Band! Tea, cakes, and champagne cocktails will be on sale at this benefit for the Dance Palace.
Saturday, May 31, 4 p.m. / $15 general, $13 seniors, kids free

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