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Mark your calendars for the 28th annual Big Time Festival on Saturday July 26 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at Kule Loklo, the Coast Miwok Exhibit near Bear Valley Visitor Center. Dancers from the Intertribal Pomo and Dry Creek Pomo bands will be demonstrating along with basketmakers Julia Parker, flintknappers, and shell bead makers. Bring a picnic to enjoy the day, no dogs or alcoholic beverages at this event.

http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/events_bigtime.htm

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High temperatures last week contributed to the seasonal die off of jellyfish. Moon jellies, clear blobs with four white crescents on the top have been washing ashore along the local beaches as well as the ice tea colored Lions Mane jellies. As surface dwellers, they are susceptible to even a few degrees change in water temperatures. The brownish Lions mane jellies tentacles can cause an allergic reaction so best to avoid them even when washed up onshore.

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If you are walking the low tide along Tomales Bay, you may see some bright yellow disks in the lowest intertidal areas.  The disks are part of a study conducted by Bodega Marine Lab and the Student Conservation Association summer program.  They are measuring erosional force of water and how it affects the native Olympia oyster population; disks are placed on the east shores and west shores of the bay for comparative measurements.

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The full moon rises on Friday July 18 with a few early morning daylight low tides:

Friday, July 18 6:03 am -0.6
Saturday, July 19 6:35 am -0.6
Sunday, July 20 7:04 am -0.5
Monday, July 21 7:37 -0.3

This moon is ‘the moon of much ripening’ for the Mohawk people of the eastern states; true of California as the first ripe blackberries are appearing along the Earthquake Trail and roadsides.

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FOOTLOOSE PRESENTS CIRCUS FINELLI IN ESCAPADES
Saturday, June 28; doors open at 7 p.m., show at 7:30 pm.,
followed by free workshop / $15 general, $12 seniors and students, $7 children under 12;
Info/reservations: 415-289-2000; www.ftloose.org

Circus Finelli is four zany, hilarious, and unpredictable women clowns - winners of the 2007 Western Weekend Parade award for best entertainers - in a spectacle that is fast-paced, interactive, bright fun, filled with slapstick, acrobatics, juggling and live music.   Fresh from a sold-out run in San Francisco and heading out on tour, the Finellis are ready to transform small problems into epic proportions!

Stay afterward for a free class in circus skills.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COMMITTEE’S
36th ANNUAL MEMBERS’ MEETING & POTLUCK DINNER
Friday, June 27, 6 p.m. / $5 donation requested; reservations essential at 663-9312 or eac@svn.net

The Environmental Action Committee of West Marin’s annual potluck dinner, general meeting, wine tasting, and gab fest has become a renowned summer celebration for West Marin’s principal grassroots environmental organization.  This year’s event promises to uphold the tradition, featuring the fare of West Marin’s best chefs, the latest news from the eco-front, and the presentation of EAC’s Peter Behr Steward of the Land Award.

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ALLTAR’D STATES @ Dance Palace
Sunday, June 22/ $8 to $18 sliding scale
information 415 663 1634 or coastliveoak@gmail.com

In a performance of physical theater created entirely in the moment — Action Theater — Claire Peaslee (and friends) observe the summer solstice by exploring improvisation!   This journey into the realm of surprise starts early and ends well before mid-summer sunset.   Audience members are invited to bring a seasonal spirit object to place on a small (temporary) altar for this pagan holiday.

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NATURAL RHYTHMS: A CD CELEBRATION
Saturday, June 21, 7-9:30 pm/$20

Terry Garthwaite and Becky Reardon celebrate the release of their new CD, Natural Rhythms, at the Dance Palace on Saturday, June 21.  They will be singing spirited songs with melodic twists and impelling pulse from their new CD, with a sprinkling of jazz.  Special guests — students of Rhiannon’s vocal jazz workshop — will be joining them for an impromptu jam. Watch what happens.

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PA BOBO JOBARTEH
Friday, June 20, 8 p.m. $16 general/$14 seniors/$ youth

One of Gambia’s foremost musical artists: a kora player, singer, bard, and a “Jali” of the Mandinka people.   According to the Rough Guide to World Music, he spearheaded a “revival in Mandinka music, a relentless tumbling dance music.”

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DANCE PALACE THEATER GROUP PRESENTS:
IDA, IDA (DID YOU LOOK IN THE FRIDGE?)
Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14, 8 p.m.; Sunday, June 15, 4 p.m. /  $8 general, $5 general

The Dance Palace Theatre Group takes to the stage again, this time with an evening of comedy focusing on leading roles for women.   Local actors explore what it is to be female and funny in a selection of one act plays, monologues and songs.   Directed by Tina Taylor, with musical direction by Laura Alderdice.

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