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Sonoma County is home to more than 200 non-profit arts organizations along with 100s of other creative enterprises who work every day to enrich our lives with exhibits, performances, readings, happenings.  Sometimes, they are caretakers of our collective cultural identity.  Sometimes they are tour guides, leading us on an exploration into uncharted emotional waters.  And always, they are the critical threads that tie together the fabric of our creative community.  Browse this ever-growing gathering of our creative eco-system for ideas and opportunities.

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R Honey Pots
R Honey Pots Fine Crafts R Honey Pots is the business name for Liz Russell, a functional potter and beekeeper in Forestville. When I'm not out capturing swarms or extracting hives from unwanted locations, I make tiles, mugs, bowls, platters, light fixtures and more.  I use the sgraffito technique of carving through black slip to make a wood block-like effect. Themes I explore in my work include pollinators, marine life (in particular the deep sea), mushrooms and local, endangered and bizarre creatures of every sort.  I live and work to explore curiosity. I am a Sonoma County native, but I have spent an educational exchange in Ghana, studied beekeeping with Peace Corps in Paraguay, taught English in Chile and love to travel and examine the unknown.
Railroad Square Music Festival
Railroad Square Music Festival Festivals/Markets, Music, Performing Arts, Special Events Railroad Square Music Festival is a free day of music in the heart of Santa Rosa on the second Sunday in July every year.
Raizes Collective
Raizes Collective Adult Arts Education, Creative Sonoma Grantee, Education, Environmental, History/Heritage, Literature/Poetry, Music, Nonprofit, Nonprofit Services, Performing Arts, Special Events, Visual Arts, Youth Arts Education Raizes Collective, based in Santa Rosa and serving Sonoma County, was established June 2015 to empower and mobilize community through the arts, culture and environmental education. Our collective came together to offer artists and teachers of color the resources of space, programming, events, shows and activities to affect social and political change through art and community building. We believe this facilitates healing of the divisions within our diverse communities.
Raven Performing Arts Theater
Raven Performing Arts Theater Dance, Education, Holidays Shop Local, Kids/Family, Music, Nonprofit, Performing Arts, Performing Arts Membership or Season Tickets, Special Events, Theatre, Youth Arts Education

We are a group of individuals just like you – community-minded individuals with an interest in preserving performing arts.

With funding for arts disappearing in our schools, the responsibility for supporting the arts lies firmly with us. When we banded together to save the historic Raven Theater in downtown Healdsburg California, we had big dreams of enhancing the lives of every community member by offering a conveniently located, eclectic array of entertainment.

That same goal pushes us forward today, as we continue to look for ways to broaden our role as a gathering place, wow audiences with top-name acts, bring in both amateur and professional stage productions, add more world music and dance shows to our lineup, and enable a stimulating exchange of ideas through a speaker series. Did we mention that we want to do all of this in a first-rate theater environment? One of our key goals is to raise funds to improve Raven with dressing rooms, better seating, more bathrooms, offices, storage for set pieces, enhanced lighting and sound, and an inviting lobby/concession area.

The mission of the Raven Performing Arts Theater is to provide an inviting venue for performing arts and a vibrant center for community, educational, and public service activities.

Specifically,

  • To provide a long-term home for community performance groups including schools, churches, clubs, and public and private organizations.
  • To offer programming that encompasses a variety of professional performances including dance, acting, music, and festivals.
  • To provide a learning environment for children and adults, as individuals and in groups, to learn many aspects of theater operation, production, and presentation.
  Short-term goals include a strong desire to expand our program offerings, upgrade the theater to enable a wider range of entertainers to perform on its stage.  Longer term, we plan to convert the Raven Performing Arts Theater into a state-of-the-art performance venue, and create an endowment to sustain programming and theater maintenance.
RCArtiste’ : Ron Carter Artist
RCArtiste’ : Ron Carter Artist Creative Design, Education, Environmental, Fine Crafts, Interior Design, Product/Industrial Design, School, Visual Arts

Experiences like the ‘Tubbs Fire’ that hit Santa Rosa serve to strengthen the ‘artist within me’. It foements subjective creative moments that utilize my past, present – and my future as focal lenses.

Spontaneously, I chose The San Francisco Art Institute over The Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Art Institute  at Chicago for my formal Art education. I received my BFA in Interdisciplinary Art and Public Art. I’ve studied stone sculpture for 10 years with Master Sculpture-Ante’ Marinovic, one of Croatia’s premier stone sculptors and is considered a Croatian national treasure.

I explore the collaboration between artist, media and tool in such a fashion as to give rise to multiple layers of compressed info within each piece I create no matter if it is a purely visual work or an interactive space or environmental art form.

For me, art screams out into all aspects of my life. As an artist in western society, dogma and bravado go hand in hand with economic choice.

Art is my life. If it’s not nailed down or permanently affixed,  it’s in trouble of becoming art resource material. Well, upon further review, even that won’t deter me from considering an objects use in an art piece.
Red Rock Entertainment
Red Rock Entertainment Business, Business Services, Film Office, Media, Production Companies Red Rock Entertainment is a film investment company located in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Under the leadership of the owner and CEO Gary Collins Red Rock Entertainment LTD and its partners invest in British TV shows and films. Also, Red Rock Entertainment takes part in various philanthropy events, help kids turn their dreams to the reality and more.
Redwood Arts Council
Redwood Arts Council Arts Council/Alliance, Creative Sonoma Grantee, Holidays Shop Local, Music, Nonprofit, Performing Arts Membership or Season Tickets Born out of a love of house concerts and the desire to bring world class musicians to the West County, we present a series of concerts that rival the quality of chamber music performance in larger metropolitan areas; but on a smaller stage where our audience can see, hear and feel the music on a more intimate level. Each concert, a diverse program is carefully crafted and measured by how often and how deeply it moves us, both by the magnificence of the music being performed and by the powerful perceptions brought to it by the performers. We also partner with local schools to bring our artists to Sonoma County's budding musicians, either for a concert, a music workshop, or more intensive clinics.
Rincon Valley Education Foundation
Rincon Valley Education Foundation Education, Foundation, Kids/Family, Nonprofit

Mission

The Rincon Valley Education Foundation (RVEF) works in partnership with the Rincon Valley Union School District (RVUSD) to provide supplemental learning opportunities that broaden and enrich the students' educational experiences.

RVEF supports the RVUSD's vision, goals, and objectives by providing stable, sustainable funding for program enhancements in targeted curriculum areas. RVEF unites families, staff, and community in its fundraising efforts so that we all share in the financial cost of an exemplary education as well as its success.
River Arts
River Arts Arts Council/Alliance, Association/Club/Group/Guild, Corporation, Creative Sonoma Grantee, Dance, Education, Festivals/Markets, Film/Video, Fine Crafts, Kids/Family, Media, Music, Nonprofit, Nonprofit Services, Performing Arts, Special Events, Theatre, Visual Arts River Arts A Project to Advance a Vibrant Arts Community and Arts Center in the Lower Russian River Region The idea of having a dynamic and active arts organization in Guerneville, with the further goal of having an Arts and Community Center, has been a long-sought wish of many in the community. While Guerneville has, in the last decade or so, begun to establish itself at an arts-oriented town, with about a dozen galleries, a theater group, a community choir and numerous other creative activities, no organization has emerged to proactively support, encourage and champion the arts; nor is there an arts center, which nearly every other town in Sonoma County has. In March of 2021 a group of artists and others came together to form the nucleus of River Arts. In coordination with County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins the establishment of an actual Arts and Community Center is within reach. In order to launch this organization, activate the community and build support for such a center, River Arts is proceeding to enact an ambitious pilot agenda of events and programs for 2022. The major programs planned are: 1. Saturday Stroll Artwalk: We have revived and are coordinating the First Friday Artwalk (suspended during COVID) and moved it to the first Saturday of each month at the behest of the galleries. We plan to expand it this year with music, street vendors, food, and more. 2. Murals Project: We wish to put Guerneville on the map as a murals and public art destination. We have identified over 30 possible mural locations. We hope to create 5-6 murals during 2022 and a similar number each year thereafter for a number of years. We intend to invite public participation in some of the murals, including ones that will be done all or primarily by children. Even after the first set of murals are complete, we see this project extending into the future as a public art project, with continuous creation of public art throughout Guerneville. 3. Summer Art Festival: We are planning a Summer Arts Festival in September. The Festival will be centered around the iconic "old bridge" in the center of town, which is now a walking bridge over the Russian River, and will spill out into the town plaza on the north side of the bridge and the small park on the south side of the bridge. 4. Winter Crafts Fair: We are planning for a Winter Crafts Fair in December 2022. 5. Music in the Galleries: We are planning to have an occasional series of music events in certain galleries during 2022. We are seeking unusual or unique music that would be suitable for a gallery space. Our first event is an appearance by "4 Shillings Short" (https://4shillingsshort.com/home) at the Oli Gallery on April 5. 6. Art Auction: We have teamed with Forgotten Felines for an online Art Auction in Spring 2022. 7. CalTrans Coordination: River Arts is working to interact with CalTrans to beautify Guerneville and bring an aesthetic sense to the town that will be attractive to residents and visitors alike. 8. Arts District: River Arts is intending to apply for Cultural (Arts) district status with the state of California once the program re-opens for applications. The overriding goal of all of these programs is to knit together a stronger sense of community identity and kinship through the creative works and participation of all members of the community. Each of these is a pilot project. We will start off small, but our goal is that, over time, these will grow and develop into significant programs that will put the lower Russian River on the map as an arts destination.
Riverfront Art Gallery
Riverfront Art Gallery Art Gallery, Business, Retail, Visual Arts Riverfront Art Gallery, located in historic downtown Petaluma, features dozens of local artists in a spacious gallery with museum-quality lighting. We've been voted "Best of the North Bay" for "Best Art Gallery in Sonoma County in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.  We have also been voted "Petaluma's Peoples Choice" for "Best Art Gallery in Petaluma" in 2012, 2016 and 2017.
Rivertown Revival
Rivertown Revival Creative Design, Education, Environmental, Festivals/Markets, History/Heritage, Kids/Family, Music, Nonprofit, Performing Arts, Special Events, Visual Arts Rivertown Revival is an art and music festival designed to celebrate the Petaluma Slough (aka river).  It is a fund raiser for Friends of the Petaluma River (FOPR), but also an off-shoot of its mission and programing. FOPR believes that if we can facilitate a love affair between the Community and the river, the Community will want to conserve and protect it for generations to come. With the support of music director Josh Windmiller we feature local bands in the Americana style of music and beyond.  We have had local sculpture artists line our paths, and have featured multiple kinetic sculpture artists with large scale, and often interactive work.  Artists who have participated in past festivals include: David Best, Scott Collinson, Kevin Clark, and Stephen Lockert. This year, thanks to the Creative Responders Grant, we will have an interactive art piece by Stephen Lockert,  and a collaborative piece between visual artist Mae Blackmore and music by The Crux. Programming at this festival includes multiple playful opportunities to create something out of nothing.  For instance, in the past we have invited attendees to pound metal into flowers for an 80 foot Flower Tower that was being built for Burning Man.  We have encouraged participants to use provided ‘ingredients’ to contribute to a giant boat alter.  We have taught children, and adults,  how to make rope, tie sailing knots, juggle, make boats out of wine corks, dye cloth naturally, make puppets out of socks and hula hoops out of irrigation tubing. We are an eco-friendly event that is modeled after turn of the century river festivals so  we avoid all things plastic and mass produced.  We decorate the event with found and recycled materials only and like to brag that we turn trash into cool junk! ;) We create an environment where we encourage participants to imagine a world without televisions, iPhones and store bought toys.  In a nutshell, we encourage participants to listen to music,  get on the water, play, use their hands and make art.
Roadside Bombs
Roadside Bombs Music "Santa Rosa’s very own four piece Roadside Bombs bring to us a brand new 4 track 7″ EP entitled ‘Bring Em Home’ Having formed in 2008, The Roadside Bombs are collectively hardened veterans of the Sonoma County punk rock scene featuring former members of, to name a few, The Bodies,The Muggers and The Burdens and have already graced the stage with bands such as Agnostic Front,The Templars and Pressure Point. If the EP’s front cover is anything to go by, or indeed the bands name, you would be forgiven for thinking this to be yet another overly political anti-War offering by a band who take themselves far too seriously. It isn’t, and they don’t. This of course is not to say The Roadside Bomb’s lack a message in their punk rock manifesto, far from it. It’s just the message is pleasantly tucked away amongst their raw yet melodic appeal. We kick off with the EP’s title rack, a strong opener that acts as a perfect foundation to vent. The band sing: “Bring our heroes back where they belong, before they’re dead and gone” An obvious and heartfelt message stands at its core, that with todays many wars, enough is surely enough. The track draws to a close with a flourish. It’s often folly to include to a guitar solo in a three minute song. Not here. My only complaint would be the bass level throughout the track seems slightly off. Not fitting in as well as it does elsewhere on the record. Second up is the frantic ‘Tax Revolution’. I have never seen The Roadside Bombs Play live, but I imagine that when they play this, good things happen. Calories are lost by the bucket. At times straying pleasantly over to the hardcore side of the street, this track is an EP highlight. With ‘My Side’, the EP’s shortest track at just under two minutes, we see that famous punk swagger in the form of confident vocals: “You better watch your back on my side of town” Another melodic number that again benefits from great guitar work. Lastly ‘One Two’ brings to an end what is a very solid release. Over just like that, you are left wanting more, much more. An album. A show. While The Roadside Bombs won’t win over many with originality, they will undoubtedly make many an ally with their earnest, heart on the sleeve punk rock. You already like punk, you know that, so go and like The Roadside Bombs." -Treading Water Vocals - Ben Coleman (The Muggers, The Feelers, Hood House) Guitar - Jeremy Catrambone (The Quitters, Dekoiz, The Burdens) Guitar - Richard Webb (The Quitters) Bass - Zach Newbrand (Screeching Weasel, Big In Japan, High&Tight) Drums -Eric Strand (Victims Family, Engage) http://mitchattitude.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/37/
Rocking Causes
Rocking Causes Festivals/Markets, Music, Nonprofit, Nonprofit Services, Performing Arts, Special Events

GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MUSIC!

Rocking Causes is a musician-focused crowdfunding platform that connects artists and their fans to the charities and causes making a difference in the world.

Using a popular crowdfunding platform, artists are able to create a campaign page in support of a cause they’re passionate about. Fans are incentivized to participate and give to the campaign through exclusive experiences and merchandise, VIP tickets, bonus tracks, and more.

By harnessing the power of collective action, Rocking Causes helps introduce the idea of grassroots philanthropy to a whole new generation of young people, and connects charities and causes with an engaged network of supporters.
Rosetown Ramblers
Rosetown Ramblers Music Hard times require good music. The Rosetown Ramblers will get you feeling good again. We're made up of members who have been active in the NoCal jazz, blues, Dixie, and Americana live music scene for years, and we love to play! Band Members: Ron Dubin- trombone, vocals, harmonica Paul Larkin- guitar, vocals Louis Rodriguez- drums Eric Neilson- bass, vocals
Roto Factory
Roto Factory Film Office, Film/Video, Production Companies RotoFactory is a full service post production visual effects facility specializing in rotoscoping, digital paint, and compositing.
Round Barn Films
Round Barn Films A video production company with focus on helping nonprofits and philanthropic organizations.  
Roustabout Theater
Roustabout Theater Creative Sonoma Grantee, Dance, Education, Music, Nonprofit, Performing Arts, Theatre, Youth Arts Education Roustabout Theater is the longest-running Resident Theater company of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Sonoma County. Their award-winning Apprentice Program is one of the leading theatrical training and performance programs for dedicated young actors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Roustabout Theater’s mission is creating vibrant professional theater focused on bringing to life less-frequently-produced plays. Roustabout’s Apprentice Program is an unparalleled actor training program in Sonoma County highlighting the talents of the county’s most extraordinary student performers through its professionally produced productions. Roustabout also provides unique opportunities for our students through our ongoing series of Master Classes with Tony Award-winners, award-winning Broadway actors and nationally recognized Casting Directors. In addition, our Conservatory Classes provide ongoing training in acting, vocal performance, diction, dialect, movement, dance, improv and stage combat.
Russian River Chamber of Commerce
Russian River Chamber Of Commerce
Rustad Marketing
Rustad Marketing Creative Design, Creative Services, Film Office, Film/Video Conception, design and production of marketing and media messages since 1972. Broad range of experience in film, video, multi-media, Internet and print. Services include creative direction, art direction, copywriting and illustration. Previously I worked in industrial / promotional films, sales-promotion, graphic design and advertising. In the early 80's I was an Associate Creative Director with J. Walter Thompson, since 1985 I have operated my own creative, marketing and production service. Our other resources include: www.mascotcartoon.com – where we provide cartoon design services, www.commemorativevideo.com – where we offer video design/production services specializing in short videos for memorial services, graduations and anniversaries.