- May 13 : Happy Mother’s Day
- May 13:
Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Schulz Museum
Celebrate Mother’s Day by celebrating women cartoonists. Watch a special showing of the movie Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists, a profile of four American newspaper cartoonists. Visitors can talk with the award-winning director, Pamela Beere Briggs, after the movie.
- May 15 :
Ziggy Marley at the Wells Fargo Center
A native of Kingston , Jamaica , Ziggy first sat in on recording sessions with his father when he was ten years old. Through the years, he has crafted his own soulful sound blending blues, R&B, hip-hop and reggae
8 p.m.; $45, $25 standing room only; 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa; (707) 546-3600. - May 16 :
Santa Rosa Downtown Market Begins
Wednesday Night Market and Street Fair begins today and continues each week through August 29. KJZY will be hosting their Listener's Party on the opening night. Hear jazz saxophonist Marion Meadows perform. Also, more live music and entertainment, fresh produce, food, children’s activities, handmade arts and crafts, more.
5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Free; Downtown at 4th Street from B Street to D Street, Santa Rosa - May 16 - 20 :
Snoopys Joe Cool Artist Paint-Off
This is Joe Cool's summer. Snoopy is the star in the final Peanuts on Parade tribute to its creator, Charles M. Schulz. Watch the statues come to life as local artists transform them into colorful works of art.
Free; Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Grace Pavilion, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa. (800) 404-7673 - May 16 to September 17 :
“Snoopy: Not Just a Cool Joe” Exhibit
To celebrate the City of Santa Rosa’s “Snoopy's ‘Joe Cool’ Summer,” the Schulz Museum will showcase over 60 original strips of Snoopy at his coolest. Snoopy is the ultimate “cool dude” whether romancing the ladies, facing danger head–on, or hanging out on campus as the world’s most hip undergraduate.
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $5–$8; Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane Santa Rosa. (707) 579-4452. - May 16 :
Barbara Kingsolver at the Wells Fargo Center
Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her nonfiction narrative, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it.
8 p.m.; $20, $35, $49; 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa; (707) 546-3600
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