Date: August 14th Time: 7:30 Every month there is a theme, hopefully that sparks a memory for you. You put your name in a hat (an actual hat!) and 10 people’s names are drawn at random. When your name is pulled you get 5 minutes to tell your personal true story. At the end of the evening everyone votes by text for their favorite story of the night. If that’s you, you get $50 and will join the other monthly winners in December for our GrandSlam at the Historic Mystic Theater. Sounds like fun, right? Ticket Link: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36153/production/1196707?performanceId=11448690

Time: Doors open at 5:00, Show from 5:30-7:00 Description: The polyrhythmic heat of Evie Ladin’s clawhammer banjo, resonant voice, real stories and rhythmic dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Celtic Connections to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Brazil to Bali. A prolific creator and gracious facilitator, Evie grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance up and down the East Coast, bringing a syncretic vision to new work while holding fast to the roots. Evie writes clever lyrics with mature arrangements, calls rowdy square dances for urban crowds, choreographs new body music/percussive dance for contemporary dance and film, leads seminars in movement anthropology, rocks straight up old time clawhammer banjo, and gardens, from the vibrant home base of Oakland, California. She’s won ribbons and arts fellowships, performed in sold out concert halls and cozy living rooms, and toured around the world, to every state in the US except Florida. She’s never been to Florida.“The best example I have seen of a Neo-Trad band's sound being authentically anchored in old time music but extending it into new and entertaining directions.” —Founder, Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival Arts Alive is a free and family friendly event, concessions will be sold and all […]

Description: Everyone has a story and now it’s your chance to tell it.  Every month there is a theme, hopefully that sparks a memory for you.  You put your name in a hat (an actual hat!) and 10 people’s names are drawn at random.  When your name is pulled you get 5 minutes to tell your personal true story.  At the end of the evening everyone votes by text for their favorite story of the night. If that’s you, you get $50 and will join the other monthly winners in December for our GrandSlam at the Historic Mystic Theater.  Sounds like fun, right? Website and tickets: https://www.davepokornypresents.com/west-side-stories

RagTag Improv is a group of experienced improvisers and good friends who love to get together to put on shows for all kinds of audiences. RagTag Improv pushes the boundaries of improvised theatre and comedy with a wide variety of shows. Every night is 100% improvised, engaging, and a great way to spend an evening in San Francisco. Live spontaneously--come on out to see something new! Ticket link coming soon. Website link: https://www.ragtagimprov.com/about-ragtag-improv.html

Description: Everyone has a story and now it’s your chance to tell it.  Every month there is a theme, hopefully that sparks a memory for you.  You put your name in a hat (an actual hat!) and 10 people’s names are drawn at random.  When your name is pulled you get 5 minutes to tell your personal true story.  At the end of the evening everyone votes by text for their favorite story of the night. If that’s you, you get $50 and will join the other monthly winners in December for our GrandSlam at the Historic Mystic Theater.  Sounds like fun, right? Website and tickets: https://www.davepokornypresents.com/west-side-s

RagTag Improv is a group of experienced improvisers and good friends who love to get together to put on shows for all kinds of audiences. RagTag Improv pushes the boundaries of improvised theatre and comedy with a wide variety of shows. Every night is 100% improvised, engaging, and a great way to spend an evening in San Francisco. Live spontaneously--come on out to see something new! Ticket link coming soon. Website link: https://www.ragtagimprov.com/about-ragtag-improv.html

Description: Everyone has a story and now it’s your chance to tell it.  Every month there is a theme, hopefully that sparks a memory for you.  You put your name in a hat (an actual hat!) and 10 people’s names are drawn at random.  When your name is pulled you get 5 minutes to tell your personal true story.  At the end of the evening everyone votes by text for their favorite story of the night. If that’s you, you get $50 and will join the other monthly winners in December for our GrandSlam at the Historic Mystic Theater.  Sounds like fun, right? Website and tickets: https://www.davepokornypresents.com/west-side-stories

Join an ensemble and work together to put on an original play! Through games and activities kids develop their creative voice, self-confidence, and collaboration skills. Learn about story creation, character-development, acting, and production design, and participate in a final performance. Sign up for their fall program here: Website: https://enrichment.kids/ca/petaluma/sandcastle-fall-drama-program

Join an ensemble and work together to put on an original play! Through games and activities kids develop their creative voice, self-confidence, and collaboration skills. Learn about story creation, character-development, acting, and production design, and participate in a final performance. Sign up for their fall program here: Website: https://enrichment.kids/ca/petaluma/sandcastle-fall-drama-program

Join an ensemble and work together to put on an original play! Through games and activities kids develop their creative voice, self-confidence, and collaboration skills. Learn about story creation, character-development, acting, and production design, and participate in a final performance. Sign up for their fall program here: Website: https://enrichment.kids/ca/petaluma/sandcastle-fall-drama-program

Date: March 8, 2025 - Time: 6:00-7:30 Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-love-to-fear-tickets-929935872227?aff=oddtdtcreator Description: A theatrical performance on how pain turns to medicine through Love. On International Women's Day (March 8 2025), which is my 50th birthday, I will perform a one-woman-show called Making Love to Fear — also the title of the book I'm writing. It's a three-act show with ‘speak-sing’ (speaking with song woven in), projected imagery, theatrical dance and community engagement — inviting us to remember who we are — { Love }. The show features three stories from my own rigorous journey, exhibiting the power of Love in greeting severe pain and healing disease. It is an emotive invitation for humanity to face fear through Love’s eyes — preventing and healing pain, addiction, depression, victimhood & all forms of dis-ease — illuminating the beauty, joy, vitality and freedom that are our birthright. See you there! Jessica Rios, Writer + Coach + Performer