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Santa Cruz Blues Festival. Performances begin Saturday featuring Steve Miller, Jimmy Vaughn and John Mayall. Sunday will feature Tedeschi Trucks Band and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Additionally, there will be food and children’s activities. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. May 25-26. Aptos Village Park, Soquel Drive, near State Park Drive. $25-$190. www.santacruzbluesfestival.com. MAY 30-JUNE 5. Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival. Prizes awarded for best drawings. Sampling packets 10 for $10. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. June 1. North Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. 510-548-5335, www.anotherbullwinkelshow.com.

Says Santora, “This is a net gain for us, and we couldn’t be happier, It’s just very generous.”, But not all theater organizations are feeling the same kind of love, Before Cannon left Bus Barn on Aug, 10, to move to Sonoma County and learn to train service dogs, she said she didn’t want to “air Bus Barn’s laundry in public,” and declined to be interviewed, Cannon spent nearly 13 years at Bus Barn, not only overseeing the entire business operation but also directing two or three plays a year and handling its marketing, According to box office manager Nada Monaco-Angell, Cannon “will be greatly missed in the community, She’s given so many couture baby & toddler shoes, ballet flats, pink, green, blue toile, french style ballet shoes, wedding, dance, girls, baby soul people a chance onstage and backstage, I’m a backstage person, and she took me on and taught me so much.”..

Under these storm clouds, the troupe soldiered on and danced with an earnest verve that approached but never quite nailed the elegance it aimed for. The dancers were at their most polished in the musically stormy “Weather One,” a world premiere by former American Ballet Theatre ballerina Susan Jaffee set to the evolving electronic chamber work by the same name written by composer Michael Gordon, of Bang on a Can fame. “Weather One” opened with projections of darning needle-sized rain drops. Later we saw flashes of lightning. And above the dancers’ head hung small light-catching silver rectangles, which, as they were hit with stage light, suggested illuminated apartment windows high off a city street.

Saturday Needle Art with Marilyn: 1-3:30 p.m, Dec, 14, Free, Teens and adults can drop in to work on current projects or restart a needle art hobby, Hands-on knit and crochet instructions from Marilyn, The library is at 740 Court St., Martinez, Phone: 925-646-9900, Hours: noon-8 p.m, Mondays; 10 a.m.-8 p.m, Tuesdays; noon-5 p.m, Wednesdays and Fridays; and 10 a.m.-5 p.m, Saturdays, It is closed couture baby & toddler shoes, ballet flats, pink, green, blue toile, french style ballet shoes, wedding, dance, girls, baby soul Sundays and Thursdays, Story Time: 11:15-11:45 a.m, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays features songs, movement and simple stories, Good for ages 0-5, but all are welcome..

The fire also took a large toll on the Bay Area’s community of transgender artists. Askew, a 22-year-old woman who performed as part of the goth duo Them are Us Too, went to the warehouse with her transgender friend, Pines, a bass player who moved to Oakland in September. The two had played music together in the past. Em Bohlka, a quiet, 33-year-old writer who had begun taking hormones last year to transition to a woman, was there to meet Donna Kellogg, her former co-worker at Highwire Coffee Roasters.