Culture Connection
Welcome to Culture Connection, Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District's newsletter featuring the stories and people of our community.
Dec 4
Homegrown Holidays, Creatives Meetup, Business Spotlight, Gallery Stops, Music, Movies, Annual Craft Faire, KVMR Hoedown, Calls to Artists, Jobs in the Arts, and more…
Mid-Nov
Creatives Meetup, Arts in the News, Artist Spotlight, Gallery Stops, Music, Movies, Nevada City Winter Craft Fair, Cornish Christmas, Calls to Artists, and more….
Nov 1
Creatives meetup, Wyld Tiger Bakery, Galleries, Holiday Shows, Calls to Artists, Music, Movies, Shows, Holiday Market, and more…
Mid-Oct
Creatives Meetup, Seven Stars Gallery, Open Studios, Artist Calls, Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Halloween, and more…
Oct 1
National Arts and Humanities Month, October Creatives Meetup, Artist Spotlight, Open Studios, Music, theatre, Comedy, Movies, Miners Foundry, and more…
Mid-Sept
Artist Spotlight, Gallery Stops, Artist Calls, Poet Laureate Nominations, Movies, Music, Events, Open Mics, and more….
Sept. 3
Creatives Meetup, Muse Magazine Advertising, Artist Spotlight, Latino Family Festival, Gallery Openings, Artist Calls, Poet Laureate Nominations, Open Mics, Music, Events, and more….
Mid-Aug
Wild & Scenic Exhibit Call for Entries, Postcards from Earth, Artist Spotlight, PACT Symposium, Stardust Station Benefit, KVMY A-Go-Go, The Stone House, Nevada Theatre, Community of Writers, Center for the Arts, and much more…
Aug 1
Northern California Regional Conversation on the Arts, Artist Spotlight, Art Walk, Photography Contest Winners, Music in the Mountains, Nevada County Fair, and more…
Mid July
July 1
Mid June
June 1
June Creatives Meetup at North Columbia Schoolhouse, Night Sky Photography Workshop, 3rd Annual LGBTQ+ Pride Family Picnic, Poetry Crashers BIG COSMIC FINAL SHOW, First Friday Art Walk, and more…
May 15
Sierra Master Chorale & Orchestra, OLLI Orchestra, Artist Spotlight, Honey Hills Fest, Miners Foundry, Grass Valley Cultural Center, Nevada Theatre, Center for the Arts, Gold Vibe Kombuchary, Artist Calls, and more…
May 1
Muse Release Party, Artist Spotlight, Women’s Music Festival, Arts Advocacy Day, Chamber’s Project, Spring Craft Fair, KVMR Dance Night at Miners Foundry, Grass Valley Car Show, and much more…
April 15
Spring Into Art, Business Spotlight, Celtic Festival, Nevada Theatre, Center for the Arts, Crystal Hermitage Tulips, Bear Yuba Land Trust, Earth Fest, and much more…
Apr 1
Mar 15
The Business of Art, Artist Spotlight, TILT - Spring Equinox Edition, Miners Foundry, Sierra Jazz Camp, Arts Advocacy, World Poetry Day, and much more…
Mar 1
Women’s History Month, Business of Art, Artist Spotlight, Nevada City Winery, Creatives Meetup, Intern Spotlight, Foothills Celebration, Nevada Theatre, Community of Writers, Miners Foundry, and much more…
Feb 15
Wild & Scenic Art Exhibit Awardees, Business of Art Symposium, Artist Spotlight, Chinese Lunar New Year, Creatives Meetup, Miners Foundry, Music in the Mountains, Center for the Arts, Crazy Horse Saloon, and more…
Feb 1
Creatives Meetup, Business of Art, CHIRP, Poetry Out Loud, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Mardi Gras, ad more…
Jan 1
Creatives Meetup, Alasdair Fraser Community Music Gathering, Artist Spotlight, Granucci Gallery, Center for the Arts, Artworks Gallery, Gold Vibe Kombuchary, and more…
Dec 1
Creatives Meetup, Show Up for the Arts, Victorian Christmas, Artist Spotlight, Sierra Master Chorale, Clara and the Nutcracker, Poetry REading, John Natsoulas Gallery, The Stone House, Rebel market, Grass Valley Male Voice Choir, Center for the Arts, Music in the Mountains, and more…
Mid-Nov
Public Arts Commission, Jobs in the Arts, Artist Spotlight, Center for the Arts, Transgender Remembrance Day, ASiF Studios Holiday Show, OLLI Concert, The Miners Foundry, Dance Because, Cornish Christmas, and much more.
Nov 1
Creatives Meetup, Peace Choir, The Nevada Theatre, Wild & Scenic, Artist Spotlight, Center for the Arts, Winterfaire Craft Show, Miners Foundry, InConcert Sierra, Curiosities Market, Art Works Gallery, Food Bin Fundraiser, and more…
Mid-Oct
Open Studios, Pictures of an Expedition at the Nevada City Winery, Crazy Horse Saloon, Sugar Pine Music Festival, Artist Spotlight, Nevada Theatre, Center for the Arts, Halloween Events, and more….
Oct. 1
Visibility Through Art, Heart of Gold Festival, Center for the Arts, InConcert Sierra, Artworks Gallery, Featured Artist, Bridgeport Harvest Dinner, Art and Harvest Festival, Open Studios, Grass Valley Brew Fest, and much more…
Mid-Sept
Mid-September news and events from Nevada County Arts Council
Sept. 1
September news and events from Nevada County Arts Council
Mid-Aug
Art in Public Spaces, Grass Valley City Manager, Miners Foundry, Locals for Locals, Love Walk. Mill Street Farmers Market, Artist Spotlight, Center for the Arts, and more…
Aug 1
Pride Festival, Creatives Meetup, Country Roots and Cowboy Boots, Jerry Bash, Artist Spotlight, Art Works Gallery, The Muse, CHIRP Fundraiser, and more….
Mid-July
Nevada City Mayor, Crazy Horse Saloon, Songwriters Showcase, Creatives Meetup, Miners Foundry, Nevada City Summer Nights, The Stone House, Wild Eye Pub, Center for the Arts,Sierra Commons, Granucci Gallery, and more…
July 1
4th of July, Sierra Storytelling Festival, Music in the Mountains, First Friday Art Walk, Summer Nights, InConcert Sierra, Grass Valley Art Walk, World Fest 2023, Sierra Stages, and more…
Mid-June
Composers Project, Inn Town Campground, CHIRP Presents, Madelyn Helling Library Mini-concerts, Farm Tours, Celebration of Trails, Benefit Poetry Reading, Onyx Downtown, Fathers Day Bluegrass Festival, Business Spotlight, Ceilidh in the Park, Planning Commission Meeting, and more…
June 1
Art Walk, Chinatown Rising, Secession Day Cook-off, Thursday Night Markets, ArtWorks Gallery, KVMR Birthday Brunch, InConcert Sierra, Artist Spotlight, Speaker Series: North Star House, Music in the Mountains, Nevada City Film Festival, Movies Under the Pines, Cherry Festival Parade, The Stone House Presents, and more….
May 3
Creatives Meet Up, Jobs in the Arts, OLLI Orchestra, Business Spotlight, Miners Foundry, Off Center Stage, Artworks Gallery, Armed Forces Day, Nevada Union High School Artists, InConcert Sierra, Nevada County Poet Laureate, North Columbia Schoolhouse Flea Market and Plant Sale, Nevada County Reads, and more…
Apr 1
Creatives MeetUp, Sierra Poetry Festival, Arts Culture & Creativity Month, The Great Leap, Comedy Nights at Nevada Theatre, Artist Spotlight, Artworks Gallery, InConcert Sierra, Springtime at Ananda, Earth Fest Street Fair, and more…
Mar 1
Monthly Creatives Meet Up, Nevada County Camera Cub, Sierra Stages, Sierra Poetry Festival, Artworks Gallery, InConcert Sierra, St. Patrick’s Day, Summerfest, Artist Spotlight, Upstate Creative Corps, and more…
Feb 1
Creatives meet-up, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Mardi Gras Parade, Valentine’s Open House, InConcert Sierra, Art Works Gallery, Poetry Out Loud, Upstate Creative Corps, Artist Spotlight, and more…
Jan 1
Creatives Meet-up, Equity and Inclusion in the Arts, Lyric Rose Theater Company “Into the Woods,” Tim O’Connor’s Readers Theater, InConcert Sierra, John McCutcheon Fundraiser for the Center for the Arts, Uba Seo Gallery, Artist Spotlight: David Endecott-Hicks, North San Juan Swap Meet, Monty Python and the Holy Grail at Nevada Theater, and more….
Dec 1
Creatives Meetup, MIM Holiday Concert, Night of giving, Food Bank Benefit, OLLI Concert at Sierra College, Nevada City Winter Craft Fair, Artist Spotlight: Al Martinez, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and more…
Nov 1
Upstate Creative Corps Listening Tour, Nisenan Heritage Day, Foundry Sings, David Sedaris at Center for the Arts, Small Works Holiday Show, InConcert Sierra, Events Manager Judy Merrick, California Cultural District, and more….
Oct 1
Indigenous People’s Day, Creatives Meetup, Visibility Through Art, The Nestiverse with Nate Hogen, 27th Annual Open Studios, In Concert Sierra, Music in the Mountains Fall Gala,Miners Foundry, Business of Art Symposium, and more….
Sept 1
Creatives Meet-up, Business of Art Symposium, Celtic Fest, Zepparella, Cat Power at CFA, National Cinema Day, Sierra Commons, MUSE Magazine, Wild and Scenic Art Exhibition, and more….
Aug 1
Creatives Meet-up, Nevada City Film Festival, Acting Up Youth Workshops, Bowie Ball, Jerry Bash, Artworks Gallery, MUSE Magazine, Wild & Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition Call for Entries, and more…
July 1
National Wildland Firefighter Day, Creatives Meet-Up, Sierra Storytelling Festival, Artist Spotlight, California Worldfest, Call for Writers & Artists, Nevada City Summer Nights, Sierra Stages, and more…
June 1
LGBTQ Pride Month, Creatives Meet-up, Movies Under the Pines, Best of the Fest, Humbug History Day, The Chambers Project, AsiF Young Artist Program, Nevada City Artwalk, Music in the Mountains, Center for the Arts, and more…
May 1
Creatives Meet-up, California Cultural Districts, Project Wild Edges, Music in the Mountains, Community Asian Theatre, Sierra Poetry Festival Survey, and more.
Apr 1
Arts, Culture & Creativity Month, Creatives Meet-up, Events Calendar, Cultural Asset Map, National Poetry Month, 6th Annual Sierra Poetry Festival, and more.
Mar 1
Women’s History Month, Creatives Meet-up, Artist Directory, The Chambers Project, Music in the Mountains, Miss Moth Design, Artemis Arthur at Cosmic Roots, and more.
Feb 1
Black History Month, Denise Wey and Nevada County Transit, Year of the Tiger, Nevada City Winery, Center for the Arts, Ananda Village, Grant Season opens, and more.
Jan 1
Happy New Year, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Granucci Gallery, Galactic Vibes, Nevada Theater, InConcert Sierra, Aaron Manuel Ross, and more….
Dec 1
Forest-Fire Exhibition Opening, Artemis Arthur, Home for the Holidays, Victorian Christmas, Local Artist Bazaar at Center for the Arts, Shopping with Artists, Nevada County Safe, and more.
Nov 1
Nisenan Heritage Month, Forest-Fire Exhibition, Project Wild Edges, Open Studios Reflection, Music Composition Courses, Logo Design Contest, Art Walk, Nevada County Safe, and more.
Oct 1
Open Studios, Nevada City Halloween, Grass Valley Brew Fest, Poetry Workshop, GV Second Saturdays, Submit Your Story, Wildfire Preparedness, and more.
Sept 1
Community Resiliency Grant Program, New Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Second Saturdays Art Walks, First Fridays Art Walks, Artist Spotlight Peggy Wright, BLUR: Ruth Chase Exhibit, Wildfire Preparedness, and more.
Aug 1
American Rescue Plan, Wild & Scenic Art Exhibit submissions, Nevada City Film Festival, Community Involvement day, Ruth Chase Exhibit, Nevada County Fair, Creatives Meetup, Local spotlight, Fieldmouse Press, Grants for Changemakers, and more.
July 1
Creative Placemaking, Grass Valley Thursday Night Market, First Friday Art Walk Nevada City, Movies Under the Pines, Uba Seo: Nisenan Arts and Culture, Second Saturdays Grass Valley, World Fest Concert, Sierra Stages, MasquerAid Artist Relief Benefit Concert, American Rescue Plan, and more.
June 1
Equity in the Arts; Nisenan Arts & Culture exhibit; Seeking teaching artists; Forest - Fire; LGBTQ+ Pride Month; Juneteenth; Humanities for All Grants; Wild & Scenic Poster Contest; Art Walk, Celebration of Trails, and much more….
May 16
Membership Month, New Poet Laureate, National Exchange Hotel Opens, CA Cultural Districts Con ference, Center for the Arts, Music int he Mountains, Nevada City Winery, Curious Forge, Color Me Human, Miners Foundry, Naggiar Vineyards, Local Creatives Happy Hour, and more...
May 1
Buy handmade for Mother’s Day, Welcome Mark Salinas, Wild and Scenic call for entries, Remembering Al Young, Bus Wrap design deadline extended, Farmers Market, Nevada County Camera Club, Animal Place for Mother’s Day, Center for the Arts, Passing of the Laurels, Second Saturdays, and more.
Apr 13
Bus Wrap Call to Artists, Sierra Commons Business Igniter, Arts Culture and Creativity Month, Sierra Poetry through April 29, Nevada County Poet Laureate, NC Spring Clean Up, Miners Foundry Comedy Night, InConcert Sierra, Nature Fest, and more…
Apr 1
Call to Artists, Local Creatives Happy Hour, Arts Culture and Creativity Month, Wildfire Prevention Meeting, Sierra Poetry Festival, Easter Weekend in Grass Valley, Center for the Arts, Second Saturdays in Grass Valley, Murals, and more….
Mar 15
Sierra Poetry Festival; Forest-Fire; COVID-19 Resources; Instagram.
Mar 2
Artist Relief Fund announced; Poetry Out Loud Championships; Remembering Larry T. Baza; National Humanities Conference; Mira Clark Solo Exhibition; Grant Writing Workshop; Sam Chase Trio; Music in the Mountains; Second Saturdays in Grass Valley; InConcert Sierra; Wild Foods of California; Artist Fellowships; Forest Fire.
Feb 15
Open Studios Applications; Nevada City Film Festival Call for Submissions; Artist in Residence Sacramento; Share the Love Nevada County; Music in the Mountains; Center for the Arts; InConcert Sierra; Art Marketing 101; Californians for the Arts; Local Creative Happy Hour; Forest Fire.
Feb 2
CARES Relief Grants, Crocker-Kingsley Competition, Grant Opportunities, Wild and Scenic Virtual Art Exhibition, Forest Fire, Poetry Outloud, Sierra Writers Conference, NC Farmer’s Market, Nevada County Reads and Writes Art Walk, Chinese Lunar New Year, Summer Music Academy.
Jan 14
Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Artist Relief Fund, Honey of the Heart, InConcert Sierra, Center for the Arts, Author of the Month, Sierra Writer’s Conference, Poetry Out Loud, and more.
Dec 30
Dec 16
Dec 3
Local Creatives Happy Hour, Shopping with Artists, Virtual Family Fun Day, Art Works Gallery and the Food Bank of Nevada County, Forest Charter School, Nevada City Winery, InConcert Sierra, Downtown Holiday Markets, Music in the Mountains, Cares Act Grant Opportunities, and more.
Nov 25
Love Broadcasts from Center for the Arts, GIVING Tuesday, Library Book Club, Cares Act, Victorian Christmas, Nisenan Heritage Month, What a Relief.
Nov 2
Holbrooke Hotel, Denise Wey Retrospective, Local Creatives Happy Hour, Art in Storefronts, California Fire and Water Poetry Reading, Forest-Fire Interview, What a Relief Encore Party, Music in the Mountians, Wild and Scenic Art Exhibition Call for Entries, and more.
Oct 15
Open Studios; Bear Yuba Land Trust; Inconcert Sierra; Nevada City Winery; Sierra Stages; Halloween Window Contest; Wild & Scenic Art Exhibit; Artist Relief Fund; COVID-19 Resources.
Oct 8
Open Studios; NEO Photography Workshop; Local Creatives Happy Hour; Art in Storefronts; Grass Valley Mural; Wild & Scenic Art Exhibit; Artist Relief Fund; COVID-19 Resources.
Sept 20
Roy Rogers Benefit by Center for the Arts; InConcert Sierra Opens; Music in the Mountains; In Town Campground; Yuba Lit; Wild & Scenic Call for Entries; Artist Relief Fund; Fire Season Resources; COVID-19 Resources
Sept 3
Local Creatives Happy Hour, Nevada City Film Festival, Lyla June and MaMuse, Music in the Mountains Fall Fest, Gin & Jazz Gala Center for the Arts, Wild and Scenic Call for Entries, Artist Relief Fund, Fire Season Resources, COVID-19 Resources
July 28
Art in Storefronts, The Summit Streaming, Erin Noel at Center for the Arts, “Rebuilding Paradise” at Sierra Cinemas, Author Talk with Emily St. John Mandel, Virtual Jerry Bash, Animation Summercamp.
July 8
Local Creatives Happy Hour, Foodie Films Night, Virtual Music Academy, What a Relief! Artist Relief Fund., What I Make of My Space, COVID-19 Resources.
June 24
Artist Relief Fund, Center for the Arts Bar, Del Oro Theater, What I Make of My Space, Music in the Mountains, ArtWorks Gallery, COVID-19 Resources.
June 9
Black Lives Matter, Creatives Meet-up, Nevada County Relief fund, Sierra Harvest, The Aerial Lab Presents, COVID-19 Resources, Arts and Culture Early Impact Study.
May 18
Music in the Mountains, Arts and Culture Early Impact Study, COVID-19 Resources, Farmers’ Markets, What I Make of My Space Online Art Exhibition, Nevada County Relief Fund.
May 1
California Heritage Indigenous Research Project, Center for the Arts Space Sharing Initiative, Virtual Creatives Happy Hour, Wild and Scenic Fan Favorites, The Onyx at Home, Art Works Gallery, Nevada City Farmer’s Market.
APR 15
Arts Advocacy Day, Sierra Poetry Festival, Impact Survey, Belonging/HOME, 2019 Annual Report, Virtual Art Exhibit.
APR 1
Arts, Culture, & Creativity Month, COVID-19 Resources for the Creative Community, COVID-19 Impact Study, Student Voices State Finalists, Earth Day Student Art Exhibit, Nevada City Film Festival, Crystal Hermitage Virtual Tulip Tour.
MAR 1
Center for the Arts Reopening, Foothills Celebration, Music in the Mountains, Empty Bowl Fundraiser, St. Piran’s Day, Tibetan Monks, Met Opera Performance by local dancer Alison Clancy, Nevada Theater.
Special Editon
The Business of Art Symposium, Local Creatives Happy Hour March 5th.
Feb 15
Cyrano de Bergerac, Senior Firewood, Smithsonian Craft + Design show, Sierra Theaters, Blithe Spirit from Sierra Stages, Business of Art, and more.
Feb 1
Pitch Your Project, Sierra Harvest Conference, Sierra Theaters, Finding Bill Fay, Chinese Lunar New Year, Poetry Out Loud, The Business of Art Symposium, and more….
Jan 15
California Cultural Districts, Nevada County Poet Laureate, Yuba Lit Presents, Wild & Scenic Film Festival, National Theater Live, InConcert Sierra, Center for the Arts, Library Card Design Contest.
Jan 1
Happy New Year! Poet Laureate Chris Olander, Community Seed Swap, Outdoor Vintage Market, Cultural Asset Map, Creatives Happy Hour, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Sierra Writers Conference, and more….
Dec 5
Martinis & Mistletoe, Holiday Lights, Victorian Christmas, Fungus Foray, Sierra Master Chorale, The Nutcracker at Sierra Cinemas, Nevada City Craft Fair, Cornish Christmas in Grass Valley.
Nov 15
ASiF Studios Holiday Show, Let’s Go Out Tonight, InConcert Sierra, After the Gold Rush with Hank Meals, Stunt Dog Experience, The Cauldron Crone at the Colfax Theater, Cornish Christmas, Osborn Woods.
Nov 1
Martha Meredith, Yuba Lit, The Art of Self Care, Downtown Holiday Market, Sierra Cinemas, The Sugarhill Gang, Olli Orchestra, and more.
Oct 15
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Neighborhood Center for the Arts, Madama Butterfly, Family Fun Day, Sunset Stroll at Animal Place, Trick or Treat, Nisenan 10th Anniversary.
Oct 1
National Theater Live, Local Creatives Happy Hour, Curious Forge Open House, Gem and Mineral Show, Digital Media Open House, Open Studios Tour, Fall Colors Photo Walk, Call for Artists.
Sept 15
Sierra Stages, Grass Valley Sidewalk Sale, Celtic Festival and Marketplace, Thru the Lens Gala, National Arts in Education Week, Artist Call for Wild and Scenic Film Festival.
Aug 1
First Friday Art Walk, Nevada City Film Festival. Nevada County Fair, Instagram
July 15
Nevada City Summer Nights, Sierra Storytelling Festival, The Children’s Festival, Share Your Story, Historical Library Book Sale, “Her Story” at Miner’s Foundry.
July 1
Fourth of July, California World Fest, Sierra Stages presents Cabaret, LeeAnn Brooke Gallery, Local Artist Instagrams
June 15
Music in the Mountains Summer Fest, Movies Under the Pines, Poetry Benefit Reading, Thursday Night Market, The Great Race, Kial James, Maxima Kahn
June 1
Bicycle Classic, First Friday Art Walk, Picnic Pops, Farmer’s Market, Gallery 125, Artist Spotlight.
May 22
Nevada County Poet Laureate, Artist Spotlight, Nevada City Bicycle Tour, Farmer’s Market, Cultural Asset Map, Belonging: I AM HERe, Gallery 125.
May 8
Historic Preservation Month, Historic Firehouse No. 1 Museum, Happy Birthday Miner's Foundry, Nisenan and CHIRP, InConcert Sierra, Railbus Through History.
April 24
Nevada City Winery, Arts Culture and Creativity, Sierra Poetry Festival, Arts and Economic Prosperity, Buttermilk Trail
APR 3
Polly’s Paladar, Treehouse Cottage, Courtyard Suites, Arts Culture & Creativity Month, Arts & Economic Prosperity, Fire Safety Council, North Star House.
MAR 19
Arts, Culture & Creativity Month, State of the Arts in Education, Arts & Economic Prosperity, Visibility and the Power of Public Art, Poetry Out Loud.
MAR 6
Women’s History Month, Julia Morgan and the North Star House, Artist Margaret Warner Swann Levine, Sierra Poetry Festival.
FEB 15
Chinese New Year, Chinese Heritage, Gold Mountain, Nevada City Chinese-American Cemetery, Community Asian Theater of the Sierras, What Is a Cultural District?