Featured Events in Sebastopol in July 2025 (August Updated)

Sirens Fest is a Belly Dance and live music festival https://www.sirensbellydancefest.com. *Over 300 performers *Vendors *Food *Bar *DJ *Live Dance Band *Fire Show *After Dark Show and Party Everything included for one festival pass! (Except Workshops) Located in the small community of Sebastopol, California, on the western edge of the Santa Rosa plain. It is 50 miles north of San Francisco, 8 miles west of Santa Rosa, 10 miles from Bodega Bay, and about 15 miles from the Russian River. Situated amidst a landscape of apple orchards, vineyards, forests, and meadows, spend a beautiful weekend at Sirens Fest! Sirens Studio and Theater 234 Hutchins Ave Sebastopol, California Information Source: Sirens Studio | eventbrite

A week of daily sessions, 9AM to noon. Projects will include making rockets, 3D printed motors, and robotic solar ovens. We will have guest instructors from industry and academia, including Sonoma State and Medtronic. Suggested age range: 9 to 12 years old The camp is five three hour sessions, Monday through Friday. 9AM to 12PM. Limit of 12 attendees. Instructors Milo Mitchel graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in sociology and anthropology. He started a landscaping design business in 2004. After a five year stint as a farmer for schools and restaurants, Milo taught high school science at Orchard View School for eight years and has been teaching science at Gravenstein Elementary since 2022. He is the co-founder of the Mind of a Scientist program, as well as the 3D Printed Electric Motor Design Project. https://milomitchel.com/ Joe Szuecs (pronounced SOOCH) is a software developer, maker and musician. He taught Programming for Kids at the Sebastopol Public Library, is the President of the Board of Chimera Arts and the founder of the Maker Music Festival - a virtual festival celebrating the makers of unusual instruments. Refund/ Cancellation Policy: Attendees must register for classes or request cancellations/refunds 72 hours in advance. (Some classes may require more time.) Eventbrite fees will be charged to the attendee. No walk-ins. Questions? info@chimeraarts.org Information Source: Chimera Arts | eventbrite

We're excited to host our friends and neighbors to our monthly Cider Salon event. We are offering a unique food pairing with three of our heirloom ciders. We will also engage you with some local trivia. Come grab a friend and join us for an evening in the orchard. Advanced ticket purchase is required! Information Source: Ethic Ciders | eventbrite

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Join Blue Muse Sound healing & Eric Olson for a ritual of alignment and release at the height of the moon's powerful spiritual influence and time for shift and change. A Full Moon ritual is a powerful way to invoke power, release, let go of what does not serve us anymore, unburdening ourselves, and purging. It is a time to get rid of the old, celebrating your emergence by stepping out of an old way of being. This ritual marks this inner transformation in a formal, ceremonial way, emphasizing to yourself and the Universe that you are ready to let go for the new you to emerge making way for new magical opportunities to come to you. Immerse yourself in the vibrations of bells, chimes, singing bowls, Ocean drums ,7Paiste Gongs, Strings, handpan and more.This meditative journey is designed to clear the energetic and physical body while bringing harmony to the system. Be immersed through this transient trans-formative auditory and vibrational trip that can facilitate a cleansing, clearing, calming and energizing effect.Bring your own eye mask, journal, yoga mat, and water bottle. Information Source: Blue Muse Sound Healing & The Celestial Voice | eventbrite

SEBASTOPOL -- Copperfield’s Books welcomes writer and filmmaker Nicholas Triolo to Sebastopol in celebration of his powerful debut - The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere. Audience Q&A and book signing to follow the discussion. This event is free and open to the public. The Way Around is the kind of book my soul perpetually yearns for. It reshaped how I see the world. --Robert Moor, author of On Trails: An Exploration Growing up in northern California, in a family of high-achieving athletes, Nicholas Triolo was imbued with a particularly acute form of our intensely goal-oriented culture. "Do the reps," he internalized. "Commit to the work. Grind for your dreams." Shortly after graduating from college, he embarked on a solo circumnavigation of the globe. And then after returning to the States, he threw himself into ultrarunning, all to combat a deepening discontent. While traveling around the world, it was in Kathmandu that Triolo first encountered kora, a form of moving prayer in which pilgrims walk in circles around a sacred site or object--a kind of "ritualized remembering" birthed by place. Unable to shake this initial encounter with circumambulation, he sets out here on three such extended walks. First, he completes the sacred thirty-two-mile revolution around Tibet's Mount Kailash, in search of a cultural counter to Western linearity. Then, following his mother's diagnosis with breast cancer, he returns home to California and takes part in an annual circuit of Mount Tamalpais, tracing a route made famous by Beat poets Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Allen Ginsberg. And then finally, he meets up with a quirky hydrogeologist in Butte, Montana, and joins his walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in the country. At once uncommonly humble and thrillingly transcendent, blurring the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, The Way Around models what it means to experience a true revolution of heart and home--for the flourishing of all. Smart, funny, wise of mind and vast of heart, The Way Around offers a beautiful, intricate rebuke to our obsession with linearity and outcome. In place of the summit, it argues for the circumambulation; in place of the line, the circle; in place of the goal, the return. Over its course, the book buds its own subtle circles-kora, ourobouros, beaten bounds-and its patterns and rhythms begin to reshape themselves into rings and revolutions, until on the final pages both reader and writer are returned to the point of origin-though, of course, profoundly changed by the circumambulation that has brought them there. -Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey Author: Nicholas Triolo is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, activist, and long-distance trail runner. His writing and images have been featured in Orion, Outside, Terrain.org, and Trail Runner. He has directed two documentary films, "The Crossing" and "Shaped by Fire," and collaborated with Salomon on a film about touring and training Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. Triolo's films have been Official Selections for several international film festivals and featured on influential platforms such as Patagonia's Dirtbag Diaries, Upworthy, and Outside magazine. Triolo is based in Missoula, Montana, and you can read more about him at nicholastriolo.net . Information Source: Copperfield's Books | eventbrite

One-day class Note: This is a combined all-in-one class which covers the content of the Metal Working Basics and Beginner Welding classes condensed into a single full day. What you’ll learn: MIG Welder Chop Saws Band Saw Angle Grinders Proper Shop Safety and more! The structure of the class is generally: Safety overview Setting up the shop Lecture on metal fabrication, welding processes and more Hands-on with metal tools Hands-on with welding tools Practice time Cleaning up the shop Instructor Contact: briona@chimeraarts.org Experience Level: All are welcome! Although this class will be geared towards a beginner level. Please notify the teacher if you have previous welding/metalworking experience and how you would like to benefit from the class. WHAT TO BRING: If you have it, bring your own welding PPE: welding gloves, welding mask, safety glasses, and ear muffs. We do have enough for everyone to borrow, but we understand if you prefer your own. Water (closed-top bottle) Snacks & Lunch (although there are close by spots to grab food) Outdoor-appropriate clothing (our class is held outdoors, rain or shine) Clothing should be natural fibers: long sleeves, jeans and closed-toe shoes-- cottons denims, natural leather, preferably. (Synthetic fabrics like blends/polyester/rayon/nylon are plastics and will melt.) Don’t see a date for this class that works for your schedule?: Contact the Metal Shop Director, Briona Hendren, to request a potential date or arrange a 1-on-1 class with her. Contact via email at briona@chimeraarts.org. **Please note** This class is intended for adults. If you have a minor intersted in taking this class please reach out to the instructor prior to purchasing tickets. Cancellation Policy: Attendees must register for classes or request cancellations/refunds 7 days in advance. (Some classes may require more time.) Eventbrite fees will be charged to the attendee. No walk-ins. Due to Covid-19 and/or weather restrictions, classes are subject to rescheduling/ cancellations. Refunds would be issued at that time if necessary Information Source: Chimera Arts | eventbrite