The week’s events: a selective guide
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SEBASTOPOL
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HEALDSBURG
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Future Talk
Power Up
Literary Salon
Musical Sight
A leading intellectual figure in Silicon Valley’s digital revolution and the founder of Sebastopol-based tech publisher O’Reilly Media, Tim O’Reilly has a radar-like sense of what the future holds. O’Reilly shares all in his new book, WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It's Up to Us, that gets into the good and bad sides of several issues facing future generations and offers ways we can shape the future economy today. O’Reilly appears in an event hosted by Copperfield’s Books on Friday, Jan. 19, at Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol. 7pm. $10; $40 includes book. copperfieldsbooks.com.
Marking its 10-year anniversary, the Petaluma Art Center opens 2018 with a group show, ‘Power of Ten: Scaling Up,’ that takes the art center into a new decade with innovative and thoughtful works in several mediums. Inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’ 1978 film, Powers of Ten, in which connections are made between the largest and smallest objects in the universe, the show is curated by Lisa Demetrios, granddaughter of the Eames, and presents paintings, photography, sculpture and even architecture that encompass themes of natural patterns and sustainability. The exhibit opens with an artist reception on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St., Petaluma. 5pm. $5. 707.762.5600.
Alabama-born and Santa Rosa-based author Waights Taylor Jr. is the featured reader for this month’s Healdsburg Literary Guild Third Sunday Salon. Taylor reads from his latest murder mystery, Heed the Apocalypse, and talks about his three earlier books, the mysteries Kiss of Salvation and Touch of Redemption, and his award-winning history of the South, Our Southern Home. The second half of the program is an open mic, so come prepared to read your latest work, or just come to listen on Sunday, Jan. 21, at the Bean Affair, 1270 Healdsburg Ave., Ste. 101, Healdsburg. 1:30pm. hbglitguild.org.
Meditative and ethereal, the ambitious indie-folk collage of Chicago-based Circuit des Yeux—the namesake of vocalist, composer and producer Haley Fohr’s longtime solo project—has never been better than on last year’s album, Reaching for Indigo, which presented Fohr’s emotionally drenched voice swimming in a sea of lush acoustic guitars, strings, organs and ambient digital effects. Fohr is currently traversing the West Coast with her project and North Bay promoter Shock City, USA hosts Circuit des Yeux in concert with Oakland’s Emily Jane White and Santa Rosa’s Self Care on Sunday, Jan. 21, at Atlas Coffee Company, 300 South A St., Santa Rosa. 7pm. $10. facebook.com/ shockcityusa.
—Charlie Swanson
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SHINE A LIGHT Blues guitarist Coco Montoya performs two sets at the Old Cotati Cabaret in a benefit for Live Music Lantern on Saturday, Jan. 20. See Clubs & Venues, p23.