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2019/2020 Season at The New Center
Join us for our 2019/20 Inaugural Season at The New Center! Now offering Choose Your Own Packages: Pick 3 Get 5% Off, Pick 5 Get 10% Off.
Volunteer Training
Thursday, October 3rd 5pm – 8pm
Saturday, October 5th 12pm – 3pm
We value and appreciate each of our volunteers, as The Center would not be able to bring the quality and variety of performances to Nevada County without them.
Interested in volunteering to help with events at The New Center? Sign up for an information and training session.
Open Studios 2019
- Tour: October 12 – 13 & 19 – 20
- Opening Reception: October 10 | 5PM – 8PM
A FREE, self-guided art tour of Nevada County’s Western Region
2019 Gala: Cirque au Centre
Friday, October 11 at 5:30pm
Fundraiser for The Center for the Arts. An evening of spectacular big top entertainment!
T-Shirt Design Contest
Submission Deadline: October 15, 5pm
The Center for the Arts is renovating it’s building and anticipating an exciting opening season this Winter! We need YOU to submit a t-shirt design for the opening of The New Center and the chance to win $500!
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Tuesday, October 15
Michael Franti believes that there is a great battle taking place in the world today between cynicism and optimism, so he made his most recent album, Stay Human Vol. II, to remind himself and anyone else who’s listening, that there is still good in the world and that it is worth fighting for.
Family Fun Day
Sat. October 26, 10am – 2pm
Offered four times a year, these are free all-day events geared toward families and introduces many young children in our community to their first-ever arts experience. We offer families the opportunity to participate in healthy art-based activities together, such as face painting, crafts, and a balloon artist and other fun entertainment.
Rodney Crowell
Saturday, November 9
Join us for The Center OnTheGo Series presenting Rodney Crowell. The revelations are in the reveling, and in Crowell’s joyful ownership of songs that have become dear companions. We arrive as honored guests, here to listen to an artist’s true self.
Chris Perondi’s STUNT DOG EXPERIENCE
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Matinee: 1:00 PM
Second Show: 7:00 PM
Amazing tricks, big air stunts, comedy antics, dancing dogs, and athletic feats. It is the most entertaining show of its kind!
Gallery Show: Nancy Mintz
December – February
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5:00 PMSculpture and installation mainly constructed with paper and metal. Mintz utilizes geometric shapes to create organic forms that reflect on how human-made forces shape our perception of the world.
Storm Large
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMStorm Large is a musician, actor, playwright, and author with ties to San Francisco and Portland, OR. She was also a 2006 finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova. $30-$40 Members, $35-$45 Regular.
Mark O’Connor Band
Saturday, December 14, 2020
Doors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pmGrammy winner Mark O’Connor blends American fiddling with French jazz into a new American classical music. An Appalachian Christmas is a wondrous mixture of Christmas carols, fiddling, bluegrass and other traditional music.
Windham Hill’s Winter Solstice
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Doors 6:30 pm | Show 7:30 pmWill Ackerman, Barbara Higbie and Todd Boston celebrate the 35th anniversary of Windham Hill Records’ Winter Solstice acoustic album series.
Irish Christmas in America
Friday, December 20, 2019
Doors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pmIn its 14th season, the Irish Christmas in America show features top Irish music, song and dance in an engaging performance rich in history, humour and boundless energy. $35-$45 Members, $40-$50 Regular
John McCutcheon
Saturday, January 11th 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMStrings Concerts Presents: John McCutcheon in a Fundraiser for KVMR with Red Tail Ring opening.
The Mother Hips
Friday, January 31, 2020
Doors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pmThe San Francisco rock band, The Mother Hips have never been ones to follow convention. Rich melodies, firmly rooted in gritty rock and roll and the evocative storytelling are what The Mother Hips do best. $20-$30 Members, $25-$35 Regular
Gallery Show: The Greenberg Collection
February – April
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5:00 PMThe Greenberg Collection: Selections from Hindi Greenberg’s art collection from many years of supporting artists. Hindi personally owns over 400 pieces of artwork, many of them created by artists in Nevada County.
After School Theater Program
- Tuesdays, 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
- 9 Sessions: 2/04 – 3/31/2020
$195 includes all nine sessions.
9 Sessions, Tuesdays (2/4 – 3/31). Taught at Off Center Stage in Grass Valley. $195 for all nine sessions.
Terry Riley, Gyan Riley, & Kronos Quartet
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Doors 7:00 PM | Show 8:00 PMInternationally renowned American composer Terry Riley celebrates his 85th birthday with San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet.
Riders in the Sky
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMPurveyors of “Comedy & Western!” For more than thirty years Riders In The Sky have been revitalizing Western music, while branding the genre with their own legendary wacky humor and way-out Western wit.
Paula Poundstone
Saturday, February 15th
Doors 7:00 PM | Show 8:00 PMKnown for her smart, observational humor and legendary spontaneous wit, Paula is recognized in innumerable lists, documentaries, and literary compendiums noting influential standup comedians of our time.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 7:30 PMAs South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the World, Ladysmith Black Mambazo sings of peace, of love and for people to live in harmony. The Tony Nominated and Grammy winning group was featured on Paul Simon’s “Graceland’ among many other film and music projects.
1000 Kisses Deep – The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Saturday, February 29th, 2020
Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:30pmPaul Emery presents A Thousand Kisses Deep: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, a reprise of his triumphant tribute to one of the most fascinating and enigmatic singer/songwriters of the late 60s, according to a press release.
B – The Underwater Bubble Show
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Doors 6:00 PM | Show 7:00 PMInspired by “Cirque du Soleil”, the show is rich in stage effects including soap bubbles to bring to life a performance of drama, dance and magic.