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“Here we sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony.”

As part of its young filmmaker series, Sebastopol Center for the Arts will showcase the work of filmmaker and Analy alum Quinn Halleck on Saturday, July 27, at 5:30 p.m. The three short films include “As Advised,” “To College” and “Beyond Nepal.”

Local art lovers are looking forward to the opening of the ninth biennial Fiber Art juried exhibition at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. The show, which is held every two years, runs for five weeks from Aug. 2 to Sept. 8. There will be an opening reception on Aug. 2 at 6 p.m. at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St.

Former Sebastopol resident Orlando O’Shea is organizing TransLife’s first fundraiser, “Vaudeville Boheme,” to support the group’s annual conference.

The latest exhibit at Sebastopol Center for the Arts is “Black-White and a Hint of Color,” showcasing artwork to make viewers look twice for hidden hues.

Author and painter Obi Kaufmann will be at Copperfield’s in Sebastopol on June 14, discussing his new book, “The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource,” published by Heyday Books.

The Legacy — the fabric, yarn and crafts thrift store that helps support the Sebastopol Area Senior Center — is presenting a series of fiber arts exhibits in Sebastopol to celebrate and showcase local west county fiber artists.

Aimed squarely at multiplex audiences (yet still winning the Grand Prix at Cannes), Spike Lee’s powerful and entertaining BlacKkKlansman is quilted together from many pieces. The first piece involves the famous camera-crane, dolly-shot from Gone With the Wind where the screen ends up being filled with thousands of dead and dying Confederate soldiers. Then the clip stops, and the next piece features a white supremacist named Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard (Alec Baldwin) delivering an out-takes diatribe about miscegenation and mongrelization.

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Debra Granik directed her cinematographer Michael McDonough to open her new film Leave No Trace with National Geographic-style shots of a verdant Oregon rainforest. There, among all the shades of green, we eventually distinguish a hooded-jacket-wearing figure ... no, it is two figures, carefully making their way through the dense undergrowth.