Events & Activities

For 20 years, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public and brought a deeper consciousness to the conversation around ending violence against women and girls. The award-winning play is based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace, the piece celebrates women's sexuality and strength.

Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the world have taken control of their bodies and their lives.

100% of the proceeds will benefit the Gender Health Center and Sex Workers Outreach Project, Sacramento.

Sacramento Fashion Week provides the bridge between fashion designers, models, photographers, advertising agencies, modeling and talent agencies, fine artists, make up and hair stylists, exhibitors and entrepreneurs in the beauty, fashion and entertainment industry.

With fashion becoming more mainstream and the growing demand for both beauty and fashion products in all markets, retailers need a resource that would help them become profitable within the current marketplace, while manufacturers needed an outlet that would effectively reach these buyers.

Sacramento Fashion Week works with local higher education institutions to recruit and develop talent as well provide an avenue for students to learn real-world skills in the various industries that contribute to our event. As part of our commitment to the Greater Sacramento area economy, its marketing strategy involves collaboration with local businesses to create new sales and networking opportunities.

Schedule:
-Monday, February 18: Fashion Forum at Cowo Campus
-Monday, February 18: Hair and Makeup Workshop at The Colour Bar Salon
-Tuesday, February 19: Model Bootcamp at Cowo Campus
-Wednesday, February 20: Model Casting at Cowo Campus
-Thursday, February 21: Fashion on Film at Beatnik Gallery
-Friday, February 22: Industry Mixer at Cowo Campus
-Saturday, February 23: Emerging Next Showcase at Paul Mitchell - The School Sacramento

Welcome to Industry at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op, a series of live kitchen shows designed to introduce you to pro-chef skills that anyone can use!

Sacramento Chef Dave Nelson lifts the curtain on how chefs develop their craft by stressing technique. Sit back, sip a little and savor the experience while you learn tons of rock-solid kitchen wisdom in this fast and fun cooking class!

The Collective Works of Steve Memering come to life in the current exhibit at Kennedy Gallery.

Over 20 resident artists and three floors of open studios. 4,500 square feet of exploring and fun. Your favorite art destination in the heart of Midtown’s entertainment district and Second Saturday Artwalk. On Second Saturday, the Kennedy Center also features a full-service, no-host bar.

Slowgirl is the story of a teenager who flees the United States to her reclusive uncle’s retreat in the Costa Rican jungle to escape the aftermath of a horrific accident. The week they spend together forces them both to confront who they are as well as what it is they are running from.

Join Capital Stage artists during post-show discussions! CapChats expand on your theatre-going experience with stimulating conversations with Capital Stage staff and the production’s artists.

The Soul Rebels are riding high in 2018, receiving national attention with a performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk series, a debut late night TV appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a headlining set at the global TED Conference, and an appearance and official soundtrack feature for Universal Pictures’ hit comedy Girls Trip. The band continues to expand its international reach touring four continents including Europe, Australia, China, South Korea and Japan. Their explosive stage presence has led to live collaborations with the likes of: Nas, G-Eazy, Portugal. The Man, Robert Glasper, Pretty Lights, DMX, Curren$y, Joey Bada$$, Talib Kweli, GZA, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Mobb Deep, Raekwon, Metallica, and Marilyn Manson among many others, and opening for Lauryn Hill and Nile Rodgers.

Mad Skillet was born of a late night show in New Orleans during Jazz Fest 2015. It came out kicking and screaming, laughing and wailing, laying down a deep New Orleans groove steeped in jazz, blues, psychedelic rock, and R&B.

Band members are lead keyboardist John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood, The Word), Grammy nominated guitarist/bandleader Will Bernard (Medicine Hat, Party Hats), New Orleans native sousaphone player Kirk Joseph (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Backyard Groove), and drummer Terence Higgins (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ani DiFranco) also a New Orleans native.

Medeski and Bernard's yearly quest to play together during Jazz Fest found a special chemistry with the addition of Joseph and Higgins. The eclectic, far-reaching backgrounds of Medeski and Bernard alongside this legendary NOLA rhythm section generated what Medeski calls,"a vast musical universe with limitless potential."

As a founding member of Tower of Power, legendary for his arrangements that made the TOP horn section a sought out entity all its own. With countless collaborations in the studio and live on stage, Adams has made his mark on a broad stretch of today’s musical landscape that includes jazz, pop, rock, R&B, soul, and funk.

It has been nearly a quarter century since the genre chameleon trumpeter and arranger became a leader in his own right with his ground breaking 1995 debut Hidden Agenda. With Greg Adams’ approach that music is a language... the CONVERSATION continues. You will sense a direct connection with the live feel of the music, the open breath of each note and the collaboration of each player.

Greg has played on over 900 hundred recordings. Beginning early with Elton John’s “The Bitch Is Back,” Chaka Kahn’s “Fool’s Paradise,” Little Feat’s “High Roller,” and Heart’s “Tell It like It Is.” You’ve heard Greg’s collaboration with Paul Shaffer on the opening theme of Late Show With David Letterman and on score arrangements in films as, Duets, Mask, Top Gun, Saving Silverman, and Austin Powers In Goldmember with Smashmouth. Teaming up with Stanley Clarke on Little Big League and on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band with the illustrious George Martin.

Stories on Stage Sacramento is thrilled to welcome Karen E. Bender, National Book Award finalist, back to Stories on Stage Sacramento, and to feature a reading by Kelley Ogden from her just-published short story collection, The New Order. Also appearing with Karen is Sacramento favorite (and Stories on Stage founder) Valerie Fioravanti, author of Garbage Night at the Opera, with a new short story read by Tara Henry.

Short Cuts is a fast-paced, game-based improv show similar to Whose Line is it Anyway?. Fun, short-form improv games and a great cast of performers will ensure that this is one show that you won’t want to miss!

Christian Scott, born March 31, 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana is a jazz trumpeter, composer and producer. He is the nephew of jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison.

YOU! The Musical is a completely improvised musical inspired by your suggestion of a title. Everything in the show is made up on the spot—lyrics, music, dancing… everything. Each 60-minute performance features a full story with heroes and villains, sidekicks and allies.

Hosted by the Midtown Association and managed by Unseen Heroes, this free, family-friendly market takes place year-round, every Saturday, on 20th street between J and L streets.

The Midtown Farmers Market showcases local agriculture, prepared foods, artisans and crafters, while providing an opportunity for Midtown residents and business owners to discover regionally grown foods. Anchored in the heart of Midtown, the market serves as a lively and fun gathering place where Sacramentans can come together to shop and enjoy the community with neighbors and visitors alike.

Enjoy the Sacramento Scottish Rite Annual Crab Feed. Tickets include all-you-can-eat crab, shrimp, pasta salad, bread, and a no host bar, plus a live auction, amazing raffles, silent auction, and a festive live concert.

Support a worthwhile non-profit whose main mission is to make your community better. Come hungry and eat as much as you can handle!

The Groove Thang Band, a popular Sacramento institution for music and fund-raising fun will play a variety of pop, swing and rock favorites for your dancing and listening pleasure throughout the event.

Hear local RnB artist Yelly at Harlow's.

Faith Ako, a long time resident of Rohnert Park, has been the winner of two Hawaii Music Awards in 2008, is ready to bring back the islands of Hawaii to the Bay Area and abroad with the release of her second album Papaku, Bring it Home Traditional and Contemporary Hawaiian Music. Residing in California and preserving Hawaiian music over the last decade throughout Sonoma County and the Greater Bay Area, is what she has been doing.

Sacramento's own Halau Ka Waikahe Lani Malie will make a guest appearance.

MRI (Masters of Rap Improv) is Sacramento Comedy Spot’s only freestyle rap improv show. The cast of MRI gets a one-word suggestion from an audience member to inspire a freestyle rap, then performs improvised scenes based on the rap. If you like hip hop and improv, this is the show for you!

Named for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is indeed a gathering of some of the top musical talents in Ireland.

Bassist Trevor Hutchinson was a key member of The Waterboys, and later he, with guitarist Donogh Hennessy, would form the dynamic rhythm section of The Sharon Shannon Band. Paul Meehan (Karan Casey Band, North Cregg) has recently replaced Hennessy. Fiddler Sean Smyth is an All-Ireland champion who has played with Donal Lunny’s Coolfin; Kevin Crawford, considered to be among the finest flutists in Ireland played with the acclaimed traditional group Moving Cloud; and, piper Cillian Vallely of the famous Vallely artistic clan. Folk Roots magazine has rightly termed them an “Irish music dream team.”

We all know the end of A Doll’s House; Theater’s great feminist icon, Nora walks out the door of her home, leaving her husband and children behind to embrace an uncertain future, but a future that she controls. But what if she came back? A Doll’s House Pt. 2 imagines just that scenario.

Celebrated playwright Lucas Hnath’s Tony nominated play imagines the continuing story of Henrik Ibsen’s legendary protagonist. In this fascinating and brilliant play, we see the cost of Nora’s decision and investigate further the ideas set forth in Ibsen’s original. What price do we pay for control of our own destinies?

This ensemble of accomplished and versatile musicians celebrates the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s pioneering Quintette du Hot Club de France with style and panache. The Hot Club of San Francisco borrows the instrumentation of violin, bass, and guitars from the original Hot Club while breathing new life into the music with innovative arrangements of classic tunes and original compositions from the group’s superb lead guitarist, Paul Mehling. Featuring the amazing violin of twice GRAMMY® Award-winning Evan Price, the velvet vocals of Isabelle Fontaine and a swinging rhythm section, the group never fails to surprise and delight.

To hear the ensemble live, or on any of their 14 albums, is to be carried back to the 1930s and the small, smoky jazz clubs of Paris and the refined lounge of the famous Hotel Ritz. With frequent national and international tours -- from Iceland to Lincoln Center and the Monterey Jazz Festival -- The Hot Club of San Francisco keeps this historic music fresh and alive.

Dark. Literate. Mildly classy. Plus lasers. And swearing. Squad Patrol is Comedy Spot’s live, main-stage sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live and Key and Peele.

Enter a world of stories told through jokes: cat detectives; sexual tension on construction job sites; the horror of bats and banana slugs; Casio keyboards; bears and lady boys; time machines; Mr. Trollywhiskers; judicious use of nerd references; Chuck E. Cheese flashbacks; the pathos of good grammar; space hamsters. All theatrically expressed through flamboyant costumes, cardboard props, original songs and videos, sound effects and gratuitous spot-lighting, and of course, verbose language replete with the swears.