MarinArts

https://marinarts.org/event/coffee-with-the-curator-3/

☕ Coffee with the Curator | Rancho Roots
📅 October 7
📍 Marin History Museum | San Rafael

Grab a cup of coffee and join the Marin History Museum curator for an informal conversation about the newest exhibition, Rancho Roots.

Discover the stories behind the artifacts, learn more about the history featured in the exhibition, and get a closer look at Marin’s past.


Marin History Museum

https://marinarts.org/event/34th-annual-bolinas-museum-benefit-art-auction/

BOLINAS MUSEUM BENEFIT ART AUCTION
Celebrate art, community, and the creative spirit of Bolinas this October at one of the community’s favorite traditions!

📍 Bolinas Museum | Bolinas

✨ Exhibition & Silent Auction Opening
Sunday, October 4 | 3–6 pm
Get a first look at more than 50 artworks by artists from Bolinas, the Bay Area, and beyond. Enjoy music, food, drinks, and community while placing your bids. Free and open to all!

🎉 Benefit Party + Live Auction
Saturday, October 17 | 5–8 pm
The Museum’s main fundraising event of the year features food by chef Kate Sylvan of LOBA, specialty drinks, music, dancing, and a lively auction of unique artworks and experiences.

🥂 Silent Auction Closing Celebration
Sunday, October 18 | 12–5 pm
Make your final bids and celebrate with music, drinks, and community as the auction comes to a close.

Proceeds provide essential support for Bolinas Museum and its programs.



Bolinas Museum

See this week's Editor's Picks! Here is a curated selection of things to do in Marin:

MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL 49
October 1–11
Mill Valley Film Festival + California Film Institute | Multiple Venues

CAFILM invites you to the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF49)! Celebrate the best in contemporary cinema, documentaries, and outstanding new filmmaking talent — with eleven days of films, filmmakers, and parties! Presented in theaters in Marin County and Berkeley’s BAMPFA, October 1–11.

WHEN SIMON MET RALPH: A RETROSPECTIVE
October 1—January 7 | exhibition dates
Marin Cultural Association | San Rafael

Marin-based designers Simon Ungless and Jody Niederkohr, founders of sustainable luxury brand When Simon Met Ralph (WSMR), bring A Retrospective to Marin’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Civic Center. The exhibition showcases their distinctive “rehabbed” luxury fashion, textiles, graphic prints, home accessories, and a new ceramic collaboration with Susan McKinney, bringing together archival favorites and new work that celebrates WSMR’s evolving creative vision.

TRACES
October 1—November 21 | exhibition dates
Lee McIntyre Art Advisory + Flora & Henri | Larkspur

Traces present contemporary European photography from seven artists exploring memory, materiality, nature, and the passage of time.

MODERN LANDSCAPES
October 10 | reception
October 1—29 | exhibition dates
Gallery Sausalito | Sausalito

Modern Landscape features four artists exploring the landscape through distinct perspectives, ranging from abstracted landscapes to pure abstraction.

KILIII YUYAN
October 2
Book Passage | Corte Madera

Based on the work of National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan, Guardians of Life explores Indigenous communities’ relationships with their ancestral homelands and their work to protect lands and waters for future generations.

NUMINA
October 2—November 14 | exhibition dates
October 9 & November 13 | reception + 2nd Friday Art Walk
Art Works Downtown + Lucid Art Foundation | San Rafael

Numina explores art as a way of knowing, bringing together six artists whose decades-long practices investigate consciousness, inner experience, and the unknown. Through abstraction, meditation, alchemy, nature, light, and energy, the artworks become portals between the visible and invisible, inviting viewers to discover new connections between inner and outer worlds.

SEEDS OF TIME
October 3—18 | performances
Marin Shakespeare Company + Play On! Shakespeare | San Rafael

Second annual Seeds of Time Festival, featuring six new theatrical works and the playwrights bringing fresh voices, perspectives, and forms of storytelling to the stage.

MARIN FASHION NIGHT
October 3
Marin Art & Garden Center | Ross

Enjoy an unforgettable Night of Fashion, Art, and Music in the Garden, featuring cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a dynamic fashion show curated by Charleston Pierce, and designs from six standout fashion designers. Keep the celebration going with DJ Joe spinning favorite hits from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.

SHANA MORRISON & CALEDONIA
October 3
Rancho Nicasio | Nicasio

Shana Morrison blends pop, blues, rock, country, R&B, and jazz with her distinctive, wide-ranging voice. The daughter of legendary musician Van Morrison, she has toured internationally, shared stages with artists including Bonnie Raitt and John Lee Ho**er, and brings some of her father’s greatest hits into her performances.

AUTUMN WATERCOLOR SERIES — GOURDS
October 3
Mystic | Mill Valley

Explore the colors and forms of autumn in this watercolor class inspired by pumpkins and gourds. Learn loose washes, layered color, and expressive brushwork while creating seasonal studies that capture form, texture, and color. No prior experience necessary.

COSI FAN TUTTE BY MOZART
October 3—7
Lark Theater + Met Opera | Larkspur

Mozart’s comedy of young love comes to life in a colorful 1950s Coney Island-inspired setting, where two pairs of lovers embark on an emotional—and literal—thrill ride filled with gorgeous music and hilarious twists.

THE SINGING GARDEN
October 3—November 22
Woander | Mill Valley

The flowers in the Singing Garden have stopped singing! Join Lexi, the storybook fairy, on a magical adventure to discover why and bring the music back.

BOLINAS MUSEUM BENEFIT ART AUCTION
October 4 | reception + silent auction opening
October 17 | benefit party + live auction
October 18 | silent auction closes
Bolinas Museum | Bolinas

Celebrate art and community at the 34th Annual Bolinas Museum Benefit Art Auction, featuring more than 50 works by local and regional artists. Enjoy an opening celebration, benefit party and live auction, and festive closing celebration—all supporting the Bolinas Museum.

SARAH CAHILL
October 4
Dance Palace | Point Reyes Station

Pianist Sarah Cahill presents No Ordinary Light, a program centered on homage, memory, and celebration, featuring contemporary compositions alongside classical works by Ravel, Fauré, Couperin, and others.

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Mill Valley Film Festival Enjoy Mill Valley Marin Cultural Association Gallery Sausalito Kiliii Yuyan, Photographer Art Works Downtown Lucid Art Foundation Marin Shakespeare Company Marin Art and Garden Center Rancho Nicasio Restaurant & Bar Lark Theater Bolinas Museum Sarah Cahill

https://marinarts.org/event/san-quentin-rehabilitation-center-films-cedars-shorts-screenings-panel-discussion/

🎬 An evening of film, creativity, and conversation!

MarinArts and the Lark Theater presents San Quentin Rehabilitation Center Films & Cedars Shorts — Screenings & Panel Discussion on Wednesday, October 14, at 6 pm.

Experience stories from SQ Reelz, San Quentin’s team of incarcerated filmmakers, highlighting humanity, rehabilitation, and life behind prison walls. Then explore the daily lives and vivid imaginations of Cedars artists through animations, personal stories, puppetry, and drawing through Cedars Shorts.

Following the screenings, join panelists Chance Andes, SQRC Warden, and Daniel Krakauer, head of Cedars’ animation and film program, for a discussion moderated by Mary O’Mara of MarinArts, MarinLink, and MarinCreates.

🎟️ Tickets & event details
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We always enjoy being a media sponsor of Marin Art and Garden Center annual celebration of food,wine & art in their gorgeous park. No falling acorns at this year’s Edible Garden! 🪴 🎶🖼️

🎨 ARTISTS AT WORK AT ICB/ART

TODAY | September 26 | 11am–5pm
📍 ICB/ART | Sausalito

Step inside the studios and get a behind-the-scenes look at working artists in all their creative, messy splendor!

Meet the artists, discover their creative processes, explore their work, and maybe even take home a piece that catches your eye.

Located in Sausalito’s historic Industrial Center Building, ICB/ART is a vibrant creative community of more than 150 practicing artists—all under one roof.

✨ Immerse yourself in art and experience where the creative process happens!

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One of our favorite events & places! 💘”The Box Show” Gallery Route One - an annual joy of creativity to experience! 👏

https://marinarts.org/event/djangofest-mill-valley/

🎶 DJANGOFEST MILL VALLEY 2026
September 24–27 | Throckmorton Theatre | Mill Valley

Four extraordinary days of world-class gypsy jazz return to Mill Valley! 🎸🎻

Celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club tradition, DjangoFest Mill Valley marks its 22nd year with an incredible lineup of musicians from around the globe.

🎵 Festival Schedule

Thursday, September 24 | 8pm
Gonzalo Bergara Quintet featuring Leah Zeger & Rob Hardt

Friday, September 25 | 8pm
Sam Farthing All Stars featuring Stella Heath

Saturday, September 26 | 8pm
Gismo Graf Quintet featuring Tim Kliphuis

Sunday, September 27 | 5pm
Grappelli’s Django – Live Music Theatre

Experience four days of dazzling guitar, violin, clarinet, vocals, and the unmistakable swing of Django Reinhardt’s musical legacy.


142 Throckmorton Theatre Enjoy Mill Valley

https://marinarts.org/event/bay-area-photography-open-exhibition-2026/

📸 BAY AREA PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN 2026

September 21–January 8 | Exhibition Dates
October 10 | Reception
📍 The Image Flow | San Anselmo

The Image Flow presents its 2nd annual Bay Area Photography Open, a juried exhibition showcasing the exceptional creative talent of photographic artists from across the extended Bay Area.

From digital photography to alternative processes and everything in between, the exhibition celebrates a wide range of photographic styles, techniques, and artistic perspectives.

With an open theme, expect to discover diverse subject matter and creative approaches—all connected through the art of photography.

✨ Celebrate Bay Area photographers and explore the many ways artists are pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium.

🗓 On view September 21–January 8
🥂 Reception | October 10
📍 The Image Flow | San Anselmo


The Image Flow

https://marinarts.org/event/spotlight-west-marin/

SPOTLIGHT WEST MARIN

September 20 | Reception
On view through October 17
📍 Sausalito Center for the Arts | Sausalito

There is something unmistakable about West Marin—its dramatic coastline, open valleys, small communities, and deep connection to the natural landscape have long inspired artists to observe, experiment, and create.

This fall, Sausalito Center for the Arts celebrates that creative spirit with Spotlight West Marin, an expansive exhibition featuring notable artists who live and work throughout the region.

Explore painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, woodworking, and more, with each participating artist given a dedicated gallery space to showcase their individual practice.

The exhibition also honors West Marin’s artistic legacy with works represented by the estates of several important artists, connecting the region’s creative history with the art being made there today.

✨ Experience this remarkable gathering and discover the creative life of West Marin.

🗓 Reception | September 20
🗓 On view through October 17
📍 Sausalito Center for the Arts | Sausalito



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