On Wednesday, May 18, Sonoma Country Day School (SCDS) hosts a regional final for the National Poetry Recitation Contest.

Thanks to the generosity of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, SCDS Lower School students will be attending a day time performance of Masked Marvels & Wondertales on Monday, February 23.

Santa Rosa, California — Whatever suits your holiday shopping fancy — fine wines, jewelry, wraps and women's clothing, distinctive home décor and painted furniture, luscious linens, leather goods, ornaments, lavender sachets and other indulgences, books and music, hand-painted ceramic and pewter tableware and serving pieces, kids' clothing, fashion eyeglasses, fresh flowers and much, much more — will be easily found at Holiday Jubilee, Sonoma County's top-quality venue for juried artisans and merchandise.

Santa Rosa, California — Sonoma Country Day School's Condensed Teaching Poetry, a two-day poetry intensive for teachers of poetry will be held July 24-25. This brief but powerful program includes a keynote address by the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (and former Sonoma County resident) Dana Gioia. Gioia also will teach one workshop the following day; other faculty are conference co-director and poet David Mason, poet Diane Thiel, SCDS Headmaster Philip Nix, and SCDS English teacher Susan Hirsch.