El Dorado County Art, Culture & Media Digest

Lake Tahoe Community College and local artist Shelley Zentner are partnering to host a one-year anniversary recognition of the Caldor Fire in the college’s Haldan Art Gallery. on Aug. 17 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the library building.

The Tahoe Fund and Clean Up the Lake have announced that the new art installation created from some of the 25,000-plus pounds of litter removed from Lake Tahoe will take the form of a bald eagle holding a Lahontan cutthroat trout.

Following Clean Up the Lake’s year-long scuba clean-up of Lake Tahoe, the Tahoe Fund is commissioning artists (with support from Tahoe Blue Vodka) to create a sculpture using some of the recovered items. “Surfaced” will be featured at the new Tahoe South Events Center.

Lake Tahoe will be highlighted in its own board game, Monopoly Lake Tahoe. Visiting the area was the iconic Mr. Monopoly, there to highlight the new game and encourage the public to submit ideas for what should be featured on the board.

Danny Wimmer Presents, the production company responsible for Aftershock, is bringing a new country music festival to Sacramento in October. In partnership with Visit Sacramento, the two-day GoldenSky Country Music Festival will be held at Discovery Park.

For the first time in three years, the California State Fair will return. This Sacramento tradition of food and carnival rides is now four months away.

El Dorado County Fair Association CEO Kathy Dunkak stepped into her new role after about five years as the fairgrounds’ deputy manager, and she’s looking forward to its return in June—the first time the event has been held since 2019.

“Red Snow,” a comedy horror vampire film, is set to be released in Tahoe this month. Filmed locally, it has been touring film festivals and winning awards.

Despite some delays this year, the Tahoe South Events Center is on track to be completed on time. The project has endured various setbacks, including the Caldor Fire, evacuations, and poor weather.

“Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche” is a new documentary that looks back at the historic Alpine Meadows avalanche. It will premiere in December but is already gaining traction at festivals.

The Crocker Art Museum has unveiled a new exhibit featuring historic artwork, Gold Rush maps and more, with the goal of bringing light to untold portions of California’s history.

Postponed by COVID-19 last year, the Hangtown Music Festival returns for the 10th time. Acts at the three-day festival include the Travelin McCourys, Leftover Salmon, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, and Island of Black and White.

A new piece by sculptor Malcolm Tibbetts that commemorates those who fought the Caldor Fire has been erected in front of the CoWork Tahoe building in South Lake Tahoe—the same spot where vandals destroyed another Tibbitts scuplture.

Arts and Culture El Dorado’s newest exhibition, opening Sept. 30 at Confidence Firehouse Gallery, is inspired by the 101st anniversary of women’s suffrage in the U.S., which passed on Aug. 26. “ A Room of Their Own: Women Artists of the Sierra” features work in a variety of media.

Music fans can help support the Caldor Fire Fund by attending Kilt & Cork’s Gold Hill Country Music Festival, set for Sept. 4 at Saureel Vineyards. The fund was set up by the El Dorado Community Foundation to benefit victims of the disaster.

In the season three premiere of FOX Nation’s “Monsters Across America,” a Tahoe legend makes its debut. Host Kacie McDonnell, who travels across the country in search of “monster sightings,” heads to Lake Tahoe to learn more about Tahoe Tessie.

The chosen playwrights in Valhalla’s 2021 1-Act Play Competition will all attend this year’s WordWave reading on Sept. 11 in the Boathouse Theatre. The audience can meet the winners and ask them questions about the plays and their writing processes.

Live at Lakeview organizers canceled an Aug. 5 show in response to the recent spike of COVID-19 cases. “We are hopeful to produce the show for Sept. 2, if case numbers drop, but it’s our first priority to ensure it’s safe to do so,” said Rob Giustina, owner of On Course Events.

The South Lake Tahoe City Council decided to terminate a five-year contract with the SnowGlobe Music Festival because event organizers failed to provide an alternative location to hold the event.

The South Lake Tahoe City Council appointed five members to the Police Advisory Commission and also created a new Arts, Culture, and Tourism Commission.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is inviting artists to submit work for possible inclusion at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, returning as an in-person event Jan. 13-17, 2022. Festival director Jess Swigonski said, “I look forward to seeing what creations our vibrant community of artists have in store for our 2022 Art Exhibition.”

A new interactive exhibit called “Reading Forest” by Todd Gilens shares concepts about the forest’s resilience and the ecological change happening in the Tahoe Sierra. The literary art piece can be experienced at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center in South Lake Tahoe.

During the pandemic, Lake Tahoe Dance Festival founder Christin Hanna made a commitment to support her diverse cast of artists. This led to a series of new works debuting at the ninth annual event in Tahoe City, from July 27-30.

Tahoe musicians Robin Orr is getting ready for rehearsal with her new band. In the past couple months, as musicians emerged from pandemic isolation, she put together a colorful pop-rock group called Snowbound.

This summer in South Lake Tahoe, the theater group will be working on acting, singing, dancing, auditioning and theater skills under the direction of Nannette Niven and Marcia Sarosik.

This summer will mark the 25th year since the Valhalla Boathouse Theater in South Lake Tahoe opened as a theater, but as Tahoe Magazine chronicles, the structure’s story dates back more than 100 years.

Music on the Divide will resume live concerts starting in September. Those holding a 2019-20 season membership will not need to pay to attend; others can purchase tickets for the three-concert series.

Art on the Divide Cooperative Gallery in Georgetown has announced the theme for its eighth invitational art show, to be held in September.

Movie sets are popping up on Main Street as Tristan Celio, a 2019 graduate of Golden Sierra High School, shoots his first feature: a coming-of-age saga titled “Morgan in the Sky With Diamonds.”