The Classroom Container: An all-new series effective for all educators!

Whether you're a teaching artist, classroom teacher, or administrator, the skills that create engaging and effective learning environments matter. Our new three-part Teaching Artist Training series, The Classroom Container, explores how identity, intentional structure, and responsive strategies shape successful learning experiences for our young people. Through reflection, peer exchange, and real-world case studies, participants will gain practical tools for strengthening classroom presence, building effective routines and structures, and navigating challenges when they arise. Designed for teaching artists but valuable for educators of all kinds, each workshop can be taken individually or as part of the full series.

Offered in partnership with Creative Sonoma.

LBC hosts 17^th Annual Fiesta de Independencia in partnership with Redwood Credit Union!

Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with a taste of Latin America in Sonoma County! Enjoy authentic food, music, games and activities for the entire family.

  Featuring:

• Lowrider Car Show

• Piñatas

• Jumpy House

• Face Painting

• Sonoma County Library’s Bibliobus

• Cultural Exhibition with Roseland University Prep students

• Community Leadership Awards in partnership with Los Cien

• El Grito with the Mexican Consulate of San Francisco

  On-stage entertainment:

• Banda La Congora

• Los Canarios de Michoacán

• STATE CHAMPIONS LBC Mariachi Cantares de Mi Tierra

• LBC Ballet Folklórico

  Celebrate with us! Admission is free!

17^th Annual

Fiesta de Independencia

Sunday, September 13

1:00 – 7:00 pm

Gates open at noon

TOOLS FOR TEACHERS

Arts Integration 101 Sampler

$10 each

Wednesday, September 30

4:30 - 7:30 pm

Grades Covered: K-12

Subjects Covered: Interdisciplinary

CEUs available

Open to all educators!

This transformative art workshop invites participants to explore how creativity can serve as a powerful tool for engaging with difficult topics. Through guided drawing exercises, group reflection, and dialogue. Drawing the Line encourages honest expression and fosters courageous conversations around race, identity, equity, and personal truth. Participants will use visual storytelling to confront discomfort, challenge assumptions, and cultivate empathy in a safe, creative space. No formal art experience is necessary—just a willingness to show up, speak up, and draw the line between silence and expression.

Scholarships available!

INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & ACCESS IN THE CLASSROOM

Meeting Students Where They Are: Creating Adaptive Learning Environments Through the Arts

$10 each 

Wednesday, October  7

4:30 – 6:00 pm

Open to all educators!

Discover how this Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and the Arts presentation empowers educators to use the arts as a tool for culturally relevant teaching and building meaningful connections between students’ identities, experiences, and learning. Participants will explore how visual arts, music, dance, theatre, and multimedia can engage diverse learners while promoting equity, inclusion, and social-emotional growth.

Scholarships available! 

TOOLS FOR TEACHERS

Yes, And: Using Drama to Build Empathy, Connection, and Courage

$10 each 

Wednesday, October 21

4:30 – 7:30 pm

Grades Covered: 3-12

Subjects Covered: Drama, Social Emotional Learning
CEUs available

Open to all educators!

Diversity by definition includes the range of human differences. Many times, we forget that diversity can have many facets: race, gender identity, mental/physical ability, communication skills, religion, socioeconomic status, and many more. Join us for an exploration of the dimensions of diversity, how they connect with power and privilege, and how we, as educators, can create learning environments that are inclusive and equitable for all.

Scholarships available!

ARTS FOR ALL RESIDENCY

Artist’s Toolbox

Grades: K-5

Subject: Visual Art

New this year!

Students will learn visual art foundational skills appropriate to their grade levels each session through a thoughtfully designed slide presentation followed by a hands-on exercise in a variety of mediums. In each exercise, students will take what they learned from the presentation to demonstrate their knowledge of that particular foundational skill. Students will be able to express themselves uniquely and creatively in their individual art pieces.

Sewam American Indian Dance Company

Tuesday, October 20

11:30 am performance added!

Grades K-6

Sewam American Indian Dance Company showcases well-known American Indian dances. Wearing traditional regalia, the performers use American Indian sign language, dance, live singing, and live drumming to reveal the empowering and inspiring nature of Plains Indian culture. The performance is led by the charismatic Eddie Madril, a fan favorite for students and adults alike.

Scholarships available for 11:30 am!

The Three Little Pigs and Other Tales

by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia

Tuesday, October 27

9:30 am

Grades PK-2

Told with Mermaid Theatre’s trademark puppetry style, enjoy this engaging version of three cherished children’s stories —The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Embark on an adventure, with humor and heroism as we follow a brave raccoon and clever mouse on their journey to collect treasure. Along the way, they unknowingly prevent disaster for the goats, bears, and pigs, without any of the animals ever encountering a true villain. This imaginative retelling seamlessly interweaves three classic tales into a heartwarming adventure celebrating friendship, courage, and wonder.

Journey to Oz

by Experiential Theatre Company

Wednesday, October 28

9:30 am

Grades 1-5

In this fantastic adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s most beloved tales, we travel to Oz with Dorothy as the audience becomes part of the performance—singing, dancing, and acting alongside professional actors. Student volunteers play 16 individual roles in addition those picked to dance in the Emerald City. The entire audience will sing, create sound effects, participate in call-and-response, and play favorite supporting characters such as Munchkins, Winkies, Crows, and Flying Monkeys. Don’t miss this participatory version of a great American classic!

Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical

by TheaterWorksUSA

Monday, November 2

11:30 am performance added!

Grades 1-5

Cat Kid and Molly Pollywog have started an epic club to teach 21 rambunctious baby frogs how to make their own comics! Their fishy father, Flippy, is overjoyed that his kids will learn to unleash their creativity, but when the frogs’ constant bickering and outrageous imaginations send their comics comically off the rails, Flippy flips out! Will the club survive? Will the frogs ever get along? And will creativity finally save the day? All will be answered in this madcap musical based on Dav Pilkey’s irreverently hilarious Cat Kid books, a spin-off of his hit Dog Man series.

Scholarships available for 11:30 am!

Literature to Life®’s production of

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Tuesday, November 10

9:30 am

Grades 6-9

One actor takes the stage in this adaptation features verbatim portions of the critically acclaimed novel The Giver. In a seemingly utopian world where all predictable, 12-year-old Jonas is selected to receive the memories of a far different life. As Jonas begins his training for a special role in the community, the buried truth becomes hauntingly clear, leaving Jonah to carry this burden in secret. A powerful solo performance of a new classic which explores themes of individuality, ethics, and social constructs.

Please be advised. In keeping with the novel, this performance contains depictions of violence against children.

New date!

Doktor Kaboom!

Wednesday, March 10, 2027

9:30 am*

Grades 1-6

The good Doktor returns to LBC! The ridiculously popular and hilariously charming Doktor Kaboom blends science, comedy, and a German accent in his series of increasingly spectacular demonstrations of the physical sciences. Students will be riveted with curiosity and rolling with laughter. This performance showcases science using humor and incredibly explosive experiments tied directly to curriculum standards.

*11:30 am performance may be added based on demand.