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Theater and backstage upgrades launch phase one of $10 million “Bridge to the Future” project Santa Rosa, CA (March 28, 2013) – The Board of Directors of the non-profit Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation, which owns and operates Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, today announced plans for a four-phase project to upgrade facilities, improve patron [...]

Plenty of grass skirts and Hawaiian shirts welcomed renowned guitarist George Kahumoku to Sonoma County in February. Nearly 100 people attended master classes to learn first-hand from Kahumoku and his company about the art of slack-key guitar, ukulele and hula. The Center presents classes with master artists throughout the year as part of its Education [...]

“Life has been good to me, I need to give back to feel satisfied.”  Mary Liberatore wakes up early and goes, goes, goes into the evening.  She may be retired, but she works fulltime and then some. At the spry age of 87, Mary racks up 170 hours of volunteer work per month, much of [...]

This just in: It appears the Big Bad Wolf isn’t such a bad guy after all! Students made the discovery recently by reading “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” and then seeing the staged musical adaptation of the book. The opportunity was made possible by the Target Literacy Program, a partnership between Wells [...]

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts is the grateful recipient of a generous donation from Joan Leon and Ramon Jimenez—five large-scale pieces of artwork by the late Bay Area sculptor Dennis Leon. The fifth and final piece was installed December 19th and, at 450 pounds, it was no easy task! As the Center’s Tracy Sawyer [...]

Santa Rosa, CA (January 15, 2012) – Wells Fargo Center for the Arts and Nelson Solar Projects, LLC today celebrated the completion of a 400-kilowatt system with 1,630 solar panels to provide renewable power on-site at the non-profit Arts Center. It is one of the largest solar systems to date among performing arts centers nationwide. [...]