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Humboldt International Film Festival, April 19-25

By Kali Cozyris on April 18, 2021 at 6:30AM

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of pandemic stays Humboldt State University’s film students from promoting the art of film. Year after year, the oldest student-run film festival in the world keeps rolling.

Weekend Events Honor David Josiah Lawson

By Kali Cozyris on April 16, 2021 at 6:30AM

Two events are happening this Saturday, April 17, honoring the life of David Josiah Lawson. The 4Years-4Miles J4J Walk and second annual Coat Drive starts with a run/walk/skateboard/stroll at noon at Arcata City Hall that then heads to the Humboldt Bay Trail and Arcata Marsh and ends up at the Arcata Plaza around 2:30 p.m. for a vigil with speakers, music and outreach services. Then, at 6 p.m., join the Eureka NAACP online for the David Josiah Lawson Oration Festival featuring voices of BIPOC youth and artists.

Godwit Days Are Here Again

By Kali Cozyris on April 15, 2021 at 10:37AM

Get your godwits about you, birders — the 2021 Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival is here! The annual event is presented virtually this year via Zoom and runs April 16 through 18 with live-streamed sessions, pre-recorded lectures and more.

Art Share April Activities with CNPS

By Kali Cozyris on April 11, 2021 at 6:30AM

The North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society’s 2021 Wildflower Show goes virtual this year, hosting creative, interactive and informational opportunities to appreciate wildflowers all month long during April. On now, enjoy activities such as viewing Little Free Wildflower Art Galleries that will pop up at businesses and homes around the county, leaving miniature works of your own art in any of the Take-One- Leave-One galleries (map and details online) or Zooming into online wildflower presentations every Friday night in April.

SoHum Girls Streaming Live from the Arcata Playhouse this Saturday

By Kali Cozyris on April 9, 2021 at 6:30AM

Listen up, live music lovers — David Ferney at Arcata Playhouse has some news. “The Arcata Playhouse is back with live music.

ERRP Managing Director Pat Higgins would
rather be under water.

Weekly Zoom Series about the Eel River Watershed Starts this Week

By Kali Cozyris on April 8, 2021 at 1:30PM

The Eel River Recovery Project is hosting weekly Zoom meetings about the Eel River Watershed from April 9 through May 28. "Eel Zoom" is a new, happy-hour-timed presentation (bring your own beverage) on topics of interest about the Eel River watershed. Presentation topics include fish population trends, Sacramento pikeminnow management, flow, salmon parks, forest health, salmon run trends, how watersheds work, toxic cyanobacteria and more.

A Pandemic Poetry Reading with Laureate David Holper

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on April 4, 2021 at 11:23AM

When the city council appointed David Holper Eureka’s first poet laureate in 2019, it was supposed to last a year. Then again, a lot of things turned out differently than planned in 2020 and the term was extended.

EV Charger Access Lecture

By Kali Cozyris on April 4, 2021 at 6:30AM

The future is electric but Where Will We Charge our Electric Cars? Three HSU grads discuss that and more Monday, April 5 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Online.

Humboldt County Brewing Company at Broadway and Harris staff in 1909.

Early Breweries on Tap at Humboldt County Historical Society Program

By Kali Cozyris on April 2, 2021 at 6:30AM

Humboldt’s hop history is on tap for this month’s Humboldt County Historical Society Program, Mercantile Brewing in Humboldt County, happening Saturday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m. via Zoom. Presented by Michael Berry, this journey back in time chronicles every commercial brewery known to have operated in Humboldt County from 1854 to the present day — and shows how early brewers struggled in a competitive market. There are limited slots.

RCAA Plant and Seed Exchange

By Kali Cozyris on April 1, 2021 at 1:13PM

Although a bit windy, these spring days have been fine. Gardeners are in their yards pushing bulbs and seeds into the ground coaxing the colors of spring.

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