Weekend Planner for April 22-24

Saturday:

Join a host of community groups for a tour and workday at Cotati's beloved Pocket Park. What used to be 5,000 sq. ft. of lawn was transformed last year collaboratively by Daily Acts and the City of Cotati into a permaculture food forest complete with fruit trees, a raspberry patch and a native grass lawn. Patrick Picard of Equinox Landscapes, who designed the site, will give a tour of the permaculture features in the design. Volunteers can expect to spend the day weeding, sheet-mulching and planting, while learning the benefits of weeds in the garden — how they can provide us important clues about mineral nutrients lacking in area soils, and which ones are nutrient-rich for our own consumption as well.

If you go: Pocket Park is located on the corner of LaSalle and Loretto avenues in Cotati.  This free tour and workday is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please RSVP to erin@dailyacts.org or call 707.789.9664.

Saturday:

Join fourteen of the Bay Area's brightest literary stars and chat with them in an an evening of fine wine, delicious food and scintillating conversation. Eat, drink and talk in the library while helping support its programs and services!

If you go: Tickets are $100 each and can be purchased online through Brown Paper Tickets. The event begins at 6:15 p.m. with wine, hors d'oeuvres, book signing & a silent auction at the Central Library, Santa Rosa Branch, corner of Third and E streets in Santa Rosa.

Sunday:

Seasonal flair by Sonoma State University’s resident piano trio, Trio Navarro in their third and final concert of the year that includes American composer Ned Rorem's "Spring Music," the A Minor Trio by Austrian pianist-composer Carl Frühling (Frühling means "spring" in German), and the E-Flat Trio by Beethoven, op. 70 no. 2.

If you go: The concert begins at 4 p.m. at the Green Music Center of Music Education Hall (1028) at , 1801 E. Cotati in Rohnert Park. Tickets are $12  for general; $10  for Sonoma State University faculty, staff and alumni and $8 for seniors and students.

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