On Tap: Folk Legacy Trio to perform March 24 in Antioch

ANTIOCH

The Folk Legacy Trio will present a show at 2 p.m. March 24 in El Campanil Theatre at 602 W. Second St. in Antioch.

The trio sings the songs of the great Folk Era from the 1950s through the mid-‘70s, including songs from The Kingston Trio, The Limeliters, Peter Paul & Mary, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver, and many others.

General admission is $32 and $15 for youths. Visit elcampaniltheatre.com online for more details.

— El Campanil Theatre

LAFAYETTE

Theater officials name Young Playwrights Festival finalists

Officials with Town Hall Theatre’s Town Hall Education program have announced the choosing of four local finalists for production at the annual Young Playwrights Festival.

The Young Playwrights Festival is a part of Town Hall Education’s Young Playwrights Program, which connects Bay Area theater professionals with local high school students to create, write and develop new theater pieces.

From the many talented writers, four finalists have been selected whose plays will be performed by professional actors in the festival at 7 p.m. March 23 in Town Hall Theatre.

The finalists include Amelia Soong, who wrote “No Bullet’s Ill-Gotten;” Nate Wayne for “Olives and Oafs;” Alverna Bamorya for “The New Girl;” and Lauren Wagner, who wrote “The Promise.”

Tickets are open to the public and are $15 for adults and $10 for ages younger than 18. Pay-what-you-can tickets will also be available at the door. The community is encouraged to join and cheer on these young playwrights and their accomplishments.

— Town Hall Theatre

Artist’s paintings being shown in March at Benicia gallery

Lafayette resident Leslie Golden’s art work will be exhibited in March at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery.

Golden graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor of arts in environmental design and a master’s degree in architecture.

For more than two decades, her professional practice specialized in large-scale urban design projects for cities, counties and corporate clients. After retirement from her professional career in landscape architecture, Golden studied watercolor with Leslie Wilson for five years. She then returned to oil painting and has studied for two years with well known oil painters Randy Sexton, Leslie Tarzier, Gary Bergren and Shanna Kunz.

Golden is honing her oil painting skills on the quintessential California landscapes with rolling hills, oak trees, Mount Diablo,and seascapes. She has a deep appreciation for the natural environment and expresses elements that evoke a sense of place and the memory of time gone by. For more details, call 707-771-6166.

— Benicia Plein Air Gallery

Screening of  ‘100 Years from Mississippi’ set for Friday

For this year’s International Women’s Day, officials at Town Hall Theatre plan a screening of the film “100 Years from Mississippi” at 7 p.m. Friday.

The screening will feature the film’s director, Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, and author and actor Nobuko Miyamoto, who appears in the film and will sign copies of her book “Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love and Revolution” before the film from 6 to 7 p.m.

Kirkland’s film centers around the life of his mother, Mamie, who at the age of 108 travels back in time and space to Mississippi, the place she fled at the age of 8 due to the threat of lynchings.

Kirkland weaves together the threads of Mamie’s life as a woman who, after being widowed at a young age, provided for her children as an Avon lady, and the lived history that seeps back into the ugliest part of American history that includes. Kirkland says this is an important film to watch while celebrating International Women’s Day.

“There are countless ‘sheroes’ in towns and villages around the world whose lives and everyday legacies form the backbone of powerful movements through their extraordinary commitment and vision of how the world should exist and walk that reality every single day,” Kirkland said. “It is an honor to celebrate the life of one of those sheroes (my mother).”

Miyamoto also will read an excerpt from her book dedicated to Mamie Lang Kirkland before the film and Tarabu Betserai Kirkland will engage in a question-and-answer session after the film. The screening will feature a no-host bar and time to mingle with guests. For more information visit townhalltheatre.com/100-years online or call 935-283-1557.

— Town Hall Theatre

ORINDA

‘Io Capitano,’ Italy’s Oscar film submission, opens Friday

The International Film Showcase will show the Italian film “Io Capitano” for at least a week starting Friday at the Orinda Theatre. The film, Italy’s Oscar submission for this year, will also be screened March 16 at Napa’s Jarvis Conservatory. The film has won 11 international awards thus far.

In this acclaimed film, director Matteo Garrone presents the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Europe.

Between their dreams and reality, though, lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean, where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage. Visit internationalshowcase.org for more details online.

— International Film Showcase

PLEASANT HILL

California Writers Club branch workshop set for March 9

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 9 at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant in Pleasant Hill, Amanda McTigue, who has spent her life writing for the page and the stage, will lead a California Writers Club, Mount Diablo Branch (CWDMDB), workshop to help writers make their work come alive.

Check-in begins at 9:30 a.m. in the restaurant at 611 Gregory Lane, and guests are welcome. The cost for the meeting, including lunch, is $45 for members and $50 for nonmembers. To register for the meeting online, visit cwcmtdiablo.org/meetings-and-workshops or the CWC branch at cwcmtdiablo.org/join.

— CWCMDB

CONCORD

Hotel hosting three-day bead, design show March 15-17

Beads, gems, jewelry and clothing will be on display March 15-17 at the Walnut Creek Bead & Design Show (next-door in Concord). Shop at more than 150 exhibits and find everything from jewelry and artwear to beads, gems, antiquities and handcrafts. Take workshops in design, beadwork and soldering!

This three-day event will fill the ballrooms and meeting space at Concord Plaza Hotel with exhibits and workshops. Makers and designers will find high-quality bead merchants and suppliers, with seed beads, gems, cabs, unusual components and more.

Workshops in jewelry making techniques and skills are offered throughout the show. Participants can try their hand at mixed media and techniques such as beadwork, pearl knotting, soldering, kumihimo and peyote beading.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 15-16 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 17 in the Concord Plaza Hotel at 45 John Glenn Drive. Tickets are $8 online or $10 at the door and will be good for all three days. Visit beadanddesign.com online for more details.

— Garan-Beadagio LLC

LIVERMORE

‘Best of San Francisco Comedy Competition’ on March 29

Livermore’s Bankhead Theater will present the “Best of San Francisco Comedy Competition,” starting at 8 p.m. March 29. The show will be hosted by Stuart Thompson, a stand-up comedian, actor, voiceover actor and writer.

The featured comedian will be Dana Gould, who has six solo stand-up comedy specials to his credit. As an actor, Gould has had memorable turns on the “Seinfeld” and “Parks and Rec” television shows and is one of the few actors to play his live-action self on “Family Guy.” Tickets are available online at livermorearts.org.

— Livermore Valley Arts

Submit area arts-and-entertainment On Tap items to Judith Prieve at jprieve@bayareanewsgroup.com.