Events

Beat the Winter doldrums at the Caspar Community Center with a WARM indoor celebration on Friday, January 30th from 5 – 9pm! Join the beachy vibe and dress for a sizzlin’ hot summer day (YES, the heat will be blasting!). Beachwear encouraged – so break out your shorts and flip flops! They will be serving […]

Friday night in Fort Bragg is skate night at the Old Rec Center from 6 to 8.  Rent a pair of skates of bring your own skates

Have the storms left tree parts all over your neighborhood? Get together with your neighbors for a Community Chipper Day. Chipper days allow neighborhood residents to create and maintain defensible space around their homes, and along roadsides necessary for ingress and egress into and out of the neighborhood.  For all the details and to sign […]

MendoParks is seeking Docents/volunteers for our gorgeous State Park visitor centers – providing historical information, selling gift shop items, and supporting local MendoParks and State Park events. MendoParks is a non-profit that supports educational and various projects at Mendocino’s State Parks – it receives no tax dollars. If you are interested,  email (mailto:director@mendoparks.org)

Join the fold from Jug Handle Creek Farm  Saturday, January 31 at 9:30, for a nature hike lead by Sue Coulter. Step through time on the Ecological Staircase, a 2.5-mile hike where ancient marine terraces rise from the coast into redwood and rare pygmy forests, each level telling a story millions of years in the […]

In anticipation of the Mendocino Community Library’s popular February Presidents’ Day Book Sale, they are happily accepting book donations.. This is a golden opportunity to recycle all the books you read last year. Please bring all your re-saleable books, DVDs, and puzzles to the library during our hours of opening: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday […]

The Ukiah Branch Library and River Oak Charter School invite families and children to join them for “A Winter Walk in the Woods” on Saturday, January 31 from 10:30 – 11:30 am. This event will take place in the Children’s Room at the Ukiah Branch Library.  Come enjoy a storytime, circle game, and puppet play […]

The Krenov School of Fine Woodworking at Mendocino College announces its 2026 Midwinter Show.  The show will be open to the public from January 31st through February 8th, 11am –  5pm daily at Northcoast Artists Gallery, in Fort Bragg  with a public reception on Friday, February 6th, 5 – 8PM. 

Mendocino Seed Exchanges and gardening events are happening, bring seeds, take seeds.   Saving and sharing seeds can help you become more self-sufficient and independent.  Participate by taking home some seeds you want to plant this year. Bring any seeds you are not going to plant out, and give them to someone else. January 31 the […]

The Mendocino Art Center is offering a one day fiction writing workshop,  focus on the following elements of the craft of writing fiction: dialogue, setting, characterization, language, and point of view. They will use middle grade and  young adult mentor texts and guided writing exercises to discuss and practice each element. Participants will have an […]

Saturday, January 31,  Experience a spectacular nighttime view . . . . . . from atop the Point Arena Lighthouse. Enjoy a panoramic view of the sea and coast from the lantern room at the top of the Tower, and if the weather cooperates, it will be illuminated by the full moon! Docents and guides […]

Jug Handle Creek Nature Center in collaboration with Xa Kako Dile presents Sacred Flame: An Indigenous Fireside Storytelling Series on the last Saturday of each month, upcoming one taking place on January 31st, from 5:00 to 6:30 with Atta Stevenson, member of the Cahto tribe of Laytonville.  Atta is an elder, storyteller, teacher, traditional foods […]