Community Calendar

Mendocino Land Trust is thrilled to bring back the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Fort Bragg and Willits. This 2-hour program includes 11 short films featuring adventurers, explorers, and environmental activists with big dreams. These stories share the hope, work, imagination, and sheer humanity of the folks who strive to make their communities and our planet a better and healthier place for people and wildlife. From small community gardeners set on increasing biodiversity to a massive cleanup on the open ocean, these stories will inspire us all to dream globally and act locally.
Two shows! In Fort Bragg at the Coast Cinemas on Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 pm,
and in Willits at the Noyo Theater on Saturday, February 7, 6:30 pm. Tickets on sale now!
Proceeds from both shows will benefit Mendocino Land Trust's work in land conservation, habitat restoration, public access and trails, and climate change mitigation.
Visit our event pages for more info and tickets:
mendocinolandtrust.org/events/2026-wild-scenic-film-festival-in-fort-bragg/

mendocinolandtrust.org/events/2026-wild-scenic-film-festival-in-willits/

February Potluck / Movie Night

Showing: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Friday February, 6th

5:30pm - 9:00pm

At the Greenwood Community Center Elk, CA.

Hope you can make it!

5:30 pm the potluck - bring a dish or drink to share

6:15 pm the Film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) PG
- 1 hour 31 min

One of my favorite films - a classic, by a historic team! Get ready to roll around laughing again!!

A $2 per person Donation would help us cover the cost of renting the
community center, thank you.

Mendocino Land Trust is thrilled to bring back the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Fort Bragg and Willits. This 2-hour program includes 11 short films featuring adventurers, explorers, and environmental activists with big dreams. These stories share the hope, work, imagination, and sheer humanity of the folks who strive to make their communities and our planet a better and healthier place for people and wildlife. From small community gardeners set on increasing biodiversity to a massive cleanup on the open ocean, these stories will inspire us all to dream globally and act locally.
Two shows! In Fort Bragg at the Coast Cinemas on Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 pm,
and in Willits at the Noyo Theater on Saturday, February 7, 6:30 pm. Tickets on sale now!
Proceeds from both shows will benefit Mendocino Land Trust's work in land conservation, habitat restoration, public access and trails, and climate change mitigation.
Visit our event pages for more info and tickets:
mendocinolandtrust.org/events/2026-wild-scenic-film-festival-in-fort-bragg/

mendocinolandtrust.org/events/2026-wild-scenic-film-festival-in-willits/

An exhibit of drawings, prints, artists’ books, and experimental film, both collaborative and solo, from the deep past to the extreme present by Mendocino artist and printer, Felicia Rice.

A native Californian rarely found far from the coast, she founded Moving Parts Press in Santa Cruz in 1977. Her letterpress studio was destroyed in the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in August 2020. With the help of over 800 supporters, she was able to reestablish Moving Parts Press in her childhood home in Mendocino.

In close collaboration with visual and performing artists, writers, and philosophers, Rice has published books, broadsides, and prints. For almost 50 years Her work is held in library and museum collections worldwide, and has been included in exhibitions from Mexico City to New York and Japan. The complete Moving Parts Press archive is housed at UC Santa Barbara.

As a solo artist, Felicia’s focus is on unique drawings rather than multilayered print editions, using the hand as opposed to other mitigating technologies. She digs into negative space and exposes the positive in pen and ink. She reaches into the natural world to reveal its nocturnal residents, invisible currents, and seldom-seen elements.

Rice has been the recipient of awards and grants, from the National Endowment for the Arts to the French Ministry of Culture. Her interview in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art is available online. She is featured in the award-winning Craft in America documentary series in the episode Visionaries.

On February 21 at 6:30, collaborator and poet Theresa Whitehill will appear with Felicia for another stop on the Heavy Lifting Listening Tour. The evening will include the experimental film, On Heavy Lifting, and a wide-ranging conversation touching on their creative work and our community’s experiences during a time of intense urgency.

Worlds collide! At the same time, the IMDI (International Mushroom Dye Institute) is hosting the exhibit, MUSHROOMS & COLOR, fiber arts and textiles of all kinds, prints, paintings, handmade paper, sculpture, and experiments using mushroom dye and pigments. Felicia’s mother, Miriam C. Rice, founded the IMDI in 1985 and Felicia is the current director.

This exhibit features works by contemporary artists and makers using mushroom and fungi dyes, pigments, and pulp. It includes drawings by science illustrator Dorothy Beebee, who worked closely with dye pioneer Miriam C. Rice to unlock the full spectrum of color from mushrooms. A film about Dorothy Beebee will be shown during the run of the exhibit on February 28.

Other artworks draw from Miriam’s personal collection and that of members of the non-profit organization Miriam founded in 1985, the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI).

This exhibit features works by contemporary artists and makers using mushroom and fungi dyes, pigments, and pulp. It includes drawings by science illustrator Dorothy Beebee, who worked closely with dye pioneer Miriam C. Rice to unlock the full spectrum of color from mushrooms. A film about Dorothy Beebee will be shown during the run of the exhibit on February 28.

Other artworks draw from Miriam’s personal collection and that of members of the non-profit organization Miriam founded in 1985, the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI).

Mendocino artist, Felicia Rice and Ukiah poet, Theresa Whitehill, will host an event featuring their collaborative book project, Heavy Lifting with poetry, conversation and film. Soup will be served!

The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour took place at over 14 venues from early 2023 to late 2024, including 3 events on the Mendocino coast. For this year’s event, in addition to showing the experimental film, On Heavy Lifting, the focus will be on their creative work and or collective experiences during a time when the urgency of their original inspiration to document personal and collective crises has continued to intensify. A round-robin discussion will be part of the experience.

This exhibit features works by contemporary artists and makers using mushroom and fungi dyes, pigments, and pulp. It includes drawings by science illustrator Dorothy Beebee, who worked closely with dye pioneer Miriam C. Rice to unlock the full spectrum of color from mushrooms. A film about Dorothy Beebee will be shown during the run of the exhibit on February 28.

Other artworks draw from Miriam’s personal collection and that of members of the non-profit organization Miriam founded in 1985, the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI).

This exhibit features works by contemporary artists and makers using mushroom and fungi dyes, pigments, and pulp. It includes drawings by science illustrator Dorothy Beebee, who worked closely with dye pioneer Miriam C. Rice to unlock the full spectrum of color from mushrooms. A film about Dorothy Beebee will be shown during the run of the exhibit on February 28.

Other artworks draw from Miriam’s personal collection and that of members of the non-profit organization Miriam founded in 1985, the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI).

Mushrooms and fungi are now widely used as a source for natural dyes. This film provides a behind-the-scenes look into the early history of mushroom dyes, with Dorothy Beebee, artist and pioneer in the field. It reveals the excitement of discovery, the trials of publication, and her hopes for the future of mushroom dyes.

Film screening in conjunction with the exhibit, MUSHROOMS & COLOR, works by contemporary artists and makers, to be held at the Mendocino Art Center February 14 – March 8, 2026.

Fiber artist Dorothy Beebee worked closely with Miriam C. Rice to unlock the full spectrum of color from mushrooms. Her scientific illustrations of fungi grace each of Miriam’s books on dyeing with mushrooms.