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REDDING This fall Shasta College is producing the Broadway hit and Tony Award winner for Best Play, The Miracle Worker. Immortalized on stage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sul- livan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dra- matizes the volatile rela- tionship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Performance dates are Oct. 15-18 and 22-24 at the Shasta College Theatre. All shows start at 7 p.m. except for the matinee on Oct. 18 which starts at 2 p.m. There will be three performances of The Miracle Worker that are sign language inter- preted Sept. 16, 18 and 24. Tickets are available at the door for $8 general ad- mission and $5 seniors and students or online through the Shasta College website. Trapped in a secret, si- lent world, unable to com- municate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie real- izes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from the dark, tortured si- lence. With scenes of in- tense physical and emo- tional dynamism, Annie's success with Helen finally comes with the utterance of a single, glorious word "water." The cast of local actors and Shasta College stu- dents includes Elsie Rich- ards, Lauren Hofer and Ma- rissa Cozens. The produc- tion is directed by Gregory Thorson with David Fraser as the set designer, and cos- tumes by Hilary Fahey. For more information, call 242-2369 or visit www. shastacollege.edu/theatre. REDDING ShastaCollege'sproduction of The Miracle Worker Ceramic clay artist Yellie Lawrence, formally from the Netherlands, will be a featured artist during the Open Studio Tehama County artist tour in De- cember. Seeking a creative outlet after coming to Red Bluff 12 years ago, Lawrence first did a little painting, learned spinning, dying and knit- ting wool, and enjoyed a lot of wood carving. Encouraged for many years to work with clay, Lawrence, having been a surgical nurse for 35 years, avoided anything that got her hands dirty. Today she's happy to say, "I love work- ing with clay, sitting at the wheel and creating func- tional pottery or just letting my hands and mind wander and see what happens." Lawrence began Shasta Community College classes nine years ago with artist Palul, then continued in- struction with renowned lo- cal potter Randy Holbrook. Her studio has a potter's wheel and two kilns where she does her own firing and glazing. There are many steps to the finished product. Once you have thrown a pot, it is dried and trimmed, put in the kiln to be bisqued to a temperature of 1,888 de- grees F. The glazing pro- cess soon begins. The pots go back in the kiln to a temperature of 2,194 de- grees F. "That's when the excite- ment happens," Lawrence said, "the opening of the kiln and seeing how the fin- ishedproducthascomeout." First Annual Open Studio Tehama County artist tour is sponsored by the Tehama County Arts Council and the California Arts Council Arts Plate Program. More information is available at https://www. facebook.com/OpenStu- dioTehamaCounty. Ceramic artist to be featured on tour YellieLawrence OPEN STUDIO COOK Keep yOur family safer frOm fOOd pOisOning Check your steps at foodsafety.gov dO yOu want that safe Or medium-safe? use a fOOd thermOmeter tO maKe sure yOu COOK raw meat and pOultry tO a BaCteria-Killing temperature. dO yOu want that safe Or medium-safe? Keep yOur family safer frOm fOOd pOisOning Check your steps at foodsafety.gov Join San Francisco comedians Will Durst, Larry "Bubbles" Brown and Johnny Steele for a night of laughter, as the legendary comedi- ans take to the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, at the State Theatre in Red Bluff for 3 Still Standing Live. See the comedians perform live as they riff on clips from the docu- mentary 3 Still Stand- ing, weaving together film and stand-up com- edy for a hilarious and memorable journey into the lives of three gifted comedians. Open seating ticket prices will be $25. Tickets may be pur- chased online at sta- tetheatreredbluff.com, at the Tehama County Visitor's Center, 250 Antelope Blvd. and at the box office that night. The box office will open at 6:30 p.m. For more informa- tion, call 529-2787. COMEDY Wi ll D ur st t o ap pe ar l iv e on S ta te s ta ge Legendary comedians will take to the stage at 7:30p.m. Sept. 26at the State Theatre for 3Still Standing Live. Fiber Fusion 2015 is set for Oct. 10-11 at Historic Patrick Ranch, 10831 Mid- way, Durham. The event will run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. This is the fourth an- nual event and has been expanded from one to two days. By sharing the world of natural fibers and in- spiring people of all ages to learn more, Fiber Fusion has grown from about 100 visitors in 2012 to more than 1,500 in 2014, and or- ganizers expect more than 2,500 this year. This event has become recognized as a premier family fun and educational event in the North State. The primary goal is to educate the public by pre- senting enjoyable exhib- its and activities for ev- eryone, such as seeing live sheep and other fiber ani- mals and learning to make items with fiber. Visitors see how plants and animals provide fi- bers—from the farm to the finished cloth. The event includes free workshops, hands-on activities, dem- onstrations, yarn and tex- tile competition, fiber ani- mals from Angora rabbits to yaks and lectures. For more information, write to jane@fiber-fu- sion.org. FIBER FUSION Weekend to highlight natural fibers next month By Mason Masis Correspondent CHICO The Valene L. Smith Museum of An- thropology at Chico State University and the Chico Creek Nature Center are participating in Smithso- nian Magazine's 11th an- nual Museum Day Live! on Saturday. Museum Day Live! is celebrated by more than 13,000 museums nation- wide. This weekend, both Chico museums will open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. offering free admission to anyone who prints out a ticket from the Smithsonian Maga- zine website. "Museum Day Live! unites a spectacular ar- ray of museums across the country around Smithson- ian's commitment to make knowledge accessible to everyone," Stephen Gi- annetti, chief revenue of- ficer of Smithsonian En- terprises, said in a state- ment. "This year we hope to welcome more guests to experience a cultural in- stitution in their area." The Museum of An- thropology will be offer- ing lemonade and snacks to participants, said assis- tant curator, Heather Mc- Cafferty. There will also be an arts and crafts table for kids. The museum is located on the Chico State Univer- sity campus directly across from the Meriam Library. Its current exhibition is, "From Chico to China: The Life and Travels of Valene Smith." Smith is a professor emeritus at Chico State and the museum's name- sake. "From Chico to China" is a student-cu- rated exhibition which chronicles Smith's world travels before and after World War II. McCafferty said Smith put tourism anthropology "on the map" and that her travels were uncommon for women of the '40s. "Before and after the second World War, when women were typically lim- ited to the home, hospital or schoolhouse, anthro- pologist Valene Smith was navigating the globe via plane, train, boat and au- tomobile," a description of the exhibit read. "From the caves of France to the ba- zaars of India, this Chico State emeritus professor was not only exploring the world, but also chart- ing out the unknown terri- tories of Tourism Anthro- pology." Much of the exhibit is based on Smith's autobiog- raphy, "Stereopticon: En- try to a Life of Travel and Tourism Research," which was published in January. Smith, 89, will be available to sign books, give tours and discuss travel with event participants from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Student curator and museum studies gradu- ate student, Jacquelynn Coon said Smith was a pioneer in both anthro- pology and women's rights. Dedicating the exhibit to her adven- turous life was an easy choice, she said. "(Smith) had some pretty incredible world travels, especially consid- ering the time period and her gender," Coon said. "She also founded the field of the tourism of anthro- pology as a result of her frequent travels, so there was definitely enough ma- terial to work with and create an entire exhibit around." Museum Day Live! is a great way to generate new museumgoers, she said. "Museums are trying more and more to con- nect with the community and one way to do so is to open its doors to the pub- lic for free — that way no one is excluded from the museum due to economic restraints. Plus everyone loves free stuff so this program is a great way to alert the pub- lic to what the museum has to offer." Chico's second partici- pating museum, the Chico Creek Nature Center, is lo- cated at 1968 E. Eighth St. in lower Bidwell Park. Tickets are usually $4 for nonmember adults and $2 for kids, students and se- niors but will be free dur- ing the event on Saturday. The current exhibit, "Waxwings," is on display in the Janeece Webb Liv- ing Animal Museum and the Howard S. Tucker Ex- hibit Hall. "Waxwings" is a collec- tion of beeswax encaustic paintings created by art- ist and Butte Community College adjunct professor, Paula Busch. Each painting is "in- spired by local neighbor- hood birds with which the artist associated spe- cial names in accordance with their personalities," the exhibition descrip- tion read. Attendees can also in- teract with the center's an- imals as part of its "Meet the Animals" program. In addition to local mu- seums, the Community Memorial Museum of Sut- ter County in Yuba City and five Sacramento area museums will participate in Museum Day Live! To print out tickets for free admission, go to www. smithsonianmag.com/mu- seumday. For more information, call the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology at 898-5397 or the Chico Creek Nature Center at 891-4671. 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