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Saturdays at Seven runs through Aug. 28 on The Contemporary lawn
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Konverjdans will join locally based performers for a new ballet at Saturdays at Seven in Willits on July 17. Sergio Carrasco
The Arts Campus at Willits will launch its Saturdays at Seven series this weekend, hosting free weekly performances through the end of August on the lawn outside of The Contemporary.
Saturday’s concert features Ecuadorian pop singer Neoma performing in Spanish and English.
The following weekend, July 17, will be a ballet performance by the Brooklyn-based Konveridans with locally based Dance Initiative, poet Bianca Godina, former Aspen Santa Fe Ballet dancer Katherine Bolaños and musician MinTze Wu, with costumes by Carbondale-based textile artist Katie Browne.
Christmas and the New Year should be a time of celebration, when families get together and people have a welcome opportunity to catch up with friends they may have not met for a while.
Sadly, this year the Covid pandemic threw a major spanner in the festive works, leaving thousands of Irish people living abroad with no option but to cancel plans to return home for the holidays.
The Corkman caught up with two ex-pats from North Cork, both of whom spent their first Christmas away form home.
For singer Elly O Keeffe from Knocknagree, who will be known to many through her participation earlier this year on The Voice UK talent show, it was the first time since she moved to London seven-years ago that she had not made it home for Christmas.