A three-day festival celebrating films directed by women, for everyone Announcing the inaugural Women Under the Influence (WUTI), WUTI Goes IdyllWILD, a three-day film festival taking place Sept. 20 through 22 in Idyllwild. WUTI, founded in 2015 by director Tabitha Denholm, is a community committed to raising awareness of female directors and their stories. WUTI…
The Associates of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation are proud to present an afternoon of classical music, MUSICALE! The music, played by the Levy and Speltz families, will be performed outdoors at a beautiful Idyllwild home. The afternoon benefit performance will include complimentary beverages, appetizers and desserts. MUSICALE, presented by the Associates, is a fundraiser supporting…
When the occasion of the Idyllwild Public Library’s centennial celebration was fast approaching, the people of the Mountain Quilters of Idyllwild (MQI) decided on symbolic celebratory mementos of the event. Their efforts created not one, but two beautiful examples of their specific craftwork to honor both the children and adult readers of the community. Both…
Long-time journalist and Coachella Valley resident Bruce Fessier will be speaking at the Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery on Saturday, July 27 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Idyllwild Storytellers. Fessier will be speaking about his life among the Palm Springs elite and how he went from outsider to the go-to for all things arts…
Events planned throughout the next year The 100th anniversary of the opening of the Idyllwild Library will be July 27, 2020. In anticipation, the library and Friends of the Library have planned a one-year celebration of events beginning at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 27 in Idypark. The Friends of the Idyllwild Library and Librarian Shannon…
As summer warms and August begins, the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series (ISCS) heats up. Lisa Haley, local favorite and Grammy nominee, and the Zydecats return to Idyllwild. This is not the second or third time they have performed. They have performed 14 concerts as part of the ISCS, as well as several times during the…
On Sunday, August 4, Idyllwild Arts Foundation will present the culmination performance of the High School Summer Chamber Festival Orchestra and Festival Choir of Idyllwild Arts, a fundraiser that helps to provide scholarships to hundreds of students. The program will feature more than 100 talented young people performing on the world-class stage of Walt…
Art aficionados and friends of Carol Mills attended the evening opening of her retrospective artwork at the Courtyard Gallery on July 20. Dr. Evan Mills, Carol’s son, spent many months consolidating his mother’s lifetime of art through purposeful and thorough displays of 75 pieces of her many art forms which appear in a beautifully done…
In a city where 20-somethings are botoxed and 30-somethings routinely get “a little work done,” and whose dominant industry is peddling our youth-obsessed, airbrushed culture to the rest of the world, what is a woman of a certain age to do? Seek out like-minded people and collaborate! The Old Broads are a group of Los…
A major retrospective of work by Idyllwild artist Carol Mills entitled, “Painted Feelings” opens at the Courtyard Gallery on Saturday, July 20 with a reception from 5-8 p.m. The works gathered in the exhibition span a total of 70 years — beginning with pieces done when Mills was a teenager and extending through the end…
