Arts & Stage

Stages, screens, and galleries: the rooms where Napa performs, and the festivals it is building.

A walnut tree stands before vineyard covered hills in Napa Valley. Di Rosa's home campus sits in the Carneros region, where its galleries and sculpture meadow share the ground with vines and open grassland.

A Feast From 1846 Opens Di Rosa's Final San Francisco Exhibition

Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art announced on Nov. 3 that its San Francisco program ends on Feb. 6, 2027, after five exhibitions in 18 months. The last of them, Invaders, opens Nov. 7 and is built around a meal hosted in 1846 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, before the Napa institution turns its full attention back to its Carneros campus.

By Napa Chronicle · Nov 4, 2026 · 3 min read

Arts & Stage

StreamFest Puts 2027 on Sale: Passes Open, and Northbay Health Takes the Top Billing

Napa Valley StreamFest opened pass sales on Oct. 14 for its third edition, April 22 to 25, 2027, named Northbay Health its first presenting partner, and added six festival advisors, with the Uptown Theatre returning as the main stage.

By Napa Chronicle · Oct 15, 2026

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Christmas in the Vineyards Adds a Morning Just for Children

Music in the Vineyards and Aeternum bring their holiday concerts back on Dec. 11 and 12, expanding from two sold-out shows last year to three, with a free Candy Cane Sing-Along for young listeners on Saturday morning.

By Napa Chronicle · Oct 15, 2026

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The Five-Dollar Festival

On October 25, Not Loud Concerts fills three rooms of the Native Sons hall on Coombs Street with nine folk and bluegrass bands, folk dancing, and chairs to sit in. Admission is $5. In a valley of destination weekends, it is a deliberate act of modesty.

By Napa Chronicle · Oct 2, 2026

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The Opera House's Many Second Acts

It opened in 1880 with Gilbert and Sullivan, closed in 1914, sat through seventy years of other lives, and reopened with Rita Moreno. The Napa Valley Opera House is the valley's great survivor, and in 2026 it began its latest act as the Napa Music Hall.

By Napa Chronicle · Sep 24, 2026

Arts & Stage

Napa's 1937 Movie Palace Still Takes the Stage

The Uptown Theatre opened as a 2,000-seat movie palace in the Depression, was carved into a multiplex, and was reborn as a live venue. It is an architectural memory project as much as a concert hall.

By Napa Chronicle · Sep 24, 2026