Editing Santa Rosa, California (section)

===Performing and visual arts===
[[File:Old Santa Rosa Post Office, Downtown Santa Rosa,2.jpg|thumb|[[Sonoma County Museum|Museum of Sonoma County]] on 7th St. in downtown Santa Rosa. Completed in 1910, it was originally the Post Office and Federal Building.]]
The [[performing arts]] in Santa Rosa are represented by [[Luther Burbank Center for the Arts]], the Sonoma County Philharmonic, the Summer Repertory Theatre, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the 6th Street Playhouse. Santa Rosa is the home of the North Bay Theater Group, an alliance of some 40 theater companies, theater departments and individual performance companies from five North Bay counties.

The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) is a performance venue, that opened in 1981.

The Sonoma County Philharmonic performs at the Santa Rosa High School Performing Arts Auditorium. It is a 65-member orchestra made up of professional-level local musicians who volunteer their time.

The Santa Rosa Symphony, a regional orchestra founded in 1928,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.srsymphony.org/|title=Santa Rosa Symphony presents its 2023-2024 Season with Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director and Conductor|website=www.srsymphony.org}}</ref><ref>[http://www.americanorchestras.org/images/stories/conducting_artistic/2012-2013_ASCAP_Winners.pdf "2012-2013 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming"], League of American Orchestras, retrieved October 11, 2020.</ref> performs at the Green Music Center in [[Rohnert Park]], a new venue with traditional "shoebox" acoustics. The Symphony's Institute for Music Education supports four youth ensembles and provides classical music education to students across Sonoma County, serving 30,000 elementary students per year. Francesco Lecce-Chong has served as music director since 2018, replacing [[Bruno Ferrandis]], who held the post for twelve years.<ref>Joshua Kosman, [https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/its-a-new-chapter-for-the-santa-rosa-symphony "Datebook: It’s a new chapter for the Santa Rosa Symphony"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', [September 21, 2018], October 4, 2018.</ref>

The [[visual arts]] are represented by the [[Sonoma County Museum|Museum of Sonoma County]] and numerous independent art galleries.

In 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]], Jessica Rasmussen, Anna Wiziarde, and Julian Billotte set up a mailbox painted gold with [[Dutch metal]], for queries concerning the past or the future to be collected and answered by the "United States Portal Service" as part of the city's Open & Out project, with the aims of supporting the US Post Office and alleviating loneliness.<ref>Lily Janiak, [https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/a-golden-mailbox-in-santa-rosa-accepts-letters-to-the-past-and-future-and-it-sends-responses "Datebook: A golden mailbox in Santa Rosa accepts letters to the past and future, and it sends responses"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', October 9, 2020.</ref>