The Belvedere Home Made Film Festival screens 30 local shorts Oct. 9 in Belvedere Community Park, and Tiburon celebrates Native American arts Oct. 11 in Zelinsky Park.

About 30 short films screen at the third annual Belvedere Home Made Film Festival, which begins at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at Belvedere Community Park.

Academy Award-nominated actor Bruce Dern will be the guest of honor Nov. 5 at the first fundraising gala for a new nonprofit supporting Tiburon movie theater Cinelounge.

The Tiburon Wine Festival runs 1-4 p.m. Oct. 3 at Point Tiburon Plaza, and the Ben Stolorow Trio plays 4 p.m. Oct. 4 at Old St. Hilary’s Landmark in Tiburon.

Tiburon travel writer Marybeth Bond-Sheppard’s fourth trip to Alaska: 13 days from Seattle on Oceania’s Riviera, a small ship that sailed deep into the bay at Hubbard Glacier.

Tiburon resident Annie Roney is a lead producer of "Particle Fever," a musical about the CERN scientists who found the Higgs boson. It premieres Feb. 16 in La Jolla.

The Belvedere-Tiburon Library's new exhibit, "Mark Making: Dots, Lines, Textures," runs Sept. 17 to Nov. 11 with work by 65 Bay Area artists chosen by a jury.

Michael Jackson tribute band Foreverland closes this year’s Belvedere Concerts in the Park series at 4 p.m. Sept. 6 at the gazebo in Community Park.

Work by four artists with studios in Sausalito's Industrial Center Building hangs in the Community Room at Tiburon Town Hall through Oct. 29.

Christina Altick grew up in Belvedere and Tiburon. Her first children's book, "Whimsy, the Little Dachshund," draws on the safety and warmth she remembers from the peninsula.