Copia has been quiet these last few months as it undergoes extensive changes under the leadership of its new director, Garry McGuire. Some rumors had it that the arts component of the American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts had been deleted.

This is the last weekend to catch a performance of “Gin Game” at Dreamweavers Theater. The highly-praised production about am irascible elderly man forced to be social to find partners to play his favorite card game with is performed Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Dreamweavers Theater, at the River Park Shopping Center. Tickets are $20. For reservations  Reservations, 255-LIVE or visit www.dreamweaverstheatre.org.

Sharon Marks has a new show of  landscape and still life watercolors at the law offices of Gaw Van Male in Napa.

Artissimo gallery and framing shop is moving from Redwood Plaza to 849 Jackson St. in downtown Napa during the last week in August The new location is inside the large building that also houses Definitely Different, a consignment shop.

A Labor Day barbecue festival at the Oxbow Public Market Sept.1, 4:30-6 p.m. will benefit the Napa Valley Opera House, while giving guests a chance to sample the fare the market offers. Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack will provide music, and the vendors provide the fare. Limited tickets are $60 and available through the Opera House box office, 226-7372 or nvoh.org until Aug. 25.

As we’re often told, Robert Louis Stevenson praised Napa Valley wines as “bottled poetry.” Napa County poet laureate Gary Silva turns the phrase around:

A family-friendly group of six friends with a trailblazing-rock-band mentality, country music favorites Diamond Rio perform tonight at Lincoln Theater Napa Valley.

The American Canyon Arts Foundation has approved a Piano Tuition Fund, and Sunday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m. piano students of Katherine Griffin will perform some extremely challenging music by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin and Beethoven to help raise money for piano lessons.

The White Barn Film Fest returns this weekend — classic movies under the stars at  St. Helena’s equally classic arts venue.

Russian comedy is something of an oxymoron. Consider, for example, poor Anton Chekov, whose first play “The Seagull” was a dismal failure until it was produced by Konstantin at the Moscow Art Theater as a dark, moody piece, much to the author’s dismay. And when Chekov saw Stansilavski’s  “The Cherry Orchard,” he lamented that his work had been ruined. In his view, he was writing comedies, a notion lost on many of his viewers, even today, long after he was established as a master dramatist.