Petaluma Community Access

09/13/2025

Have you been wanting some more concrete, balanced information about the proposed incinerator in Rohnert Park? One of our TV producer members was at a recent presentation by Dr. Singla for the Credo High School Board, and shared it with us.

Informational presentation and Q & A by Dr. Singla about the proposed Resynergi incinerator in Rohnert Park. Dr. Singla gives insight surrounding the issue w...

09/12/2025

Ballots have been mailed to all current members. Please watch your mailbox and return them with the enclosed SASE or stop by the office to drop them in the ballot box by Monday, October 6th.

Thank you for voting!

09/02/2025

Upcoming local fundraising event with some great information for seniors. Suggested donation is $20. RSVP here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkutZNzsOtNwQV5CdGbVas_BIirA8_ei7DfXf5k1I1M-s1Tg/viewform

08/16/2025

The Chamber of Commerce is having an event at PCA on Thursday, August 21st from 4:30-6:30 pm. Join us!

08/08/2025

The 2025 PCA Board of Director's Election is coming up soon! Make note of the dates, and we'll be sure to remind you here along the way.

05/08/2025

Check out our multicamera, full Butter & Egg Days 2025 parade, produced by PCA staff. If you were part of the parade, you're in this video! Thanks to the hundreds of volunteers that make Butter & Egg Days a special Petaluma tradition. More videos to come!

Enjoy this multicamera full parade edit, produced by PCA staff. This year we had 7 cameras just on the parade itself, not counting member made highlights of ...

04/18/2025

Two companion exhibitions-Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed: Remembering the Past for a Better Future and Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs.
https://www.petalumamuseum.com/two-companion-exhibitions-petaluma-chinatown-unearthed-remembering-the-past-for-a-better-future-and-chinese-pioneers-power-and-politics-in-exclusion-era-photographs/

Be sure to drop by the Petaluma Museum at the Corner of 4th & B Street between April 17th and June 8th, 2025

Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed is presented in partnership with the Petaluma Old Chinatown Memorial Park Ad Hoc Committee and uses artifacts, maps, and historical records to explore the years between the 1860s and 1890s, when Petaluma was home to a thriving community of Chinese laborers. By the 1900s, most residents of Chinese descent were driven out by racist scapegoating and a wide-spread Anti-Chinese movement. This exhibit also highlights what Petaluma’s contemporary AAPI community is doing to shed light on stories that are hidden in plain sight in.

Chinese Pioneers is drawn from the California Historical Society’s collections and consists of 11 free-standing pop-up banners. The exhibit begins in the Gold Rush era, when significant numbers of Chinese people began to arrive in California. Anti-Chinese sentiment led to protests, violence, and vigilante expulsions up and down the West Coast. The Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese laborers from immigrating, becoming citizens, and tightened restrictions on previous residents reentering the country. It is against this backdrop that the exhibit considers the broad range of nineteenth-century imagery depicting the first generations of Chinese Californians and how visual culture influenced, aligned with, and diverged from the politics of Exclusion and the actions of the state.

Exhibition Support

Support for Petaluma Chinatown Unearthed and related programming is generously provided by the City of Petaluma, the Asian American Alliance of Marin, Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition of North Bay, Japanese American Citizens League, Minami Tamaki LLP, NBC Bay Area, Von Chan DDS, Frank Chong, and the Petaluma River Park Foundation. Chinese Pioneers is an exhibit by the California Historical Society and touring through Exhibit Envoy. Institutional support provided by San Francisco Grants for the Arts and Yerba Buena Community Benefit District. The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation supported the first 6 bookings of this exhibition.

04/14/2025

Once again the Petaluma Sunrise Rotary Club hosts "The Great Egg Hunt" at the Petaluma Fair Grounds with hundreds of kids and thousands of plastic egg shells with goodies and prizes for our well-deserving children and their loving parents.

03/30/2025

Petaluma Community Access interview with historian Faith Ross sharing the "Blacks in the Labor Force: Breaking Barriers, Building Legacies at Petaluma Museum" with Faith Ross Exhibit at the Petaluma Historic Museum Library at Petaluma, California

02/21/2025

Congressman Jared Huffman is beginning to visit cities in his congressional district, with Petaluma being the third location after the election, to share his views on the political environment and hear from citizens within his jurisdiction.

02/12/2025

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02/05/2025

Petaluma Community Access is building relationships within and around our community, partnering with other nonprofits to help promote and sometimes record local events. Check out what the Petaluma History Museum has coming up!