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The Center for Creativity, located inside the Hotel Sequoia, will hold concerts right on its doorstep, at the end of a pedestrian-only block of Broadway in downtown Redwood City. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Center for Creativity is living up to its name. Redwood City\u2019s new center for the arts is hosting a series this fall where visitors can see art in the gallery, hear it on stage and also create it.<\/p>\n

The Art+Sound on Broadway series, presented by the Center for Creativity, will bring together concerts by area musicians, a visual arts exhibition and hands-on community art-making activities led by local artists. Funded by a grant from the Redwood City Arts Commission, the series, which will be held on three upcoming Sunday afternoons in September and October, highlights Redwood City visual and performing artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to do some big events where we combined both performing arts and the visual arts, the exhibitions and then the act of art-making together,\u201d said Jill Asher, a member of the Center for Creativity\u2019s Steering Committee.<\/p>\n

The Center for Creativity opened in May<\/a> in downtown Redwood City in the historic Hotel Sequoia, which it will temporarily call home until 2027.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBella,\u201d a painting by Gail Ragains, is one of the artworks in the \u201cArt of the Community\u201d exhibition. Courtesy Center for Creativity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Art+Sound series kicks off on Sept. 7 with performances by singer-songwriter duo Alex and Maya Valdivia and vocalist and songwriter Melissa Modifer, with a community art activity of impressionistic watercolor flower painting led by artist Elizabeth Gomez.\u00a0<\/p>\n