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A La Conner High School student group is proving you can play around and learn at the same time. The school’s extracurricular theater arts program group is presenting Neil Simon’s popular comedy “The Odd Couple” with six shows at the Bruce Performing Arts Center starting this Friday at 7 p.m. Performers include Jack Dougliss, Eleanor Drews, Gabe Barnett, Jonathan Gonzales, Rachel Haley, Madoc Hiller, Olie Phillips, Emily Smith and Josi Straathof. They are also gaining valuable math, carpentry, team-building and public speaking skills as they...
Shakespeare does not have to be difficult. Here is a great way to make his work accessible: weave it with American musical comedy. Combine lavish costumes, a 13-piece band, an energetic, uniformly top-notch cast, great direction and producing and whisk it into the spring Skagit Valley College music department's theatre production and you have "Something Rotten," which is really a must see show at the Lincoln Theatre April 21-23. Whether you are smart or clever or funny or like singing or...
Glass artist Toots Zynsky speaks at the Museum of Northwest Art April 29, 1 p.m. Her work is included in the exhibition, “Geppetto’s Children: Italo Scanga at Pilchuck Glass School.” Zynsky will talk about her career as an artist using the distinctive “filet de verre” technique she invented, her work both past and present, the impact and influence of working with Dale Chihuly and Italo Scanga and what it was like being at the founding of Pilchuck Glass School. RSVP online:monamuseum.org/events/artist-talk-toots-zynsky. Suggested donation,...
The April 22 Earth Day poets reading in celebration of National Poetry Month at 7 p.m. at Pelican Bay Books are Kevin Murphy and local Randy Dills, fine readers with much to say about the natural world. They have new books out. Pelican Bay Books: 520 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes. Source: Madrona Last Saturday Series...
“Pioneers of the Upper Skagit,” exploring early characters who eked out a living in the mountains of the North Cascades, will be presented by local historian Dr. Jesse Kennedy III Saturday, April 24, 2-4 p.m. at Skagit City School. It is the second of three presentations he is giving this spring under the theme of “Denizens of the North Cascades and the Salish Sea,” histories of unique Skagit characters. “Living and Dying in the North Cascades” offers stories of survival and death in the mountains where they lived and toiled, May 21. The tal...
Four artists, including La Conner's Eve McCauley, painted vivid word pictures describing the career journeys each has taken during a 90-minute discussion at GalleryW on North First Street Thursday night. McCauley was joined by Susan Cohen Thompson, Heather Martin and gallery co-owner Don Wesley for a briskly paced Q&A session that dealt with the artists' perspectives on creativity, motivation, commercial pressures and means of measuring professional success. Wesley and Parisa Sadeghi opened the...
The April 15 poets reading in celebration of National Poetry Month at 7 p.m. at Pelican Bay Books are Claudia Castro Luna, Kathleen Flenniken, former Washington poet laureates, and the wonderful Susan Rich, all coming up from Seattle. They participated in last October’s Skagit River Poetry Festival in La Conner. If you missed that you have a great chance to hear them here. Pelican Bay Books: 520 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes. Source: Madrona Last Saturday Series...
Maggie Wilder's new work is appearing for the month of April at Perry and Carlson gallery, 508 1st Street in downtown Mount Vernon. Oil on canvas works explore a possible relationship to the Salish Sea and its watersheds....
Daryl Walls discusses the life and work of his friend, Guy Anderson, the Northwest Mystic artist, at i.e. gallery, 5:30 p.m. April 15, 5800 Cairns Court, Edison. The April exhibit has works from Anderson’s estate....
Skagit Valley College Music Department Presents “Something Rotten!” -- the Tony Award-winning smash created by the co-director of "The Book of Mormon” and the producers of “Avenue Q.” In the year 1595, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of the rock-star "Bard" -- William Shakespeare. Desperate to find success, Nick gets help from a soothsayer, Nostradamus, who foretells a theatrical future with singing, dancing and acting at the same time: a "musical." This gloriously wacky musical p...
This article is taken from edited emails received from Olga in Ukraine to Jan Paul of Shelter Bay. Jan has known Olga for twenty years. For security reasons we are not using Olga’s or her family’s last name. Olga became friends with Steve and Jan Paul of Shelter Bay after winning a scholarship to study in the U.S. for one year. She did not live with the Pauls but visited often and stayed in contact with them through the years. They connected. Olga writes: “Before war there were two kinds of people – those who thought it possible and those w...
Here are ways to identify larger birds visiting your backyard and property. Every year or so some evening grosbeaks visit a feeder for sunflower seed. They are robin sized but more heavily built. They usually show up in small flocks vocalizing with whistle like calls. Male and females have different color patterns. Both have heavy seed cracking bills, and they show up in late winter into early spring. Their main food in this area is the samara or seed pod of big leafed maples. They nest in the middle elevations of the cascade mountains in...
April is National Poetry Month and Pelican Bay Books in Anacortes has a full line up of poets coming every Saturday, along with music and some local student poets. Start time is 7 p.m. and lasts through about 8:30 p.m. The line up: April 8th: Alice Derry and Kate Reavey are crossing over from Port Townsend on the ferry, both reading from new books. April 15th: Claudia Castro Luna, Kathleen Flenniken, both former Washington poet laureates, and the wonderful Susan Rich, all coming up from Seattle. They participated in last October’s Skagit R...
No fooling: The first La Conner Kiwanis Club Craft Fair of the year is Saturday, April 1 at a new location, the La Conner Braves Clubhouse, 305 6th Street on the school campus. It runs 10 a.m.-4 p.m....
Irish storyteller Will Hornyak celebrated both St. Patrick's Day and Women's History Month, spinning women-centered sagas of old time Ireland. His long, true story of Grace O'Malley, the pirate queen of County Mayo, kept an appreciative audience of some 50 listeners in rapt attention at the Tim Bruce Performing Arts Center March 14. Also performing were Celtic musicians Jan Peters and Dale Russ. The evening was organized by the Skagit River Poetry Foundation....
As every husband and father knows, there are “Two Things,” no “Three Things” he must not do: “say no to his wife and no to his daughter, or tell the truth.” As life becomes more complex for Gomez Addams, he considers “Four Things” not to do. Welcome to the “The Addams Family, A New Musical” playing at the Lincoln Theatre through April 2. Addams, played with a confident panache by Luke Dooley, and his wife Morticia (Bailey Wend, with a great deadpan morbidity) open the show on the one evening every year the family gathers to contemplate love an...
Bill Porter (Red Pine) and Finn Wilcox will read their own work and from “Old Growth: Selected & New Poems” by the late Mike O’Connor, renowned poet and translator. This Anacortes Poetry Series reading is 7 p.m. March 25. at Pelican Bay Books & Coffee House, 520 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes....
The La Conner Civic Garden Club invited the public to hear Colleen O’Brien-Miller of Beezie + Co. Flower Farm discuss her flower business last Thursday, March 9. O’Brien-Miller’s flowers were the talk of the town among interested attendees in the Second Street building. She was peppered with questions about flora species and ideal planting strategies in the Pacific Northwest. Her flowers grow on five of the 120 acre Fir Island homestead that has been in her family for five generations. Among the tips she shared were to store dry tulip bulbs...
The La Conner Chamber of Commerce's first annual community murder mystery, "The Case of the Slain Slough Swindler," may blanket the business district with amateur detectives throughout the day, Saturday, March 25, a Daffodil Festival feature. This creative event encourages locals and tourists to take their time perusing around town, interviewing suspects and collecting clues to solve a puzzling murder mystery case. Over nineteen local businesses are participating as sponsors, involving a cast...
Join Will Hornyak on a storytelling journey 7 p.m. March 14 at the Tim Bruce Performing Arts Center on the La Conner School District campus. Hornyak will share the Celtic story of "Erin's Daughters: Ireland's Hag's, Heroines, Warriors, Saints & Sorceresses" with Celtic musicians Jan Peters and Dale Russ at his side. Celebrate with us for a little St. Patrick's Day fun. Presented by the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. Donations are appreciated at the door. The event is for mature audiences age...
WALKING INTO JAZZ NIGHT IN ANACORTES – Steven Dolmatz, on the steel guitar, jammed with his Deep River Blues Band at the Brown Lantern during the First Friday Jazz Walk in Anacortes March 3....
Calling all artists and crafters. La Conner Kiwanis will be hosting a craft fair, Saturday, April 1 in the Braves Clubhouse, behind the school district administration building, 305 North 6th Street, La Conner. It will run 10 a.m.-4 p.m. This event is a fundraiser to support the Kiwanis Club of La Conner. Space is limited. Any questions and a booth application contact Joy at [email protected]. Source:La Conner Kiwanis...
Turn it up, would you? Man, that song. It reminds you of falling in love, first dates, riding around in a car, best friends. You can imagine the performance of it, the bassist’s passion, the audience cheers. You know every word of that song, so read “This is What It Sounds Like” by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas and turn it up. Many years ago, when Miles Davis was working with Susan Roger’s boss, Prince, Davis seized an opportunity to shoot questions at Rogers like a machine gun. Where was she from? What did she do? Was she a musician? She was not...
Colleen O’Brien-Miller of Beezie + Co. Flower Farm will present “Collaborative homestead revival and flower farming learnings” at La Conner Civic Garden Club Thursday, March 9, 6:30 p.m., 622 2nd Street, La Conner. They are the fifth generation to steward the Bessner family homestead – a 120 acre parcel, part of which they use to grow heirloom florals from seed. They settled into life here after a 22-year journey across the country with Shaun’s career as an Air Force navigator. They spend much of their time and creativity reviving her famil...
An exciting and thoughtful selection of sculpture, prints and paintings bring intriguing and emotional viewing to guests at the Museum of Northwest Art. The exhibit, "Permanent Immigrant: Italo Scanga in the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Collection is on view until May 14 in the main gallery. Upstairs is "Geppetto's Children: Italo Scanga at Pilchuck Glass School." Both exhibits are masterfully curated by art critic and scholar Matthew Kangas. The opening on Feb. 18 was a very special event with MoNA...
