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Skagit Community Band presents: “A Musical Passport.” Director Vince Fejeran opens the 2024-2025 season with selections from composers around the world, including Jan Van der Roost, Samuel Hazo, Gustav Holst, Ary Barroso and many more. Skagit Community Band’s two concerts are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, at Maple Hall in La Conner, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at Brodniak Hall in Anacortes. Free Admission, donation gladly accepted. More info: Skagitcommunityband.org. Beer & Bingo: Skagit Habitat for Humanity Joins Garden Path Ferme...
Last week's article on the Skagit River Poetry Festival ended with us giggling over the smell of ponies; Moses stepped into our lives; and we were stupefied by the violence of war. The Skagit River Poetry Foundation's bi-annual festival Oct. 4-5 at Maple Hall was attended Friday by over 130 students from Oak Harbor and Whatcom and Skagit counties school districts, as well as a supportive and paying public. The festival, though, is "just the icing on the cake" said Executive Director Molly...
Surprise! Art’s Alive is two weeks early this year – which looks like a sound decision. With the coming weekend a literal washout and November trending damp, it’s just possible that Oct. 25 will bestow a generous slice of lovely late-fall weather on the annual event, planned and produced by the La Conner Arts Foundation. This year’s show is actually three shows in one. As usual, the Invitational Show downstairs in Maple Hall will showcase eleven artists, five of them new to Art’s Alive. The late Thomas Stream, whose work graces this year’s post...
The Museum of Northwest Art will open its latest exhibition on Saturday, Oct. 12: "Peter Millett: Built Forms." Millett, a Seattle-based artist, has been exploring the mystery of common forms in his artwork since the late1970s. Curated by Greg Bell, Built Forms is the first major institutional survey of Millett's work, which spans decades of artistic practice and intentional engagement with forms in space. Millett was born in Evanston, Ill., in 1949 and grew up in the Chicago area. He attended...
"Wick Peth: 'The Original Rodeo Bullfighter' and the History of Rodeo in Skagit County" opens at the Skagit County Historical Museum in La Conner on Oct. 12, with an all-day reception from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. A world-renowned Rodeo Hall of Famer, Peth was a pioneer in professional rodeo bullfighting. He elevated the sport with skill, athleticism, courage and finesse while protecting bull riders. The first rodeo in Skagit County was in the mid-1920s in the field of the Peth Ranch in Bow. Skagit...
More than 12 Northwest breweries will be pouring beer or cider in Maple Hall Saturday during the La Conner Chamber of Commerce's Brew on the Slough. Besides "the best of the region's craft beer scene," the CC Adams Band will be playing. Get started at 3 p.m. by buying a VIP admission at $50 and earning a more intimate tasting experience. General admission is $40, with doors opening at 4 p.m. The Chamber promises "the top names in Northwest brewing," including Boneyard Brewery, Pike Brewery,...
Hayes and Tate Matty and Oliver and Warner Bohnet-Knue clambered on fire trucks while firefighters and EMTs served spaghetti last Saturday at the McLean Road headquarters of all-volunteer Skagit County Fire District 2. Firefighters and volunteers shopped, cooked, served and cleaned up after hundreds of diners during the annual Spaghetti Feed, whose proceeds support the district's work. Every Thursday night at 6:30 pm these brave men and women practice deploying hoses, operating pumps and...
Skagit Fisheries presents the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., Mount Vernon. The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group brings the Wild & Scenic Film Festival back with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by the film at 7 p.m. The Film Festival will feature short films that will delight the senses and inform our minds. Manieri Jazz and the Anacortes Public Library present Jazz Second Sunday Series featuring Greta Matassa Quintet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Anacortes Public...
The Camano Island Library Friends hosts Robert Dugoni for an author talk 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. Dugoni is a recipient of a Nancy Pearl Award for fiction. He penned the Tracey Crosswhite detective series, the David Sloane legal thrillers and the Charles Jenkins espionage series set on Camano Island. His standalone books include “The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell” and “The World Played Chess.” La Conner’s Seaport Books will sell Dugoni’s books, including his latest release “Beyond Rea...
Decades before "The Addams Family Musical" played Broadway, another weird family made theater audiences gasp and laugh. And generations before Freddy Kreuger slashed his way around the silver screen, Boris Karloff frightened movie goers as Frankenstein. Theater aficionados know that the Brewster family in the 1941 smash hit "Arsenic and Old Lace" was oddly dysfunctional and frightening in different ways, with a sinister psychopath brother who has had plastic surgery to look like Boris Karloff....
The poets are coming, the poets are coming! Lori Buher is ready. She is one of 20 La Conner-area residents who will be hosting a poet during this weekend’s 12th Biennial Skagit River Poetry Festival. Her guest, Lorraine Healy, is an Argentinian poet-photographer who lives on Whidbey Island and teaches in the Skagit River Poetry Foundation’s Poets in the Schools program. Healy is one of 35 poets, some internationally famous, gathering for workshop sessions, discussions and readings in intimate La Conner venues. The Festival opens at Maple Hal...
The La Conner Swinomish Library announces extended library hours. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Closed Sundays. 39th annual Lynden Lions Club Model Train and Toy Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 5 and 6, Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, 1775 Front St., Lynden. Show features 50,000 square feet of model train layouts, exhibits and vendors. Tickets: adults $8, seniors $6, children 6-12 $5, children under age 6 free. Skagit Fisheries Presents: The Wild & Scenic Film...
"No one who cooks, cooks alone," the novelist and food writer Laurie Colwin once wrote. "A cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past ... [and] the wisdom of cookbook writers." A cloud of wise "cooks past" certainly surrounds the talented new cooks and farmers showcased in the new cookbook "Genuine Skagit Cooking." Published in April, "Genuine Skagit Cooking" was written and compiled by Blake Van Roekel of Genuine Skagit Valley and writer Stefanie LeJeunesse, with photos by...
Fall is definitely in the air! The kids are back in school, the weather is getting cooler and the leaves are starting to change color; all signs that the season is turning and it’s time to curl up with a good book from the library. Fall is also a season of change for the library, with Katryna retiring. We will miss her a great deal, as she has truly been the heart of our library and has touched the lives of so many in our community. We wish her the best and hope she comes back to visit often. We say hello to our newest employee, Jinda, who s...
Theater Arts Guild offers "Arsenic and Old Lace" for three weekends starting Sept. 27. A 1944 film, famously directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, the play opened on Broadway in 1941. The show is cast as "a spooky (and hilarious) tale" for the Halloween season. What is drama critic Mortimer Brewster to make of the corpse in his elderly aunts' window seat? Then he learns – spoiler alert – they killed him! There is the brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and the brother using pla...
These jays are often liked for their bright blue color, which is created by iridescent feathers. They also can be disliked for their noisiness in backyards. Sometimes there might be a reason for their loud screeches, because they warn others if there is a predator around, for instance, a hawk trying to get a small bird or mammal. They themselves are omnivores. While liking nuts and berries, they also eat nestlings and eggs. When feeding on bird feeders in yards, Steller's jays use their...
The monthly Madrona Poetry readings at Pelican Bay Books resumes 7 p.m. Saturday at 520 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes. Reading are Bill Ransom and Jory Mickelson. Ransom is the author of the short stories, poetry collections and science fiction novels and wrote "The Pandora Sequence" with Frank Herbert. Mickelson has published three collections of poetry and received an Academy of American Poets Prize. Source: Madrona Poetry Series...
Mark your calendars for these upcoming arts and entertainment activities. Get out your bibs, it’s the Skagit Tidewater Boil! Celebrate the food, farming and fishing communities of Skagit Valley with fine food, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at the La Conner Marina. Tickets on sale at genuineskagitvalley.com. Joseph Gregory Rossano Artist Talk: “Portraits of the Divine” at MoNA, a 30-minute guided walkthrough of the exhibition followed by 15 minutes of Q&A with the artist. 12-12:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, 121 S. First St. La Conner. Skagi...
Mark your calendars for these upcoming arts and entertainment activities. Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival is Saturday, Sept. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. It ends with pumpkin and squash entry weigh-offs for prices. It starts with fun for kids of all ages and food, drinks, a hay maze and plants, of course.Christianson’s Nursery & Greenhouse, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon. Get out your bibs, it’s the Skagit Tidewater Boil! Celebrate the food, farming and fishing communities of Skagit Valley with fine food, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, at the La...
La Conner artist Meg Holgate speaks at 3 p.m. today, Sept. 21 on her newest exhibit, "emanation," showing at the i.e. gallery in Edison through Sept. 29. For a summary: https://www.ieedison.com/....
Over 50 willing poets of various accomplishments and ages – and an overwhelmingly female audience – overflowed the Museum of Northwest Art's second floor meeting space Saturday afternoon for a free one-hour poetry class with Seattle poet Susan Rich. She spoke to them for maybe 20 minutes before setting them free to roam and examine the museum's art, charging them with putting themselves into the paintings and to pull something original out of the art by their written words. This is ekp...
As the golden hues of fall arrive in the Skagit Valley, so does the opportunity to attend the Skagit River Poetry Festival: three days of poetic voices from around the nation and the world heard in La Conner. Poets and attendees will gather Oct. 3-5 here, on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. One of the largest celebrations of poetry on the West Coast, the festival is presented by the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. The festival takes place in venues throughout La Conner. "Where...
PFLAG Skagit proudly presents the film “Close to You,” screening at the Lincoln Theatre at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16. Admission is free; please consider a donation at the door. “Close to You” stars Academy Award nominee Elliot Page (“Juno,” “The Umbrella Academy,” “Inception”) as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, Page’s character confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself. “It soars on waves of raw feeling thanks to t...
Cantabile Chamber Choir presents the contemporary orchestral work “The Drop That Contained the Sea” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, at McIntyre Hall in Mount Vernon. Cantabile will be joined by the Kulshan Chorus of Bellingham and Sno-King Chorale of Edmonds to present this concert. Come and hear this vibrant, storytelling work by Christopher Tin with a handpicked full-sized orchestra conducted by Dustin Willetts. Tickets are $25 to $35, available online at purchase.mcintyrehall.org/Events....
Mark your calendars for these upcoming arts and entertainment activities. Teen Art Club at Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., is a free program for youth in grades 6-12, where you can bring your friends and your creativity to make art together and inspire your art. Pizza, snacks, and art supplies will be provided. 3-5 p.m. Fridays. MoNA Book Club: “Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler. The story is speculative fiction, addressing the effects of climate change and social inequity in post-apocalyptic 2025 America. Wednesday, Sept. 1...
