A list of events happening around the island in the coming week.
First Friday will feature works by multiple artists and the opening of Voice of Vashon’s Storefront Studio.
Vashon Events will host its fourth annual Valentine’s Day show — a bit early this year — at 8 p.m. Friday at the Red Bike.
If good things come in small packages, then Hallie Aldrich may have cornered the market.
The second annual UMO Circus Spectacular will feature performers taking to the air and tumbling on mats for an evening of family fun beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
Writer Wendell Berry once said that if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are. The sense of place — both the spirit of the land and the character of the community — has long been a beguiling subject for many a writer and storyteller.
Performing jazz, ballads and blues for capacity Seattle audiences since 2009, Chip Parker is a beguiling crooner whose warmth and joy is expressed in song and music.
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival will launch its 2016 season with the concert “Trios for Guitar, Flute & Viola” at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, at Bethel Church.
Local bluegrass band The High and Lonesome has been playing together for nearly 30 years and will come together for a show at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Red Bike.
The free show is open to all ages until 11 p.m., then only 21 and older.
Vashon Allied Arts (VAA) will present a lecture with internationally recognized glass artist Preston Singletary as part of its Arts & Humanities series at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Vashon High School theater.
Galleries and art spots will open on Friday, some with new exhibits, while others will be showing work held over from December.
Lapis and Luxe is the most recent business to open its doors this year on the west side of Vashon’s town core.
Housed in the northern half of the former liquor store, Lapis and Luxe is owned by Kimberly Smoot, a licensed aesthetician, and Kathryn Tonnessen, an artist and herbalist.
For a small community of not quite 11,000 residents, the arts are alive and abundant on Vashon. In any given week — except during the holidays — there are not one or two but several arts or art-related events happening on the island.
