Vashon Events will help foster a holiday mood of giving with the third annual “Will Sing For Food” benefit for the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank at 8 p.m. Friday at the Red Bike.
‘Tis the season when holiday wreaths decorate the doors of many island houses. But for some, there are no doors to make festive, let alone a home to welcome friends and relatives.
With less space to fill than a tiny tweet, placards printed with poems of 50 words or less replaced ads on Seattle Metro buses for the past year, offering poignant and distilled insights into the nature of home.
‘Tis the season when holiday wreaths decorate the doors of many island houses. But for some, there are no doors to make festive, let alone a home to welcome friends and relatives.
Vashon Events will help foster a holiday mood of giving with the third annual “Will Sing For Food” benefit for the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Red Bike.
A new book edited by island poet and teacher Merna Hecht and designed by former islander Annie Brulé is a collection of poems, stories and recipes written by refugee and immigrant high school students and women.
During the season of Nutcrackers and Ebenezer Scrooges, Snow Queens and Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeers, the Wizard of Oz and the residents of Munchkin county are not typically granted much stage time. The Vashon Youth Theatre plans to break that tradition when it presents the timeless tale of “The Wizard of Oz” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Vashon High School theater.
The Seattle-based Jose Gonzales Trio will perform a holiday jazz classic with its signature rendition of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” concert 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Heron.
“The Nutcracker” will be brought to the stage by over 50 dancers
More than 80 artists will exhibit their work at 35 island locations on the Holiday Art Studio Tour held the first two weekends in December.
Most galleries, art spots are open from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday
Trio will play at red Bike, island artist among SAM exhibitors.
If a pack of porpoises is called a pod, hippopotomi called a bloat, cats a clowder, foxes a sloth and bears a skulk, then what might a collective of illustrations for a new children’s book be named? For island artist Mary Rothermel, they might well be dubbed an exhibit, one that will be held for one night only on Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 6 to 9 p.m. at VALISE.
