What would be a last-ditch effort for a struggling rock band trying to garner attention on the music scene? Hop a plane to Tokyo, of course, and make it big in Japan. That’s the premise of writer and director John Jeffcoat’s comical film “Big in Japan,” which chronicles the mad-capped musical odyssey of a Seattle band on tour in Japan. The feature will be shown on Vashon’s silver screen Friday as a fundraiser for Friends of the Vashon Library (FOL). Jeffcoat will be on hand after the show for a question and answer session.
Vashon photographer Ray Pfortner’s annual Shoot to Show class focuses on photography from many angles. Now in its 11th year, Shoot to Show is sponsored by Vashon Allied Arts and begins with four evening sessions plus two field shoots and ends with a juried photography show at The Hardware Store Restaurant on July 3.
Vashon Allied Arts’ Center for Dance will present its second annual dance — and now musical — performance, Original Works, this weekend at the Vashon High School theater.
Fifteen years ago, author and filmmaker Marie-Rose Phan-Le stepped away from her high-powered position in the film industry to document ancient traditions of healing and spirituality around the globe.
Former poet laureate Billy Collins once said that poetry tells the story of the human heart. For poet Yvonne Higgins Leach, that truth runs throughout her new book of poems “Another Autumn,” which Leach will read from and discuss at 6 p.m. Friday at Vashon Bookshop.
In 1950, when a certain Ethel Savage inherited $10 million — nearly $100 million in today’s dollars — she embarked on a spending spree that infuriated her greedy stepchildren and the board of directors for her late husband’s estate.
Photographer Ray Pfortner has an eye for lighthouses. He likes to shoot them at sunrise when their stalwart presence becomes a sculptural focal point in the early morning sky.
Island writer and publisher Gwen McConnell will hold a release party for her latest children’s audio book, “The Tales of Mindy Mousekins,” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Vashon Bookshop.
When Vashon author Jean Davies Okimoto answered the phone one sunny morning last July, the last person she expected to hear on the line was a reporter from a newspaper in Singapore. Would she like to comment on the fact that her children’s picture book “White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption” was recently banned by Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB)?
A new business called Spoke recently rolled into the old bike shop by the post office. The three owners have been renovating the building’s interior to fit their multi-use vision for the large space and plan to welcome the public with an opening reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday.
The rich but nearly forgotten legacy of Hawaiians who once settled in the Pacific Northwest will be remembered in a celebration of the Kanaka at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
When David Hartness graduated from Vashon High School in 2001, he worked for three months as a volunteer teaching English in a small rural village in Kenya.
What would happen if 11 of Vashon’s musicians all played the same guitar? What might come from a seriously playful effort to create a lineage of songs born from that the one guitar?
