Art history comes alive
Art historian Rebecca Albiani will return to the Blue Heron on Tuesday for a bonus encore in her popular Art History Talks series for Vashon Allied Arts. The lecture, set for 11:30 a.m., will explore myths and facts related to painter Paul Gauguin. Albiani will show slides of Gauguin’s work and will discuss his artistic influences as well as personal details about his colorful life. Tickets, $14 and $17, are on sale at the Blue Heron, Vashon Bookshop, www.brownpapertickets.com and by calling 463-5131.
Occupy Café Luna
For a February exhibit/happening at Café Luna about the Occupy Wall Street movement, Islander March Twisdale is seeking submissions from Islanders. Send your answers to the following question — “What do you want? Or, what do you want from the Occupy Movement?” — to Twisdale at marchpower@yahoo.com. The multimedia exhibition will also be home base for what is intended as a month-long experiential Occupy event. Twisdale hopes Islanders will step up to participate, and for inspiration, cited a 1963 quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Save the date to laugh
Guinness World Record holder Matt Baker, who has appeared in television’s “Last Comic Standing” and “America’s Got Talent,” will bring his “Curious Comedy Show” to Vashon Allied Arts’ Family Series at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Blue Heron. Baker’s act is appropriate for the whole family. Tickets cost $5 for kids, $10 for VAA members, students and seniors and $12 for everybody else. Buy them at the Blue Heron, Heron’s Nest, Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com.
A big UMO show is coming
Original UMO founding artists and new ensemble members will come together on stage for a one-night show, “Indra’s Web,” to be performed on Saturday, Jan. 28, at Open Space for Arts & Community. The evening will also include what UMO members are calling a “20-year, living UMO retrospective” that weaves in the work of UMO’s young student artists. For more information about the evening, visit www.umo.org.
Don’t miss ‘All Night Strut’
Save the date for Drama Dock’s new Youth Theatre Initiative show, “All Night Strut: A Jumpin’ Jivin’ Jam,” set to run Jan. 27 to 29 at Vashon High School. The music revue of songs and dances from the 1930s and 40s will feature a cast of almost 20 Island kids ages 11 to 18. Marita Ericksen has directed the show with assists from choreographer Elise Ericksen and dance captain Pam Hotchkiss. Tickets will go on sale soon at Island ticket outlets and will also be sold at the door.
