Kathy Larsdotter, a long-time Vashon potter, will exhibit her new paintings titled, “I See Home: Images from Vashon Island and Washington State,” at Café Luna.
Director of Dance at VCA Center for Dance Christine Juarez, right, instructs students in a rehearsal for the dance school’s spring performance of “Dancers at a Gathering” and “Cinderella.” It will be the inaugural dance performance in the Vashon Center for the Arts’ new Katherine L White Hall. Guest pianist, islander William Kirkpatrick, will play, on stage, Chopin selections to accompany the advanced students performing “Dancers at a Gathering,” a non-narrative ballet. The second half of the program will be Prokofiev’s “Cinderella,” with all new choreography — including ballet, modern and tap — by five Center for Dance faculty. The show opens on Friday, June 3 and runs through the weekend, with matinees on both Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are available at VCA, Heron’s Nest and vashoncenterforthearts.org.
Islanders Lois Watkins and Janie Starr have each lived on Vashon for just over a decade, but they only met a few months ago. They share a passion for activism and a love of writing, and they grew up in segregated America in the Southeast during the 1950s. But they could not have arrived on Vashon from two more different backgrounds. Watkins, black, and Starr, white, lived in vastly different worlds, and as they say, they came to their activism from flip sides of the race coin.
By SUSAN MCCABE
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By JULI GOETZ MORSER
By JULI GOETZ MORSER
Lois Watkins met Dr. Martin Luther King not once, but twice. Her sister went to school with the Little Rock Nine students. As a child, she could not drink water from the public fountain in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. Watkins, 72, grew up as a black child in segregated America.
It’s been seven years since Vashon High School’s theater arts produced a classic American musical for its spring performance. This weekend will interrupt that trend when students perform Cole Porter’s classic and popular musical, “Anything Goes.” The show opens Friday and will run for three weekends.
Since the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) gained notoriety through the 2014 movie, “Wild,” people have flocked to hike the PCT. Others have hiked the Appalachian Trail (AT) and some have hiked both, but few have achieved the pinnacle of hiking by also traversing the third and most difficult trail, the Continental Divide (CDT).
Three years ago, island singer-song-writer Sarah Christine had an intention to do more than dabble with her music. Last week, she released her new single, “We Are One,” realizing both her intention and a greater wish for her music to become a vehicle for good.
It’s been a year in the works, but when tickets for “Pagliacci Palooza” went on sale, the two performances slated for Friday and Sunday sold out in a flash. Fortunately, there are still tickets available for today’s dress rehearsal at 7 p.m. at Vashon Center for the Arts’ Katherine L White Hall.
The Poetry Well is a monthly column that showcases island poetry. This month includes a poem by former Vashon teen poet laureate Lily Robinthal.