tWatch it online and vote from home to help the film succeed.
The Blue Heron Gallery will host an art sale next week. Reminiscent of last year’s Archives Art Sale, which featured works by Island artists, this year’s sale offers works donated by passionate Island art collectors.
Vashon Island-based trio Track 19 has released its first CD. Take a big dose of rock and roll. Pour in some Texas blues, some Gypsy jazz and some Muscle Shoals R&B. Wash it down with a slammin’ drummer, a wildly inventive guitarist and an in-the-pocket bassist.
Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” will be performed by Blue Heron Dance Company on the Vashon High School stage at 7 p.m. Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18. Regarded as the composer’s finest ballet score, Blue Heron Dance Company first performed the three-act ballet in 1998.
This weekend, The Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association and Heritage Museum are launching an exhibition of works by Norman Stewart Edson, a photographer who made his home on Vashon from 1921 to 1968.
Vashon’s poetry scene is expanding and becoming richer; performance poets who revel in the Slam Poetry scene have claimed a night of their own. Slam Poetry will be performed First Thursday evenings at Café Luna, beginning this summer, and will debut at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, Thursday, May 15.
Why would a classic art-rock record released in 1973 have even a remote connection to a legendary 1939 Judy Garland film?
Sleeping Beauty ballet goes en pointe at Blue Heron Blue Heron Dance Company, comprised of 50 advanced dancers, will perform the “The Sleeping Beauty” ballet… Continue reading
The Spring Art Studio Tour, now in its 30th year, is on the first two weekends in May, from 10 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4, and, May 10 and 11.
t Bradfield, Hill and Dream bring their NW tour to Vashon.
Islander Pam Ingalls will offer an oil painting show called “Facing Jamaica” at The Hardware Store Restaurant as part of the Vashon Island Art Studio Tour starting May 3. The idea for the show came last year when she was painting portraits of Vashon Islanders.
Islander Ian Moore, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who’s been compared to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Roy Orbison, will take a break from his touring schedule to perform in his first Blue Heron concert, one night only, at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 5.
Backroads is coming out of the woods again for a First Friday performance at the Back Bay Inn from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, April 4.
Jack and Geri Peterson are offering their large collection of vintage original video release/movie posters as a way to generate some funds for Vashon Community Care Center (VCCC).
Erik Hoogen, known for his “Thank you for Shopping at Thriftway” mural done 10 years ago, is Cafe Luna’s featured artist for the month of April.
