The Vashon Sheepdog Classic drew more than just dogs and handlers to the annual event last August. A raft of photographers — Kim Farrell, Clara Kappelman, Julian White-Davis and others — also gathered to capture the trials. Their photographs will be on display at Café Luna
The Vashon Film Society and the Vashonistas, a collective of island clothing designers, will celebrate ageless style with a live fashion parade before a screening of the new documentary “Advanced Style” at 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Vashon Theatre.
Vashon Events will present its third annual showcase of local musicians this weekend. The theme — “Hits of the 60s Showcase” — will feature music from the 1960s beginning at 8 p.m. Friday at the Red Bike.
Snapdragon will host an evening of free music with Greg Dember from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
While Halloween draws out the spooks and witches, the Vashon-born band Trolls Cottage brings out islanders who love to dance to the band’s blend of reggae, rock and world music.
Songwriter and musician Bill Carter will return to the Red Bike for a show at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
In the first of two island appearances coming up, Caspar Babypants — a Vashon family favorite — will perform at the Blue Heron as part of Vashon Allied Arts’ Family Series at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Strings are the thing at the Vashon Maury Chamber Orchestra’s (VMCO) fall concert, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Vashon High School theater.
Let Seattle gardener and author Marty Wingate take you on a tour of England, Scotland and Ireland with tales of the gardens and gardeners who inspired her new Potting Shed mysteries at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at the Vashon Library.
Giraffe will celebrate its eighth anniversary and the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos with a gallery opening of Day of the Dead artwork by Gregory Reyes-Herbold at 4 p.m. Sunday.
Seattle’s first lady of comedy Peggy Platt will headline the DoVE Project’s second annual comedy night “Laughter is the Best Medicine” at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
The novelist Salman Rushdie once said a poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
The Vashon Theatre and Island GreenTech will bring Sir Laurence Olivier’s 1948 film adaptation of “Hamlet” to the silver screen for a free showing at 7 p.m. Saturday. The movie was the first British film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.