This year marks the Centennial Year of The Washington State Parks system. The 100-plus members of “Plein Air Washington,” the state’s largest organized group of plein air artists, will be outdoors painting directly from nature, in good, bad and even ugly weather, at most of over 100 Washington State Parks.
Friends of the San Juans is partnering with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources to remove unnecessary toxic creosote-treated pilings and old structures from tidelands in San Juan County at no cost to interested landowners.
After almost six years as part-time Rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Parish of Orcas Island, Bishop Craig Anderson announced his retirement effective May 1.
The San Juan Islands Conservation District has its first workshop “Growing Great Grass” in the 2013 landowner workshops and events series taking place in Friday Harbor on April 19 and Orcas on April 20.
All you Orcas Island cider home brewers, it’s time to brew your best to beat Bob Vietzke, first place winner of the Cider Home Brew Competition at last year’s Cider and Mead Festival.
Mozart’s Requiem: the mysteries continue. Few musical compositions have aroused as much awe and sense of mystery as Mozart’s Requiem. One of the greatest and most controversial choral works of all time, the Requiem will be performed by the Orcas Choral Society for one performance only presented by Orcas Center on Sunday, April 21 at 2 p.m..
One day a year a group of Orcas Islanders gather to eat lunch and celebrate women in the community.
Beth Terry, author of “Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How you Can Too,” will give presentations and sign books on San Juan, Orcas, and Lopez Islands on April 26, 27, and 28.
Orcas High School’s leadership group Point Blank is a chapter of a national organization called SADD, Students Against Destructive Decisions. This group is dedicated to providing information that will inform, educate, support and empower students to make positive decisions in their future.
Orcas Center presents a “Write Your Own Music Workshop” with Carolyn Cruso, a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, composer, recording artist and educator and guest artists Ruthie Foster and Jim Bredouw. Cruso is pictured at right.
The Playwrights Festival was created to encourage local islanders to show off their talents and to challenge them to develop skills in writing, acting and directing.
If you have kept up with school music news for the past several months, then you know that the Orcas students are at the top of-their game, and representing our school well. They just added to that reputation with outstanding performances in Bellingham at the end of March.
The next Dinner Kitchen returns to the barbecue grill in celebration of spring. It features hamburgers, several varieties of hot dogs and other BBQ favorites.
