Friends of the San Juans has received competitive funding through the National Estuary Program to study threats to shoreline habitat, private property, and public infrastructure from rising sea levels and the cumulative impacts of shoreline modifications in San Juan County. The results of the study, which will include new erosion rates and sea level rise models and maps, as well as ways to reduce risk, will be applicable throughout Puget Sound.
Ginni Keith always loved music, she even majored in the oboe in college, but for 25 years music just evaporated from her life – she even sold all her instruments. But when she moved to Lopez everything changed. She joined the choir – and for the last 12 years she has immersed herself in sound, even adding a few instruments to her repertoire.
Attend the prospective vendor meeting being held at the Orcas Public Library Saturday, March 17 beginning at 1 p.m. and find out.
The exhibition, “Anna, Anna Skibska”, March 31-June 1, opens at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art with an evening reception March 31. Skibska, who describes herself as a visual storyteller, is creating site specific work for the Museum on “A” Street in Friday Harbor. She is separated from traditional glass blowers and flameworkers by her unorthodox method of heating, stretching and fusing glass to create forms which are largely comprised of space. The luminous qualities of glass threads, twisted and bent, define rhythmic, organic and architectural forms which appear to move with shifting light and shadow.
Genealogical research is getting easier and more accessible all the time since so many records are currently available online. It can, however, be hard to know where to begin. To simplify the process, Kathi Ciskowski is offering a two-session class at the Orcas Island Library called “Getting Started in Genealogy and Family History” on Monday, April 2 and Monday, April 9 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. The featured database will be Ancestry.com, which is free from inside the library. This database provides information ranging from state and federal censuses to immigration and naturalization records.
Join the Orcas Palettes and Orcas Senior Center on a chartered bus tour of the Gauguin and Polynesia exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum, Thursday, April 5. The trip will also include the “Colors of the Oasis” exhibit. The fee for the bus and museum is $39, and $36 for seniors. Ferry fare and lunch are separate.
The Orcas Garden Club is bringing Graham Kerr to the island for a Wednesday, March 21 discussion on edible gardening. After cooking just about everything under the sun during his career, Kerr realized he had never actually grown anything he cooked.
This year’s annual meeting for the Lopez Community Land Trust will feature keynote speaker Enek Hi Šak, a Chumash name meaning woman who is like the turtle, March 26, 7 p.m., at the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, and all are welcome.
This year marks the 7th Anniversary of the 10-Minute Play Fest and they are calling out to anyone and everyone who has ever dreamed of being on stage.
The Orcas Island Historical Museum will feature storytelling by Deer Harbor native Cal McLachlan on Sunday, March 18 at 3 p.m.
Born in 1926 on his family’s Pole Pass property, McLachlan worked in the Deer Harbor cannery as well as on fishing boats. Later, while in the service, he was aboard the last U.S. warship to be attacked in WWII. McLachlan taught at Anacortes Junior High School for more than 30 years and eventually became its principal.
Local writers Gretchen Wing of Lopez Island and Jill McCabe Johnson of Orcas Island are among the writers and artists featured in “SHARK REEF” Literary Magazine’s Winter edition, online now at sharkreef.org. Submissions to the issue came from all over the U.S. and from Europe and Asia.
At the tail end of March, Eastsound will be transformed into a scene straight out of the 1500s.
The Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce is hosting its first annual spring Shakespeare Festival complete with roaming street performers, music, performances by the Seattle Shakespeare Company and a lot of colorful, whimsical decorations.
With roots that stretch from the mists of the Pacific Northwest, across the sea to the British Isles, and now moving into the heartland of American music, Tiller’s Folly has tapped into something timelessly fresh and refreshingly sincere. They are the Pacific Northwest’s internationally traveled, virtuosic ambassadors of song.
