Landscape paintings will be on display at Washington Federal Bank in Eastsound during the month of April.
Local artist Doug Bayley will be showing a series of landscape paintings of scenes on Orcas Island done over the last two years.
The Nature Conservancy and the San Juan Preservation Trust have announced the change in ownership of two iconic nature preserves on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington.
Community awareness party in the park, regarding the critical areas ordinance section on wetlands and buffers, will be Saturday, March 24, on the stage of the Orcas Village Green, 12 p.m. until dark. There will be an informal open dialogue, live music and a big grill, so bring something to throw in or a side dish to share.
The “Bard Gallery” opened to community fanfare on March 20 in the vacant space next to Office Cupboard. The shop, featuring local art both Shakespearean-themed and not, is part of Orcas Island Chamber’s Shakespeare Festival scheduled for March 30 and 31. It will be open until the end of April; hours are 1 to 4 p.m
Jill McCabe Johnson will present a “persona poetry workshop” in honor of national poetry month.
She will lead “The Poet’s Masquerade” on Saturday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Orcas Library. It will be followed by a poetry reading for the community from Johnson and other Orcas poets at 4 p.m. Both free events are sponsored by Friends of The Orcas Island Library. Register at the library by March 30.
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.
Mark your calendar Saturday, March 24, for the return of JP and Ok Rhythm Boys at Agave Restaurant in Eastsound.
Orcas Center and the Orcas Island Education Foundation applied for a grant from the Orcas Island Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) fund to create a theater piece in June. Both organizations said they are thrilled to be fully funded for the joint project entitled “The Butterfly Effect,” which is inspired by Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach. For more about “It Gets Better” vista www.itgetsbetter.org.
For those who are Irish, wish they were Irish, or are grateful they’re not Irish, Saturday, March 17 marks the 12th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Eastsound.
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.
