There’s still one month of summer left, and what better place to spend it than sailing through the San Juan Islands?
Sound Experience operates the schooner “Adventuress” and is offering day and overnight sailing trips out of Friday Harbor until the end of August.
Doug Bechtel and the Actors Theatre of Orcas Island have cooked up another summer treat for us with ‘Getting Along Famously’, Michael Jacobs’ nutty play about a successful author unhappy with his success.
Pilots, friends and young aviation aficionados enjoyed the Orcas Fly In last weekend. Dozens of gleaming aircraft wowed a steady stream of visitors, who enjoyed food, company and artwork by island artist Frank Loudin. Watch for a slide show to come.
Thirteenth annual Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival is Aug.12-28.
Gleaming metal “birds” of various feather will flock together at the Port of Orcas next weekend, July 30 – August 1 for the 26th annual Orcas Fly In. It’s a time for pilots and friends to throttle back and set their wheels down easy: bogeys and bandits are not invited, and the area’s most notorious airplane thief is safely behind bars.
The weekend is a meeting of old friends and new.
Local residents hired to help with BP oil spill search and rescue.
Merrymakers gathered once again to share live indie music, make crafts and enjoy food together at the 12th annual Woodsong Arts and Music Festival.
Waiting at the Anacortes ferry terminal for five hours, the Coats found something constructive to do: they fine tuned a spot-on vocal imitation of bagpipes, composing a new song they called, “Get There Earlier Next Time”.
The brief tune inspired raucous mirth at Orcas Center on Sunday night, and the crowd drove home with faces aching from laughing so hard.
Opening with a reception on Friday, Aug. 6, Orcas Center lobby will see the culmination of more than 50 years of Frank Loudin’s imagination and artistic talents.
“From a sexy redhead to rusty pick-ups and weathered barns to miniature waterfalls with hidden fairy castles to aerobatic biplanes, Frank’s work leads you through a world of insatiable observation and cultivated imagination,” say organizers.
Susan Slapin will show art at Islanders Bank through the month of August. “SPECTRUM” features a sampling of paintings, photography and printmaking, originals and prints. For studio information, call 376-8855 or see www.susanslapin.com.
The noon Brown Bag Concert at Emmanuel Church on Wednesday, August 4, will feature the music of the Five Bells Brass Quintet.
Players include Tom Jeffries and Ginni Keith on trumpet and flugelhorn; Bruce Kelly on horn; Molly Johnson on trombone; and Dimitri Stankevich on tuba.
A two-part film series with commentary entitled “Jung and the Cinema” will be offered at the Orcas Senior Center during the first week in August.
Each evening will include a film screening, followed by class discussion “focusing on the various archetypal images which may be symbolically portrayed” in each film, organizers say.
Carl Allen will present his Musical Journey Stories program Friday, July 30, 7:30 p.m. at the Senior Center.
Carl has delighted Orcas audiences in the past as half of the folk duo The Wanderers, and once solo as his Woody Guthrie persona. This time he will present a program of traveling songs that he has put together for the various Journey Stories museum locations.