Critically acclaimed New Orleans mantra musicians Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band will play at Orcas Mandala Yoga Studio…
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival is offering the spring 2010 “IM: In Music” Musician in Residence for Orcas Public School…
By MEREDITH M. GRIFFITH Staff Reporter It turns out there’s good reason to encourage melomania among the local youth. As…
Denise Wilk’s affinity for lighthouses is in her blood. It all began with her grandfather, who emigrated from Denmark to…
Sandy Thompson will lead this month’s Writer’s Roundtable on Saturday, March 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the library. The session is entitled “Let’s Make a Scene.”
Organizers say it will be fun and functional for any writer – with or without an interest in scripts. Thompson is a local writer, actor, and director who, with Doug Bechtel, co-created Orcas Island’s annual Ten-Minute Playfest. At the roundtable, attendees will walk through the process of setting up a scene, play with writing some lines/action, and see how the framework of staging can help with any kind of writing.
The sky is for sale at Winfred Taylor’s benefit art salon on Sunday, March 7. And maybe some barbecued ribs…
Salmonberry Elementary students delivered a handmade quilt to the Orcas Island Public Library on Feb. 12 for display in their…
Orcas Center will present the nationally acclaimed Dallas Brass on March 13 in a performance that will also feature more than 30 members of the Orcas Island Community Band as well as students from Orcas and San Juan Islands.
Founded in Dallas in 1983 by Michael Levine, Dallas Brass has become one of America’s foremost musical ensembles. With a repertoire that includes classical masterpieces, Dixieland, swing, Broadway, Hollywood and patriotic music, the Dallas Brass appears in solo engagements and with symphony orchestras nationwide. They have performed at Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center, have shared the stage with the late Bob Hope, and have performed for Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.
Rosedanie Cadet is currently in Haiti teaching sustainable farming and providing locals with means of food preservation. Orcas High School senior Taylor Diepenbrock and his dad Steve of Morningstar Farm on Orcas helped Cadet with her project. For more information, visit noramise.org.
If the students meet their goal, principal Kyle Freeman will spend a day on the roof of the school. Apparently that’s powerful motivation for elementary school kids.
“Orcas Island Elementary has been reading like crazy this February!” said reading specialist Susan Stolmeier. Each class set their own reading goal for the month, and the kids have been flipping pages with great enthusiasm. And if they meet their goals, Freeman’s on the rooftop.
Emily Reid has been collecting teapots since she was six years old, when she started drinking tea at her family’s…
Twice a year, an event just for women takes place at YMCA Camp Orkila. Women’s Wellness Weekends offer participants the…
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