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Vashon Island Events: Vashon Poetry Festival ~ Vashon Island Real Estate
Starting on Thursday, May 21, and continuing through Memorial Day Weekend, Vashon Island’s first Poetry Festival will take places at venues across town at different venues. The Festival features poets from local, regional and international homes and is studded with events to appeal to everyone, including readings, workshops, music, an open mic for youth, a dinner, a reverie, and opportunities for Vashon residents to participate in public readings.
The event features Washington’s State Laureate Samuel Green, award-winning Irish poet Tony Curtis, and author and story-teller Michael Meade.
Performances include:
Young Poets Talk Back: 7 PM Thursday, May 21 at Cafe Luna. Free!
Knocking at the Gate: Ecstatic Poetry and Persian Music: featuring Michael Meaade, the Qadim Ensemble and Guests: 7 PM Friday, May 22 at “O”, 188870 103d Avenue SW. Tickets are $20 and available at the Vashon Bookshop, www.mosaicvoices.org. and at the door. Food and wine will be available.
Meade will present “Ancient Wisdom Tales.” The Qadim Ensemble will perform devotional music of the Middle East, including Arabic, Jewish, Turkish, Sufi, Greek and Morrocan music. Qadim had a tremendous performance last year at Cafe Luna and their return is welcomed and anticipated.
A Community Reading: 3:30 PM, Saturday May 23 at the Land Trust Building. Free admission. The event spotlights local and visiting poets.
Raising the Word in Song and Drink~ Irish Poetry and Song: 7 PM on Saturday May 23 at the Red Bicycle. Free admission. The event features Irish poet Tony Curtis, Washington ‘s poet laureate Samuel Green, renowned fiddle and guitar player Randal Bays and story-teller and mythologist Michael Meade.
Poet’s Feast ~ Readings and Conversations with the Poets: 6:30 PM Sunday May 24 at the Hardware Store Restaurant. Tickets are $10 at Books by the Way, Vashon Bookshop and Stranger than Fiction Books. Samuel Green and Tony Curtis preside.
Reverie for the Living and the Dead: 12:30 PM on Monday, May 25 at Ober Park. Free admission. The Poetry Fest will herald Memorial Day, led by Michael Meade. The reverie will begin at Ober Park and proceed to the Poetry Post at the Village Green.
WORKSHOPS
Emily’s Favorite Measure: 10 AM to Noon on Saturday, May 23 at the Heritage Museum. This workshop, led by Sanuek Green, explores Emily Dickinsons’s favorite prosaic formula, the “hymnal.”
We Have the Words, Now Let’s Make a Poem: 1 PM to 3 PM Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, at the Land Trust Building. Participants should bring pens, paper and courage.
Poetry is Not a Gated Community: 1 PM Saturday, May 23 at Vashon Library. This event is for teens, parents, grandparents and teachers. This is a free workshop and explores “permission to put stories and images on the page.”
The Art of the Daily: 10 AM to Noon, Sunday, May 24 at the Heritage Museum. Samuel Green focuses on the skill needed to concentrate on the intimate art of observation in the “every day.”
For Closet Poets and Poetry Readers: 1 – 3 PM on Sunday, May 24, at Vashon Library (still located at Ober Park!). Ann Spiers leads participants through examples and exercizes exploring how to read a poem, how poets write for readers and how a poem works.
Vashon Island Events: Cafe Luna Open Mic, First Friday Photography, Singer Tamara Lewis
Thursday, March 5th, 7:00 PM – Open Mic with David Ray!
Here’s an evening that’s all Vashon; your friends and neighbors showing off what this Island has plenty of: talent, music, and fun. Sign up for your spot at the mic, or just sit back and enjoy the entertainment. No pressure…. this is casual the way Luna does it best; be the entertainment or be entertained. Either way, this is always a great night at Luna.
Friday, March 6th, beginning at 6:00 PM
First Friday Artist Reception - “The I of the Beholder”
Photographer, Richard Waits
“All of my photography shows are really about beauty, whether they’re portraits, people’s hands, or old rusty cars in a junk yard. In this case, it’s the beauty of vibrant, middle-aged women. Everyone who posed for this show is in their 40s or 50s. You can’t go wrong if you open up and always trust your sense of beauty.”
Come because you’re just a little bit curious.
Stay because the photographs are really that gorgeous.
Saturday, March 7th, 7:30 PM – Tamara Lewis
Country, Folk, and Bluegrass
Tamara Lewis writes primarily in the traditional folk syle with contemporary influences. Tamara is engaging and memorable with a voice that is, at once
comforting, crystalline, and guileless. Still not convinced?
Tom Peterson, Victory Review
Wildy’s World
Vashon Island Event at Cafe Luna: Open Mic, Halloween in February, Ben Gilmer
Thursday, February 5th, 7 PM
Open Mic With David Ray
featuring Poets & Musicians from the Wilds of Bainbridge
Don’t miss this special evening when your talented friends and neighbors share their passion for music with the rest of us. And, this month, a group of poets who take their words to music will be there as well, performing at 8 PM. Wow!
Friday, February 6th, beginning at 6 PM
Halloween on Vashon!
An Artist Reception for Rebecca Douglas Join us for an evening of fun and Halloween 2008 nostalgia, as we remember and enjoy, as we peruse the fabulous photos taken of Island ghosts, ghouls, and imps taken by popular Islander photographer , Rebecca Douglas. This is going to be fun!
Saturday, February 7th, 7:30 PM — One of Go Vashon’s Favorites!!!
Ben Gilmer Back because folks keep asking us to bring him back!
Ben Gilmer will play Luna for the third time because none of us can get enough of him. Check out his website for some musical samples and see why everyone is clamoring for more!
“Juxtaposed, in one word, Phenomenal! Hailing from a region full of musical and family heritage, Ben Gilmer has tapped into the soul of Appalachia. Southwest Virginia is the birthplace of country music and of course, the resurgence of Americana flows through the veins of these hills without abandonment. When listening to Juxtaposed the spirit of these hills and the hardship and struggles that accompany life in Appalachia are brilliantly composed into an album that will enlighten your senses and provide a deeper understanding of those that choose to live in this beautiful mountain region. Juxtaposed is full of intelligent country, folk, and blues as if Ben tapped into the spirit of Robert Johnson and substituted the cotton fields of the south for the mining region of Appalachia. For fans of Darrell Scott, Guy Clark & Townes Van Zandt, you will find the same story-telling excellence & musical composition with Ben Gilmer’s Juxtaposed.”
-Bill Wright, WUVT Americana Director
Vashon Events: Halloween Poetry Reading
Halloween will be the theme of the next poetry open mic at Cafe Luna, at 7 pm Thursday October 16. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem or short story to read. The first part of the evening is reserved for school-aged writers so offers literary fun for the entire family!.
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