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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: The Blue Heron Presents Oni Buchanan ~ Vashon Island Real Estate
This weekend at the Blue Heron:
Saturday April 25 at 8 PM
ONI BUCHANAN
Poetry & Piano
ONI BUCHANAN is a young American pianist who focuses her virtuosity and inventiveness on creating and bringing to life themed concerts full of originality, curiosity, vitality, and a wide range of amazing piano works. Ms. Buchanan’s concerts have been described as “mesmerizing,” “insightful,” “exciting,” “inspiring,” and full of “flair, abandon, and color,” and her audiences have felt “transported,” “connected,” and “awed.” She has performed solo recitals throughout the U.S. and abroad, at such venues as the Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Municipal (IBAM) in Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, the University of Guelph as well as Conrad Grebel University College in Ontario, CANADA, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Harvard University Hall Concert Series, among many others. Ms. Buchanan has been a guest soloist on many occasions, including performances for the Harvard Arts First festivals, the Harvard Music Department’s Composer Colloquium series, the Cicada Festival Emerging Artists Recital (Mount Gretna, PA), and as the guest concerto soloist with the Waynesboro Orchestra (Waynesboro, VA), conducted by Eric Stassen. In addition, Ms. Buchanan has given ensemble performances in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Harvard University, and at the New School of Music in Cambridge, MA.
She will also teach a poetry class On Sunday, April 26. Call for more information, 206.463.5131.
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Vashon Island Events: Music at Back Bay Inn, Western Fun, Drumming Circle, Ballet Auditions
On Friday, January 23, from 6-9 PM Vashon Island’s Backbay Inn and Quartermaster Pub will host an encore benefit event for Vashon Island’s Wolftown. This weekend The Trio A Propos will play and there will be a showing of works by Wolftown Artists. Trio À Propos is a Seattle based band that plays music primarily from the musically golden mid section of the 20th century. Our repertoire is a mix of Bal Musette, American swing, French chanson and the music of the great Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.Reservations are encouraged for dinner. For more information call 465-5355.
Vashon Island Western Storytelling and Singing – On Saturday, January 24, at 11 AM, Books by the Way sponsors an event for kids. One little cowpoke will win a gift certificate to VI Horse Supply. Call 463-2696 for more information.
Vashon Island Drumming Circle – A community drumming circle will be held at the Common House at Vashon Co-Housing, 10421 SW Bank Road from 1 – 3. The event will be lead by Geoff Johns of RhythmJoy. All ages and ability levels are welcome. A $5 donation is suggested but no one will be turned away. Bring your drums and percussion instruments or Geoff will have drums available to borrow.
Vashon Junior Civic Ballet will perform Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake ballet in May, and auditions will be held from 1:30 to 3 PM on Saturday, January 24 in the Ober Park performance room. There are parts for dancers 3 and older and no experience in necessary.
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Coming Events on Vashon Island…
The Vashon Computer Club will meet tat the Senior Center at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, January 14th. The focus for the session will be on image sizing and how to handle various images for emailing, printing and so forth. Admission: FREE
Grief Support group forming… if you’re coping with a death and need support in your journey, a grief specialist from the Providence Hospice of Seatle will offer a six week session from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday evenings starting on January 7th. The meetings are located at the JG Commons complex. For more information or to register call Jane Fleming at 206.749.7704
Want to write or illustrate children’s books? Books By The Way invites authors and artists to meet on Thursday, January 8th at 7 p.m. For details call 463.5255
“The Sound of Human Longing: Field Notes for an Environmental Ethic of Care” will be the topic of a public speach given by naturalist and writer Kathleen Moore on Tuesday Jan. 13th at 7 pm at the United Methodist Church.
Vashon Island Great Books Discussion Group: The Road to Serfdom
The Vashon Island Great Books Discussion Group will discuss Planning and Democracy from “The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich Hayek. The discussion will be held on January 5 at the Vashon Library at 7 pm. All are welcome. For more information call 463-2069.
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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