The first true weekend of fall is here, Bainbridge. And with it comes a full 48 hours of fun.
First of all — it’s First Friday, people!
The monthly art walk begins again, from 6 to 8 p.m., and boasts a bevy of beautiful venues and participants.
For a complete list, visit www.bainbridgedowntown.org.
Major traffic revisions will be in place in the Winslow area Saturday, Oct. 6 during the Open Streets Festival, the local iteration of a free nationwide event designed to encourage communities to explore safe pedestrian infrastructure options and discuss bike lanes, trails and paths.
The traffic revisions, which include reducing several downtown streets to one-way traffic only, are expected to last most of the day, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event is primarily organized by the Bainbridge Mobility Alliance, a group “dedicated to improving conditions and opportunities for walking and biking on Bainbridge Island.”
People can walk, bike, and/or roll along a loop between Bainbridge High School and Waterfront Park Saturday. Self-guided tours are slated to take place along the event routes from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., in addition to a slew of other offerings, including a presentation by keynote speakers Fran Korten, Christian Ford and Naomi Spinak from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Bainbridge High School Commons that’s titled, “Building the Cycling City.’
Visit www.walkbikebainbridge.com for more information.
Supertramp lead guitarist Carl Verheyen reportedly blew fans away last time he played Lynwood’s central stage, and he’s now slated to return to the Treehouse Café at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6.
Tickets for this 21-and-older show are on sale now ($35 for reserved seating) at www.treehousebainbridge.com.
Recently returned from a successful European tour — and recognized as “One of the World’s Top 10 Guitarists” by Guitar Magazine and “One of the Top 100 Guitarists of All Time” by Classic Rock magazine — Verheyen brings a stunning mix of blues, rock, jazz and even country with world-class musicians John Mader on drums, Dave Marotta on bass and Tom Kellock on keyboards.
Two Bainbridge-based poets will read at Eagle Harbor Book Company at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7.
Michelle Bombardier will present her new book, “What We Do,” and David Stallings will read from his new book, “Risking Delight.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Bombardier is a Northwest poet whose work has appeared in many literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Poetry International Online, Bellevue Literary Review, Floating Bridge, Artemis, The Examined Life Journal and others.
In this, her first collection, Bombardier considers faith, illness, death, and above all, human connection. With humor and compassion she shows us her own family, but also patients, students, strangers. “What We Do” is a call to empathy, an invitation to listen for what lies underneath. The people inhabiting these poems come to life through such rich, loving detail they all sound like family.
According to author Jenifer Browne, “In David Stallings’s ‘Risking Delight,’ the poet confesses, ‘I do not know if I am supposed to be here,’ a contemplation that infiltrates the spare, intimate poems in this collection. Guided by water, by breath, by dog, child, or Buddha, the poems reveal ‘those dragons who fought to a stalemate above this place and now grieve alone in wintry caves.’
“The speaker meditates on birth and death, love, and loss, through a lens of passionate observation. Stallings’s poems offer the reader ‘plenty of good fortune, like this small, unplanned loft where you and I will sleep.’
Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more.
First Sundays Concerts presents the Volta Piano Trio at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 at Waterfront Park Community Center.
Volta Piano Trio — formally called the Icicle Creek Piano Trio — is comprised of Jennifer Caine Provine on violin, Sally Singer Tuttle on cello and Oxana Ejokinaon, piano.
The trio will be performing works by Hadyn, Schubert and Shostakovich.
Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com.
For more information go to www.firstsundaysconcerts.org.
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