Second annual Silverdale Beach Hotel Luau brings the hundreds-dollar trip to the shores of Dyes Inlet, for a $55 ticket.
Sixty-year-old Winslow Gallery endowed with massive gift and
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, how many fairy tales can you hum? Starting Friday, Ovation! Musical Theatre brings “Into the Woods” to Bainbridge for a three-weekend run.
Berit Ringo drew a self-portrait in subdued charcoal, because, she said, that’s the way it’s usually done.
Everything else hanging in her show of monotypes at Grace Episcopal Church sings out in living color.
“I seek to celebrate life and hope,” Ringo says in her artist statement, “and am continually drawn to vivid, warm colors to affirm both – life and hope.”
It’s an exciting weekend up ahead for avid gardeners. The long-anticipated 20th anniversary Bainbridge in Bloom garden tour will be July 11 through 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. To celebrate the event’s longevity, they’ve rolled back ticket and event prices. More information can be found at the Bloom Web site, www.gardentour.info, or by calling the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council (BIAHC) at (206) 842-7901. Tickets are available at many of our local nurseries. The site also lists the locations for various food and refreshments interspersed at several locations this year.
There’s a certain amount of stigma attached to kids’ theater productions.
They tend to conjure up painful experiences of sitting through a bevy of off-key singing in a cutesy production of a show that you’ve seen 15 other times or perhaps the same show that you remember suffering through when you were a kid. Johnny is forgetting his lines, while the director has to go on stage to remind Sally it’s her cue to come on.
But this doesn’t seem to be the case for the Kids for Kids productions at CSTOCK, directed by Daniel Estes.
Lying reclined on a picnic blanket with my hands beneath my head, staring up past the treetops where the ambience of a grand piano meshed with the sunshine and singing birds in the afternoon sky, I knew I’d found a getaway.
Kitsap softcore: Vicci Martinez back at the Clearwater, Alligators in Bremerton, gypsy jazz at the Island Gallery.
For many, music is considered the great healer.
Sentimentally, listening to a comfortable collection of tunes can be a great stress reliever while breaking into song can sometimes even help to stave off depression. Experts suggest it’s the rhythm and beat which give music its soothing power.
The bandoneon may be a musical cousin to the accordion. But as Bertram Levy describes it, when Argentine Tango began to gel in the early 1900s, some felt the accordion was too happy for tango; it didn’t possess the necessary darkness.
A renowned musician who began in folk but has spent the better part of a decade devoted to tango, Levy will bring his Tangoheart quartet to Bainbridge next weekend, the first program in this year’s series of Bloedel Reserve summer concerts.
Linda Snyder once sat on a committee whose organizers wanted to hold standing meetings on Wednesday evenings during the summer.
The Bainbridge Public Library is more than just a meeting spot for July Fourth festivities; it’s also the site of some great story opportunities.
Fate takes aim
