Begin your special holiday season festivities with Islands’ A Cappella. The choir will be performing at Lopez Community Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday, Dec. 3, 4:30 p.m.
On Saturday, Nov. 19, Cohen, MFA, certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, presents the workshop “The Wisdom of Body Sensing,” 6 – 9 p.m., at the Heller Family Farm, 445 Paradise Rd. The fee is on a sliding scale $50 – $90
Q’we-ti, the trickster-hero of the Makah People, will paddle his magic canoe to Lopez Island on Thanksgiving weekend for the next performance in Northwest Puppet Center’s Lopez Season.
It’s that time of the years again… for the Lopez Cooperative Preschool’s Holiday Bazaar, held Saturday, Nov. 26, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the high school gym.
When Phyllis Potter bought the bookstore in 1987 she thought that it would be an expression of her love of literature and a good story, her education as a librarian, or even her connection to the Lopez community but didn’t know that it would ultimately, go to the dogs.
This is how Transition Fidalgo and Friends describes itself on its home page. Sponsored by the Islands Energy Coalition, Lopezians were treated to a discussion led by three women from this fledgling organization that grew out of Skagit Beat the Heat founded in 2006 to raise awareness of global climate change.
What did you eat for breakfast?
We think of sun, rain and soil being the basis of our food chain but the typical American diet is essentially dripping with oil.
According to University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture, an average of seven calories of fossil fuel is burned for every calorie of food we eat in the U.S.
On Nov. 1, the Rotary Club of San Juan Island presented Lopez Elementary third grade students with dictionaries designed especially for this grade level.
The Lopez Education Association, in partnership with the Lopez Public School Employees, and the Lopez School Board and Administration invite you to join them in a non-partisan “Day of Action” for Education. The Lopez “Day of Action” will be Nov. 28, which is the first day that the state legislature will be back in session to consider potentially drastic cuts to education. The event will also coincide with a statewide “Week of Action.”
Community Shakespeare Announces Fall Season The Community Shakespeare Company presents “The Laramie Project” at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts, Nov. 9-12.
A group of Lopezians want to glean your backyard fruit trees
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery in New York City will feature plein air artist, Steven R. Hill, in The Persistence of Form. The exhibition is scheduled to run from Nov. 2–23, 2011 (opening reception: Thurs., Nov. 3, 2011).
Keeping up with kiln-cast glass artist, Gerry Newcomb, becomes almost slapstick, running after him, notebook and recorder in hand, trying to catch (and eventually impart to the reader) just a fraction of his enthusiasm.