A pair of performances at the Treehouse bookend the goings on this weekend. But whether you’re looking for fun on the stage, page or in the great outdoors, there’s some to be found on Bainbridge in the coming days.
First, the final productions of the Bainbridge Performing Arts’ Theatre School Teen Lab program, who will stage two one-act plays, very different stories dealing with equally timely topics.
In “Selfie,” written by Bradley Hayward and directed for BPA by Ann Wilkinson Ellis, it’s senior year and problems are mounting for a group of high school students as they prepare for the future. “Lockdown,” written by Douglas Craven and directed by Pete Benson, BPA’s Director of Education, takes place entirely in a darkened classroom where eight students are huddled during the titular terror, not knowing if it’s just a drill or an actual emergency.
The shows will be presented as separate complimentary shows at different times. “Selfie” will be staged at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26; and 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27. “Lockdown” will be staged at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 27; and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
Tickets, $10 each ($5 with qualified discount status) are available here.
Read the full feature story about the production here.
Also happening Friday, Seattle singer-songwriter Alex Dunn, backed by a band, will perform at the Treehouse Café at 8 p.m.
Tickets, $15 per person, are on sale; admission is 21-and-older only.
Dunn carries on the storied tradition of making songs inspired by working in lonely places. Penned primarily in the few quiet moments on a fishing vessel in Alaska, his debut album “Scattered Poems” is full of — what else? — love songs.
On Saturday, Montessori Country School will host their second Islander Earth Day Festival from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public. Montessori Country School is located at 10994 Arrow Point Drive, but guests are asked to park at the nearby Battle Point Park lot.
Festivities will include live musical performances by the Olympic Girls Choir, the MCS Earth Day Singers and Anya Flanagan; eco-friendly and upcycled crafts and activities; a plant sale; a raffle; free bicycle tune-ups (don’t forget your bike); smoothies and vittles from Kurdish Kitchen Food Truck for sale; and more.
There will also be a spring cleaning Earth Day swap. Bring your used toys, books, coats and boots and swap them for something “new.”
Later on Saturday, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art will host a special guest to talk superheroes.
T. Andrew Wahl is a journalist, editor and comic book historian. He’s a lifelong aficionado of the medium, and actually studied comic books as a part of his master of arts degree in the humanities at Fort Hays State University. He currently teaches journalism at Everett Community College, when he’s not traveling as a Humanities Washington speaker to talk about his true love.
He is going to visit the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art as part of the ongoing Momentum Festival offerings at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 27 to give an interactive presentation, “Four-Color Reality: How Comic Books and the Real World Shape Each Other,” exploring how everything from social movements to business concerns to changing demographics have shaped the reality seen in the pages of comics — and how those seemingly simple superhero stories have changed the real world in turn.
Admission is free with RSVP; visit www.biartmuseum.org to learn more and reserve a ticket.
Additionally,
Island Theatre will present a staged reading of the two-person dramatic play “Annapurna,” written by Sharr White, at the Bainbridge Public Library at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28.
Performances are free, with donations welcome.
In this taut and moving play, a long-separated couple reconnect and revisit their tangled past.
Twenty years ago, Emma left Ulysses, taking their 5-year old son. They have not communicated since. When Emma shows up unexpectedly at Ulysses’ squalid, man cave of a trailer, their past, their long-simmering secrets and love, and their own consuming needs in the present make for a fiery — if often humorous — combination.
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