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Published 11:30 am Thursday, October 12, 2017
Rub a rabbit’s foot and avoid those ladders, Bainbridge. It’s Friday the 13th, after all, and you don’t want a spot of bad luck souring your whole weekend before it begins, right?
First, let’s get you through Friday.
It seems that maybe the best way to duck bad luck is with a bit of improv comedy? Laugh in the face of fate, says I. We’ll make our own luck round here.
To that end, the improv comedy group Imagined Reality will return to Rolling Bay Hall at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 for an evening of hilarious hijinks.
It is the group’s fourth show at the island venue, having been “coloring outside the lines” since 2016.
Tickets, $10 each, $7 for students, seniors and military members, are on sale. Visit www.brownpapertickets.com (event: irimprov8.bpt.me) to purchase, and www.irimprov.com to learn more.
Tickets will also be available at the door.
Saturday is packed with possibilities for those looking to get out and about — and it all starts with the most important meal of the day.
The Bainbridge Island Fire Department will host its 75th annual pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 14 at Sonoji Sakai Intermediate School (9343 Sportsman Club Road NE).
In addition to breakfast, Bainbridge’s finest will be serving up firetruck rides and equipment demonstrations.
A perennially popular island cultural calendar staple, the pancake breakfast has in years past seen crowds of nearly 2,000 people in attendance.
The cost per person is $8 for adults, $6 for kids and seniors, and anyone 5 years old or younger eats for free.
Visit the fire department on Facebook to learn more.
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The Bainbridge Public Library will host a grand open house to reveal the refreshed results of the facility’s recent renovation project from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
There will be a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon, and also a scavenger hunt highlighting the building’s new features and tours led by the project’s principal architects Kate Weiland and Matt Aalfs.
The total project cost was $1.3 million, according to library officials, with the funds coming from a number of sources, including the library’s own reserves, donations by the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island and Friends of the Library, the Bainbridge Community Foundation and Puget Sound Energy.
The new service desk furniture was paid for by the Kitsap Regional Library, which encompasses nine branches county-wide, as well as one bookmobile.
Some of the renovation’s main additions include new LED ceiling lighting and fresh paint throughout the library; new display cases in the foyer; media booths with ceiling-mounted speakers; and individual study booths with soundproof insulation. Also, several reading nooks and multi-use spaces have been added/expanded, as the project includeda reconfiguration of the children’s space downstairs.
Visit www.bainbridgepubliclibrary.org to learn more.
Later that same day, Space Craft will host a special doubleheader concert event.
Naomi Moon Siegel and Alex Pinto are set to share the Space Craft stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14.
Siegel’s poignant trombone playing is, many say, changing the way the trombone is heard and viewed. Fusing folk melodies with fantastical soundscapes and tight grooves, she performs her own style of indie folk/pop/jazz. Her music is introspective and celebratory, intimate and full.
In June 2016 she released her debut album, “Shoebox View,” which received widespread acclaim. It was dubbed as marvelous, captivating and seductive by press outlets such as Downbeat Magazine, Jazziz, and allaboutjazz.com.
She will be bringing to the Space Craft show her quintet, featuring Wayne Horvitz, Sean Woolstenhulme, Eric Eagle and Geoff Harper.
Pinto is a guitarist and composer based in Seattle. His music takes inspiration from his mixed heritage, tapping into his Indian and American roots. Pinto completed a Senior Nehru-Fulbright Grant in India 2014, where his work focused on the integration of South Indian Classical music concepts with modern jazz and Western improvisation.
Prior to living in India, Pinto was based in San Francisco, where he made music with Jeremy Rourke, Magic Fight, The Lawlands and Petejota, and launched SF Offside, a new jazz and creative music festival with Laura Maguire.
Pinto’s debut release “Inner State” and follow up EP “All India Permit” were loved, he said — by his mother. (His mom also reportedly really liked his 2016 full-length release “Parkside,” featuring Seattle’s Carmen Rothwell on bass and New York’s Shaun Lowecki on drums.)
Rolling Bay Hall is located at 10598 Northeast Valley Road. Tickets, $12 in advance, $15 at the door, can be purchased at www.spacecraftpresents.org.
Sunday’s fun day, as they say – and this weekend it’s dealer’s choice.
If you’re looking to embrace the creepy and the spooky, don’t forget that the annual Super Squash Scavenger Hunt is still going on Bloedel Reserve.
Peruse the pumpkins, scrutinize the squash and enjoy the wide variety of colors, shapes and textures of this Bloedel-propagated harvest. Children are given a special map to help find all the hidden squash around the grounds. The hunt goes on all month long across the grounds, and participation is included with the price of regular admission.
Check out www.bloedelreserve.org to learn more.
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