Jazz Canvas – Fusion of the Arts combines jazz music and a painter who begins and ends a large work of art in response to the music. The artwork will be raffled off at the end of the show. The performance is at 7 p.m. tonight. Tickets are $20 per person.
Bainbridge Island Farmers’ Market
Spotlight on PAWS:
The 2011 Spotlight on PAWS Benefit Dinner and Auction is from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sept. 10 at Wing Point Country Club, where former Evening Magazine host John Curley will emcee and act as auctioneer.
Tickets are $125 each includes dinner and available at www.pawsbainbridge.org.
The Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park and Recreation District’s fall catalog, mailed to residents in August, offers introductory classes and trips for mountain biking, backpacking, fly fishing, astronomy, beach naturalist exploration, sailing, kayaking, scuba diving, foraging/plant medicine, wine harvesting.
A new Twist
Bainbridge actor Tim Tully presents “Dickens Reading Dickens,” a re-enactment of Charles Dickens’ reading tours at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art at SR-305 and Winslow Way. Tickets are $10.
For more information, search Dickens Reading Dickens on Facebook.
Laugh loudly
Peter Hasson of Indianola performs a one-man show, “Life is a Sacred Joke, Laugh Loudly” from 8-9:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, in the auditorium of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
Open to the public, tickets are $10 at the door.
Steve Stolee will introduce the show and facilitate a post-performance discussion.
Jacobrown has invited the girls to participate in the formal blessing ceremony at 2 p.m. Aug. 13. Members of the Suquamish tribe and Kwakwak’wakw First Nation in British Columbia will be attending. The girls will participate, along with other island youth, with the giant beach plastic Sea Monster to be constructed from plastic beach debris at KiDiMu next week.
The church that Jaco and Barbara ten Hove co-minister doesn’t have a door. It doesn’t have any windows or a roof either. In fact, Cedar Unitarian Universalist Church doesn’t have an actual building, but the ten Hoves see that as a good thing.
It was pouring rain the day Susan Jackson rolled into town in 2002. She and her friend P.C. Harper took a wrong turn on Sportsman Club Road and ended up circling Eagledale for quite some time. They never quite made it to downtown.
One of the island’s newest nonprofits, Kids in Concert, combines music training with improv in a holistic approach.
When homeschooling moms, Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller, took their broods to the beach in early 2010, they stumbled on plastic debris washed up on shore. Once they started looking, tiny balls of styrofoam and bits of plastic in every color and shape imaginable seemed to be everywhere.
summer bonfire events at Fay Bay
Water Magic: 8-9:30 p.m. tonight, July 22 at Fay Bainbridge Park.
Moon Magic: 7:30-9 p.m. Aug. 12 at Fay Bainbridge Park.
For more information, visit www.biparks.org
Adorable goats used for natural vegetation management.
