Methow Valley representatives Leki Albright, a junior at Liberty Bell High School, and Independent Learning Center senior Glacier Gilbert performed well at the Eastern Regional Poetry Out Loud competition in Spokane last week, but did not advance to the state finals. Albright and Gilbert were among eight students who recited poems before a panel of […]
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Arts Briefs: Photo club, OVOC variety show, Actors needed
Photo club The Methow Valley Photography Club meets Thursday (Feb. 9) at 7 p.m. in the meeting room at TwispWorks, Building A. Visitors are welcome. For information, email christineintwisp@gmail.com OVOC variety show There will be music for all tastes — everything from Americana and acoustic guitar to swing, original rock, brass band, baroque flute and […]
Winthrop Mountain Sports founder publishes kids’ book
Winthrop educator, entrepreneur and ski coach Linda Kimbrell has collaborated with her sister Sue Perry to publish a new children’s book, “The Adventures of BB, the Wonder Pony” — a tale written from the perspective of a competitive Connemara pony named Bantry Bay’s Erin, or BB for short. The book is published by Winthrop-based Methow […]
‘Fifth Season’ photos move to Twisp Civic Building
The photography installation “The Fifth Season,” which was on display in the Winthrop library until recently, will soon have a new home: the Twisp Civic Building. The Twisp Town Council endorsed a request by Liz Walker, Executive Director of Clean Air Methow, to install the seven life-size photographs featuring community members talking about their experiences […]
Arts Briefs: Second City HEADED FOR BARN, R&B Festival tickets, Ecstatic Dance
Second City HEADED FOR BARN Methow Arts presents the legendary Second City comedy troupe in an adults-only performance, “Second City Swipes Right: an Incomplete guide to the Ultimate Date Night,” on Feb. 11 at the Winthrop Barn. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.methowarts.org/category/events to buy tickets for what will likely be a sold-out […]
OVOC presents eclectic musical variety show Feb. 11
There will be music for all tastes — everything from Americana and acoustic guitar to swing, original rock, brass band, baroque flute and worship music — next Saturday (Feb. 11) when the Okanogan Valley Orchestra & Chorus host a musical variety show. A dozen acts will share their talents. Karen & Gil will bring their […]
Readers Theater seeks actors for ‘Lifespan of a Fact’
The Merc Playhouse is looking for three cast members for its Readers Theater production of “The Lifespan of a Fact,” which will open in mid-April. “The Lifespan of a Fact” is a stage adaption of a nonfiction book of the same title co-written by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, which followed the real-life fact-checking process […]
Arts Briefs: An artist’s dialog with climate change, Stafford poetry reading, Second City on its way
An artist’s dialog with climate change Local artist Perri Lynch Howard will share images and sounds from her expedition above the 78th parallel —sailing the coast of Svalbard on a barquentine tall ship with an international group of artists, scientists, and journalists through The Arctic Circle Residency Program— in a presentation on Thursday (Jan. 26) […]
Arts Briefs: Stafford poetry reading, Second City on its way, Live music in the valley
Stafford poetry reading Celebrate the life and work of William Stafford at the seventh-annual William Stafford Birthday Reading on Sunday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at The Confluence: Art in Twisp. The event features Holocaust and genocide scholar John K. Roth as guest speaker. Featured readers include members of the Confluence Poets. The reading is […]
‘Hiraeth’ invokes ancient connections at The Confluence exhibit
Have you felt nostalgia for ancient places? A deep longing or even homesickness for a home which perhaps was never yours? Then you’ve felt hiraeth (here-eyeth). Hiraeth (Welsh) is “the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It is in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. […]
