The “Auditioning and Prepared Reading” workshop for adults still has slots available.
The workshop is from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29 at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.
Students will work with professional actress and casting director Kate Godman as they learn how to make the best possible impression in a wide variety of audition situations.
The local singing group Slaphappy will sing at their annual benefit for Whidbey Children’s Theater on Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28.
While backing my sometime-later-to-be-paid-for truck up a hill today, I realized once again how much I enjoy backing up.
Not just remembering, mind you, or mind me, but the sheer joy of doing a good job backing up your vehicle, be it your car, your truck, your rig, your boat, your trailer or your riding mower.
After the Father’s Day column about digging geoducks with my Dad, I had several e-mails asking for more information about both digging and cooking ’ducks, as well as a few conversations with acquaintances also curious about ’duck digging.
They strive to be utterly ridiculous.
That’s what the four young gentlemen of South Whidbey who make up the a cappella group “Slaphappy” say about their stage show.
Matt Bell, Gabe Harshman, Mark Arand and Cameron Gray will sing quartet-style in a benefit for Whidbey Children’s Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28 on the Martha Murphy Mainstage.
In 40 years any number of things can happen to distract or change the course of a group.
Yet, that is how long the Greenbank Artists have been getting together faithfully to paint.
Art lovers will be able to browse and buy the work of the legendary group at the Greenbank Artists Art Show and Sale, June 27 through June 29 at Greenbank Farm.
It is the time of year when the island’s artists make their way out of the studio where they’ve been squirreled up for the winter months and show the fruits of their labors.
More than 120 Falcons left the nest on Saturday as South Whidbey High School held its 2008 commencement ceremony.
Belly fat; if you have it, you could be in for anything from diabetes to dementia to dysfunction. You know the dysfunction I’m talking about, the dreaded ED all those TV ads go on and on about.
Belly fat is the current hot health mania, and not just in this country.
Langley’s Ashingdon Manor bed-and-breakfast will become a Whidbey jazz venue when Langley author Molly Larson Cook and Portland, Ore. jazz guitarist John Stowell present “An Intimate Evening of Words and Jazz.” It will be based on Cook’s jazz novel, “Listen.”
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts announced this week it will hold general auditions for the 2008-’09 Theatre Series on Aug. 20–21.
The coming Theatre Series includes the plays “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler; “Inspector Carol,” by Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre; “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” by Tom Stoppard; “Rabbit Hole,” by David Lindsay-Abaire; and “Frankline and Figara,” by Kristina Sutherland.
The Rob Schouten Gallery has invited a bevy of talented “Whidbeyians” to perform an evening of poetry and song to celebrate the onset of summer.
“Midsummer Dream Night” will ring in the summer solstice from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 21 at the gallery located at Greenbank Farm.
I’ve been thinking a lot during the past few days about gifts I’d like to give my Dad for Father’s Day.
Most of all, however, I wish I could give my Dad the one thing I know would make him happier than anything else, the one thing that could bring back that gleam in his eye and make him forget that he’s old and feeble now.
I wish I had the power to give him back my Mom, Joetta, the love of his life for more than 70 years.
