Once again, the force of the Whidbey community is stepping up to help one of its own.
Keith Holt of Langley has been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases that affect the bone marrow and blood.
Holt is scheduled to receive a bone marrow transplant at the University of Washington Medical Center on Thursday, July 17.
Entertainment should be no problem this weekend as Choochokam Arts gathers its stars for two full days of summer delights.
It came to her in a dream, and now it’s her main pursuit.
Island movie lovers can make history this weekend by attending the very first short film festival at Choochokam.
It’s a bit of Americana at its best.
While some kids start the early summer days testing the waters with their toes before that first swim in the surf, other island kids are busy wrapping the blistered toes of their well-trained feet.
Whatever her dreams, every dancer knows those dreams will never come to fruition without hours and hours of deep practice. And a pair of ravaged feet become symbols of her certain dedication.
There is, on Whidbey, a contingent of fleet-footed girls who keep that dream alive and dance every day during the concert season at the Whidbey Island Dance Theatre.
Tickets are now on sale for DjangoFest Northwest, Whidbey Island’s signature festival that brings gypsy jazz performers to Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.
WICA announced the performers who will attend this year’s event this week. The festival attracts gypsy jazz fans from across the globe, and many performances typically sell out well in advance.
In its native Sanskrit, the word “Dharma” is literally translated as that which holds up or supports.
In the world of eastern philosophy, Dharma as a central concept is meant to guide a person to do the right thing; to accept a higher truth that is revealed in the laws of the universe.
The “Dharmic Engineers” were a group of Northwest artists who met to find not only the spiritual truth in their painting, but combined it with the practical supportive side of collaboration that helped to “hold each other up” in the true sense of what engineers are meant to do.
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.
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.
Caitlin Kinnunen, a 16-year-old from Island County, is off to New York, N.Y. to begin rehearsals for her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-Winning new musical “Spring Awakening.”
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.