Calling all artists and crafters. La Conner Kiwanis will be hosting their annual Holiday Craft Show in conjunction with the Rotary Santa Breakfast Saturday, Dec. 2 in Maple Hall. The craft show will run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. It is a fundraiser to...

Make your way to the 2023 Rexville Grange Holiday Show starting with its opening party Thursday, Nov. 9, 5-8 p.m. It is time to find fine arts and crafts for gifts. The show is open this weekend and next, Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 18-19 at the Rexville...

The eleventh annual Friday Harbor Film Festival showed 25 feature and 14 short documentary films last week, Oct. 27-29. The volunteer staff and festival volunteers once again offered a well organized and smooth running experience, with screenings at...

Attend the Government & Resiliency Panel, part of the “Surge” exhibit, at the Museum of Northwest Art Nov. 4, 1 p.m.. The program is part of the education programming for the exhibition “Surge: Mapping Transition, Displacement, and Agency in Times...

The Theater Arts Guild’s production of “The Wizard of Oz,” opens Friday, Nov. 3 at the Lincoln theatre in Mount Vernon. This stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved tale features the iconic musical score from the MGM film. Watch as young Dorothy...

La Conner’s Art’s Alive! 2023 opens Friday, Nov 10.at 1 p.m. with the opening gala starting at 5 p.m. This year’s invitational artists include poster artist Craig J. Barber, Dennis Allen, Joan Enslin, Deborah Henderson, Kristen Ingman, Liz Moncr...

Admire the Judge’s Choice Best of the Festival art from the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum’s 2023 International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival held in Everett Oct. 6-8. The Best of Show winning piece and Awards of Excellence, Peo...

Ten Washington poets will read from “I Sing the Salmon Home” Saturday, 7 p.m. at Pelican Bay Books, 520 Commercial Avenue, Anacortes. Poets include Luther Allen, Jane Alynn, Ronda Broatch, Randy Dills, Georgia Johnson, Mary Lynn Lyke, Jory Mic...

The 2023 Friday Harbor Film Festival shows 25 feature films this Friday through Sunday in Friday Harbor. The Friday Nigh Gala honoring filmmakers. Deborah Giles will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as research director for Wild...

Sea level rise and its impacts to the Skagit will be discussed by scientists at the Museum of Northwest Art Saturday, Oct. 28, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Audience participation is encouraged as part of the “Surge” exhibit. Topics discussed include sea level ris...

The 2023 Friday Harbor Film Festival offers 25 feature films including notable award winners and nominees next week, Oct. 27-29 in Friday Harbor. Showings start Friday morning and the evening ends with the Friday Night Gala honoring filmmakers at...

Over ominous music playing in a darkened theatre a scream shrieks out. When the curtains open onto an early 1950s English inn’s sitting room, the news on the radio is of a murder of a woman in London. But that is hardly background noise even after t...

The Museum of Northwest Art’s permanent collection takes center stage in the exhibit “Re Building: Celebrating the Role of the Permanent Collection in Building Up MoNA’s Significance, Past and Present.” That mouthful of a title identifies the 40...

Atlanta, GA – The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. (HGA) announces its 2023 annual juried exhibit of small works: Small Expressions. Featuring 35 contemporary small-scale artworks by artists from 18 states and 2 countries, Small Expressions will t...

Roger Small’s opening for an ongoing exhibit of his paintings at La Conner Brewing Co. on First Street is 5-7 p.m. Aug. 23. He typically presents themes and images that define Skagit Valley and its people, painting landscapes in acrylics and oils. T...

Over his long career Dennis Lehane has authored a dozen books and produced an impressive body of work for films and television. I believe that his latest novel, “Small Mercies,” is his best effort yet. Like most of his other work, “Small Mercies” is...

The Skagit River Poetry Foundation invites anyone who wants to howl to “Make Me Wanna Holler” a free event Sunday in Pioneer Park, 2-7 p.m. at the amphitheater near the Rainbow Bridge in La Conner. Music will be provided by the acoustic blues ban...

The 62nd Anacortes Art Festival starts Aug. 4-6 on Commercial Avenue, stretching to the Port dock. Along the way are artist booths; music on main, jazz and waterfront stages; three beer and wine gardens; food trucks and vendors; a kids discovery...

By Ken Stern Two outstanding performances of two fantastical characters are sound reasons for blowing into the Rexville Blackrock Amphitheater to see Shakespeare Northwest’s production of “The Tempest.” It is not an island but the outdoor theat...

Like classic cars or classic boats? Hit the La Conner Chamber of Commerce’s 23rd Annual La Conner Classic Boat & Car Show at the La Conner Marina Aug. 5. Cars from almost all the decades of the past 100 years will fill the parking lot behind the S...

The quickest way to step out of your everyday world this summer? Get tickets, bring your lawn chair, blanket and jacket and get thee to “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Rexville Blackrock Amphitheatre. It opened Friday, half of Shakespeare Nor...