The Seventh Annual Friday Harbor Film Festival just finished. It gets better as it grows, and it was pretty good last year.

That was last week. Next week the 35th annual Art’s Alive opens with a reception Friday at Maple Hall. You are invited.

The planners behind Art’s Alive, the Town of La Conner’s Art Commission, chose the theme “Celebrating Skagit Valley’s Art Legacy” to connect back to the early days of Art’s Alive, when venues up and down First Street hosted art. In those first decades community volunteers planned, hosted, executed, cleaned up after and celebrated their t...