Candlebox, the influential, multi-platinum rock band from the powerful ’90s Seattle music movement, returns to Little Creek Casino Resort with their sixth album, Disappearing in Airports, June 25 at 8 p.m. The new album showcases introspective and poetically candid songwriting with Candlebox’s signature musical immediacy. Watch for bestselling singles “Far Behind” and “You,” which earned …
Tuesday, July 5 marks the opening of South Puget Sound Community College’s 2016 Juried Exhibition, with opening reception and awards presentation July 7. The Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition is organized by the college’s gallery, located in the Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts. Artists who reside in Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, …
by Ned Hayes for OLY ARTS Capital City Pride Festival is June 15-17 in downtown Olympia, offering family-friendly events, live music throughout the weekend, a parade and a city-wide community gathering in celebration of gay, lesbian and transgender identity and solidarity. “The way that you respond to hate crimes is with love, and we have …
Olympia author Ned Hayes has published multiple novels. His most recent novel, The Eagle Tree, is his first published with a major publisher: Little A, in New York City. The Eagle Tree is an Olympia-focused novel. All the action takes place in Olympia, and scenes in the novel include experiences from LBA Woods, Procession of the Species, …
Capital City Pride Festival (June 17-19) in downtown Olympia carries on this year with a parade, family-friendly events, live music throughout the weekend, and a city-wide community gathering, as a celebration of gay, lesbian and transgender identity and solidarity. Capital City Pride festivities take place throughout the weekend. Pride weekend concludes with the annual pride parade …
Aigner Loren Wilson is a PNW writer originally from the Jersey Shore whose love of speculative fiction propels her through her everyday life. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has appeared in OLY ARTS, Terraform, Nightlight, and more. She is an associate editor and copy editor for the award-winning magazine Strange Horizons and horror podcast Nightlight, …
by Ned Hayes and Christian Carvajal for OLY ARTS OLYMPIA, Wash. — July 2016 COMPLETE PRESS RELEASE HERE (PDF) Attention, Olympia arts lovers! We’re thrilled to announce the debut of OLY ARTS, a brand-new publication devoted entirely to local and culture. OLY ARTS is an expert guide to live theater, music, visual arts and other performing arts in the Thurston …