WEEKEND PREVIEW is your weekly guide to events in Thurston County. This week, we’ll fill you in on all the live storytelling, toe-tapping music and student-led performances happening around town. Join Olympia’s arts and culture community and start the new year off with a bang.
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Follow the links below for more information on each event.
NEW EVENTS
Music
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Lose yourself in the music of the Grammy-nominated band, The Time Jumpers, at The Washington Center.
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Books and Words
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Wax poetic at Olympia Poetry Network’s Clemens Starck poetry reading at Traditions Café and World Folk Art.
Delight in improv-storytelling at The Heartsparkle Players’ Stories of Food: Growing It, Eating It, Sharing It at Traditions Café and World Folk Art.
Hang on the words of Olympia’s many storytellers at StoryOly at Rhythm & Rye. This month’s theme is “Second Wind.”
Merge your love of poetry and visual art at “Van Gogh Café” at Pioneer Elementary School. A small gathering of students and teachers invite the public to enjoy poetry and art they’ve created in honor of Vincent van Gogh.
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Other Events
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Let yourself be swept away by The Illuminated Ball, a fundraiser for Olympia’s Procession of the Species, at the Eagles Ballroom. This event includes live music by Blind Facsimile, a pageant performance by Radco and aerialists and a silent auction.
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CONTINUING EVENTS
Theater
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Revisit one of Steinbeck’s classic stories at Capital Productions’ Of Mice and Men at Capital High School.[/lgc_column]
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