WEEKEND PREVIEW is your weekly guide to events in Thurston County. This week, we’ll help you decide which events to squeeze into your holiday-packed schedule, including bluegrass, folk music and cozy readings by local authors. Click here to listen to our podcast version of Weekend Preview, sponsored by Sandstone Distillery. Follow the links below for more …
by Christina Butcher for OLY ARTS When Olympia shoppers step from winter cold into the warmth of downtown’s new Papillon Marketplace, they’re met with colorful, Caribbean décor, Haitian music and artisanal goods including jewelry and other wearable items. The marketplace, Papillon Enterprise’s flagship storefront in the United States, sells handcrafted items from vendors in Haiti. …
by Christian Carvajal for OLY ARTS The earth rotates around its north-sound axis once each day, but that axis has a tilt of 23.5 degrees with respect to the sun. In other words, the earth leans about an eighth of a semicircle away from solar north at all times. Consequently, our Northern Hemisphere is aimed …
WEEKEND PREVIEW is your weekly guide to events in Thurston County. This week, there are more than enough winter readings and musical shows to keep you in the holiday spirit. And don’t forget to buy your tickets to The Nutcracker before it’s too late! You don’t want to miss out on this season’s show-stopping ballet …
by Christina Butcher for OLY ARTS What would the holiday season be if it didn’t include a bit of winter poetry, read under the warm glow of a lamp in a cozy room? The Olympia Poetry Network (OPN), a nonprofit organization with 25 years of history in the South Sound, invites community members to join …
THEATER REVIEW by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Once again Theater Artists Olympia (TAO) has taken a classic and updated it to make it, if not better than the original, then at least more enjoyable and laughable for contemporary audiences. Philip Wickstrom, Pug Bujeaud and the TAO collective have updated Molière’s 17th-century farce The Physician …
by Adam McKinney for OLY ARTS As the winter months descend on the world, the cold and darkness is met with a combination of reverie and revelry. Nights get quieter, and the solitude is countered with companionship. One lasting holiday tradition is the singing of Handel’s Messiah, an oratorio from the mid-18th century. Messiah‘s enduring …
WEEKEND PREVIEW is your weekly guide to events in Thurston County. This week, there are plenty of author readings and plays on Olympia’s many stages, not to mention the highly anticipated opening of the Nutcracker ballet. We hope you’re ready for a week full of holiday cheer and show-stopping performances. Click here to listen to our podcast …
by Guy Bergstrom for OLY ARTS The international hit Stomp—which first hit the London stage in 1991 and has been playing on Broadway since 1994—is coming to Olympia in January 2017. Creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas go back another decade to 1981. Cresswell is a self-taught drummer who left school at 15 for music. …
by Christina Butcher for OLY ARTS Local letterpress artists and authors Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring have taken an active role in keeping feminism strong in their new book, Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color. O’Leary and Spring will be celebrating their book at “Pressing Matters: Lacey,” an upcoming artist talk, pop-up show and …