Learn how to make beautiful designs on paper using sumi ink and water! Each attendee will learn the basics of sumi ink paper marbling and will get to take home at least one paper creation. Come prepared to get messy! Clothes might get wet or stained from the process. Ages 6-18 and their caregivers welcome.
Kids grades 3-6 are welcome to join us for a stop motion video hour! Using iPads and LEGO Bricks®, we will create short scenes and share them with other attendees. Space is limited and registration is required – if you’d like to join as a group working on one project together, only one person needs …
Come play games with us! Join virtually on Zoom, and play Tee K. O., Quiplash, and other great games! In order to play, you’ll usually need access to two screens – one (often a computer) as your main screen to access our Zoom, and one (often a smartphone) as your controller. Don’t have two screens? …
Come play games with us! Join virtually on Zoom, and play Tee K. O., Quiplash, and other great games! In order to play, you’ll usually need access to two screens – one (often a computer) as your main screen to access our Zoom, and one (often a smartphone) as your controller. Don’t have two screens? Use multiple …
by Jonah Barrett for OLY ARTS For those wanting to find an escape from mainstream media, zines provide a type of oasis. Olympia Zine Fest celebrates its third year this October, and everyone is invited. What are zines? They’re little, self-published pieces of literature, with topics ranging from short-story collections to activist manifestos to lists …
by Molly Gilmore for OLY ARTS If you want to see Monday’s total eclipse of the sun, you’ll have to head south and brave what the Oregon Department of Transportation is already calling “the biggest traffic event in Oregon history.” The eclipse will reach 94 percent here in Thurston County, meaning the moon will block …
by Molly Gilmore for OLY ARTS Pamela Rotner Sakamoto’s Midnight in Broad Daylight is the sweeping and true tale of a Japanese-American family divided, fighting on opposite sides in World War II and suffering tragedy when the United States bombed Hiroshima in 1941. “This is an American story of immigrants and somewhat like a Civil …
by Christina Butcher for OLY ARTS Few authors can boast having worked as a porter, jujitsu fighter, lawyer and translator in their short lifetime, nor can most say they’ve lived in such diverse places as Indonesia, Japan, Nepal or the Czech Republic. Throw in having written a bestselling fiction novel and you’ve narrowed it down …