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Wednesday Afternoon Performance Dinosaur Detective Show Wednesday, July 22nd 1:30pm - 2:15pm Experience the Dinosaur Dig Show—a dynamic theatrical event that masterfully blends humor, intrigue, and interactive audience participation for an unforgettable, fast-paced performance. Brought to you by Bridge City Theatre of Vancouver, WA. Wednesday Afternoon Performances are free, offered to all ages, and held outdoors at the FHES Outdoor Play Shed. The Outdoor Play Shed is a covered area behind the elementary school. There is access to parking, restrooms, and water fountains. Please bring chairs and blankets for seating. Showtimes begin at 1:30 PM and last approximately 45 minutes. Funding is provided by Friends of the San Juan Island Library as part of the Library's Annual Summer Reading Program. No prior registration is required to attend a Wednesday Afternoon Performance. Simply drop in and enjoy the show! |
The Wild Side with Salish Wildlife Rescue Thursday, July 23rd 6:00pm - 8:00pm Join us for a special presentation by Salish Wildlife Rescue (formerly Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center) about a day in the life of a wildlife rehabber! Learn more about the important work they do for the animals who share our home. Wolf Hollow is a non-profit organization located on San Juan Island in Northwest Washington State. We serve all “true islands” including all of San Juan County, Island County, and Fidalgo. Our mission is to promote the well-being of wildlife and their habitats through rehabilitation of injured and orphaned wildlife, public education and non-invasive research. |
Poetry Workshop with IVLC Tuesdays until September 8th 6:00pm-7:30pm These writing workshops will be a series of sessions focused on craft, style, and recitation/performance, with an emphasis on community engagement. As part of the program, we're seeking the first Poet Laureates of the San Juan Archipelago and we hope these initial writing circles and open mics will help generate interest and participation. Presented by the Island Verse Literary Collective. Programming supported by Cultural Access San Juans. |
False Bay Tidal Walk with Drew Harvell Tuesday, July 28th 9:00am-10:30am Join marine ecologist and islander, Drew Harvell, for a guided walk around False Bay Marine Preserve during low tide! This program is part of the 2026 Summer Reading Program: Unearth a Story. |
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by Namwali Serpell Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, she is our only truly canonical black, female writer-and her work is highly complex. In On Morrison, Serpell brings her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and professor who teaches a course on Morrison to illuminate her masterful experiments with literary form. This is Morrison as you've never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre-her fiction and criticism, as well as her lesser-known dramatic works and poetry-with contextual guidance, archival discoveries, and original close readings. At once accessible and uncompromisingly rigorous, On Morrison is a primer not only on how to read one of the most significant American authors of all time, but also on how to read great works of literature in general. This dialogue on the page between two black women artist-readers is stylish, edifying, and thrilling in its scope and intelligence. |
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by Megan O'Grady A vital testament to how art makes us who we are--and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be alive. Testing that claim, How It Feels to Be Alive braids criticism with personal narrative to consider art's intimate effects and how it might help us find clarity in an uncertain world. Looking closely at five artworks and the context in which each was made--often drawing on personal conversations with the artists--O'Grady examines the work's rippling impact, implicating sometimes unexpected lineages and genres. How does art expand and redirect our imaginations and attention? When bottom-line or nihilistic thinking dominates our public sphere, what meanings and alternatives does it offer? A vital call to engage deeply, to see in new ways, and to rethink all that we take for granted, How It Feels to Be Alive inspires and exhorts, providing a template to think through the knottiest problems in our culture, our selves, and the connections between the two. |
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by Scott Simon Scott Simon's household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals - whether two legs or four, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled - everyone is family. The beloved host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday and one of the hosts of NPR's Up First has welcomed animals into his life since his youth. He first connected with Penny, the family dog who pushed him to crawl and stand. Today, Simon lives with haiku-writing French poodle Daisy, daringly audacious foster cat Gato Blanco, and energetic hamster Bagel, who was almost Gato's meal. And that's just the start. Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known warmly documents and philosophizes about the quotidian joys, worries, love, loss, and humor in the remarkable relationships between species. From a cat who escaped the British Embassy but had to keep her accent, to street dogs during Sarajevo's siege, to a series of beta fish all named Salman Fishdie, Simon's work is a profusion of exuberant memories and musings on a life spent in animal company.
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