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THE GRISTLE, P.06 + CARBON DIALOGUE, P.14 + BERRY BLAST, P.26 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT SURROUNDING AREAS 06-12-2019* • ISSUE:* 24 • V.14 WHAT'S THE POINT? STAGE Learning at RIGHT low tide Fairhaven P.12 Repertory Theatre BLUES AND P.13 BREWS Summer is coming P.16 HOPE AND The remarkable life of Noémi Ban HEALING P.10 A brief overview of this PainProv: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre 26 DANCE FOOD week’s happenings Chapters: 1pm and 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre THISWEEK Swan Lake: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon 21 MUSIC Brother Ray’s Band Benefit: 3pm-10pm, Bound- See what the Little ary Bay B-BOARD Early Music Festival: 7pm, St. Paul’s Episcopal Sisters of Hoboken are Church Giant’s Causeway: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center 20 up to when the comedy opens June WORDS FILM Nunsense Correspondence Club: 10:30am, Mindport Exhibits 14 at the Bellingham Savannah Moore-Stein: 7pm, Village Books 16 Theatre Guild. COMMUNITY Berry Dairy Days: 7am-9pm, throughout Burlington MUSIC Juneteenth Celebration: 4pm-8pm, Maritime Heritage Park 14 GET OUT ART What’s the Point: 9am-1pm, Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve 13 Sofia Milstead Memorial Run: 9am, Lynden High School STAGE FOOD Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park 12 Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Center Saturday Market: 9am-3pm, Concrete Community GET OUT Center Saturday Market: 10am-1pm, Lummi Island Twin Sisters Market: 10am-2pm, North Fork Library 10 Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centen- nial Park Blaine Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Plaza WORDS Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot Market Square 8 Meet Your Farmer: 2pm-5pm, Twin Sisters Brewing WEDNESDAY [06.12.19] Company CURRENTS ONSTAGE VISUAL Bard on the Beach: Through September, Vanier Park, Sharron Antholt Talk: 4pm, i.e. gallery, Edison 6 Vancouver B.C. It’ll be a family SUNDAY [06.16.19] VIEWS MUSIC affair at a Father’s Phil Parisot Quartet: 7pm, Sylvia Center ONSTAGE Day Car Show 4 Classical Around Town: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Nunsense: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Lynden happening Sun., James and the Giant Peach: 2pm, Anacortes Com- MAIL munity Theatre FOOD June 16 at 2 2 Wednesday Market: 2pm-6pm, Barkley Village Green BelleWood Acres. DANCE Sedro-Woolley Farmers Market: 3pm-7pm, Hammer Chapters: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre DO IT DO IT Heritage Square Swan Lake: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon THURSDAY [06.13.19] MUSIC Clearbrook Fabulous Dixieland Band: 1pm-4pm, Gilkey Square, La Conner 06.12.19 ONSTAGE FOOD COMMUNITY Theatre Night: 6:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Bow Farmers Market: 1pm-6pm, Samish Bay Berry Dairy Days: 11am-10:30pm, throughout Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Cheese Burlington COMMUNITY .14 James and the Giant Peach: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- Father’s Day Car Show: 9am-3pm, BelleWood Acres 24 # munity Theatre VISUAL GET OUT Berry Dairy Days: 10am-3pm, throughout Burlington The Project: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Tibetan Sand Mandala Exhibit: 10am-5pm, Wild Things: 9:30am-11am, Marine Park Firehouse Arts & Events Center FOOD DANCE VISUAL Community Breakfast: 8am-11am, American Folk Dance: 7-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library FRIDAY [06.14.19] Tibetan Sand Mandala Exhibit: 10am-4pm, Legion Post #43, Sedro-Woolley Firehouse Arts & Events Center Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, MUSIC ONSTAGE Lynden The Atlantics: 5pm-9pm, Hotel Bellwether Nunsense: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild CASCADIA WEEKLY SATURDAY [06.15.19] Writer’s Block: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre MONDAY [06.17.19] James and the Giant Peach: 7:30pm, Anacortes 2 WORDS ONSTAGE Michael Benanav: 7pm, Village Books Community Theatre Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab ONSTAGE PainProv: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Nunsense: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge COMMUNITY Writer’s Block: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Totem Pole Journey Gathering: 6pm, in front of WORDS James and the Giant Peach: 7:30pm, Anacortes DANCE Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall William Baroch: 7pm, Deming Library Community Theatre Chapters: 6:30pm, Mount Baker Theatre Pack the swim suits. 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