FUZZ BUZZ P.09 + INSIDE AN EPIDEMIC P.10 + BEST OF SKAGIT BALLOT P.15 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM*SKAGIT*SURROUNDING AREAS 03-11-2020 • ISSUE: 11 • V.15 GET LUCKY A St. Patty's Day roundup P.16 IRISH SPRING A jaunt to County Clare P.12 EPIC PRESENT TENSE Women Painters of ENGAGEMENT Washington Saga of the Völsungs P.13 P.14 WORDS John Hoyte: 10am, Sumas Library A brief overview of this Susan Welch: 3pm, Lummi Island Library 23 Bob Storms: 4pm, Ferndale Library week’s happenings Julie Tate-Libby: 4pm, Village Books FOOD THISWEEK COMMUNITY Wellness Fair: 11am-3pm, Skagit Valley Food 20 Co-op St. Patrick’s Day Parade: 12pm, downtown Bellingham B-BOARD Let’s Talk About Race: 7:30pm, Lummi Island Library 19 GET OUT Dallas Kloke Sunset Loop Relay: 9am, Washing- FILM ton Park, Anacortes Runnin’ O’ the Green: 10am, Boundary Bay Beer Garden 16 Anacortes Dash and Splash: 10am, Seafarers Memorial Park MUSIC Gear Sale: 10am-2pm, Burlington Parks and Rec Don your green Center 14 FOOD ART apparel for the Winter Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts annual Bellingham Center, Anacortes Pi Day Pie Contest: 1pm-2:30pm, Lynden Library 13 St. Patrick’s Day Wine Tasting: 2pm-4pm, Seifert & Jones Wine Merchants STAGE Parade taking place Ceilidh-bration: 5:30pm, Littlefield Celtic Center, Sat., March 14 in the Mount Vernon 12 VISUAL downtown core. Family Activity Day: 10am-3pm, Whatcom Mu- GET OUT seum’s Lightcatcher Building Present Tense Opening: 4:30pm-8:30pm, Matzke WEDNESDAY [03.11.20] Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island 10 Artists on the Edge: 5:3pm, Anacortes Port GET OUT Transit Shed Daffodil Festival: through March 31, Skagit Valley WORDS Pianist Jessica SUNDAY [03.15.20] [03. .20] 8 THURSDAY 12 Choe and guitarist ONSTAGE ONSTAGE Daniel Bolshoy will Guys and Dolls: 3pm, Lynden High School Blithe Spirit: 7pm, Bellingham High School Vaudevillingham: 7pm and 9pm, Cirque Lab CURRENTS Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre join the Bellingham Late Nite Satellite: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre DANCE 6 Symphony Orchestra BRD Auditions: 12pm-2pm, Firehouse Arts and DANCE for a Between Events Center VIEWS Folk Dance: 7pm-9:30pm, Fairhaven Library Worlds: Harmony MUSIC 4 MUSIC Bellingham Symphony Orchestra: 3pm, Mount MVHS Spring Concert: 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount from Discord Baker Theatre MAIL Vernon concert Sun., March Bellingham Chamber Chorale: 5pm, Church of the Chamber Music II: 7:30pm, Performing Arts Center, WWU Assumption 2 15 at the Mount 2 COMMUNITY Baker Theatre. WORDS DO IT DO IT Women in Politics Mixer: 12pm, Whatcom Museum’s Traditional Story Circle: 2pm-5pm, Lummi Nation Old City Hall Library Census Forum: 6:30pm, Van Zandt Community Hall Laurie Halse Anderson: 4pm, Sehome High School 03.11.20 FOOD Pie and Ice Cream Social: 5:30pm-7:30pm, Maple FOOD Hall, La Conner WORDS DANCE Community Breakfast: 8am-11am, American .15 Taylor Shellfish Winter Pop-Up: 6pm-9pm, Aslan Kayla Day: 7pm, Village Books Folk Dance Party: 7pm-10pm, Squalicum Yacht Club Legion Post #43, Sedro-Woolley 11 # Depot Contra Dance: 7pm-10:30pm, Fairhaven Library Langar: 11am-2pm, Guru Nanak Gursikh Gurdwara, GET OUT St. Patrick’s Day Dance: 7pm-11pm, Maple Hall, Lynden FRIDAY [03.13.20] Wild Things: 9:30am-11am, Whatcom Falls Park La Conner MONDAY [03.16.20] ONSTAGE SATURDAY [03.14.20] MUSIC Blithe Spirit: 7pm, Bellingham High School Bellingham Chamber Chorale: 7:30pm, Church ONSTAGE Guys and Dolls: 7pm, Lynden High School ONSTAGE of the Assumption Guffawingham: 9pm, Firefly Lounge Genre Legends: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Blithe Spirit: 2pm and 7pm, Bellingham High Nuages: 7:30pm-9:30pm, Lummi Island Congre- CASCADIA WEEKLY Saga of the Volsungs: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for the Arts School gational Church TUESDAY [03.17.20] Dead Parrots Society: 8pm, Miller Hall, WWU Guys and Dolls: 7pm, Lynden High School Pearl Django: 7:30pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden 2 Dynamic Duos: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Genre Legends: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Rise Up!: 7:30pm, McIntyre Hall FOOD Saga of the Volsungs: 7:30pm, Sylvia Center for Irish Dinner: 6pm-8pm, Ferndale Senior Center MUSIC the Arts FILM Jerry Steinhilber Trio: 7:30pm, Firehouse Arts and Musical Improv with Laura Hall: 9:30pm, The Mountain Runners: 5pm, Lynden Pioneer SEND YOUR EVENTS LISTINGS TO Events Center Upfront Theatre Museum [email protected] Kayla Shop 24/7 at VillageBooks.com DAY WE SHIP! 23 My Anxious FOOD Life An inspiring memoir full Julie 20 of advice for parents from an amazing young TATE-LIBBY girl with total blindness, B-BOARD Local cerebral palsy, The Author and anxiety. 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