THE GRISTLE, P.06 + BOTTOMS UP, P.12 + FILM SHORTS, P.20 c a s c a d i a REPORTING FROM THE HEART OF CASCADIA WHATCOM SKAGIT SURROUNDING AREAS 06-19-2019* • ISSUE:* 25 • V.14 AUCTION ACTION GOING GREEK VAN GOGH FOR SYLVIA CENTER’S THE YOUTH SUMMER REP P.14 P.13 SEA FOOD DINNER IN THE BAY P.26 Summer Solstice Music Festival P.16 A brief overview of this GET OUT 26 Longest Day 10K: 7pm, Fairhaven Village Green FOOD week’s happenings FOOD THISWEEK Ferndale Farmers Market: 2pm-6pm, LaBounty Drive 21 Bright Night Market: 5pm-11pm, Aslan Depot SATURDAY [06.22.19] B-BOARD ONSTAGE Visiting Mr. Green: 2pm Bellingham Theatre Guild 20 Briseis: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park Nunsense: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild FILM Writer’s Block: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre James and the Giant Peach: 7:30pm, Anacortes Community Theatre 16 All are welcome PainProv: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre MUSIC when the DANCE Bellingham Stepsisters, a Dance Story: 2pm and 7pm, Sylvia 14 Center Rubies: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre ART Roller Betties An Evening of Belly Dance: 7pm, Firehouse Arts host a semifinal & Events Center 13 On Trend: 7pm, McIntyre Hall roller derby bout STAGE FILM Sat., June 22 Dudestock: 7pm, Lincoln Theatre, Mount Vernon Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Dusk, Fairhaven Village 12 at the Whatcom Green Community College COMMUNITY GET OUT Green Home Tour: 10am-5pm, seven locales Pavilion. throughout Whatcom County 10 GET OUT Padden Triathlon: 8am, Lake Padden Park March Point Run: 9am, Andeavor Refinery, WORDS Anacortes NICK SADIGH PHOTOGRAPHY SADIGH NICK Rose Festival: 9am-4pm, Christianson’s Nursery, 8 Mount Vernon WEDNESDAY [06.19.19] Fun Fly Kite Day: 10am-4pm, Marine Park, Blaine Roller Betties: 5pm, Whatcom Community College CURRENTS ONSTAGE Pavilion Bard on the Beach: Through September, Vanier Park, 6 Vancouver B.C. FOOD Mount Vernon Market: 9am-2pm, Riverwalk Park VIEWS MUSIC Anacortes Farmers Market: 9am-2pm, Depot Arts Marina Albero, Jeff Johnson: 7pm, Sylvia Center Center 4 Saturday Market: 10am-1pm, Lummi Island WORDS Twin Sisters Market: 10am-2pm, North Fork Library MAIL Write More Letters Club: 7pm, Bison Bookbinding & Lynden Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, Centennial Letterpress PRO PHOTO ELEVATE BY PHOTO Park 2 2 Blaine Farmers Market: 10am-2pm, H Street Plaza COMMUNITY Get a look at innovative sustainable building practices during Bellingham Farmers Market: 10am-3pm, Depot DO IT DO IT Mayoral Forum: 6:30pm, Whatcom Museum’s Old City the 17th annual Green Home Tour Sat., June 22 at seven Market Square Hall locales throughout Whatcom County. SUNDAY [06.23.19] THURSDAY [06.20.19] 06.19.19 ONSTAGE ONSTAGE Nunsense: 2pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Briseis: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park WORDS James and the Giant Peach: 7:30pm, Anacortes James and the Giant Peach: 2pm, Anacortes Com- .14 Nunsense: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild Chuckanut Radio Hour: 7pm, Whatcom Com- Community Theatre munity Theatre 25 # Good, Bad, Ugly: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre munity College PainProv: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre James and the Giant Peach: 7:30pm, Anacortes Com- DANCE munity Theatre FOOD DANCE Rubies: 2pm, Mount Baker Theatre The Project: 9:30pm, Upfront Theatre Bow Farmers Market: 1pm-6pm, Samish Bay Cheese Rubies: 7pm, Mount Baker Theatre On Trend: 2pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon Stepsisters, a Dance Story: 7pm, Sylvia Center Stepsisters, a Dance Story: 2pm, Sylvia Center DANCE VISUAL On Trend: 7pm, McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon for the Arts Stepsisters, a Dance Story: 7pm, Sylvia Center for Van Gogh for the Youth: 6pm-9pm, Whatcom the Arts Museum’s Lightcatcher Building MUSIC MUSIC CASCADIA WEEKLY Double Trouble Band: 5pm-9pm, Semiahmoo Brian Lee and the Orbiters: 1pm-4pm, Gilkey Marina, Blaine Square, La Conner 2 MUSIC FRIDAY [06.21.19] Low Down Brass Band: 5pm-9pm, Hotel Bellwether Ranger and the Re-Arrangers: 6pm-8pm, Elizabeth ONSTAGE WORDS TUESDAY [06.25.19] Park Briseis: 7:30pm, Maritime Heritage Park Chuckanut Writers Conference: Today and Song Wranglers: 6pm-8pm, Jansen Art Center, Lynden Nunsense: 7:30pm, Bellingham Theatre Guild tomorrow, Whatcom Community College GET OUT Varelse: 7pm, YWCA Ballroom Writer’s Block: 7:30pm, Upfront Theatre Family Story Night: 7pm, Fairhaven Library History Cruise: 6:30pm, Cruise Terminal IS CLOSER WHATCOM MUSEUM THAN YOU WINNING THINK! 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