Biography celebrates late U.S. Rep. Jennifer Dunn
January 15, 2013
The late Jennifer Dunn, a long-serving representative in Congress for Issaquah and other Eastside communities, is the latest subject in The Legacy Project, a state oral history program.
The book “A Woman First: The Impact of Jennifer Dunn” documents the trailblazing Republican’s career, life and legacy.
The biography is available as a hardcover book for $25 or free at The Legacy Project website, www.sos.wa.gov/heritage. (The hardcover book was printed with private funds.)
SAMMI Awards seeks artists
January 15, 2013
Eastside artists can submit original 2-D artwork created between 2011 and the present for the 2013 SAMMI Awards Volunteer Recognition Celebration.
Organizers at the SAMMI Awards Foundation, in partnership with Issaquah’s artEAST Art Center, issued the call to local artists. Submitted artwork should have a strong visual quality that can be used to set the design themes and color tones for the celebration.
Learn more about the call for artwork at artEAST’s website, http://arteast.org/2012/11/call-2013-sammi-awards. The submission deadline is Jan. 22.
Wine Walk series returns to downtown Feb. 1
January 15, 2013
The second annual Downtown Issaquah Wine Walk series returns Feb. 1 and continues on the first Friday of the month through May 3.
The event is presented by the Downtown Issaquah Association.
Participants can enjoy live music, art happenings, snacks and local wines poured in tasting locations up and down Front Street.
Video contest aims to combat alcohol, drugs
January 15, 2013
The Issaquah Community Network and Drug Free Community Coalition want sixth- to 12th-grade students to create short commercials telling their friends how to resist alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug temptations.
Commercials should be two minutes or less in length and submitted by Feb. 28. A grand prize of $800 will be awarded to the best video. Other prizes include first, second and third place prizes of $100, $75 and $50 in the categories of Most Influential Alcohol Video, Most Influential Marijuana Video and Most Influential Prescription Drug Video.
Find complete details, entry requirements and an entry form at www.issaquahcommunitynetwork.com. Click on the link labeled “video contest.” Email questions to Dianne Bugge or Caryn Cissna at icnvideocontest@gmail.com.
Master Chorus Eastside holds auditions
January 15, 2013
Master Chorus Eastside is holding auditions for openings in its tenor and bass sections for the remainder of the season.
Interested singers must have choral experience and basic music-reading skills. Call the Master Chorus Eastside office at 392-8446 to schedule audition appointments. Learn more about the chorus at www.masterchoruseastside.org.
Upcoming events for the chorus include Sound Imaginarium in March, a Simply Gershwin concert in May and the popular All-American Independence Celebration in June at Issaquah’s historic Pickering Barn.
City hosts sustainability contest for students
January 15, 2013
Students can capture a vision of sustainability on film for a city-sponsored contest.
In order to participate, respond to a series of questions in a three- to five-minute film. Entrants can create clips on a cellphone, digital camera or other video-equipped device. The questions include: What is sustainability? How do you live sustainably? What makes you happy about a sustainable future?
The contest is open to all Issaquah School District middle and high school students, as well as students in private schools within Issaquah city limits. Films should be in .mov, .mp4, .mpeg or .avi formats. The entry deadline is Feb. 2.
Village Theatre is set to spring ‘The Mousetrap’
January 8, 2013
Expect more than a month of snow — on the Village Theatre stage, at least — as the scene-setting snowstorm in “The Mousetrap” is re-created night after night.
The classic whodunit is considered mystery maven Agatha Christie’s masterpiece. “The Mousetrap” opens Jan. 16 as the lone play — the only nonmusical offering in the 2012-13 lineup — in the Village Theatre season.
Skyline High School performers deal in Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’
January 8, 2013
Skyline High School drama students (from left) Nick Borkowski, Bhavya Chhabra, Marie Guenette, Madeline Miller and Aaron Jin wait on stage before the beginning of dress rehearsal Jan. 3 for the school production of ‘Rumors.’ By Greg Farrar
Jessica Karius struts across the stage at Skyline High School in 6-inch red alligator print stilettos.
Before being cast as the seductive Cookie Cusack in “Rumors,” a farcical play written by Neil Simon, the 16-year-old junior had never worn high heels. Now, seven days before the show is set to open, Karius breaks in the new shoes, which complement her back-combed hair, walnut-size rhinestone earrings and slinky black dress.
“I don’t know how my parents are going to feel. This slit goes up higher,” she said, laughing backstage.
Karius’ character is all dolled up to attend the 10th anniversary party for New York’s lieutenant governor and his wife. But she arrives after the celebration has already been turned upside down. The lieutenant governor has shot himself in the earlobe and his wife and servants are missing.
Patriot Players christen Liberty High School performing arts center
January 8, 2013
Katherine Klekas (left), longtime Liberty High School drama program director, student and cast member Tyler Ackerson, and teacher Hannah Fry, director of ‘She Stoops to Conquer,’ stand in the performing arts center’s first completed space, the black box theater, an unadorned, large room for about 100 spectators. By Greg Farrar
The long-awaited Liberty High School performing arts center is still under construction, but one portion of the state-of-the-art facility is ready for action.
The Patriot Players are set to open the building’s black box theater in dramatic fashion with its performance of the English comedy, “She Stoops to Conquer.”
The play follows the events of a single evening in the English countryside, complete with mistaken identities, witty dialogue and an entertaining love story.
The production involves several intertwined storylines and characters, but the main plot follows the Hardcastle family, and in particular daughter Kate as she attempts to impress a suitor by pretending she is a barmaid, downplaying the upper-class status that she actually holds.
Although the play is mostly humorous, serious quandaries about social class, arrogance and prejudice emerge throughout the story.
Boris Karloff swings into ‘The Ape’ for Issaquah film series
January 8, 2013
The legendary horror actor Boris Karloff is in the lineup as the Issaquah Train Depot film series continues.
“The Ape” — a schlocky horror romp from 1940 — stars Karloff as a kindly uncle in a small town subjected to a circus ape’s reign of terror. The film came after Karloff rocketed to success as the title character in “Frankenstein” and then sequels “Bride of Frankenstein” and “Son of Frankenstein.”
The film plays at 7 p.m. Jan. 12 at the historic train depot, 50 Rainier Blvd. N.
