Fresh from their performance at Northwest Folklife in Seattle, Gye Nyame, under the leadership of Saeed Abbas, will bring the energetic, electrifying music and dance of Ghana, in West Africa, to Arlington for an assembly at Haller Middle School, May 29, and then will perform at the Lincoln Theatre in Mount Vernon May 30.
Call for vendors for Arlington Street Fair Crafters, artists, growers, vendors and community groups are wanted for the Arlington Street Fair which is set for July 11, 12 and 13 on Olympic Avenue in Arlington. Lots of fun music and dancing are planned in Legion Park with buskers also entertaining up and down the street. Food vendors are also wanted. For information call Julie Tate at 360-435-9863.
ARLINGTON — Five actors are playing all the parts in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” complete with sword fighting and vials of poison, at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center Friday, May 16.
Arlington artist Christina Harvey is showing 33 paintings at Lake Steven’s City Hall. Harvey grew up in a family of artists and received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1976. She worked as a technical illustrator and graphic designer, painting on the side through the years. Now since she retired in 2002, Harvey is very happy to have time to focus on painting, averaging about 18 paintings a year.
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Cedarcrest Middle School in Marysville is holding a Fifth-Grade Welcome Night, May 20, 5-7 p.m.
Santa Rosa, Calif. — The daughter of an Arlington resident, Heather Littlefield, of Petaluma, Calif., was one of 1,000 students nationwide to earn national recognition from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for 2008.
In early May our Pacific Coast Dogwood is usually in full regalia. These large trees have graced our landscapes for centuries with their ethereal white blooms but unfortunately have become a magnet for disease in recent years and now they are hard to find in the industry.
Visual artists had a go at using the new Byrnes Performing Arts Center May 3, drawing a big crowd into the lobby to see an impressive exhibit of drawings and paintings along with hand-crafted items such as stained glass, jewelry, garden art and other artistic items crafted by art students at the school.
Mike McCroirie of Lavender Hills Farm is helping plan Snohomish County’s fall farm festival, “Farming Yesterday and Today” and he has announced the next meeting is 6 p.m., Wednesday, May 14 at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club, at 18513 59th Ave. NE, near the Arlington Airport. The next meetings are June 2 and June 17, also at 6 p.m. For information call Linda Neunzig at 425-388-7170.
Ken Baxter Senior/Community Center, 514 Delta Ave., Marysville, 360-363-8450.
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Offering copper sculptures, pen and ink drawings and sculpted ceramic fish by Arlington artists Rodney Patzer, Rocky Barrick and Marguerite Goff, among many other artists from around Puget Sound, the 10th annual Camano Island Studio Tour has become a popular Mother’s Day tradition among the art community of north Snohomish County.
