Community Extra: Opportunities
Published 1:30 am Friday, July 15, 2016
Create: Celebrate the arts with All Aboard
All Aboard, a nonprofit for adults with special needs, invites people of all ages and abilities to a free “Around the World” Art in the Park celebration, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Camp Patterson at Thornton A Sullivan Park, 11405 W Silver Lake Road, Everett.
Enjoy arts and crafts from Africa, France, Asia, Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. There also will be a scavenger hunt, miniature golf, free face painting and henna tattoos, and featured artists.
More info: www.allaboardwa.org
Explore: Color at the Hibulb museum
A new temporary exhibit, “Vibrant Beauty: Colors of our Collection,” opens at noon Saturday at the Hibulb Cultural Center, 6410 23rd Ave. NE, Tulalip.
The interactive exhibit is geared to youth, from preschool to third grade, and explores how color has impacted the peoples of the Tulalip Tribes — in the past, and today.
Admission to the museum is $10 for adults, $7 seniors, $6 youth, military and veterans, and free for children ages 5 and younger. Families of two adults and up to four children pay $25.
More info: www.hibulbculturalcenter.org
Listen: Music through the centuries
What is a schreierpfeife? And, um, how do you pronounce that?
Get an earful of whatever-that-is and many other instruments — from the first century to the present — at “The Living Roots of Music,” 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Mukilteo Library, 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd.
Lauren Pelon will trace the story of music and instruments throughout history and perform music on several instruments, including the archlute, guitar, lute-guitar, lyre, recorders, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, pennywhistles, concertina, ocarina, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, eagle bone flute, Kiowa courting flute, electric wind instrument, pedalboard, and voice.
Pelon will perform her own compositions, along with music from ancient Greece, medieval and Renaissance Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
More info: 425-493-8202
Sculpt: Sand castles and more in Edmonds
The annual Edmonds Sand Sculpting Contest is set for July 20 at Marina Beach, 470 Admiral Way.
This amateur contest is open to all ages. Form a team or build on your own. Bring your buckets and shovels, sign up at 10 a.m., then start building. Judging is at 12:30 p.m. The event is free for participants and spectators.
Nama’s Candy Store sponsors the event with Edmonds Parks and Recreation.
More info: 425-771-0230
Transport: Go ‘back in time’ at cemetery
The Edmonds Memorial Cemetery and Columbarium hosts its annual “Walk Back in Time” tour at 1 p.m. July 21. The cemetery is at 820 15th St. SW.
Edmonds Cemetery Board members will highlight selected Civil War veterans’ grave sites with stories from the city’s past. Presenters will fill the roles of a Civil War veteran, friend or relative to add to the atmosphere. Participants will be invited to share their own stories and family history, too.
This year’s presenters are Betty Deebach Gaeng, geologist and biographer; Larry Vogel, a local thespian; Susan Bisnett, great-great granddaughter of Christopher Columbus Cook; Jerry Janacek, great-great grandson of Ira Bartholomew; and Dick Van Hollebeke, a former Edmonds City Council member.
Refreshments will be served.
More info: 425-771-4741
