Worth The Drive: Art, mushrooms, politics
Published 1:30 am Friday, July 29, 2016
The mushrooms are mushrooming
It’s shrooms galore at Pacific Northwest Mushroom Festival, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 30 and 31, in Lacey. A weekend of mushrooms and more. Cooking demonstrations, mushroom farm tours, mushroom hunts, kids’ zone, wine and beer tent, music. More at www.pnwmushroomfest.org.
Anacortes Arts Festival: The fine arts exhibit of the annual festival opens at 6 p.m. July 30, six days ahead of the rest of the fest, which is Aug. 5-7 on Commercial Avenue in historic downtown Anacortes. The opening, in the port building at the north end of Commercial, is a fine time to see the work of 45 Northwest and Midwest regional artists in a show curated by Barbara Shaiman, formerly of the Seattle Art Museum. More at anacortesartsfestival.com
The 1964 presidential election: The play “Daisy” at ACT Theatre in Seattle is about the “daisy ad,” the political TV commercial that changed the way campaigns are run in our country. Based on fact, the play presents a political climate that bears similarity to today. The show continues through Aug. 7. More at www.acttheatre.org.
Coming up
Lantern ceremony: Aug. 6, Green Lake. The city of Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. From Hiroshima to Hope promotes peace and remembers victims of war with music, speakers, and candle-lit lanterns floated on Green Lake at dusk. Free. More at www.fromhiroshimatohope.org.
