For so many years, the dining room was the center of family life. In this richly humorous theatrical tour de force, we meet a group of diverse characters–who through the years have shared a dining room. Set in a typical well-to-do household, The Dining Room is composed of a mosaic of interrelated scenes–some funny, some touching–which create a portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The six actors will change roles, personalities and ages (without major costume changes) as they portray different characters, from little boys to grandfathers and from teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Some scenes are about the furniture itself and the emotional attachment to it, while other scenes simply flesh out the culture of the WASPS. “I think it has a great message about whether the dining room and family relationships as we know them are relevant to today’s modern life,” said director Merritt Olsen. “It’s also a wonderful challenge for the actors to get to play so many different parts.”

* Location: San Juan Community Theatre, 100 2nd St., Friday Harbor
* Phone: (360) 378-3210
* Admission: Adult $17 – Student $9 – RUSH $5

Seasonal sea ice cover and the production of walleye pollock in the Bering Sea: Implications of global warming.  George Hunt, UW School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science

* Location: UW FH Lab’s commons, 620 University Rd., Friday Harbor
* Contact: San Juan Nature Institute
* Phone: (360) 378-3646
* Admission: Donations gratefully accepted

Tangled Memories Written by Don Pollard, directed by Jane Maxwell Campbel. Memory, dreams and reality meld at Memorial Park. Charlie Holds a Meeting Written by Chris DeStaffany, directed by Ed Wilson. An imaginative recounting of Charlie McKee’s speech on the vices of drink. Light at Limekiln Written by Jennifer Beck Furber, directed by John Davis. An episodic poem about the long-time residents of the Limekiln Lighthouse.

* Location: San Juan Community Theatre, 100 2nd St., Friday Harbor
* Phone: (360) 378-3210
* Admission: Adults $17 – Students $9 – RUSH $5

This Retrospective from the Lambiel Museum Collection, Orcas Island, includes drawings, paintings, and etchings that span decades, 1917-1956. The spirit of Helen Loggie (1895-1976) lives in her mastery of the full range of values in drawing, and the dramatic energy communicated through etchings of shipping activities on Bellingham Bay, European paintings and etchings of Cathedrals and vignettes of ordinary working people in New York.  Upon returning to Bellingham and Orcas Island from Europe and New York, she dedicated herself to the depiction of her passion: the trees, mountains, islands, flowers, and sea tides around her.  One sees the full development and power of her art in this work.

* Location: Museum of Art, 28 First Street, Friday Harbor

Join us on Thursday for Don Yankovic!
* Location: 175 No. First St., Friday Harbor
* Contact: Pazzo Vivo
* Phone: (360) 378-4118
* Admission: Free