Events

Island Theatre's Ten-Minute Play Festival is an annual showcase of Kitsap County plays, playwrights, actors, and directors. This year's theme is ESCAPE.

What does ESCAPE suggest to you? Is it an escape from. . . or an escape to?  Is it a physical escape. . . or an escape in which one never takes a physical step? Is it bold or surreptitious? Sudden or long-planned? An act of choiceless desperation or one of powerful self-assertion?

Is “escape” the beginning of the story or the end? Or is it the pivot point that dramatically changes the action?

What you make of ESCAPE is up to you – just make sure it’s central to your story.

The competition is open to all Kitsap County playwrights – experienced and aspiring – high school age and above. To be a “Kitsap County playwright” means you currently live or work in Kitsap County, or you lived or worked here for a substantial period in the past.

Ten plays will be chosen from all the submissions by a panel of theatre professionals and the Island Theatre board of directors, and announced in April. The chosen plays will be produced in four fully-staged performances at the Buxton Center for the Arts on Bainbridge Island during Island Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play Festival in August 2025.

For more information and submission guidelines, go to www.IslandTheatre.org.

Bainbridge Arts & Crafts hosts Community Creatives Scott Pascoe, Amy Pleasant, Martha Rogers, and Amber Chiozza for a show of work inspired by their time spent at Bloedel Reserve.

WHERE
This event is held off-site at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts 

WHEN
Opening Reception, November 1st, 6-8 PM
Exhibition runs Friday, November 1–30
Monday–Saturday, 10 AM-6 PM
Sunday 11 AM-5 PM

COST
Free

Bloedel Reserve Community Creative Group Exhibition

Featuring Amber Chiozza, Scott Pascoe, Amy Pleasant, and Martha Rogers.

Opening Reception, November 1st, 6-8 PM
Exhibition runs Wednesday, November 1–30

September 25th, 2024

P R E S S  A D V I S O R Y

“All That Jazz”, October 4th -December 3rd.

Jeffrey Moose Gallery is all about Jazz for the months of October and November.

“All That Jazz” is a group show featuring five artists, Neil Andersson, Cory Bennett, Jeff Mihalyo, Stephen Rock and Jerry Stoll, all showing work featuring Jazz artists or inspired by Jazz. The show opens on First Friday, October 4th from 6-8 PM. A Facebook livestream will happen from 5:20-5:40. A second reception will take place on First Friday, November 1st, 6-8 PM.

For the past eight years, The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art has collaborated with Earshot Jazz festival to produce live shows by national and regional artists, host Jazz films and lectures as well as exhibit some Jazz related artwork. The gallery has frequently shadowed these features with artwork by local and national talents. This year’s show is an invitational.

Many know musician and artist Neil Andersson, as he is the founder of well-known Gypsy Jazz group Pearl Django and years ago was part of Garage Rock group The Fabulous Wailers. Neil holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and primarily paints landscapes in oil. But he’s also done some Jazz-inspired abstract works and designed album covers for two recent projects out of Santa Barbara.

Cory Bennett, based in Poulsbo, raised in Riverside, CA , makes photo collages focused on celebrities and pop stars across many genres. He participated in the 2018 Jeffrey Moose Gallery exhibition “Jazz Greats of the Northwest” and showed at BIMA in a pandemic era exhibit “Heros” 2021-22.

Jeff Mihalyo is a Seattle based surreal painter who also does web work for this gallery and many others. He has been active in the Seattle scene for decades, creating a mural for the famous Grunge venue The OK Hotel back in the 90’s which is now hanging in the Columbia City club The Royal Room.

Stephen Rock, of Seattle, originally from Ellensburg, is a multi media artist who’s complex, hi Rez digital and traditional media works are shown at the Seattle Art Museum’s prestigious Rental/Sales gallery. He is also well known as a top notch digital printmaker, serving regional artists and galleries.

Jerry Stoll was a legendary San Francisco photographer who participated in a ground breaking group exhibition entitled “San Francisco Weekend” that toured America and the world in the late 50's. He was a photographer, a film maker and an activist who supported many causes including the anti war movement, Women’s and Latino Rights. He was the official photographer for the first 8 years of the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Join us for a night of historical recipes and home cooked memories! As we bid farewell to our lobby display (A Bite Out Of History), we invite you to come and swap recipes and bring some of your own dishes to share!

This program is FREE so come and join us for snacks and libations. Space is limited so RSVP today!

Since celebrated Seattle artist Barbara Earl Thomas had her career survey exhibition (Heaven On Fire) at BIMA in 2016, she has gone on to have major shows at the Claire Oliver Gallery in NY, and solo exhibitions at Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Museum, Witchita Art Museum, and Chrysler Art Museum. Hear all about her journey and dive into her latest body of work, The Illuminated Body, a portrait series that weaves an exquisite tapestry of light and color to depict individuals illuminated in moments of creativity. The evening will conclude with a performance by cellist Gretchen Yanover, one of Thomas’ portrait subjects. Seattle’s Yanover creates string atmospheres woven with warm melodies. She performs as a soloist with her electric cello and lopping pedal, along with her classical music life on acoustic cello. Gretchen is a member of NW Sinfonietta orchestra and also serves on their DEI task force. She has performed for TEDx Seattle and Earshot Jazz Festival, has created music for and performed with LeVar Burton, and has had compositions commissioned by Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, and University of Oregon. Reception following.

Guest bio
Barbara Earl Thomas is a Seattle-based visual artist with numerous national exhibits to her credit and an active art-making career that spans more than 30 years. A skilled painter who now builds tension-filled narratives through papercuts and prints, placing silhouetted figures in social and political landscapes, she pulls from mythology and history to create a contemporary visual narrative that challenges the stories we tell as Americans about who we are. Thomas is also known for her large-scale installations that use light as the animating force and invites her viewers to step inside her world of illuminated scenography. Thomas’s works are included in the collections of the Seattle, Tacoma and Portland Art Museums, Chrysler Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Microsoft, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Washington State and Seattle City public collections. Thomas recently completed commissioned work at Yale University’s Hopper College as well as two major exhibitions, Geography of Innocence, Seattle Art Museum (November 2020 – November 2021), and Packaged Black, a collaboration with New York based artist Derrick Adams at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington (October 2021 – May 2022). Upcoming solo exhibits include Claire Oliver Gallery (November 2022), and Chrysler Museum of Art (February 2023). In 2022 Thomas was appointed as an Associate Fellow at Yale University. In 2016, she received the Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award and, the Washington State Governor’s Arts award, the Artist Trust Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award and the Seattle Stranger Genius Award for excellence in the arts. She was also nationally noted for her exhibition “Heaven On Fire,” a major career survey with the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Her work has been widely featured nationally; with the John Braseth Gallery at the Seattle Art Fair (2016), and at EXPO Chicago (2017, 2018) and Pulse Contemporary Art Fair (2018-21) with Claire Oliver Gallery (New York) Thomas is a graduate of the School of Art, University of Washington, where she received her Master of Arts in 1977. She counts herself most fortunate to have had mentorships with Michael Spafford and Jacob Lawrence who have both influenced her work. She will tell you that these two men were not only supportive but crucial friends in her life. Cellist Gretchen Yanover wears two musical hats: one as a composer, primarily for her electric cello with looping pedal—and one as a classical cellist. Gretchen went through Seattle public schools, falling in love with the cello’s deep sound in 6th grade. She pursued performance and music education at University of Washington, embracing an interwoven path of teaching and performing. Ms Yanover guided students in music for 17 years, while at the same time growing her own solo performing career. Gretchen started playing with a loop sampler around 2001 and it changed her musical life, inspiring her to improvise and compose spacious string atmospheres woven with warm melodies. . Yanover performs throughout the Pacific Northwest as a soloist on her electric cello, and has also been a member of Northwest Sinfonietta orchestra since 1998. She sits on NW Sinfonietta’s DEI task force, working to make meaningful changes in the classical music culture, along with creating connections in the community.. NW Sinfonietta has featured Gretchen as a soloist on her electric cello on several occasions. Gretchen has been a Visiting Artist at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, appeared as a soloist for the Earshot Jazz Festival, and presented at TEDx Seattle. She created music for and performed with LeVar Burton for LeVar Burton Reads live, and has had compositions commissioned by Seattle Symphony, Seattle Pacific University, and University of Oregon. Gretchen was the recipient of a Shunpike Artist residency, and was the Town Hall Seattle 2021 Fall Artist in Residence. She is the recipient of a 2023 CityArtist grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Yanover has 5 solo albums to date.
Guest website/social
https://gretchenyanover.com/bio & https://barbaraearlthomas.com/

Holiday Bazaar hosted by the Filipino American Community of Bainbridge Island and Vicinity. November 23, 2024 & December 1, 2024. 9 AM - 4 PM at the Filipino Hall (7566 NE High School Rd, Bainbridge Island, WA

98110.)

If you would like to be a vendor please contact: Reanna Rapada - 360.850.5560, reannar1@hotmail.com or Renne Peleti - 206.900.4572, rpeleti@comcast.net. $25 booth fee per day for vendors!

More than 60 BARN member-makers will offer items for sale at this free event. From jewelry to wood arts, basketry to weaving, you’ll find an unmatched selection of original hand-crafted items. Join us for a day of shopping, food, craftsmanship, and community.

Saturday Story Time
Join Volunteer Coordinator, Kate Sunderland, for an interactive, nature-themed story time for kids every fourth Saturday 11-11:30 AM in the Residence at Bloedel Reserve. All-ages are welcome!

Cost is included with your admission ticket; no registration is required.

Join Dennis Evans and Nancy Mee as they discuss and share images from their 50 years as working artists. With an introduction by Chief Curator Greg Robinson, this presentation will cover Dennis and Nancy’s fascinating artistic journey. Beginning in the 1970’s by selling ceramics in the Seattle area, they then studied printmaking in Paris and established their performance art practice at Evergreen College. Soon they branched out further – with Nancy incorporating fused and slumped glass to her sculpture practice and Dennis’ exploration of large-scale installation in museums and galleries throughout the American West. By the 2000’s, they were working collaboratively on thematically and conceptually based exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally. They have since returned to their individual art practices and styles, and remain prolific, working from their Utopian Heights Studios in Seattle. Audience Q & A and reception to follow.

GUEST BIO

NANCY MEE Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, Nancy attended the University of Washington where she earned a BFA in Printmaking in 1974. Mee spent the year of 1972 at Atelier 17, the studio of S.W. Hayter, where she studied his technique of multicolored etching. In her last year at the University of Washington, she met Dennis Evans whom she married in 1980. Her artist in residency at the Pilchuck School in 1984 had a profound impact on her work. It is there where she experimented with fusing and slumping glass, which opened up tremendous possibilities for new forms and a larger scale. The only vestiges of her printmaking background that can be found in Mee’s work are her innovative use of photographic images. In 1994, Mee was invited as one of seven international artists to the Center for Contemporary Art in Beychevelle, Bordeaux, France, where she was asked to create a body of work using Justice as a theme. This work was then fabricated at her studio in Seattle and shown at Chateau Beychevelle the following year. Mee’s sculptures incorporate a variety of materials, including glass, welded and forged steel, bronze, stone and photography. She is shown commercially in several galleries in the United States and is also represented in many public and private collections, nationally and internationally.

DENNIS EVANS Born in Yakima, Washington in 1946, Dennis studied Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle. He then studied and earned a BFA in Ceramics and an MFA in Design from the University of Washington. His artwork is included in many major museums and public corporation collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Evans was also selected for the 1978 Whitney Biennial exhibition in New York. He has worked as a teacher and mentor to many young artists and as a set designer for numerous Seattle theater productions. Evans is also a book and print publisher, publishing five limited edition suites of prints in collaboration with poets and other artists. He has worked as a performance and installation artist as well as a painter. He lives in Seattle, Washington, working in oil on wax encaustic with mixed media. He specializes in topics of arcane interest.

Trailblazing composer-trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel has announced the Nov. 8 release of her third album Shatter The Glass Sanctuary (#BOR-110), a collection of adventurous original works that chronicles her adjustment to small-town living in Missoula, Montana, after residing for many years in Seattle, Washington. The music follows her inward journey of emotional highs and lows, propelled ever forward by a stellar sextet of acclaimed Seattle musicians including pianist Marina Albero, guitarist Andy Coe, percussionist Christopher Icasiano, trumpeter Ray Larsen, and bassist Kelsey Mines. Produced by award-winning drummer and mentor Allison Miller, Shatter The Glass Sanctuary is Siegel’s most ambitious and sweeping statement yet, and a showcase of her prowess as a composer, improviser, bandleader, and trombonist.

On the occasion of the album release, this genre-bending, Seattle-based jazz ensemble is bringing these world class musicians to WEAVE and we couldn't feel more honored.

Siegel has "crafted a truly unique aesthetic, combining elements of straight ahead, fusion and modern jazz with world-music flavors in a way that sounds entirely of the 21st century."  (JAZZIZ)

“Siegel has assembled a group with an ambience directed by both the compositions and the musicians who each have a voice in the flow of the music. Her uncommonly appealing writing has a subtle emotional depth that engages across genres and projects a rich, spacious sound.” (All About Jazz)

"The impression given by Naomi Moon Siegel is that she is serenading the constellations. There’s an imagery inherent to her music that is greater than the calculus of the notes, much in the same way a certain collection of stars become meaningful in the context of their astronomical shape and name and story. " (Best of Bandcamp 2019 #67, Dave Sumner)

THE ENSEMBLE
Marina Albero, piano
Christopher Icasiano (Fleet Foxes), drums
Kelsey Mines, bass
Ray Larsen, trumpet
Andy Coe, guitar
Naomi Siegel, trombone

SHOW SETUP
This show is an all-seated event and this is an intimate venue.
Please come early if you are particular about where you sit or if you want to sit with your companions.

SHOW DETAILS
Doors & Bar 6:30pm, Show 7:30pm
Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door
Kids, Teens, & People with Disabilities $15

Join us for an hour of beautiful music, featuring Warlock's Capriol Suite, Elgar's Serenade for Strings, and more!

The Bainbridge Island Youth Orchestra (BIYO), founded in 2001, is a training program for young strings musicians seeking an orchestral ensemble experience. It has evolved into a three-tier orchestra program providing music education for the earliest emergent reader level to the advanced musician.  BIYO's goal is to train the student musician in the craft of orchestra playing while instilling a deep love for music and fostering development of a well-rounded individual.

Bainbridge Island Downtown Association invites all to join in welcoming the Holiday Season with a Festive Night and Holiday Lights.  Following Shop Small Business Saturday, the community is invited to join at the Town Square (between City Hall and BPA, where the Farmer's Market takes place) to enjoy seasonal performances by the Bainbridge High School band, Nutcracker ballet selections, the Crescendo Choir and Bainbridge School Choral group.  There will be hot apple cider and you won't want to miss "Sweets with the Squad".  The festivities wrap up with the lighting of our Community Tree!

Beginning December 1st, participating stores will have Elf “bingo cards” available to elf sleuths, to locate the hidden elves in their stores. When you find the elf, head to that store’s checkout desk and you’ll get a stamp that you’ve found their elf.

Find 10 or more, and bring your card down to Calico Toy Shoppe by December 23 2024, to enter a drawing on December 24th to win a special gift!

Good luck finding your lucky elves!

Welcome Wednesday

You are welcome here!

Visit our timed ticket page to book your ticket for Welcome Wednesday.

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for a pay-what-you-wish community day at Bloedel Reserve. All are welcome to explore our trails and gardens and experience the transformative power of nature. No matter the season (or the weather), there’s always something new just around the corner.

We gratefully accept donations of any amount to help support the mission and operations of Bloedel Reserve.

More details:

Timed Tickets must be reserved in advance of your visit
Donations of any amount may be added to your ticket reservation and are invested to support the mission and operations of the Reserve

Thank you to Puget Sound Energy for sponsoring this month's Welcome Wednesday.

Learn how you can sponsor a Welcome Wednesday here.

Join us for our premiere Holiday Champagne Extravaganza, a celebration of the most celebratory wine on earth. Champagne is synonymous with festive and significant occasions, but is a serious wine in its own right and is particularly adept at pairing with food. Champagne is complicated with its styles, classifications, and labeling, but we'll learn about this world-famous sparkler by tasting a curated selection of fine champagnes including non-vintage, blanc de blancs, blanc de noirs, rosé, and vintage expressions, accompanied by a small plate of appetizers to experiment pairing with.

This is the first champagne course we’ve ever offered, and we're making it extra special for the holidays. Treat yourself and a friend! We hope to make this an annual tradition, and hope that you can join us for the very first one.

~Artist Holiday Art Sale~

December 6, 7, 8 10am-5pm 2024, open studio and art sale Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Join me for warm whiskey cider on FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK 6-8pm, walk to town from my studio!

Encaustic paintings + mono prints

I can help you select and curate a painting for your home

~commissions are welcome~

Sea Rose Studio entrance is accessed from Winslow Way

115 Grow Ave NW |Bainbridge Island Washington |98110

The Bainbridge Island Studio Tour celebrates 41 years this winter, with an exciting array of artists. 54 regional artists with their hand-crafted work will be showcased in five island studios and community halls. The website has a downloadable brochure and map, plus details about each artist including photos and artist statements. Info: www.bistudiotour.com. 206-842-0504.

Join us on the plaza for lights, music, food, and shopping—enjoy vendors from all over the PNW!

DIY activities for all ages

Live DJ & Performances

Holiday themed drinks for all ages

Keep warm in one of our fire pit zones

FREE movies in BIMA Classroom

FREE photo booth

After Party concerts both nights with WurliPop and their “Holiday Spectacular”

…and more!

Singer and guitarist Tony Petrillo has been performing in bands in the Puget Sound area for 40 years. His voice is most often compared to the baritone singers of the mid-20th century. Most recently on the Olympic Peninsula, his band, the Roundabouts, has been playing swing, early jazz, blues, bossas and sambas, some Gypsy, and a little bit of Rock’n’roll for a twist.

Director Sylvia Cauter presents Amabile's winter holiday program! Selections include Morten Lauridsen's Sure On This Shining Night, Zachary Moore's Hope, and Eriks Esenvalds Stars, as well as holiday classics like Deck the Hall and The Christmas Song.

Friday and Saturday December 6th and 7th at 7:30 PM, Bethany Lutheran Church, Bainbridge Island

Saturday December 7th at 2 PM, St. Cecilia's Parish, Bainbridge Island

Featuring Special Guest Olympic Serenade String Quartet.

Tickets are $20, available at http://amabilechoir.org/events and at Dana's On Bainbridge