Arts and Culture at Edmonds CC

2010-11 Events

Theater Auditions: The Member Of The Wedding

September 24, 2010

Auditions for The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers will be 6 p.m, Friday, Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 25 in the theatre.

The show runs Nov. 12-21. Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the play is a beautiful and painfully accurate story of the intertwined lives of whites and blacks in the rural South at the end of World War II, as experienced by a lonely adolescent girl.

Upcoming auditions:
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde auditions will be held 6 p.m., Friday, January 7 and 10 a.m. Saturday, January 8 in the theatre.

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare auditions will be held 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

Poet Sarah Zale

October 6, 2010 • 12:30

Edmonds Community College English instructor Sarah Zale reads from her poetry collection. Zale, faculty advisor for the student Peace and Justice Club, is an advocate of discussion, storytelling, and poetry of witness about war and conflict. Her new collection of poems, The Art of Folding (Plain View Press, 2010), was inspired by her travels to Israel and the West Bank with the Compassionate Listening Project.

Zale was a 2009 Fellow to the United States Institute of Peace and earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Poetry from Goddard College. Her work also appears in the anthology Come Together, Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award 2009 (along with works by fellow English instructors Holly Hughes and Martha Silano). The lecture takes places in the Black Box Theatre, Mukilteo Hall.

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Postcard Poems And Puppy Prose

Writers Amanda Laughtland (right) and Marcia Woodard

October 20, 2010 • 12:30

Lifelong residents of the Edmonds area, Amanda Laughtland and Marcia Woodard hold MFA degrees in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and have taught English at Edmonds Community College for a combined total of 15 years. They will be reading from their newly published collections of poetry and nonfiction. Amanda's book, Postcards to Box 464, has been described by one reviewer as "a dreamy, friendly collection of poems that somehow manages to be carefree and deep at the same time." Marcia's book, Collected Kona, brings together a series of funny and touching stories of her dog Kona which originally appeared in the American Kennel Club's AKC Gazette magazine. The lecture takes place in the Black Box Theatre, Mukilteo Hall.

Wolf Conservation And Citizen Science In Washington State

November 3, 2010 • 12:30

Professional wildlife tracker David Moskowitz talks about the historical presence and ecological role of wolves in Washington State, the reestablishment of the species in the region, and how citizen scientists (including Edmonds Community College service-learning students) have helped document the presence and distribution of wolves and other rare carnivores across the state.

Moskowitz, a wildlife tracker, photographer, and outdoor educator, has contributed to wildlife studies regionally and in the Canadian and U.S. Rocky mountains. He helped establish the Cascade Citizens Wildlife Monitoring Project, a citizen science effort that monitors rare and sensitive wildlife in the Northwest wildlands. He has also trained mountaineering instructors for Outward Bound and is the lead instructor for wildlife tracking programs at Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, Washington. The lecture takes places in Woodway Hall 202.

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"East Eats West," Author Andrew Lam

November 10, 2010 • 11:30 AM

Andrew Lam, Vietnam-born author of "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres" and "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," will discuss the cultural consequences of immigration from Asia to the West including the effects of Asian taste, cuisine and martial arts on the American imagination and issues of religion, identity, and family in the new world where East and West overlap. Lam is also cofounder and editor of New American Media, the largest ethnic media association in the United States. The lecture takes place in Woodway Hall 202.

Drama: The Member Of The Wedding

November 12, 2010

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is a winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The play is a beautiful and painfully accurate story of the intertwined lives of whites and blacks in the rural South at the end of World War II, as experienced by a lonely adolescent girl. Tickets: $7 students/seniors, $9 general
The show also runs Nov. 18-Nov. 21. Show times: 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. | 2 p.m., Sun.

Upcoming Edmonds CC Drama productions:
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | Feb. 18-20 and Feb. 24-27
Auditions: 6 p.m., Friday, January 7 and 10 a.m. Saturday, January 8 in the theatre.
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare | May 13-15, May 19-29
Auditions: 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

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Drama: Member Of The Wedding

November 18, 2010

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is a winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The play is a beautiful and painfully accurate story of the intertwined lives of whites and blacks in the rural South at the end of World War II, as experienced by a lonely adolescent girl. Tickets: $7 students/seniors, $9 general Show times: 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. | 2 p.m., Sun.

Upcoming Edmonds CC Drama productions:
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | Feb. 18-20 and Feb. 24-27
Auditions: 6 p.m., Friday, January 7 and 10 a.m. Saturday, January 8 in the theatre.
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare | May 13-15, May 19-29
Auditions: 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

"American Junkie" Author Tom Hansen

November 18, 2010 • 12:30

Tom Hansen is the author of the memoir "American Junkie," published by Emergency Press. He attended Edmonds Community College from 2000 to 2002 and graduated with an MFA from The University of British Columbia in 2008. He lives in Seattle and is working on a novel. The lecture takes place in Snohomish Hall 304.

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Theater Auditions: The Importance Of Being Earnest

January 7, 2011

Auditions for The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde will be held 6 p.m., Friday, January 7 and 10 a.m. Saturday, January 8 in the theatre.

The show runs Feb. 18-27. This witty farce features the manners and mating rituals of English upper class society at the end of the nineteenth century. Wilde called his play “a delicate bubble of fancy.”

Upcoming auditions:
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare auditions will be held 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

Drama: The Importance Of Being Earnest

February 18, 2011

This witty farce by Oscar Wilde features the manners and mating rituals of English upper class society at the end of the nineteenth century. Wilde called his play “a delicate bubble of fancy.” Tickets cost: $7 for students/seniors, $9 general Show times: 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. | 2 p.m., Sun.

Upcoming Edmonds CC Drama productions:
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare | May 13-15 and May 19-22
Auditions: 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

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Drama: The Importance Of Being Earnest

February 24, 2011

This witty farce by Oscar Wilde features the manners and mating rituals of English upper class society at the end of the nineteenth century. Wilde called his play “a delicate bubble of fancy.” Tickets cost: $7 for students/seniors, $9 general Show times: 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. | 2 p.m., Sun.

Upcoming Edmonds CC Drama productions:
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare | May 13-15 and May 19-22
Auditions: 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

Theater Auditions: The Merchant Of Venice

March 11, 2011

Auditions for The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare will be 6 p.m, Friday, March 11 and 10 a.m., Saturday, March 12 in the theatre.

The show runs May 20-29. To save his best friend from a debt, a man agrees to forfeit a pound of his own flesh to the persecuted money-lender. Although the courtship of a beautiful heiress is at the forefront, this complex dark comedy of Shakespeare explores stereotypes of Christians and Jews in the bustling cosmopolitan port of Venice.

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Drama: The Merchant Of Venice

May 13, 2011

To save his best friend from a debt, a man agrees to forfeit a pound of his own flesh to the persecuted money-lender. Although the courtship of a beautiful heiress is at the forefront, William Shakespeare's complex dark comedy explores stereotypes of Christians and Jews in the bustling cosmopolitan port of Venice. Tickets cost: $7 for students/seniors, $9 general Show times: 7:30 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. | 2 p.m., Sun.