Arts & Entertainment
Autumn Leaf Festival Royal Lady April Watson Submitted Photo
LEAVENWORTH - The countdown is underway for Leavenworth's iconic annual autumn celebration, the Autumn Leaf Festival, set to return to downtown Leavenworth this weekend.
Since it was established, this festival has ingrained itself in the community's identity, attracting visitors from across the...
Carl and Sheila Bergren, Autumn Leaf Parade as its Grand Marshals Submitted Photo
LEAVENWORTH - Longtime locals Carl and Sheila Bergren will be seen leading the Autumn Leaf Parade as its Grand Marshals. It’s fitting for the 60th anniversary of the Autumn Leaf Festival that the Bergrens share the role rather than having only one Grand Marshal, which is more customary.
Charlotte...
Camaraderie at Art in the Park as seen by Funny Hat Day with artists, from left to right, Pete Kornowski, McKenna Kornowski, Executive Director Callie Baker, Cristina Landry, and Michelle Anderst. Submitted photo
Sixteen white tents in downtown Leavenworth. Everyone knows—it’s Village Art in the Park!
It’s a fixture of the Bavarian ambiance in the warmer seasons, adding to the visual pleasure of folks strolling by with their ice cream cones and looking for the perfect gift or a picture to remind them of...
Wenatchee Big Band returns to the stage for this year’s Jive Time in the Cascades fundraising concert Sept. 17 at Snowy Owl Theater. Photo Courtesy of Shari Campbell
LEAVENWORTH- It’s all about the jazz and the brass, the bass, and the big band sounds
On Sept. 17 at Jive Time in the Cascades, a Cascade Medical Foundation fundraising concert at Snowy Owl Theater. The Wenatchee Big Band, a 20-piece jazz orchestra ensemble with members ranging in age from 17 to 82...
Andre Nowacki Submitted Photo
Come to the Elder Speak Journey to Wisdom Event on September 10 from 2-4 p.m. for two hours of film, stories, wisdom, and discussion at Snowy Owl Theater in Leavenworth. In person, you enjoy refreshments before and after the program, and if you are watching from home, you can join online with this...
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WENATCHEE - Wenatchee’s oldest community singing group, the all-men Wenatchee Apollo Club, is looking for more singers as rehearsals for a new season beginning September 12.
The Apollo Club has a wide repertoire of pop, folk, jazz, musical theatre, patriotic, barbershop, seasonal, spirituals and...
The cast of Drowsy Chaperone invites you to their remaining performances August 10, 15, 18, 24, 31 and Sept. 2, at Ski Hill. Tickets still available at www.leavenworthsummertheater.org Submitted photo
Winner of five Tony Awards, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.
To chase his blues away, a modern-day musical theater addict drops the needle on his favorite record – the 1928 musical comedy The Drowsy...
All Washington children from birth to age five can now register to receive one book every month, for free, from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Courtesy Imagination Library of WA.
OLYMPIA – On Tuesday, August 15, legendary icon, musician, and philanthropist Dolly Parton will visit Washington State to celebrate achieving statewide coverage of the Imagination Library. All Washington children from birth to age five can now register to receive one book every month, for free,...
The Wenatchee Valley Erratics, Ice Age Floods Institute’s next program will be on Tuesday, August 8 at 7:00 PM at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission St., Wenatchee. Brent Cunderla, IAFI Wenatchee Valley Erratics’ long-time president, will give a powerpoint program on the Geological Wonders of Iceland. His talk stems from a trip he took in September 2022. Highlights include seeing the divergent plate boundary apparent at the surface, the Icelandic Hotspot, many basalt flows, geothermal fields and geothermal energy, geysers and hot springs, glaciers and waterfalls. This is a hybrid meeting. You can attend in-person at the Museum. Or you can participate via a Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84520197937 Please sign in at 7:00 PM, August 8! The program is free and open to the public. Pictured above is Godafoss Waterfall in Iceland. Courtesy Wenatchee Valley Erratics
Prendez is the owner and co-director of The Nepantla Art Gallery in Seattle. He creates art with a specific focus on themes of Chicano/a culture, activism, social justice, pop culture and satire. Courtesy Jake Prendez
CHELAN/WENATCHEE - NCW Libraries will host renowned Chicano artist Jake Prendez at six locations in July and August. Prendez will talk about social justice art and the influence of Mexican muralism on American artwork.
His Humanities Washington presentation, The Art of Rebellion, Social Justice...
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