David Raffin reads at the Finger for Westside ArtsWalk. Appearing at the Olympia Library Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 8:30 PM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MjzL5e9J58

 

From ArtsCrush.org:

During October, everyone is an artist who practices the Art of letter writing! Share what you love about Olympia and place it in a symbol of love located at a place everyone loves! Dear Olympia: Love Letters to Our City is a community-wide event that invites all Olympia area residents to write a love letter to the city sharing stories about favorite places, events and memories of growing up/living in/visiting Olympia. Letters from the heart will be "posted" in a Heart sculpture created by Olympia artists Margo Westfall and Don Lovett and located in the "heart" of Olympia: the Library. Letters will be collected throughout October and selected letters will be shared publicly.

Here is the artist, Margo Westfall, describing her piece.

Please join us for a traveling road show of bicycle talk, zines, and transportation activism. Elly Blue and Joe Biel will present short videos and a slideshow about Portland's bike culture, followed by a discussion of alternative transit and the future of transportation infrastructures in our towns and beyond. Dale Carlson from Bike Tech of Olympia will provide a local perspective on bike culture. Program sponsored by Bike Tech of Olympia and the Friends of the Olympia Timberland Library.

Bikestravaganza: Off the Chainring Blog

Timberland Regional Library website

A panel of three scientists will discuss the natural history of Puget Sound, the marine animals that inhabit the Sound and an overview of Harbor WildWatch, a non-profit environmental education organization based in Gig Harbor that provides learning opportunities to people in the Puget Sound area. The presentation will be held after hours at the Olympia Timberland Library on Thursday, August 5 from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. A new edition of the book “Puget Sound's Wildside: A Natural History of Puget Sound's Marine Environment,” published by Harbor WildWatch in 2009, will be available for purchase. The book is the only comprehensive natural history reference guide for the Puget Sound ecosystem. This edition includes colorful graphs and illustrations to capture children’s interest. It is interactive as well as informative and presents scientific information in laypersons’ terms. Panelists:

• Michael Behrens is a marine ecologist and professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. His research focuses on the ecology of herbivorous fishes, disease ecology, and the scope and threats of wildlife importation.

The Olympia Timberland Library & Northern|The Olympia All Ages Project want to keep you up all night for the second annual 24 Hour Zine Thing workshop. Your challenge: make a 24-page zine from conception to completion in 24 hours straight. Take a break from zine creation at 8 p.m. to enjoy the musical stylings of Olympia's own Broken Water. The event culminates with willing sleep-deprived zinesters reading from their shiny new zines on Sunday, August 1 at 3:30 p.m. Note: feel free to drop in at any point between July 31 at 5:30 p.m. and August 1 at 5 p.m. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring materials to use or share.  Location: Northern, 321 4th Avenue, Olympia.

24 Hour Zine Thing site: http://24hourzines.com 

Broken Water: http://www.myspace.com/brokenagua

Join author Jill Bullock for a discussion of her book "Olympia," a local history told through postcards. The presentation will be at the Olympia Timberland Library on Thursday, June 24 from 7:30 to 8:45 p.m.  Ms. Bullock will discuss the history of postcards and postcard collecting while projecting images of historical Olympia postcards. First the provisional territorial capital in 1853, Olympia became the permanent state capital when Washington attained statehood in 1889. The town's history and landmarks, as well as the surrounding areas, were all visually documented by the picture postcard, which gained widespread popularity by the beginning of the 20th century. Bullock, a native of Bellevue, a newspaper columnist, writer and antique and postcard dealer, has collected images of Washington for more than 25 years.  The event will be held after hours, regular library services will not be available. The Olympia library is located at 313 8th Avenue SE. For more information, call (360) 352-0595 or go to www.TRL.org.

Microcosm Publishing is bringing its 2010 Skillshare tour to Olympia on Monday, April 5 from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. The event will be located at Northern, 321 4th Avenue E. Doors will open at 7. The event is presented by the Olympia Timberland Library and Northern/the Olympia All Ages Project and is free.

Traveling vegan chef and author Joshua Ploeg will cook up some snacks and share cooking techniques from his book, In Search of the Lost Taste. Microcosm publisher Joe Biel will present short films including the documentary, If It Ain't Cheap, It Ain't Punk. He’ll also talk about zine culture and answer questions.

Mia Partlow and Michael Hoerger will bring a mobile museum and document library on the fascinating secret history of food and espionage and discuss their forthcoming book, Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified US History. Zines and other publications will be available for purchase.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Olympia Timberland Library and Northern/the Olympia All Ages Project. More information is at www.northernolympia.com and microcosmpublishing.com. For further details, contact the Olympia Timberland Library at (360) 352-0595 or go to www.TRL.org.

Award-winning Northwest author Cherie Priest will read from and discuss her steampunk* novel, Boneshaker at the Olympia Timberland Library, after hours, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 3. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

The novel has won a 2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association book award and is a finalist for the prestigious Nebula Award. Winners will be announced in mid-May. (The annual Nebula awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing. www.nebulaawards.com)

About the Book
In the early days of the Civil War, inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine, his Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches of history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

About the Author
Priest is the author of seven novels. She made her debut with the Eden Moore series of Southern Gothic ghost stories that began with Four and Twenty Blackbirds, a Blooker award winner. (The Blooker—is a literary prize for “blooks” – printed, bound and published books based on blogs, websites or other online content. www.blookerprize.com) Priest lives in Seattle and keeps a blog at cmpriest.livejournal.com.

Join author Erin McKittrick at the Olympia Timberland Library as she discusses "The Long Trek Home." In June 2007, McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human power. This is the story of their unprecedented trek along the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. The library is normally closed at this time and will be open only for the event.

The Long Trek Home

Join the author, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, for a reading and signing of “Crow Planet” at the Olympia Timberland Library. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

“With her sensitivity, careful eye and gift for language, Haupt tells her tale beautifully, using crow study to get at a range of ever-deepening concerns about nature and our place within it, immersing us in a heady hybrid of science, history, how-to and memoir.” -Erika Schickel, Los Angeles Times.

The library is normally closed at this time and will be open only for the event.