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Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.
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For three years now the foreign language department at Pacific Lutheran University has put on its annual film festival featuring short, foreign language films with English subtitles. Formerly called Hong International, it's now the FLaSh Film Festival.
It's free and it's at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 6 in the Mount Tahoma Auditorium at the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave. in Tacoma.
This year's selection for Tacoma Reads Together is Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" - the novelist's first nonfiction narrative. In it, she tells the story of how she and her family spent a year as "locavores," eating food grown either by themselves or by farmers near their Virginia home. The book explores ideas related to sustainability, and it reveals how the change in eating habits changed Kingsolver's family, making them more aware of what they consume.
The Grand Cinema is getting in on the action this weekend with the showing of the feature length 2007 documentary "King Corn" at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
All Tacoma Public Library card-holders receive a $1.50 discount off admission.A synopsis from imdb.com reads:
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.
May is Arts Education Month, and to honor that the City of Auburn Arts Commission is beginning a series of year-round art classes through the City of Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation.
From the press release:
"Art with Artists is an opportunity for participants to experience individual artists’ processes, techniques and inspiration while also learning the basic skills of a particular medium. Artist instructors will provide and explain examples of their own work, demonstrate their own creative process and inspiration, and lead participants to create their own artwork."
There are two four-week May classes for youth:
-Beginning Stenciling for ages 11-plus.Participants will create their own set of stencils to compose an original poster while learning about composition, printmaking, negative/positive space and more. 3 – 4:30 p.m. Thursdays, May 7-28. Les Gove Building, Les Gove Park, 11th Street and Auburn Way South, Auburn. $55 resident/$69 non-resident.
-Drawing Fundamentals for ages 7-12.The class will explore shading, space and form using charcoal and graphite alongside artist Danielle Meyers. Tuesdays, May 5 – 26, 5 – 6 pm, Les Gove Building. $45 resident/$57 nonresident.
Upcoming classes and workshops for all ages include Tia Matthies: Encaustic (June), Ellen Ito : Soft Sculpture (July), Susanne Werner: Mixed Media (August) Amy Reeves : Small Scale Metal Sculpture (September), Grace Willard: Textile Manipulation (October).
To register, contact the City of Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation at 253-931-3043. For more information, visit www.auburnwa.gov/arts.
