Events

Reminder: Celebration of Food Festival coming Sunday

Reminder: Celebration of Food Festival coming Sunday

Food Revolution Snohomish County, a movement aimed at encouraging growing, cooking, preserving, and eating real and healthy food, for the second year is bringing the free Celebration of Food Festival to the Lynnwood Convention Center from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Sunday, May 19. “This event brings together people who are passionate about delicious, local, wholesome food,” said organizer Chris Hudyma. “Farm... »

Relay for Life coming to South Snohomish County on June 1

Relay For Life of South Snohomish — a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society — will kick off at noon June 1 at Edmonds District Stadium with a special Survivors Lap honoring those who have defeated cancer. Relay For Life is a unique grassroots fundraising event in which individuals and teams of participants in nearly 5,100 communities nationwide walk around a track overnight. The money ... »

Professional billards player coming to Alderwood Boys and Girls Club on May 17

Professional billards player Richard “Rich the Hat” Geiler will be putting on a trick shot show at 2 p.m., May 17 at the Alderwood Boys and Girls Club. Geiler has been playing pocket billiards for over 50 years and is a big supporter of the Alderwood Boys & Girls Club. In 1993, He was ranked 32nd in the world by the Men’s Professional Billards Tour. Geiler previously owned an... »

Edmonds CC Symphonic Choir concert to debut original work

Edmonds CC Symphonic Choir concert to debut original work

The Edmonds Community College Symphonic Choir presents its spring concert 7:30 p.m. Mon., June 10, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood. The event is free and open to the public. This year, the choir will debut an original piece of music, “Sing to Me!,” composed by John Muehleisen with a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and commissioned by the Edmonds CC Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement program. T... »

Veterans to be honored at Lynnwood Veterans Park on May 27

The Lynnwood Memorial Day program will be at 11 a.m., Monday, May 27 at Lynnwood Veterans Park. The Northwest Jr. Pipe band will play bagpipe selections before a welcome address by City Council President Loren Simmonds. VFW Post 1040 Commander Martin Spani will cite the Pledge of Alligiance and VFW Post 1040 Past Chaplain and former Lynnwood Councilmember George Janecke will give the Invocation. A... »

Brown Bag Lecture features Eliaichi Kimaro

Brown Bag Lecture features Eliaichi Kimaro

Filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro will speak at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 9 as part of Edmonds Community College’s Brown Bag Lecture Series. Kimaro’s presentation will be in the college’s Black Box Theatre. The lecture is free and open to the public. A first-generation American, Kimaro, goes in search of her identity. She discovers that the cycle of gender violence she has been working h... »

Author to speak about her life as undocumented citizen

Author to speak about her life as undocumented citizen

Reyna Grande, author of “The Distance Between Us” and “Dancing with Butterflies,” will talk about her life as an undocumented citizen at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 7 at Edmonds Community College’s Black Box Theatre. The Distance Between Us is Grande’s personal, heart-wrenching, and ultimately triumphant memoir about her journey from Mexico to the United States as an undocumented child immigrant, w... »

Author Moskowitz to have signing on Sunday at EdCC’s Powwow

Author Moskowitz to have signing on Sunday at EdCC’s Powwow

Carnation-based author David Moskowitz, author of the acclaimed book “Wolves in the Land of Salmon,” will have a book signing 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, during the Edmonds Community College’s Native American Student Association Powwow, “Teachings of the Wolves.” Also just added are the Quileute Wolf Dancers. The 28th annual event continues through May 5 and is free and open to the public... »

28th annual Powwow in full swing at Edmonds Community College

28th annual Powwow in full swing at Edmonds Community College

A large and enthusiastic crowd greeted dancers at the 28th annual Powwow Friday at Edmonds Community College. The college’s Native American Student Association is hosting the free event, which brings together students, families, and communities to celebrate American Indian singing, drumming, dancing, and arts and crafts in Seaview Gym on campus. Dance and drum ceremonies continue on Saturday... »

Learn more about Arab culture at Arab Fest

Learn more about Arab culture at Arab Fest

Are you interested in learning more about Arab culture, including language, art, music, and history? Edmonds Community College’s Arabic Club hosts an Arab Fest from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, in the lobby of Brier Hall on campus. The event is free and open to the public. There will be a number of items for sale, such as Middle Eastern-themed books and T-shirts with Arabic calligraphy spelling... »

Reminder: Edmonds Community College hosts annual Powwow

Reminder: Edmonds Community College hosts annual Powwow

Edmonds Community College’s Native American Student Association hosts its 28th annual Powwow, “Teachings of the Wolves,” May 3-5. The Powwow brings together students, families, and communities to celebrate American Indian singing, drumming, dancing, and arts and crafts. It will be held in Seaview Gym on campus. Dance and drum ceremonies start at 7 p.m., Friday; 1 and 7 p.m., Saturday; and 1 p.m., ... »

Lynnwood Appraisal Roadshow coming in June

Are there things in your house that you don’t even know what they’re used for? Did Grandma tell you that precious item was given to her by someone famous? Dig out your dusty heirlooms and come see what they’re worth at the Lynnwood Appraisal Roadshow from 1-3 p.m., Wednesday, June 5 at the Lynnwood Senior Center. Your heirloom will be appraised by expert Mac McVay, a third-generation licensed anti... »

Experience music, song and dance of the early Spanish resistance

Experience music, song and dance of the early Spanish resistance

Enjoy an afternoon of music, song and dance and the fusion made by early Spanish resistance music as expressed by Flamenco and Latin American New Song or Nueva Cancion. Local Latin American group Sin Fronteras will be joined by Local Flamenco artists from Peña Flamenco and Gustavo Lopez and Friends for a program from 4-6 p.m, Sunday, April 28 at Edmonds Community College’s Black Box Theatre.... »

Take a Stand Against Racism rally set for Friday

Lynnwood’s Neighborhoods & Demographic Diversity Commission and the YWCA of Snohomish County host the first Stand Against Racism event at 3:30 p.m., April 26. The event will commence in front of the Lynnwood Senior Center located at 19000 44th Ave W. There will be keynote addresses by Lynnwood’s Mayor Don Gough, Lynnwood City Council President Loren Simmonds, Diversity Commission Chair Shirley... »

Caricature artist will have another try at breaking record this summer

Caricature artist will have another try at breaking record this summer

Steve Hartley of Muggshotz Caricatures was certainly on pace to break the unofficial record for the most caricatures draw in one hour Sunday evening. The current record stands at 129 caricatures, and Hartley completed 65 sketches in less than a half hour — all part of a fundraiser for Edmonds-based Operation Military Family, held at Lynnwood Bowl and Skate. A light turnout prevented Hartley from g... »

Whole Bead Show coming to Lynnwood Convention Center

The Whole Bead Show will be May 3-5 at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Hours are Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday noon-5 p.m. Admission is $6 and is payable by cash or check and is valid for all three days of the show. Artisans scheduled to appear include: Andrea Guarino Slemmons, Bearfoot Art Glass, Donna Ballard, Icarus Beads, Judith Billig, Kristi Bowman Designs, Lara Lutrick, Lori Bergmann Des... »

Reminder: Clothes For Kids Bowl-A-Thon will be April 17 at Lynnwood Bowl & Skate

Reminder: Clothes For Kids Bowl-A-Thon will be April 17 at Lynnwood Bowl & Skate

Clothes For Kids along with the Lynnwood Chamber present the first combined Bowl-A-Thon on April 17. The event will be from 5-7 p.m. at the Lynnwood Bowl & Skate. All funds raised will directly benefit Clothes For Kids and help to provide wardrobes for more than 4,500 low-income students this school year. Tickets are $25 per person or $100 per team. Bowlers will receive a t-shirt and two games... »

Learn about healing power of meditation

Join Ajili Hodari Esq, a practioner of meditation for more than 30 years, as he presents research on how meditation can improve one’s physical, mental and spiritual health. People will have a chance to practice this simple technique that can reduce stress, enhance relaxation and promote inner growth. The program is at 7 p.m., April 18 at the Lynnwood Library.   »

Lynnwood Bowl & Skate hosting world record caricature drawing attempt in fundraiser for military families

Lynnwood Bowl & Skate hosting world record caricature drawing attempt in fundraiser for military families

                      By David Pan Artist Steve Hartley currently holds the unofficial record for drawing the most caricatures in one hour. He drew 129 caricatures in 2008 to better his previous record of 119, which he established two years earlier. Hartley is stretching his fingers and arm in preparation for another potential record-setting a... »

‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ coming to Black Box Theatre on May 16-18

The Edmonds Community College Music Department and the Black Box Theatre presents Charles Schulz’s “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” 7:30 p.m. May 16-18, and 2 p.m. May 17-18, in the college’s Black Box Theatre. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students, youth (17 and under), and seniors (65-plus). Spend an evening with Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Sally and, of course... »

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