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THEATRICAL CIRCUS AT OPEN SPACE: Mark your calendar to see “50 Sense Circus” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, at the Open Space. Veteran women performers will pull out all the stops in their new show that raises funds for the Vashon DoVE Project and Eve Ensler’s 1 Billion Rising Project.
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Take a walk with art on Friday Most galleries and venues are open from 6 to 9 p.m. Art in the Alley, located behind Spider’s Ski & Sports, is brimming with Northwest artists working in different mediums. Aiko Vail and Kathy Skripek create fused glass art, Susan Baker uses mixed media, Janet Gadallah is a tile artist, Linda Morrow works with glass beads, David Blad is a potter and tile artist and Poul Erkison is a wood and metal artist. The gallery will open with music by Jack Barbash on piano and Steve Meyers on bass. Bergamot Studio, Kassana Holden’s design hub, will be open by appointment only from January through March, while Holden is on design sabbatical. Blooms & Things will show new work from master chainsaw carver Jake Lucas. Café Luna will hold a reception for Marcia McKinzie. A self-taught artist who uses a technique called “watercolor batik,” McKinzie began painting at age three and has always found creativity rewarding but said that only recently did painting become an essential part of her life. The Hardware Store Restaurant will display photographs by Neil Wiesnet, taken from his travels in India and Ethiopia. Wiesnet, a cinematographer who grew up on Vashon, credits the island’s natural beauty as inspiration for his career. This show includes images of the Kara and Hamur tribes of the Omo River Valley region in Ethiopia, along with portraits taken in India. An artist reception was held on Jan. 3, and the show will be up through the month of January. Vashon Intuitive Arts will exhibit images of phone photography by Dianna Ammon plus Adina and Lorna Cunningham. Taken during travels abroad and in their own backyard, these photographs capture memorable moments in the lives of the three photographers. The Red Bike, on the bar side, will show work by Vashon native Spencer Sinner. A former student of Vashon High School’s beloved art teacher Amy Dubin, Sinner paints colorful landscapes, abstracts and portraits. The show is titled “Freedom Fighters” and will feature peo-
ple whose lives have inspired Sinner through their uplifting and positive work. The Seattle Distilling Company will display art by Jonathan Kuzma and host a Luana Beach Coffee Liqueur launch party from 5 to 9 p.m. Starving Artists Works (SAW) will show Kelly Brynn’s pyrography. Two Wall Gallery opens with juried photographs that highlight Seattle’s two Asian gardens — the Chinese and Japanese — and the show runs until the end of February. The photographs were taken by two accomplished adult student teams under the guidance of island photographer Ray Pfortner. There will also be some photos by Pfortner on display. Pfortner is well known for his Shoot to Show photography workshops that teach students how to create and promote a show. Pfortner will offer a new Shoot to Show workshop for Vashon Allied Arts in the spring. The Vashon Allied Arts Gallery show will celebrate something many islanders cherish on a daily basis — their best friends, a.k.a. their dogs. Curator Janice Mallman, inspired by an idea from VAA board member Fred Albert, asked 14 Vashon artists to create special canine-themed artwork in various mediums for the show. The selected artists had to meet Mallman’s main criterion of having a heartfelt, personal connection with the dogs in their lives. The musical group Riverbend will play for the gallery opening, and Plum Lodge will cater the event. VALISE Gallery showcases four island artists plus four of their guests. Gallery members Ina Whitlock, Ann Nicklason, Kathryn Schipper and Mary Lawrence invited their respective guest artists Ivonne deKommer, Kate Thompson, Rebecca Watson and Zoe Sackman to join them. One of the pieces, called “Look At Me” by Kate Thompson, was built with help from the Vashon Robotics Club. The show includes a range of media, from sculpture to drawing. The Vashon Tea Shop will continue its exhibit of photography by Richard Kasden. Kasden’s show, called “Holy Moly Moments,” includes landscape and travel photos from Vashon, the Pacific Northwest and Kasden’s worldwide travels.
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A dog-themed show at VAA will include “You’re the Only One I’ll Ever Love,” (top) by Margaret Tylczak Heffelfinger. Two Wall Gallery will show photos by Ray Pfortner and his adult students. “Seattle Chinese Garden Moon” (bottom) was taken by Pfortner.
Director will be on hand at film on media censorship
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Doug Hecker and Christopher Oscar are the creators of “Project Censored: The Movie,” which will play at the Vashon Theatre.
Six years ago, two real estate agents from Sonoma, Calif., decided they were mad as heck with what they saw as corporate media’s failure to accurately inform the public by replacing truth with “infotainment,” and in the words of Howard Beale from the movie “Network,” they were “not going to take it anymore.” The duo took action, and today Christopher Oscar and Doug Hecker can claim new job titles as the writers, directors and producers of the documentary “Project Censored: The Movie, Ending the Reign of Junk Food News,” which will play at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Vashon Theatre. Begun as a sociology class at Sonoma State University in the post-Watergate era, Project Censored grew into a media watchdog group that teaches students in over 25 colleges and universities how to become citizen journalists and annually publishes a book highlighting the year’s top news stories that media corporations failed to report. Oscar and Hecker decided to take this story of media censorship and the need for critical thinking about media literacy on the road by producing a documentary. They
rounded up an impressive cast of corporate media critics to interview including Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Dan Rather, Noam Chomsky, Phil Donahue, Oliver Stone, Bob and Sharon Jimenez, Greg Palast, John Perkins and Cynthia McKinney, among other notables. Islander Melissa Curtin met Oscar at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival and became the film’s first editor, working on the documentary for several years before relocating to Vashon. She recently asked Vashon’s Green Tech series to bring the award-winning film to the island. “‘Project Censored: The Movie’ motivates and educates viewers to become better informed and active citizens by discovering relevant news that has critical environmental, socio-political and humanitarian impact,” Curtin wrote in a press release. “Showing the film to the Vashon community will ultimately help create solutions, raise awareness and support for local and global activism for newsworthy issues.” Oscar will be on hand to answer audience questions following Tuesday night’s free screening. — Juli Goetz Morser