Steamboat Today, Aug. 19, 2009

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Local author tells stories McGee gives free ‘Voices on the Wind’ presentation

THURSDAY

Margaret Hair

PILOT & TODAY STAFF

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In the course of putting together a book chronicling her 4 1/2-year circumnavigation on a 33-foot sailboat, Bonnie McGee found a scrap of paper from a Scrabble game she played at a distant port more than 20 years ago. On the back of the scorecard, the Steamboat Springs artist and author found two scrawled distances for the route back home: one took her and her companion through the Red Sea, the other around the Cape of Good Hope. “We were figuring out, ‘Where in the world do we want to go tomorrow?’ … And that kind of feeling I knew I would never experience again in my life,” McGee said. During the two decades since McGee returned from her trip, she’s compiled stories and photos from the people she met along the way. Those people are at the heart of “Voices on the Wind,” a coffee-table-style book published in February. McGee will sign copies of the book at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Bud Werner Memorial

Steamboat All Arts Festival schedule

MATT STENSLAND/STAFF

Steamboat Springs artist and author Bonnie McGee works on a plein air piece Tuesday overlooking Lake Catamount. She will talk about her book, “Voices on the Wind,” on Thursday as part of the Steamboat All Arts Festival.

If you go What: Book signing and presentation on “Voices on the Wind,” a book by Bonnie McGee When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday book signing, presentation at 7 p.m. Where: Bud Werner Memorial Library Cost: Free Call: 879-0240

Library, and she will show a slideshow with music at 7 p.m. The free presentation is part of the inaugural Steamboat All Arts Festival, a four-day event sponsored by the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association highlighting visual, performing, film and culinary arts. “Voices on the Wind” offers short, slice-of-life stories about

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the people McGee encountered during 1 1/2 years in Australia, nine months on the islands of French Polynesia, and stays in New Guinea, South Africa and other locations where cruise ships don’t go and airplanes don’t land. Those stories — many of which McGee wrote during her trip — share space with photos and illustrations. “I didn’t want the photos to be so pretty that people didn’t take time to read the stories, because I thought the power was in the stories,” McGee said. McGee — a painter with the Artists’ Gallery of Steamboat and board president for the See McGee, page 15

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■ 9 to 10:30 a.m.: Downtown historic walking tour hosted by Tread of Pioneers Museum; FREE ■ 2 to 4 p.m.: Portrait painting demonstration with Richard Galusha at Steamboat Art Museum; FREE ■ 5 to 6:30 p.m.: Seminars at Steamboat presents Alice Rivlin at the Strings Music Pavilion; FREE ■ 5:30 p.m. to about 9 p.m.: Steamboat Springs Free Summer Concert Series presents The Avett Brothers at the base of Steamboat Ski Area; FREE ■ 7 to 8 p.m.: “Voices on the Wind” presentation and book signing with Bonnie McGee at Bud Werner Memorial Library; FREE ■ 8 to 10 p.m.: “Sips & Sweets” dessert and drink tasting; TBA; local restaurants compete for the best drink and dessert pairing during three nights of the festival

FRIDAY ■ 9 a.m. to noon: Draw, paint or sculpt after a model with critique from Susan Schiesser and Janice Lawrence at Artists’ Gallery of Steamboat; $12 ■ 9:30 to 11:15 a.m.: Memoir writing workshop with Susan de Wardt at Tread of Pioneers; $15 ■ 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Yampa River Art Stroll on Yampa Street in downtown Steamboat Springs; $5 Noon to 1 p.m.: Pastel landscape demo with Robert Dieckhoff at Artists’ Gallery; FREE

■ 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.: Irish dancing with Nora Parker at Northwest Ballet; $10 ■ 10 to 11:30 a.m.: African dance with the Steamboat Springs African Dance & Drum Ensemble at PerryMansfield Performing Arts School and Camp; $5 ■ 10 to 11:30 a.m.: Photography

See Calendar, page 16

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■ Noon to 2 p.m.: “The Art of Lulie Crawford” at Tread of Pioneers; FREE ■ 2 to 3:30 p.m.: Watercolor workshop with Mary Levingston at the Art Tent in Torian Plum Plaza; $10 ■ 2 to 4 p.m.: Painting from life with Jean Perry at Bud Werner Memorial Library; $15 ■ 4 to 5:30 p.m.: “Why Can’t I Understand Shakespeare?” with Stuart Handloff at the Art Tent; $10 ■ 5 p.m.: Design District Open House; FREE ■ 5 p.m.: Off the Beaten Path Bookstore Poetry Slam at the library; FREE ■ 5:30 to 8 p.m.: Plein air artists reception at Steamboat Art Museum; TBA ■ 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Belly dance “Super Shimmy Power Activate” with Meg Widmer at Northwest Ballet Studio; $10 ■ 8 p.m.: Strings Music Festival presents pianist George Winston; $32 ■ 8 to 10 p.m.: “Sips & Sweets” dessert and drink tasting; TBA

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