When Kamal Siegel was a member of the Redmond Arts Commission, he wanted to a way to connect people in the digital arts world as well as introduce the field to the general public.
Cellist Audrey Chen, winner of the Eastside Symphony’s Young Soloists Competition, will be giving a performance on Sunday at the Redmond High School Performing Arts Center, 17272 NE 104th St., at 3 p.m.
Redmond artist Susan Melrath is currently showing her work at the Virginia Inn at 1937 1st Ave. in Seattle.
David Horsey, the two-time Pulitizer Prize winning editorial cartoonist and columnist, will be talking about kick-starting a cartooning career in Redmond at the upcoming Redmond Historical Society meeting. Horsey started his career at the Sammamish Valley News in 1976, he is now based at seattlepi.com, and his work is distributed to Hearst publications throughout the United States.
Two Redmond residents will be featured in Bellevue College’s upcoming action-packed production “The Three Musketeers.”
The production hits the stage March 9 for four consecutive nights at the college’s Carlson Theatre.
All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, at $12 general admission and $10 for students, are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Redmond High School (RHS) is serving up slapstick comedy in its upcoming theater production.
RHS will be presenting “The Servant of Two Masters.” from March 3-12 at the RHS Performing Arts Center at 17272 NE 104th St.
Middle school girls in Redmond now have a place to turn when struggling with issues common to their age.
Jillian Roels, a junior at Redmond High School and a top ten qualifier in last year’s Miss Washington Teen USA pageant, has opened a Redmond chapter of Girl Talk, a mentoring program for middle school girls.
The Girl Talk program, a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, was founded in 2002 by a then-15-year-old, Haley Kilpatrick. The idea was to create a program that would help girls get through their challenging middle school years, with the help of high school girls, according to desiretoinspire.org, the Girl Talk website. Today, Girl Talk reaches 30,000 girls in 41 states, with more chapters being started by high school girls, like Roels. Washington state has three other Girl Talk locations in Lacrosse, Longview and Spokane.
Upcoming performances at Redmond’s SecondStory Repertory (SSR) have a little something for everyone.
Beginning March 4, Evergreen Family Theatre (EFT) will prove love can overcome anything, even stupidity.
For its seventh main stage production, the theater, which is located at RedWood Family Church, 11500 Redmond-Woodinville Rd, is taking on Neil Simon’s romantic comedy, “Fools,” a romantic comedy set in Kulyenchikov, Ukraine during the late 19th century. The play is the story of schoolteacher Leon Tolchinsky, who comes into town to teach the local doctor’s daughter and falls in love with her, only to learn that all of Kulyenchikov is the victim of a 200-year-old curse of stupidity.
“This (play is) a lot of fun,” said director Marsha Stueckle. “This one is totally goofy … a goofy, whimsical show.”
Malinda Lam-Gershony dental practice at Redmond Town Center is opening its doors Feb. 26 to provide free dental consultations for children.
Pacific Sound Chorus, a women’s a cappella vocal ensemble, is offering free three-month memberships starting Jan. 25.
Bill & His Six String will be in Redmond Tuesday Feb. 1 at Soul Food Books (www.soulfoodbooks.com) at 15748 Redmond Way, with Slim Biscuit at 4 p.m.
From Feb. 4-13 the Pacific Northwest Ballet will feature two Redmond students in its production of “Cinderella.”
Students at The Bear Creek School performed “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by William Shakespeare at The Bear Creek School Cornerstone Theater last weekend.
As the Eastside passes through another week of frigid temperatures, Vincent Flint counts down the days left until the Bellevue Severe Weather Shelter packs up and moves to Redmond.
For four Eastside cities, including Redmond, the move is the chance to provide a shelter for homeless all winter. It’s about saving lives. It’s humane.
For Flint, it’s a disaster.
Battling Hepatitis C since April, Flint says the mile walk from his camp to the shelter at the Crossroads Community Center is almost impossible and a $5 bus ride to Redmond and back is too costly.
“I’m not walking a tight rope,” he said. “I’m walking a razor blade.”
Promises of an especially icy winter this year drove an interfaith community to urge the cities to keep a shelter open on the Eastside all winter.
Although their success was not expected, the group turned the Bellevue shelter, which typically only opens when temperatures drop below 32 degrees, into a nightly operation.
However, the change requires the shelter a move to Redmond and the group is still raising money to cover the cost of being open extra days. They hope to have enough money to stay open through Feb. 15.
Beginning Jan. 15, Redmond will host an overnight winter shelter at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80th St. The winter shelter will be in the community center auditorium and accommodates up to 50 adults. It opens at 8:30 p.m. and closes at 7:30 a.m. The winter shelter is staffed by trained, experienced staff from Congregations for the Homeless (for men) and Sophia Way Shelter (for women). Staff will be on site every night in addition to at least one trained volunteer.
Emily Dickinson-Explorer Elementary School presents “Just Another Day in Wonderland, The Story of Alice,” Jan. 21-22.
For its 12th annual stage production, Rose Hill Elementary School is taking the classic story about the boy who wouldn’t grow up and giving it a comedic and musical twist.
Mountain bikers will be taking on the muddy terrain on the north Eastside for the Jan. 15 Stinky Weather Poker Run (also known as Stinky Spoke), to raise money for people with disabilities.
When 6-year-old Diego Andaluz first took an interest in music, it was because he wanted to play the guitar.
But his mother, Yadira Martinez, said after bringing him to children’s music classes, Diego’s interests turned in a different direction.
For its 12th season, the SecondStory Repertory Children’s Theater Series is presenting “Sleeping Beauty,” Jan. 7-23.
