Wa-Hi pottery teacher Genie Huntemann is finally teaching art. It’s been a long time coming. While the medium has always been in her heart, Huntemann has become a full-time art teacher for the first time in her 20-year-plus teaching career.
A cross-section of artists, styles, backgrounds, mediums and subject matter has coalesced into a gallery show at CAVU Cellars, 175 Aeronca Ave. "A Taste of Walla Walla Artistry" will be featured in November with an opening reception from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.
COVID-19 has interfered with so many aspects of daily life, but things are now opening up and the curtain is soon to rise again at The Little Theatre of Walla Walla, 1130 E. Sumach St. Volunteer ushers are need and a new training program is required.
A Nov. 7 concert by the Oregon East Symphony will be the first performance of the symphony led by conductor and artistic director Beau Benson at the Vert Auditorium in Pendleton.
Umatilla County Historical Society secured $15,000 towards maintaining its Heritage Station Museum at 108 SW Frazer in Pendleton, Oregon.
Storyteller Katie Anne Mitchell explores themes of isolation, femininity and finding one's place in the world while conducting a séance, her one-woman story and song show called Songs of the Nearly Forgotten. Yes, a séance. It will be 5 p.m. Oct. 24, outdoors, weather permitting, at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave. Admission is free.
A performance by comedian Andrew Sleighter on Thursday, Oct. 21, at The Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center, 6 W. Rose St., sponsored by Wine Valley Comedy, has been canceled.
Walla Walla native Steve Daily has written about the co-founder of the church he once attended, Ellen G. White of the Seventh-Day Adventist church. In "Ellen G. White, A Psychobiography," Daily cites information painting White in an unfavorable light.
A screening of the Little Watts Movie "Coraline" will be from 3-5 p.m. Oct. 31 at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave. A costume contest begins at 2:15 p.m. Prizes will be awarded in different age categories.
After having meeting plans foiled for many months during the COVID-19 pandemic, Archaeological Institute of America-Walla Walla Society President Sarah Davies says the group is planning six events for the 2021-22 academic year that are open to the community.
Get Haunted with Dark Tales for a Chilly Night at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at Bontzu Cellars, 127 E Main St. Storyteller Rebecca Hom will be doing her first local live storytelling evening.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Disability Awareness Month in October.
COLUMN: The outdoors is calm, quiet and peaceful — three inducements to thinking and reflection. For fine art painters, getting outside is a means of capturing the moment so when people see the artwork, though they are stuck in an office on a rainy day, they can escape to a place worth being in.
Ever wonder how the Douglas fir got its name? The distinctive Pacific Northwest evergreen gained its name from Scottish botanist and explorer David Douglas. Gary Lentz will talk about Douglas' travels when he arrived in the Northwest by ship from England in 1825. The free Museum After Hours presentation, Trifles will not stop me — the story of David Douglas, will be at 5 p.m. Oct. 28 at Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 NE Myra Road. Masks are required on museum grounds.
The Walla Walla County Rural Library District's annual Halloween party will be from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, in the College Place Lions Clubhouse at Lions Park, Southeast Larch Avenue.
Wa-Hi pottery teacher Genie Huntemann is finally teaching art. It’s been a long time coming. While the medium has always been in her heart, Huntemann has become a full-time art teacher for the first time in her 20-year-plus teaching career.
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Resident field biologist and birder Mike Denny will give a Bird Migration through Walla Walla County presentation fto the Blue Mountain Audubon Society at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Olin Hall, Room 129, on the Whitman College campus.
SPOKANE — The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and ACMI, the museum of screen culture in Melbourne, Australia, announced last week that Spokane will be the first-ever U.S. destination to present "DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition Journey from Sketch to Screen." The show will run from March 19-Sept. 5, 2022.
Walla Walla resident Dale Hom will sign copies of his new graphic novel, “WALK TALL Y’ALL: Feeling Grumpy in Transmogrified Seattle,” from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 16, at Book & Game Co., 38 E. Main St.
Living History member Susan Monahan will portray early fundraiser and suffragist Grace Isaacs. The presentation will be at 2 p.m. Oct. 17 at Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 NE Myra Road.
Wine Valley Comedy is bringing comedian Andrew Sleighter to Walla Walla for a show at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at The Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center, 6 W. Rose St.
Traditional Irish music performing group The High Kings will give a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave.
Tickets are on sale now for Don Reed's solo show Semi-Famous at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave.
The American Association of University Women collectible books pop-up sale will feature a large selection of Northwest history titles from Washington, Oregon and other Pacific states. Proceeds go to AAUW programs for women and girls.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Disability Awareness Month in October.
Walla Walla Guitar Fest is Thursday, Oct. 14, through this weekend at downtown venues
The Eagle Cap Excursion Train fall schedule will include trips on Saturday, Oct. 16; Wednesday, Oct. 20; Saturday, Oct. 23; Saturday, Oct. 30, with a little Halloween fun; and Saturday, Nov. 6.
Photographs by aerially delivered wildland firefighters will be featured in the Initial Attack exhibit at Pendleton Center for the Arts' East Oregonian Gallery Oct. 7-31.
Former Milton-Freewater resident Rusty Bradshaw has made his third book available for purchase. “Gorge Justice,” Page Publishing, is in paperback and ebook at Barnes & Noble and will soon be available on amazon.com.
Gesa Power House Theatre is holding several concerts in October.
French-Canadian Québéçois priest John Baptiste Abraham Brouillet came to the Walla Walla Valley in September 1847, just a few weeks before the the massacre at Whitman Mission. As a member of the Fort Walla Walla Museum Living History troupe, retired teacher Jeannot Poirot will portray Brouillet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at the museum, 755 NE Myra Road.
The fifth annual Tour d'Arts of the Tri-Cities, presented by Cyber Art 509, is a free three-day, self-guided tour in late October to see the works of 19 artists in 12 venues, including private home and commercial studios and various wineries in the Red Mountain viticulture area in Benton City.
The Walla Walla Public Library theme for October is Disability Awareness Month.
American Association of University Women Walla Walla Branch members will hold fundraising pop-up book sales, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 9-10, 16-17, 23-24 and 30-31 in the lobby of the former YWCA Ice Chalet, 213 S. First Ave.
Frazier Farmstead Museum Family Fall Festival will take place from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, in Milton-Freewater.
Not many women in the modern U.S. boldly call raising a family a career, but potter Merrilyn Reeves isn't afraid to do so. Years before she embarked upon a second career that is now 33 years in progress, she raised four children on 17 acres in a remote area of rural Idaho.
Elaine Hinshaw just joined the Gesa Power House Theatre team as its new executive director.
DAYTON — The Touchet Valley Arts Council will bring master puppeteer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist Dan Luce, to the Liberty Theater through Saturday, Oct. 9.
Effective immediately, Walla Walla Choral Society members wishing to rehearse and perform will be required to show written proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, said WWCS Board of Directors President Bob Schumacher in a release.
The Fort Walla Walla Museum After Hours program will feature a talk by Kathryn Witherington of Downtown Walla Walla Foundation from 5-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30.
The 2021 independent film "East of the Mountains," showing at Gesa Power House Theatre, follows Ben Givens (Tom Skerritt), a retired heart surgeon and recent widower who learns he has terminal cancer.
Keri Newman created the Twisted Orca series of children’s books, including “I am 99/A Southern Resident Orca Story.” The fun book kit on orca and salmon conservation can be downloaded for free as a PDF.
The Walla Walla Public Library theme for September is Hispanic Heritage Month.
Maryhill Museum of Art’s Collaborative Art Project will bring together artists and communities along the Columbia River, including near Walla Walla, in summer 2022.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Lights and Lasers will return to Canyon Springs Golf Course, 199 Canyon Springs Road, on the nights of Oct. 8-10.
Dick Phillips will give the Oct. 3 Living History presentation of pioneer entrepreneur John Boyer at 2 p.m. at Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 NE Myra Road.
COLUMN: In mid-2020 Walla Walla Symphony CEO Leah Wilson-Velasco conceived the idea of a youth composition course. She hired composer and pianist Kristin Vining to tutor a group of secondary-school students. The Spark! program was free and there were no prerequisites for entry.
The Washington State Youth Ballet has added to its dance training options in Walla Walla through it's "tough, not rough" creed that encourages support of all students.
Retired detective Clark Schwartzkopf will be signing copies of his book from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, at at Book & Game Co., 38 E Main St., Walla Walla, to sign copies of his new nonfiction, a true crime work called, “Random Recreational Violence: The True Story of the Serial Killings that Terrorized the Phoenix Area.”
SPOKANE — The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture's fall lineup of exhibit includes "Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection," "Continuous Lines: Selections from the Joe Feddersen Collection" and "Awakenings: Traditional Canoes and Calling the Salmon Home.
