Arts & Entertainment
Craft and Chat
The Omak public Library will host a Craft and Chat on Friday, Oct. 20 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
“Join us for great conversations and bring your current craft in progress,” the event page states. “Join us to learn crafting techniques, share crafting projects, and to be inspired. Bring...
40 Fingers just completed a successful tour in Europe and is currently touring in the United States. COURTESY OF OMAK PAC
OMAK - The vibrant melodies of 40 Fingers, a quartet of skilled guitarists hailing from Italy, are set to grace the stage at the Omak Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Oct. 7, starting at 7 p.m. This exciting musical journey is made possible through sponsorship by the Omak PAC Foundation Board.
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The first event to kick off the 2024 Okanogan County Fair Rodeo last Friday night, Sept. 8, was the Wild Horse Race where two teams of contestants had to subdue their wild broncs just long enough to get a saddle and rider aboard for a wild ride around the arena. MIKE MALTAIS/WARD MEDIA
OKANOGAN – The 76th Okanogan County Fair will kick off with four days of exhibits, competition, concessions, and entertainment on Thursday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 10, at the fairgrounds on 175 Rodeo Trail Road.
Headlining the entertainment is country music singer Easton Corbin whose popular...
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WENATCHEE - Wenatchee’s oldest community singing group, the all-men Wenatchee Apollo Club, is looking for more singers as rehearsals for a new season beginning September 12.
The Apollo Club has a wide repertoire of pop, folk, jazz, musical theatre, patriotic, barbershop, seasonal, spirituals and...
A hydro takes the checkered flag at the end of a heat on day one of last Saturday’s Pateros Hydro Races. Mike Maltais/QCH
All Washington children from birth to age five can now register to receive one book every month, for free, from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Courtesy Imagination Library of WA.
OLYMPIA – On Tuesday, August 15, legendary icon, musician, and philanthropist Dolly Parton will visit Washington State to celebrate achieving statewide coverage of the Imagination Library. All Washington children from birth to age five can now register to receive one book every month, for free,...
The Wenatchee Valley Erratics, Ice Age Floods Institute’s next program will be on Tuesday, August 8 at 7:00 PM at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission St., Wenatchee. Brent Cunderla, IAFI Wenatchee Valley Erratics’ long-time president, will give a powerpoint program on the Geological Wonders of Iceland. His talk stems from a trip he took in September 2022. Highlights include seeing the divergent plate boundary apparent at the surface, the Icelandic Hotspot, many basalt flows, geothermal fields and geothermal energy, geysers and hot springs, glaciers and waterfalls. This is a hybrid meeting. You can attend in-person at the Museum. Or you can participate via a Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84520197937 Please sign in at 7:00 PM, August 8! The program is free and open to the public. Pictured above is Godafoss Waterfall in Iceland. Courtesy Wenatchee Valley Erratics
A featured dance for the disabled invited those with physical impairments to take part in the annual pow-wow during the Nespelem July Celebration and Powwow. Mike Maltais/QCH
Prendez is the owner and co-director of The Nepantla Art Gallery in Seattle. He creates art with a specific focus on themes of Chicano/a culture, activism, social justice, pop culture and satire. Courtesy Jake Prendez
CHELAN/WENATCHEE - NCW Libraries will host renowned Chicano artist Jake Prendez at six locations in July and August. Prendez will talk about social justice art and the influence of Mexican muralism on American artwork.
His Humanities Washington presentation, The Art of Rebellion, Social Justice...
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