Improv talk set at Peninsula College
Dr. Lara Starcevich will share findings from her year-long study of improv at a Studium Generale presentation at 12:35 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Peninsula College Little Theater, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. Port Angeles.
As part of her story, Starcevich will discuss not only the insights she gleaned from studying improv in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York, but the ways in which improv can help people navigate their lives with greater ease, spontaneity and confidence.
Starcevich has been teaching speech and drama at Peninsula College since 2008. She enjoys acting, directing, writing, raising kids and running what feels like “a small petting zoo” at her house. She offers monthly drop-in improv workshops the last Sunday of each month at 6 p.m. at the Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. No experience is necessary to attend.
For more information, contact Dr. Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu.
Accordion social set for March 8
The Sequim Accordion Social is set for 1-4 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the Shipley Center, 921 E. Hammond St., featuring the Bonnie Birch Trio from the Seattle area. The trio includes a guitarist and tuba player, and plays “a wide variety of music which is listenable, dance-able and demonstrates the versatility of the accordion,” event organizers say.
All accordionists are invited to bring their instruments and play a selection or two. Accordion lovers and dancers are also welcome. A suggested donation of $3-4 is requested at the door to help with room rental. Call 360-452-0191 for more information.
Shields is featured artist at Harbor Art Gallery
Nathan Shields of Port Angeles is the featured artist of the month for March at Harbor Art Gallery. He will be at the gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., from 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. during the Second Saturday Art Walk on March 14.
Shields grew up in Southeast Alaska and Northwest Washington state, where his early love of art merged with his appreciation for the natural beauty of the region.
Interested in mathematics from a young age, he soon began discovering the many connections between patterns found in nature and patterns found in numbers. While drawing and sketching have been his lifelong pastimes, in the last several years he has developed an interest in relief printmaking in wood and linoleum.
A Port Angeles resident since 2012, he is a math and art instructor at Crescent School in Joyce.
“Salt Creek” by Nathan Shields, Harbor Art Gallery’s featured artist for the month of March. Submitted art
