Artist profiles from Bellingham, Whatcom County, WA

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Exhibit at Studio UFO explores coal train issue through art

A "Coal Train" exhibit - artists were asked to express their thoughts about the proposed coal trains running through Bellingham. - opens with a public reception at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at Studio UFO, at Bay and Holly street in Bellingham. It also will be featured during the Downtown Art Walk on June 7. Details are at Studio UFO on Facebook.

Last November, Trish Harding, the founder of Studio UFO in Bay Street Village, at Holly and Bay streets, presented an exhibit entitled "Granary Love-In," in which local artists showed their interpretations of the building on the former G-P mill ...

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WWU poet Bruce Beasley appreciates value of community poetry contests

Bruce Beasley, along with Mary Gillilan, selected 25 winners from the 275 poems submitted by Whatcom County residents for this year's Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest.
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Bellingham's Mike Rostron writes sci-fi rock musical

Bellingham playwright and musician Mike Rostron has written a new work, "Evermore," a sci-fi rock musical set more than a thousand years in the future. The play is performed at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 9-11, at Lincoln Theatre, 712 S. First St., in Mount Vernon; and at 8 p.m. May 17...
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Julie Zavala-Marantette's local theater work spans makeup to hair to co-directing

I met Julie Zavala-Marantette several years ago when she was in a class I taught at Whatcom Community College. When she told me she was interested in makeup, I suggested that she contact Bellingham Theatre Guild to see if they needed a volunteer for their productions.
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Bellingham women compile anthology about women in 'extreme religions'

Bellingham resident Susan Tive, along with Cami Ostman, Elise Brianne Curtin, Colleen Haggerty and Pam Helberg, talk about the book "Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions," at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Village Books.
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Michael-Paul Gurulé conducts, and also plays sax regularly at Skylark's in Fairhaven

Michael-Paul Gurulé, 38, and his ensemble, Nuages (pronounced: noo-aj), have a regular gig every third Saturday at Skylark's Hidden Café in Fairhaven. The next one is Saturday, April 20, at 8 p.m.
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Veronica Jensen sings the lead in 'Cindrillon' opera at WWU

Western Washington University's Opera Studio, under the direction of Jay Rozendaal, presents "Cindrillon," the familiar fairy tale of Cinderella, written by French composer Jules Massenet and set in a rooftop garden.
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Carla Shafer helps to blend poetry and dance for annual 'Phrasings' performances

Bellingham Repertory Dance presents "Phrasings in Word + Dance," its seventh annual collaboration with Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater, Friday through Sunday, April 5-7, at Firehouse Performing Arts Center. One of the featured poets is Carla Shafer, director of Chuckanut Sandstone Writers ...
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Singer Anne Griffith joins Pearl Django for library benefit

French-born vocalist Anne Griffith performs with Tacoma ensemble Pearl Django at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at the Sudden Valley Dance Barn in the first of a four-part series, "Here's to the Ladies," to benefit the South Whatcom Library.
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Bellingham's Clyde Curley breaks into novels with big mystery set in Portland

Bellingham author Clyde Curley's debut detective novel, "Raggedy Man," is a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards da Vinci Eye category, which honors books for excellence in cover art, and was awarded an honorable mention in the Great Northwest Book Festival's general fiction category.
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Bellingham filmmaker Terri Krantz hopes to inspire teens to enter Guerilla Film Project

Whatcom Museum hosts its 16th annual Art Career Day on Friday, March 15, in which more than 100 Whatcom County high school students converge to learn about the visual arts. Among the presenters is Bellingham's Terri Krantz, who will show winning films from the Guerilla Film Project, an annual competition...