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The Fort Worden Public Development Authority’s “glamping” construction project remains on schedule at this time, in spite of the fort’s temporary reduction of staffing and services.
Fort Worden scales back staffing, services
Fort Worden is temporarily reducing its staff and services in response to the coronavirus, but officials want prospective guests and visitors to know that it’s not discontinuing its operations … more
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From left, local playwrights Doug Given, Diana Carson-Walker and D.D. Wigley complete their final writing exercise during Los Angeles-based stage and screenwriter A.P. Andrews’ playwriting intensive at the Key City Playhouse in Port Townsend on Sunday, March 15.
PlayFest 24 brings quarantined writing instructors to playwrights
The second weekend of the Key City Public Theatre’s 24th annual PlayFest series of plays by — and playwriting workshops for — local playwrights adapted and overcame the impacts of … more
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The Port Townsend FIRST Robotics Competition “Roboctopi” went so far as to use their 3D printers to create a scale model of their competition arena, but it was all for naught when the leaders of FIRST Robotics and FIRST Washington made the decision to indefinitely suspend the rest of their competition season worldwide on March 12.
PT Roboctopi season done; Chimacum Minecrafters still squeezing in matches after coronavirus closures
The same weekend that saw Gov. Jay Inslee announce on Friday, March 13, that he would mandate the closure of all Washington schools from Tuesday, March 17, through at least Friday, April 24, the … more
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Port Townsend FIRST Robotics Competition “Roboctopi” President Olivia Morningstar explains how her team’s robot works during an open house at their building lab on Feb. 26.
PT Roboctopi move up the ranks
The Port Townsend FIRST Robotics Competition “Roboctopi” team headed into competition at Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish from Feb. 28 through March 1, and they were so spent after … more
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Al Gonzalez’s sixth-grade students at Chimacum Elementary School show up an hour and a half early to play Minecraft competitively against students from England.
Chimacum sixth-graders playing esports against UK kids
Al Gonzalez has found a way to get his sixth-grade students at Chimacum Elementary School involved in esports that also pits them against students from England. Gonzalez had already been talking … more
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Several local A&E cancellations from coronavirus
With concerns about COVID-19, a.k.a. the coronavirus, spreading perhaps faster than the infection itself, there have been some impacts to the arts, entertainment and adult education scenes in East … more
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Port Townsend FIRST Robotics Competition “Roboctopi” President Olivia Morningstar shows off the 3D-printed grappling hook that her team’s 125-pound robot is designed to use to lift itself.
PT Roboctopi reveal new robot just before competition
The Port Townsend FIRST Robotics Competition “Roboctopi” team’s new machine might have been gleaming orange metal when it was officially unveiled to the public at their building lab … more
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From left, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, Washington State Arts Commission Executive Director Karen Hanan, Arts Northwest Executive Director Sam Calhoun and Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts Board member Cathy Haight listen as Michelle Hagewood, program manager of artist residencies at Centrum, notes that financing is one of the hardest barriers that aspiring artists have to “punch through.”
Kilmer conducts round table of area artists, arts advocates
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer of Washington state’s 6th congressional district followed his tour of the construction of Fort Worden’s Makers Square on Feb. 20 with a roundtable discussion at the … more
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U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, of Washington state’s 6th congressional district, is guided by David Opp-Beckman, director of facilities and capital projects for the Fort Worden Public Development Authority, through Building 305, the future home of KPTZ 91.9 FM at Fort Worden’s Makers Square, with Fort Worden PDA Executive Director David Robison following closely behind. The hallways in Buildings 305, 308 and 324 will showcase artwork and exhibits that tell the history of Fort Worden.
Kilmer visits under-construction Makers Square
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, of Washington state’s 6th congressional district, got to observe the construction of Fort Worden’s Makers Square firsthand on Feb. 20, when he visited the site and … more
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Master tabla artist and accompanist Ravi Joseph Albright, left, performs with Vasu Sundarraj.
Centrum’s ‘Communiversity’ continues with profile of Northern Indian classical music
Ask Wes Cecil about the upcoming Centrum “Communiversity” series presentation on the history of Indian classical music at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 9, and he’ll immediately but … more
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Eddie Gonzalez, associate director of civil conversations and social healing for the “On Being” project, will deliver the keynote address, “Legacy and the Art of Remembering Forward.”
Creative Aging Conference aims to aid attendees in leaving lasting legacies
As the Baby Boomer generation heads into its twilight years, there’s been no shortage of community conversations about how to cope with the realities of aging. But what sets Centrum’s … more
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Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building student Evan Bailly shows the school’s executive director, Betsy Davis, the switch panel he’s building for a workboat.
Boat school exec selected for national entrepreneurship program
Betsy Davis, executive director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building, has been selected to participate in the prestigious Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program offered in … more
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