We will have a new display of work from Seattle artist Kate Endle beginning on November 7, 2008. Join us for your first peek during First Friday from 5-9pm.

Her collages and illustrations have made their way into a variety of publications, books and media including The Utne Reader, Sesame Street Workshop, Macy's & Yamaha to name a few. Her work could be seen most recently hanging at Anthropologie in Seattle.

Original work as well as prints will be available for purchase at Home Body, Eco-Luxe Living through December 2008.

Community Youth Services in late September will host a series of youth poetry workshops presented by renowned mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade and his Seattle-based group, the Mosaic Multi-Cultural Foundation. The four-day program, entitled Voices of Youth, Voices of Community, will engage street dependent youth in the creation of an artistic forum for their own expression while developing mentoring relationships within their community. Mosaic seeks to create cross-cultural alliances, mentoring relationships and social connections built upon personal trust and commitment to bridging unhealthy divisions in contemporary communities. Hearing the acute perspectives of youth can significantly change the community’s perception of both local and national issues and inspire continuing conversations across the generation gap. Voices of Youth inspires and empowers local youth, fosters ongoing cross-generational dialogues and leads to the development of unique local forms of mentoring.

"A healthy, many-cultured community is like a MOSAIC in which the overall design reveals the singular beauty of each part,” writes Michael Meade on the foundation’s website. “In that sense, America is not a melting pot that dulls and blurs, but a mosaic, made of numerous distinct pieces, with beautiful, unexpected colors, rough edges and hidden symmetries."

The workshops will culminate in a public performance for the community that will take place on Friday, September 26, 7 pm, at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater. It is free and open to the public. To learn more about the event, contact Brian Hatcher at Community Youth Services, (360) 943-0780, ext. 137. For more information on Mosaic, visit www.mosaicvoices.org.

Here's a video of last year's event:

OLYMPIA- Across the nation people are honoring the victims, volunteers and heroes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack by making the day a day of service. They are volunteering at local nonprofits or making donations to causes they care about and spreading the word through to friends and families to participate as well.

There are many opportunities to participate locally and service opportunities are easy to browse and sign up for at www.volunteer.ws the Web site for the Volunteer Center of Lewis, Mason and Thurston Counties. A volunteer-matching database allows potential volunteers to choose where they invest their valuable time based on interests, talents and availability.

After participants volunteer or donate, they have the opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences on a blog for this important day of service at www.MyGoodDeed.org. Help this community transform 9/11 into a national day of service and change the world one good deed at a time!

The Volunteer Center is a nonprofit organization which recruits and refers volunteers for nonprofit and public agencies, provides volunteer management training and consulting to these agencies and promotes volunteerism as a community value. The Center also participates in community initiatives including Long-Term Recovery Organizations work on disaster recovery, the Thurston County Asset-Building Coalition, Family and Youth Volunteering Initiatives as well as engaging Baby Boomers in meaningful public service. For more information, call 360-741-2622

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The Olympia Comics Festival is celebrating its 7th year of this community tradition with special guests Jeffrey Brown, Jim Woodring, and Michel Gagne. Chicago-based Jeffrey Brown is best known for his candid autobiographical accounts of failed relationships including Clumsy, Unlikely and Every Girl is the End of the World for Me. Seattle’s Jim Woodring has risen to fame for his mesmerizing silent comics featuring Frank, a strange creature in a stranger world. Michel Gagne, originally from Quebec, is an illustrator/animator who has worked on feature films such as Ratatouille, The Iron Giant and Osmosis Jones as well as publishing many comics of his own including ZED and The Saga of Rex.

Northwest Cartoonist Expo

noon to 5 P.M. at The Vault (425 Franklin St. SE)

Free and open to all ages.

Book Signings

3-5 P.M. at Danger Room Comics (201 4th Ave. W)

Free and open to all ages.

Stage Show

6 to 8 P.M. at the Capitol Theater (206 5th Ave.)

$1 donation and parental guidance advised (for language and drawn nudity).

The Olympia Comics Festival differs greatly from typical comic conventions because it is dedicated to upholding comics as an art form and promoting local small press cartoonists. This event is intended to be enjoyed by devoted comic fans and casual readers alike. For questions, email olympiacomicsfestival@gmail.com or call Danger Room at (360) 705-3050.

The Unsoeld Seminar Series Presents

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at The Evergreen State College College Recreation Center (CRC) 2700 Evergreen Parkway, Olympia

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu

Experience the Wonders of the Cosmos…Explore the Role of Science in the World Around Us…Examine the Human Element in the Advancement of Scientific Frontiers. Creative team, please consider a tiered approach to this header.

Join Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson - world renowned astrophysicist, bestselling author, and host of the groundbreaking PBS series NOVA scienceNOW – live and in person for a fascinating journey across the horizons of science, the universe and society.

From now until its self-destruction date set to the distant future, the Olympia Drawing Club has been formed. We meet on the west side every Thursday evening to draw together. Please email us if you would like to come. Everyone who likes to draw or wants to like to draw is welcome. Send us an email at: olympiadrawingclub@gmail.com !