Aberdeen Events Calendar

The next classic film scheduled for the historic 7^th Street Theatre in downtown Hoquiam offers a double-double whammy of two film noir icons behind the camera and fascinating on-screen portrayals of a pair of “Strangers on a Train” The 1951 film will have showings at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 5 and 6.

Iconic detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler teamed with director Alfred Hitchcock in the story of two “Strangers on a Train,” who become involved in murder and betrayal. Farley Granger and Robert Walker are the two baddies.

Although not as famous as many of Hitchcock’s films, “Strangers” is nonetheless revered as one of his very best and most unusual efforts. A fan review calls it “his most riotous, unrestrained film, a gleeful mélange of vicious black comedy, exciting suspense, mocking manipulation, and astonishing flights of fancy.”

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

The next classic film scheduled for the historic 7^th Street Theatre in downtown Hoquiam offers a double-double whammy of two film noir icons behind the camera and fascinating on-screen portrayals of a pair of “Strangers on a Train” The 1951 film will have showings at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 5 and 6.

Iconic detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler teamed with director Alfred Hitchcock in the story of two “Strangers on a Train,” who become involved in murder and betrayal. Farley Granger and Robert Walker are the two baddies.

Although not as famous as many of Hitchcock’s films, “Strangers” is nonetheless revered as one of his very best and most unusual efforts. A fan review calls it “his most riotous, unrestrained film, a gleeful mélange of vicious black comedy, exciting suspense, mocking manipulation, and astonishing flights of fancy.”

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

Enjoy a night of clean, family-friendly comedy and music… and don’t forget to save room for dessert. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Free childcare will be available.

Christopher Leebrick dazzles audiences with his storytelling and his vast repertoire of tales and legends from around the world.

Fairytale fancy costumes are encouraged; guests can parade down a red carpet, then capture the moment in the library’s photo booth. Those who forget their crowns, wands or other magical items may create them anew at a crafts-making area. A faerie godmother has been booked for the evening, and there are rumors of cupcakes. Everyone is welcome.

All Timberland Regional Library programs are free and open to the public.

The Aberdeen Timberland Library is located at 121 E. Market Street. For information, contact the library at 360-533-2360.

Poet and Aberdeen High School graduate Koon Woon will read poems selected from his two books. The program celebrates National Poetry Month.

A longtime resident of Seattle, Woon was born near Canton, China in 1949.  He emigrated from China to the United States in 1960 at age 11 and spent his school years in Grays Harbor. He attended Grays Harbor College, then transferred to the University of Washington.

Woon’s first full-length book of poetry, “The Truth in Rented Rooms,” was published in 1998. The collection won an award for literary excellence from Pen Oakland. His 2013 book, “Water Chasing Water,” won an American Book Award. He is currently working on a family memoir. The story begins with his great-grandfather’s immigration, in the 1880s, as an indentured worker for the logging industry in Hoquiam. Later, in the 1960s and ‘70s, the family owned and operated the Hong Kong Café on Aberdeen’s Simpson Avenue.

During his visit, Woon hopes to see some of his old friends from Aberdeen High School. He would also like to meet with young Grays Harbor writers. In May, he will give readings and workshops at the Skagit River Poetry Festival in La Conner.

National Poetry Month was started by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and is held every April. Schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets come together to celebrate poetry’s vital place in American culture.

Woon will bring copies of his latest book to sell and sign at the event. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Aberdeen Timberland Library. All Timberland Regional Library programs are free and open to the public.

Thanks to television syndication, the Public Broadcasting System, movies and even a hit Broadway musical, the groundbreaking British comedy troupe, Monty Python, is known to almost every man, woman and child in the USA. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, their classic big screen debut will be shown on the biggest screen in Grays Harbor, as “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” comes to Hoquiam’s historic 7th Street Theatre.

The 1975 film has achieved true cult status and has been variously described as hilarious, wildly original and one of the most inspired pieces of celluloid silliness among cinematic classics. It is basically a parody of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, viewed through the weirdly, wonderfully warped lens of the comedic legends who made up Monty Python.

The movie stars the entire Month Python troupe. Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam play multiple roles, with all five sharing the screenwriting credits. Jones and Gilliam served as co-directors. The film is a crazy quilt of trademark Python sketch humor, endlessly recurring inside jokes, and the surreal humor that made Monty Python a worldwide comedic phenomenon. Because it is set in the British Middle Ages, it remains as fresh and timeless today as when it was originally produced, more than 40 years ago. It true Python style, it takes its painfully low budget and turns what would normally be seen as a severe shortcoming into one of the film’s funniest ongoing routines.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

Thanks to television syndication, the Public Broadcasting System, movies and even a hit Broadway musical, the groundbreaking British comedy troupe, Monty Python, is known to almost every man, woman and child in the USA. At 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, their classic big screen debut will be shown on the biggest screen in Grays Harbor, as “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” comes to Hoquiam’s historic 7th Street Theatre.

The 1975 film has achieved true cult status and has been variously described as hilarious, wildly original and one of the most inspired pieces of celluloid silliness among cinematic classics. It is basically a parody of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, viewed through the weirdly, wonderfully warped lens of the comedic legends who made up Monty Python.

The movie stars the entire Month Python troupe. Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam play multiple roles, with all five sharing the screenwriting credits. Jones and Gilliam served as co-directors. The film is a crazy quilt of trademark Python sketch humor, endlessly recurring inside jokes, and the surreal humor that made Monty Python a worldwide comedic phenomenon. Because it is set in the British Middle Ages, it remains as fresh and timeless today as when it was originally produced, more than 40 years ago. It true Python style, it takes its painfully low budget and turns what would normally be seen as a severe shortcoming into one of the film’s funniest ongoing routines.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

The last of 10 movie Westerns directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” comes to Hoquiam’s historic 7th Street Theatre, April 23 and 24.

The 1962 film, which also stars James Stewart, Vera Miles, Edmond O’Brien, Andy Devine and Lee Marvin, as the sadistically wicked Liberty Valance, shows at 7:30 pm Saturday, April 23 and 2:00 pm Sunday, April 24.

The movie is part Western, part political drama and part morality tale, unfolding mostly in flashback as Stewart’s character sets straight the legend of the man who took on the scourge of a small Western town.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

The last of 10 movie Westerns directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” comes to Hoquiam’s historic 7th Street Theatre, April 23 and 24.

The 1962 film, which also stars James Stewart, Vera Miles, Edmond O’Brien, Andy Devine and Lee Marvin, as the sadistically wicked Liberty Valance, shows at 7:30 pm Saturday, April 23 and 2:00 pm Sunday, April 24.

The movie is part Western, part political drama and part morality tale, unfolding mostly in flashback as Stewart’s character sets straight the legend of the man who took on the scourge of a small Western town.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

Sixty years ago, Russian actor Yul Brynner performed the signature role of his career so well that he became only the eighth actor in history to win the movies’ Academy Award and Broadway’s Tony Award for the same role. “The King and I” comes to Hoquiam’s historic 7^th Street Theatre, at 7:30 pm Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, May 7-8.

Brynner was an instant hit when he began playing King Mongkut of Siam on Broadway in 1951, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Deborah Kerr played Anna Leonowens in the tale that was loosely based on the true story of the woman who was invited to teach English to the children of the Siamese king in the mid-nineteenth century. The play originally ran for 1,246 performances. In all, Brynner delivered 4,525 performances as the King.

In addition to Brynner’s Oscar, the 1956 film won for set decoration, costuming, sound and music. The Broadway production was famously lavish, and the movie version was not to be outdone, costing more than 10 times the original stage production and featuring 40 sets.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

Sixty years ago, Russian actor Yul Brynner performed the signature role of his career so well that he became only the eighth actor in history to win the movies’ Academy Award and Broadway’s Tony Award for the same role. “The King and I” comes to Hoquiam’s historic 7^th Street Theatre, at 7:30 pm Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, May 7-8.

Brynner was an instant hit when he began playing King Mongkut of Siam on Broadway in 1951, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Deborah Kerr played Anna Leonowens in the tale that was loosely based on the true story of the woman who was invited to teach English to the children of the Siamese king in the mid-nineteenth century. The play originally ran for 1,246 performances. In all, Brynner delivered 4,525 performances as the King.

In addition to Brynner’s Oscar, the 1956 film won for set decoration, costuming, sound and music. The Broadway production was famously lavish, and the movie version was not to be outdone, costing more than 10 times the original stage production and featuring 40 sets.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

The 1984 film was directed and co-written by Rob Reiner, who plays a filmmaker out to document the comeback tour of his favorite heavy metal rockers, the band “Spinal Tap.” The idea goes back to a 1979 TV movie pilot called “The TV Show.” It brought together Reiner, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer as writers and, along with Michael McKean, included a skit about an over-the-hill British metal band called Spinal Tap.   Four years later they co-wrote and starred in the full-length movie, which was also Reiner’s first theatrically released directorial effort.

The movie has since won a place in the pantheon of pop culture where it is referenced hundreds of times. For example, at one point in the film, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Guest), utters the now-famous line, “These go to eleven,” when referring to the volume settings on the band’s rather unique Marshall amplifiers. Since then, several companies have marketed amps that actually do “go to eleven.”

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. showings. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door. Advance tickets are available at Harbor Drug in Hoquiam and City Drug in Aberdeen, and at www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information call 360-537-7400 or check the website, www.7thstreettheatre.com.

Grays Harbor County’s Public Health and Social Services Department, in partnership with local art guilds and associations, is hosting an “Art for Health” Gala to promote the positive impact art has on our community’s health. You can find more information at http://www.healthygh.org/art

Enjoy an evening of good food and great comedy at the Hoquiam Elks Lodge.

This is a 21+ event.

$15 for the show, $25 for show and the steak, potato and salad dinner.

For tickets, call the Hoquiam Elks Lodge at 360-532-0590.