Aberdeen Events Calendar

Are you watching kids scroll through life with a six-second attention span and rapid fire thumbs? Join physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston as she examines how teenagers screen time impacts their life and friction within the home, while also exploring the larger consequences of technology on society as a whole. A World Cafe style discussion will follow the viewing. For adults and teens.

Auditions certain roles for the Bishop Center’s Spring production of Billy Elliot. We are auditioning the roles of:
– the Dance teacher
– Mr. Braithwaite (dance teacher’s assistant)
– All ballet dancers (ages 7-17)

Ballet girls should come in tights and leotards. No baggy clothing please! Bring tap shoes to the audition for Dance teacher, Mr. Braithwaite and ballet girls.

All October long, pick up a colorful world map at the Information Desk to trace your family’s passage from your ancestral homeland to Grays Harbor, with landing points along the way. We will supply markers and other crafting supplies for you to use. Maps will be available starting Oct. 3. Supplies are limited. Submissions may be posted to library social media.

Participating libraries: Aberdeen, Amanda Park, Westport

Preparedness event with hands on and interactive activities.

For adults. Showcase your talent in music and spoken word poetry at the library after-hours event! Sign-up begins at 5:00 p.m., performances at 5:30 p.m. In partnership with The 98520 & 98550 Music & Arts District Initiative.

Critically acclaimed and award winning Canadian comedian Mike Delamont brings “God is a Scottish Drag Queen” to the Bishop Center stage! This highly acclaimed night of comedy with everyone’s favorite deity, god, dressed in a floral power suit, comes to skewer everything from Justin Bieber to the pope.

Great NorthWest Federal Credit Union will, along with more than 56,000 credit unions around the world, celebrate International Credit Union Day (ICU Day), and the philosophy and achievements of the credit union movement.

All four branch locations of Great NorthWest FCU will serve refreshments and have staff on hand to answer questions about our products and services and what constitutes the credit union difference. This year’s ICU Day theme is “Dreams Thrive Here,” a celebration of how credit unions help people achieve their biggest goals in life.

As part of the Great Washington ShakeOut, tsunami alert sirens will be tested at 10:19 a.m. using the real sound of the siren, not the Westminster Chimes that typically happen during the monthly tests. NOAA weather radios set to receive the required monthly test will also activate during this test. The tests will happen across every coastal community in the state, except for Sandy Point in Whatcom County, which has opted out of the test. The state works with local jurisdictions to install the All Hazard Alert Broadcast sirens on the coast. Five new sirens are being installed this month in Seabrook, Ocean Shores, Bellingham, Port of Chinook and Raymond bringing the total number of coastal sirens to 69.

Question and Answer sessions with earthquake experts will be done using Facebook Live and Washington Emergency Management’s Nextdoor account in the days before ShakeOut. On Oct. 19, earthquake preparedness experts from the Washington Emergency Management Division will join scientists with the Washington Department of Natural Resources and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network to gather online for a Reddit Ask Me Anything – an online Q&A. The public is invited to ask questions here.

New this year, middle school and high school students are creating videos to show the best ways to drop, cover and hold on. Prizes are being awarded by our partners at the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup. The deadline to submit is Oct. 13. More information found here.

Coastal Interpretive Center’s Rayonier: 90 Years of Land Management is a presentation about the 90-year history of Rayonier’s land management and modern forestry practices, presented by Mark Smalley, Engineering Manager, and Dan Stransky, the Senior Timber Marketing Manager for Rayonier’s lands in Oregon and Washington.

The Eugene Ballet Company returns to the Bishop Center to present “Mowgli – The Jungle Book Ballet.” Enjoy the spirited adventures of Mowgli as he befriends Baloo the Bear, and battles larger-than-life Shere Khan the Tiger and Kara the Snake. All ages will enjoy this exotic retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s stories, with fanciful costumes, masks, magical sets and world music creating life in the jungle.

The concert is a collaboration of the University’s music department, Office of Campus Ministry and Benedictine Institute. The tradition began 15 years ago as a way of honoring the University’s patron saint, Saint Martin of Tours, whose feast day is November 11.

“The Sacred Music concerts include Renaissance music, gospel, and contemporary music,” says Darrell Born, associate professor of music and Saint Martin’s Chorale director. “Readings and poetry will be interspersed throughout the concert to punctuate the performances.”

The 1939 movie launched 17-year-old Judy Garland to stardom as Dorothy Gale, the brave heroine of L. Frank Baum’s classic fantasy novel. She won a special Oscar for “Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor,” and the film earned Academy Awards for Best Music and Best Song, Garland’s iconic rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

The 1939 movie launched 17-year-old Judy Garland to stardom as Dorothy Gale, the brave heroine of L. Frank Baum’s classic fantasy novel. She won a special Oscar for “Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor,” and the film earned Academy Awards for Best Music and Best Song, Garland’s iconic rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

National Theatre Live’s thrilling broadcast of Frankenstein returns for a limited time, due to unprecedented audience demand.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

Throughout the Northwest, people have been reporting encounters with the Sasquatch— a hairy, eight to ten-foot-tall hominid —for hundreds of years. Yet no scientifically accepted evidence has been offered to establish this being’s existence.

Author David George Gordon evaluates the data gathered about the legendary Northwest icon, discusses the rules of critical thinking and the workings of the scientific method, and explains how one can become an effective “citizen scientist” by gathering credible evidence that can be used to substantiate the Sasquatch’s status as either Man-Ape or Myth.

He is the author of “The Sasquatch Seeker’s Field Manual: Using Citizen Science to Uncover North America’s Most Elusive Creature“.  Read more about the author here.

A Wine and Food Tasting event featuring Northwest wineries, local distillers, and breweries along with local food vendors.

The 1967 film works on several levels as it follows the WWII story of a dozen mostly bad men given a chance at redemption and heroism with an outlandish plot to parachute behind enemy lines and sneak into a French chateau to assassinate some Nazi generals, just before D-Day.

The 1967 film works on several levels as it follows the WWII story of a dozen mostly bad men given a chance at redemption and heroism with an outlandish plot to parachute behind enemy lines and sneak into a French chateau to assassinate some Nazi generals, just before D-Day.

The whole world has turned completely upside-down, and in the aftermath, Hannah finds herself without a job, health insurance, separated from her husband and daughter, and in need of therapy. When all funding for the arts is cut off, Hannah is given the option of doing standup comedy in an empty theatre for her psychotherapy. She returns to court to get her rights back. But is she the plaintiff or the defendant?

The whole world has turned completely upside-down, and in the aftermath, Hannah finds herself without a job, health insurance, separated from her husband and daughter, and in need of therapy. When all funding for the arts is cut off, Hannah is given the option of doing standup comedy in an empty theatre for her psychotherapy. She returns to court to get her rights back. But is she the plaintiff or the defendant?