by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma Five panelists — Jami Sieber, Latosha Correll, Leo MacLeod, Matt Baume, and Timothy White Eagle — will discuss the art of transformation: how art helps us know ourselves more fully; how rituals like a marriage or theater offer possibilities of healing; and how we make sense

Read our latest newsletter including articles about: Award winning exhibitions Current exhibition information Events Volunteer highlights and more!  

by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma An innovative cabaret premieres at Vashon Center for the Arts, with the chance to win “A Night Out on Vashon”! Vashon, WA — Drawing on the theatrical form of a cabaret, featuring original songs and stories laced with a bit of magic, two islanders, David Mielke

by Elsa Croonquist The Vashon Heritage Museum received the John D. Spellman Award for exemplary achievement in Interpretation for highlighting and celebrating the histories of Vashon-Maury Island’s diverse communities at a recent ceremony presided over by King County Executive, Dow Constantine, and the King County Office of Historic Preservation. The

by Bruce Haulman Five Vashon organizations will present a series of historic LGBTQ films for the island. Organized by the Heritage Museum, the Senior Center, Voice of Vashon, Island GreenTech, and the Vashon Theatre; the film series will screen at the Vashon Theatre on GreenTech Tuesdays and at the Senior

By Bruce Haulman On Friday June 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. Vashon Heritage Museum invites you to join us for the opening of its largest special exhibit ever: IN AND OUT: Being LGBTQ on Vashon Island. More than a year in the making, the exhibit explores the long, quiet

Originally published by Craig Sailor, The News Tribune, December 28, 2017 Bathrooms lose their genders at Vashon Island high school after students push for change When students at Vashon Island High School return from winter break on Jan. 2, they’ll find two less boys’ and girls’ bathrooms. In their place

This place matters - to people learning about the Coast Salish people who lived here and whose reach extended throughout the region, to islanders researching their homes, to school children discovering their heritage, to visitors curious about the island, to descendants of pioneers. The museum, founded in the '70's, nurtured

Is Vashon the Castro District of the Pacific Northwest? Three members of the island’s LGBT community — Emma Amiad, Jill Dziko and Barbara Rhoads-Weaver — discuss Vashon’s appeal to gays and lesbians, and what they find when they move here, with host Eric Pryne. Listen to the VOV audio interview!

Originally published by Natalie Johnson, Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, August 10, 2011 Last spring Barb and Heather Rhoads-Weaver attended a potluck at Vashon Cohousing for same-sex couples with children and were pleasantly surprised to see about 30 other families show up for the event — many more people than they were