Arts & Entertainment

Saturday, June 22 at 2 p.m. in WaterWorks Gallery artists Barbara Duzan and Jaime Ellsworth will share the inspirations behind and processes used in their artwork, that conveys the love of their canine friends with unique styles exuding love and humor.

Following their presentations the gallery hosts a reception for the artists from 4 to 7 p.m.

Ellsworth's oil paintings and Duzan's bronze & mixed media sculptures of Barbara Duzan will be exhibited until July 13. All artworks are featured on the gallery’s website.

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San Juan Islands Museum of Art (IMA), in partnership with the Friday Harbor High School Leos, is again providing a series of art workshops on Saturdays during July and August (except County Fair weekend).

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Wild Nights, San Juan Island author Mary Ellen Courtney’s debut novel, won the 2013 Indie Excellence Award in the New Fiction category.

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Island Writers (formerly the Written Word) is seeking new and unpublished writings for this year's San Juan County Fair. Stories, poems, non-fiction: choose your favorite genre and submit by July 10th, 2013.

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The return of The Life and Times of General George E. Pickett,  historian Mike Vouri's chronicle of Civil War General George E. Pickett’s life (including his efforts during San Juan Island's Pig War) coincides with the 150th anniversary of Pickett’s charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This year's show at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 3 in the Whittier Theatre at San Juan Community Theater commemorates that horrific July day when Pickett's 6,000-man division was wiped out in a matter of 45 minutes.

Since the mid-1990s, Mike Vouri (in the title role) and folksinger Michael Cohen, with technical director Chris DeStaffany, have presented the play around the Northwest.

Vouri says that Pickett bore the emotional scars from the Gettysburg attack for the rest of his life, largely blaming Robert E. Lee for ordering action.

"Gettysburg has always loomed large in the play, because that is the single act that defines George Pickett in the collective memory of the American people," Vouri said. "But it also did irreparable damage to Pickett's psyche because it drove home to him the concept of the whole man; that it wasn't a division that was decimated, but thousands of individuals who were held dear by a network of family and friends."

Vouri adds that concept that war bears long-term costs for those who fight them and those they leave behind is the essence of his play. "That's why I never tire of telling the story of the war on San Juan Island where no one died....except the pig!"

Learn more about the Mike Vouri's Civil War lecture series HERE

There will also be a performance on Wednesday, August 7 at 8 p.m. in the smaller Gubelman Theatre.

Tickets can be purchased either online (July 3 performance) and August 7 performance  or at the box office.