Week of Events
2nd Annual UWT Poetry Festival: Between the Lines
2nd Annual UWT Poetry Festival: Between the Lines
All are excitedly welcome to join the UW Creative Writing community to celebrate the end of National Poetry Month! This all-ages, FREE and open to the public event closes out the month in style with an interactive Poetry Fair featuring UWT student groups, Tacoma Literary Community partners such as Blue Cactus Press, King's Books, Creative… Continue Reading 2nd Annual UWT Poetry Festival: Between the Lines
Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ’24! – Whodunit? And Why Now?
Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ’24! – Whodunit? And Why Now?
A FREE lecture-discussion hosted by film critic Robert Horton Recently, the whodunit—especially the kind where the suspects gather in a drawing-room at the end and the sleuth reveals the culprit—has enjoyed an unexpected comeback. Directors Rian Johnson (the Knives Out movies) and Kenneth Branagh (who plays Agatha Christie's super-detective Hercule Poirot in Murder on the… Continue Reading Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ’24! – Whodunit? And Why Now?
Scarecrow Academy Presents Election Year: Politics on Film
Scarecrow Academy Presents Election Year: Politics on Film
Year Six of Scarecrow Academy brings an in-depth look at movies that examine the world of politics in the cinema. In nine weeks of free online conversations, we explore the various approaches that great filmmakers take to the political process. From comedy to tragedy, from satire to fable, with directors ranging from Frank Capra to… Continue Reading Scarecrow Academy Presents Election Year: Politics on Film
Mary Scott: An Amazing Woman of Stick Samish and English Heritage
Mary Scott: An Amazing Woman of Stick Samish and English Heritage
The third and final installment of the Topics @ The School series: "Valley Girls: Legendary Women and their Adventures in Skagit County." Mary Scott always described herself as half English, half Indian, and one hundred percent American. Learn about her incredible life from longtime Samish Island resident, Jan Jones, who shares her first-person account of… Continue Reading Mary Scott: An Amazing Woman of Stick Samish and English Heritage