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![Runners wearing water bottle backpacks, hats, headbands, headphones, and long sleeves walk toward finish line and smile toward the camera.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BadgerMountainCover-500x500.png)
Badger Mountain Challenge: A unique running community, a changing landscape
Badger Mountain Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQTyTxkMOS0&list=PL6pHcbVJ2q0GlWFInFMhze7AALPhxA-zs&index=42The annual Badger Mountain Challenge brings together an extraordinary community of people who celebrate running and support each other on this unique, treasured and threatened ultramarathon course
![Maps by Christina Vega is the third edition of Vega's poetry collection, first published in 2017. Photo courtesy of Blue Cactus Press.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CF3A0417-CB3F-4063-853B-C8458BDDA443-500x500.webp)
Pacific Northwest poet revisits social injustices
Five years since it was first published, Maps, a collection of poems by Tacoma writer Christina Vega, is still relevant today as a response to social injustice, they said.
“I’m asking readers to return to the work,” Vega said. “Let’s look at it again, these issues are still here.”
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The Results Are In! Classical Countdown Spring 2023 Playlist
You voted for your favorite classical works. See how they are ranked in the countdown.
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Joseph Bologne Gets His Due: “Chevalier” Creators Introduce A Compelling Character
For those with just a casual interest in classical music, the name Joseph Bologne might draw a blank. However, a new movie dramatizes the fascinating life of this multi-talented, eighteenth-century figure.
![Arianne True will serve at the Washington State Poet Laureate beginning May 1. Photo courtesy of ArtsWA.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-WAPL-Arianne-True-portrait-500x500.jpg)
Arianne True named new Poet Laureate of Washington
April is National Poetry Month and today/Wednesday, the Washington State Arts Commission announced that Arianne True will serve as the state’s new poet laureate beginning in May. Lauren Gallup spoke with the Tacoma-based writer and educator.
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Vote For Your Favorite Music In NWPB’s Classical Countdown
What is your favorite symphonic movie score? Your favorite aria or overture? Whether it’s a well-known composition by Bach or Beethoven, or a hidden gem by a lesser-known composer, NWPB wants to know what pieces resonate with you.
![A photo of the marquee outside the Tacoma Opera's premiere of the Tacoma Method opera shows a green rimmed marquee with the word "Rialto" in large block letters. There are office buildings in the background and the signs hangs above a street. In the far background is a blue sky with bright, white clouds.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSC_0449-500x500.jpg)
Tacoma Method Opera tells history from a new perspective
That history tends to repeat itself, especially when people don’t learn lessons from the past, is the guiding sentiment for Teresa Pan-Hosley in her work as the president of the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation. This organization is solely dedicated to reconciling the dark history of the Chinese expulsion from Tacoma in 1885.
![The exterior of Steve's Cafe, later commonly known as Steve's Gay '90s, as it appeared in April of 1951. The real-life dining and entertainment hot spot is a setting in the historical fiction novel, The Farewell Tour. Photo courtesy of Northwest Room at The Tacoma Public Library, Richards Studio A57331-36.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/outside-of-steves-cafe-500x500.jpeg)
‘The Farewell Tour’ brings readers back in time to Tacoma’s honky-tonk history
While the West Coast is known for grunge and surf rock, Stephanie Clifford’s latest novel, a piece of historical fiction, reminds readers of the roots country music has here, especially Tacoma.
Tacoma, a burgeoning port city on Commencement Bay in the 1940s and 50s, plays a central role in The Farewell Tour. The book is an American West tale of coming home, with a few forks in the road, that takes readers back in time over the protagonist’s life as she makes her way as a musician on the West Coast.
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Women’s History Music Moment: Bach’s Daughters
You’ve heard so much about the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, but there were daughters, too.
Bach was 23, and his wife Maria Barbara was 24, when the first of their children was born. They named her Catherina Dorothea. CD grew into a singer, and helped out in her father’s music work. Fifteen years passed, her mother died, her father remarried, and finally, CD Bach acquired a sister: Cristina Sophia Henrietta, daughter of Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena Bach. CSH died at the age of three, just as another sister, Elizabeth Juliana Frederica, was born. EJF Bach would grow up to marry one of her father’s students.
![A still from the documentary "Camille in Color," by David Wild. Photo courtesy of the Tacoma Art Museum.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/film-still-500x500.jpg)
Camille Patha trades bright, bold colors for dark, evocative journey into black
Two days before Camille Patha’s exhibit, “Passion Pleasure Power,” opened at the Tacoma Art Museum, the artist walked around the gallery, a space filled with some of her new works from the past three years.
![The newspaper clipping that mentions Rachel Page. Photo courtesy of Cory Eberhart.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/RachelPageDailyRecordNov1989-500x500.jpg)
Honoring women’s history through poetry
A group of poets in Kittitas County will honor eight important Washington women in verse.
March is Women’s History Month, and this Friday at Gallery One in Ellensburg, the poets will perform their crown of sonnets, a succession of seven, separate sonnets, at the Women’s History Month Poetry Extravaganza.
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Moscow Playwright Comes Home : Interview with “The Whale” writer Samuel D. Hunter
The Whale will be showing at the Kenworthy Theatre in downtown Moscow for two weekends in January 2023. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen The film, “The Whale” has been