Be A SUPERvisor Workshop — Wednesday, Mar 24 9:00a to 4:00p — at The Olympia Center, Olympia, WA (222 Columbia Street NW).

Recognized Author Offers Tips on How to Be a SUPERvisor

This workshop is designed to equip volunteer program managers with skills in supervising volunteers. They will also learn how to help other paid staff of their organizations do a better job of volunteer supervision. [more]

PAT KENNEDY “The Loving Tree” —  The Loving Tree is heroic, universal, and powerful in its message of love, loss, and transformation.
Symbols, like trees and flowers, can open a door to our feelings where our rational minds fail us. When we lose loved ones, gaining access to our feelings through stories and symbols can help the healing process. As we age, being resilient and accepting loss become critical life-management skills. The Loving Tree will inspire and affirm anyone of any age who has ever lost, or lived in the shadow of, a loved one.

All events at Orca are free and open to the public.

Orca Books
509 4th Ave E
Olympia WA 98501
(360) 352-0123
www.orcabooks.com

If Darwin’s theory of evolution is correct, then it appears the human animal has attained a plateau in physical development even as the intellect doggedly advances. How we use expanding intellectual capabilities to jockey within the Darwinian restrictions will shape the look of future societies. The four short stories of “Darwin’s Prisoners” are an exploration of how four women – Maire, The Broad, Lilith’s Child and Mamaconas – maneuver within the physical limitations of that peculiar evolutionary cage.

Other books by Pat Shannon include “The Man Who Stayed Home: A Conamara Memoir” and “Charles and Me: Notes in the Margin.” Pat lives with the wild creatures at the Bluebird Wetlands and Wildlife Sanctuary in southwest Montana.

Orca Books
509 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA
360.352.0123
www.orcabooks.com

WILLIAM MARCY: ‘The Politics of Cocaine’

The Politics of Cocaine takes a hard look at the role the United States played in creating the drug industry that thrives in Central and South America. Author William L. Marcy contends that by conflating anti-Communist and counternarcotics policies, the United States helped establish and strengthen the drug trade as the area’s economic base. Marcy brings to the reader up to the end of the George W. Bush administration and explains why to this date the United States remains unable to control the flow of cocaine into the United States and why the War on Drugs appears to be spiraling out of control.

Orca Books
509 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA
360.352.0123
www.orcabooks.com

Arbor Day Ceremony & Planting on Saturday, March 27/10:00 AM at the Garfield Nature Trail—East end.

Join us as we celebrate Olympia being named a Tree City USA for the 17th consecutive year! Learn more about caring for our natural areas, and plant new seedlings where ivy has recently been removed along the Garfield Nature Trail.
Take home a FREE native conifer seedling, and stay after the planting event for a sneak-peak walking tour of the new West Bay Park! [more]

Please join us for the 21st Annual Capital Food and Wine Festival. Look around the site to find your favorite wineries, breweries, and restaurants. Then plan to meet family and friends at the festival for a day of wine tasting, great food, and live music. Saint Martin’s Alumni Association’s Capital Food and Wine Festival will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2010 from Noon to 9:00 pm in the Marcus Pavilion and Norman Worthington Conference Center at Saint Martins University in Lacey, WA.

Each year the Festival hosts regional vintners to promote their bottled spirits, microbrewers to share their best brews and South Sound restaurants and food vendors to provide their tasty treats for all to enjoy. Plus there will be entertainment on two stages throughout the day. [more]

Olympia Youth Chorus 15th Anniversary Concert – “For the Beauty of the Earth” at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. This 15th anniversary concert features young people, ages 5-17 years old, showcasing four seperate choirs and numerous featured performers. Singers in OYC come from more than 30 public and private elementary, middle and high schools, as well as home schools. OYC alumni are invited to participate in the final song of the performance.

www.OlympiaYouthChorus.org

MELISSA FEBOS: ‘Whip Smart’.

While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts how unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a course of self-destruction. But as she recounts crossing over the very boundaries that she set for her own safety, she never plays the victim. In fact, the glory of this memoir is Melissa’s ability to illuminate the strange and powerful truths that she learned as she found her way out of a hell of her own making.

Orca Books
509 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA
360.352.0123
www.orcabooks.com

GYROKINESIS exercise will be offered at Motion in Balance Studio. These beginner classes will run from 5:30-6:30 pm. The classes will focus on breath and movement to achieve joint mobility and range of motion and back and core strengthening.

The class fee is $12 to drop in or $40 for a four class card. Call 556-2619 for more information or to reserve a spot.

List of amazing events will be published soon – stay tuned!