Events

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center welcomes players of all skills to a day of Mah Jongg.

The Lake Forest Park Garden Club holds its monthly business meeting at 9:15, and a public program at 10. This month, Pat Roome will tantalize with fragrance in the garden.

Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5 in front of the stage for art, games, and conversation, sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center. This week (the second week of the month), Playtime meets on the lower level of the shopping center.

Practice your French with Madame Genevieve Bodner.

Buried for a century, the facts of the 1887 massacre of 30 Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon, Oregon, are revealed in this well-researched history by Oregon journalist Greg Nokes.

SAVE THE DATE!

Join us for the annual Friends of the Community Breakfast

Thursday, February 11, from 7 to 8:29 am. 

Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.

Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.

Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly, so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.

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Practitioners of all ages and abilities are welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.

Contact Bob Trut: bobtrut@juno.com, for information about this group.

Welcome the Year of the Tiger with colorful dances from China.

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Join us in the Commons to play a variety of board, card and party games. For information: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/thirdplacespielers/

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center welcomes players of all skills to a day of Mah Jongg.

Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5 in front of the stage for art, games, and conversation, sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center.

Teen writers share their work at this meeting, open to all and sponsored by Friends of LFP Library.

Practice your French with Madame Genevieve Bodner.

Pacific Northwest Booksellers chose five books published in 2009 to receive their annual awards, given since 1965 to authors and illustrators living in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and British Columbia. 

Join us to congratulate the five winners of this year’s PNBA Awards, selected by a panel of booksellers from across the Pacific Northwest from more than 200 entries.  Enjoy meeting the authors, refreshments, and getting signed books!

Study, discuss and act on governmental issues. Everyone is welcome - men, too.

"Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong spree of bank robberies across the Midwest, the Firefly Brothers are forced into a police shootout and die . . . for the first time...”  Readers of Thomas Mullen’s first novel, The Last Town on Earth, will welcome his second colorful historic fiction.

Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.

Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.

Following the destruction of her German hometown in WWII, Ilona Cole worked for an American command headquarters.  There, both she and her husband of 50 years discovered that joy and love can come out of adversity.

Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.

Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.

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Practitioners of all ages and abilities are welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.

State Representatives Maralyn Chase and Ruth Kagi discuss the 2010 legislative session and will take questions from constituents.

The Uptight Seattleite, whose Seattle Weekly column offers tips on reaching one’s inner leftist, brings his savvy smugness to a larger audience. Enjoy laughs from the pinnacle of political correctness.

Fountain pen fans welcome all who share their hobby.

Already play? Just learning? Come to Heroscape game day!

Enjoy folkloric dances from the Middle East.. With dazzling costumes and lively accompaniment, the Shaharazad dancers will transport you to the warmth of the Levant, Gulf States, North Africa, and Egypt. Sponsored by KCLS.

Poet and essayist Sheila Bender tells how she used writing poetry to find her way out of grief after her son’s death following a snowboarding accident.

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www.cherylserio.com

The Milner Family Fiddles bring their lively Texas-style music to the Third Place stage every other month.

Join us in the Commons to play a variety of board, card and party games. For information: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/thirdplacespielers/

Join in spirited conversation on a variety of subjects.

When the beautiful girl who has haunted his dreams moves into an old plantation in his hometown, Ethan changes his mind about leaving Gatlin, in this atmospheric Southern Gothic young adult novel.

Be the first to enter to win a handmade locket, inspired by their books!  The contest starts at our event!!

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Check out the book trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrVl6pq1gNE

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center welcomes players of all skills to a day of Mah Jongg.

Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5 in front of the stage for art, games, and conversation, sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center.

Practice your French with Madame Genevieve Bodner.

Members of Seattle Opera’s education staff will lead an informal opera talk to give you an orientation to their upcoming production of  Falstaff.

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Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.

The Alliance of People with Disabilities invites anyone who shares their concerns to this meeting.
For info contact the Alliance at 206-545-7055.

Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.

New Yorker writer and author of Oracle Bones and River Town, Peter Hessler drove 7,000 miles around China for this final book in his trilogy on the country, revealing the human side of its economic revolution.

Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.

Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.

As a professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco, and a clinician/teacher in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at San Francisco General Hospital since 1992, Paul Linde accurately shares the fast-paced combat zone pressure of psychiatric emergency rooms.

Listen!

www.heatherblues.com

Practitioners of all ages and abilities are welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.

Contact Bob Trut: bobtrut@juno.com, for information about this group.

Prepare for an energetic hour of jazz, tap, ballet, hip hop and modern dance, guaranteed get Saturday afternoon moving in the Commons.

Pacific Northwest author Sara Donati presents the sixth and final book in her Wilderness series, set in the nineteenth century New York frontier. Paradise, NY is devastated by a flood, but the Bonner family’s personal struggles are its biggest challenge.

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Join us in the Commons to play a variety of board, card and partygames.  For information: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/thirdplacespielers/

There could be no better way to celebrate African American Heritage Month than with Pastor Patrinell Staten Wright’s internationally known gospel singing choir. The Total Experience Gospel Choir bursts with love, joy and enthusiasm, and is hailed as one of the Pacific Northwest's finest soulful ensembles.

The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.

David Shields calls for a new art form to match the needs of a new century – and suggests in this age of reality TV, Facebook and YouTube that we need to re-think how we approach the truth and art.

Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5 in front of the stage for art, games, and conversation,sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center.

Young teen readers are invited to share pizza and books in this Friends of LFP Library gathering.

Practice your French with MadameGenevieve Bodner.

What if you could look at people and tell how they feel? Based on the same 3,000 year old foundation as acupuncture and Chinese medicine, face reading is a powerful source of wisdom.

Writers get feedback and positive critique in this Friends of LFP Library free workshop, led by author Frances Dayee.  

Veterans support, referrals, emergency assistance. First Thursday of every month. Call ahead to schedule an appointment: (206) 296-7656.

Join advanced-to-beginning Spanish speakers for casual conversation.

Oregon author Dave Metz has kayaked across Alaska and trekked in Peru, Brazil, and Borneo. This memoir is the tale of his three-month death-defying journey across the Alaskan Arctic with his beloved Airedales.

Using words, photos, images, and an array of beautiful papers, you will create a book to preserve and celebrate your memories. No artistic experience necessary. This 7-week class will fill quickly so reserve your space soon: 206-366-3302, or programs@thirdplacecommons.org.

Weekly storytelling is presented by Third Place Books. Meet in the Children's Books area.

Beth Rowles Scott’s memoir follows her from the Canadian prairie to BC, her marriage at 63, and the evolution of her NGO, the African Canadian Continuing Education Society.

Swingin' LFP Local Band!

Practitioners of all ages and abilitiesare welcome on a weekly or drop-in basis.

Join us for our annual Dr. Suess’ birthday party and Read-Across-America celebration, with special guest THE CAT IN THE HAT.  Bring your cameras!

RESCHEDULED

Seattleites know Tony Ventrella from his almost 30 years as a news and sports radio and TV personality, and also from his inspirational first book: Smile in the Mirror. Meet Tony as he introduces his sequel.

A combination of both Country & Blues, what they like to call, “Porch Music”  because it’s what you play on the porch with your friends.

Join us in the Commons to play a variety of board, card and party games.  For information: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/thirdplacespielers/

Join in spirited conversation on a variety ofsubjects.

The Shoreline-LFP Senior Center welcomes players of all skill levels to a day of Mah Jongg.

Lucia’s large Italian family is content in 1950’s Greenwich Village, but turns of fortune force the young seamstress to find happiness where she least expects it.  Join us to knit Hats for the Homeless and discuss this engaging novel.

In April : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Inspired by 14-year-old Hannah’s plea to DO something about poverty and inequity, her family sold their Atlanta mansion and lived more frugally, creating deeper bonds among themselves.  Their book shows how others can do the same.

The Lake Forest Park Garden Club holds its monthly business meeting at 9:15, and a public program at 10.  This month, Diana Reeck from Collectors Nursery in Battleground, WA discusses the meaning of botanical names.  

Join other parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children ages birth to 5  for art, games, and conversation, sponsored and led by the Shoreline Family Support Center. Today, Playtime meets downstairs on the lower level of the shopping center.

Practice your French with MadameGenevieve Bodner.

“David Corbett's new novel is a bold look into the darkness that is human-trafficking, a sharp revelation of the intended and unintended consequences of such evil," says Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone.