Add a little aloha spirit to the holidays with Hawaiian songs performed by Olympia Aloha Ukulele Pu’ukani (Oly-A UP). We want to wish you a Mele Kalikimaka while we sing about Christmas luaus, decorating the palm trees, and Santa arriving on a surf board. Oly-A UP is a local group of ukulele players who share the love of Hawaiian, hapa-haole, and Americana music.

The Tumwater Timberland Library is located at 7023 New Market St SW, accessible via Intercity Transit route 12/13.  Call 360-943-7790 for more information.

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Please join us next Tuesday, November 12 from 6:30pm-8pm at the Historic Lord Mansion (211 21st Ave. SW, Olympia), for the Evergreen Talks speaker series, a forum for Evergreen faculty to share their research and knowledge with the community.

Our first free public lecture will be given by Tina Kuckkahn-Miller, J.D., Vice-President of Indigenous Arts and Education and adjunct faculty. Dr. Kuckkahn-Miller will be joined by Senator John McCoy (38th Dist. – Tulalip). Dr. Kuckkahn-Miller and Senator McCoy will speak on “Changing the Narrative of Education in Indian Country.” The presentation will be an opportunity to learn more about Washington State’s national leadership in Native education through the passage and implementation of the Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State legislation. Participants will engage in discussions about the ways that re-indigenizing academic spaces and curricula leads to increased Native student success at the K-12 and higher education levels.

Join us as Vintage Sewing Machine enthusiasts come together to share their love for old sewing machines that are still stitching after all these years. Hear the stories that these collectors have to tell about the history, mystery, and maintenance of these machines, ask them questions, and then try out some of these beauties. A variety of sewing machines will be on view, including toy, electric, and people-powered treadle and hand crank machines.This event will be held after regular hours; no other library services will be available.

The Tumwater Timberland Library is located at 7023 New Market St SW, accessible via Intercity Transit route 12/13.  Call 360-943-7790 for more information.

Sensory ecology and conservation of seabirds
Dr. Megan Friesen
7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 6^th 2019
Lacey Timberland Library Meeting Room

Seabirds live in extreme environments. After leaving their nests, they spend the majority of their lives on the vast open ocean, coming to shore only to breed. Some seabirds also exhibit unique behaviors like monogamy, colonial nesting, and even nocturnality. Join us as Dr. Megan Friesen of Saint Martin’s University shares research investigating the complexities and evolution of their sensory systems and how an understanding of their sensory perception can be used for conservation.

Megan Friesen has researched seabird conservation and sensory adaptations for the last 10 years. She completed her PhD on seabird sensory acuity and evolution at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and has worked on many islands throughout the South Pacific Ocean, and in North and Central America.

Austen Brown
Wednesday, November 6th, 11:30-1pm
Communications Building Recital Hall

Austen Brown is an artist living in Chicago, IL, holding his Master of Fine Arts from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is a Lecturer in the Sound Department. Using a site-based practice, he works with sound, video, and installation to draw conceptual lines between sites, using buildings as evidence to investigate histories of urban planning.

His work has been shown internationally at Super-Sensor, Madrid, Spain; The Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL; The Mission, Chicago, IL; EXPO Chicago, IL; Switched on Garden with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, among others.

The Native Voices Film Series celebrates this year’s Timberland Reads Together theme, Native Voices, focused on Indigenous Peoples history and culture and featuring “There, There” by Tommy Orange.

This week’s movie is Smoke Signals (1998), based on a short story by acclaimed writer Sherman Alexie, from his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Enshrined in the National Film Registry, this movie provides a glimpse into the contemporary Native American world, and is created by an almost exclusively Native American cast.

The Tumwater Timberland Library is located at 7023 New Market St SW, accessible via Intercity Transit route 12/13.  Call 360-943-7790 for more information.

Klara Glosova
Wednesday, October 23rd
11:30-1pm in the Recital Hall of the COM Building

Klara Glosova is a Czech-born visual artist based in Seattle. She is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in drawing, painting and printmaking. Her work is autobiographical, drawing inspiration from her dreams as well as daily life. Klara is also a founder of NEPO House and is always interested to see what happens when you place the inside out, invite the outside in and generally do things backwards. She received Seattle Magazine’s Spotlight Award in 2013. Seattle Art Museum’s Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, the New Foundation Fellowship and nomination for James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award in 2014. In 2015 she was nominated for the Stranger Genius Award and a Betty Bowen Award finalist in 2017. Klara is represented by Linda Hodges Gallery.