Join us Friday, February 4th from 12 - 2 pm to celebrate our grand reopening of the Ober Park Playground! There will be free hot dogs for the kids and Core Centric will be providing demonstrations on how to use the exercise equipment.
Join us on Mother's Day for our (mostly) annual Kite Day at Point Robinson Lighthouse. We will have kites available for those needing one! Fly with us!
Since their inception in 2012, the Spurs have kept a relentless schedule of recording, playing locally, and touring. After nearly 500 live appearances in almost a dozen countries, and with a slew of albums and singles to their name, Jenny Don’t and The Spurs are just getting warmed up.
The heart of The Paperboys is a trio of gifted songwriters and musicians: Founder Tom Landa, a fedora-hatted vocalist/guitarist/bandleader who immigrated from Mexico to Canada in his teens; Kalissa Landa, a lifelong fiddler/vocalist with a preternatural command of melody; and Spirit of the West’s flautist/guitarist/vocalist Geoffrey Kelly, already a Canadian musical icon when he hopped on the P’boys bus in 1997.
For well over 40 years, the Portage Fill Big Band has been an integral part of the musical life of Vashon Island. A perennial Strawberry Festival favorite, the Portage Fill Big Band continues to entertain with exciting and danceable music from the Big Band era and beyond.
We come in love. Lisabuela summer...Quartermaster rain. We formed together as a group in the woods of Vashon. We play music for the welcoming strangers who become friends... and for the friends who grow into family. Our music is acoustic and electric, a sound full of sparseness...and a warm weave of lyric and rhythm. If you’re not there for this one, you’re REALLY going to miss out. The boys are back.
Vashon Events presents The Rumba Kings featuring special guest performers! Get ready for a night of the most passionate Mediterranean-inspired music imaginable, accompanied by a live performance that is the talk of the Pacific Northwest! Catch the band in our beautiful Ober Park before they ascend to international status! Their new single, "Dance with me" is being praised and shared by top radio personality, Delilah, on her social media. Seattle's KNKX has been a proud supporter of their live shows and music from the beginning.
Vashon Park District will show the next episode of Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks – America’s Best Idea, at Vashon Theatre on Thursday, October 13, at 6:00 p.m. Episode 3, Empire of Grandeur, 1915-1919, covers the establishment of The National Park Service to create unified oversight of the National Parks after the controversial Hetch Hetchy dam was created in Yosemite National Park. This free series, presented by Vashon Park District, screens a new episode each Thursday.
Vashon Park District will show the next episode of Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks – America’s Best Idea, at Vashon Theatre on Thursday, October 20, at 6:00 p.m. Episode 4, Going Home, 1920 - 1933, covers the role of the automobile spurring road building in the National Parks and in the process, making them available to more than just the wealthy. Also in episode 4, John D. Rockefeller begins buying up land in the Teton Mountains and the Smoky Mountains join the NPS. This free series, presented by Vashon Park District, screens a new episode each Thursday.
Vashon Park District will show the next episode of Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks – America’s Best Idea, at Vashon Theatre on Thursday, October 27, at 6:00 p.m. Episode 5, Great Nature, 1933 - 1945, covers Franklin D. Roosevelt’s creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, opening a “golden age” of renovation projects in the parks. Also, the NPS is pushed to address abuses of its wildlife policies. This free series, presented by Vashon Park District, screens a new episode each Thursday.
Vashon Park District will show the final episode of Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks – America’s Best Idea, at Vashon Theatre on Thursday, November 3, at 6:00 p.m. Episode 6, Morning Creation, 1946 - 1980, covers the explosion in visitor numbers, 62 million per year, and pandemonium ensues when Jimmy Carter sets aside 56 million acres in Alaska.
Join Jennifer Sherman, Washington State Professor of Sociology, as she examines the social landscape of inequality and privilege playing out as wealthier individuals move into rural communities and how to minimize the division between the groups.