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Leah Crosby performing in Yellow House fi lm at the MAC Gallery 12/3 ‘Solstice’ block print by Amber Zimmerman.

Hello! This is the second column from the newly formed NCW Arts Alliance - thinking of our creative comrades and hoping you are shining your lights brightly this time of year. Do you know that you are a messenger of the collective? You’re able to tune into frequencies no one can hear but that you feel, turning this into poetry, humor, and dance. A regular creative practice means that you make a habit of facing the unknown and turning mistakes into marmalade. This is brave, important work that can thrive in a supportive community, so the Arts Alliance has been busy applying for a grant, building a business plan, and talking with people who might want to be part of a board. Planning is necessary. Money is helpful. But YOU, beautiful beasties, are the muse.

DECEMBER

12/1 - Collapse Gallery : Life drawing session, pre registration req., 5:307:30 12/2 - WVMCC : Environmental Film Series presents ‘Gather’ 12/3 - FIRST FRIDAY - MAC Gallery : Yellow House, 8 tiny fi lms opening reception, 5:00-7:00 Henry Stinson’s paintings in the gallery through 12/17 - WVMCC : Link Exhibit opens, celebrating 30 years of service - Collapse Gallery, Coaster Show opens 4-9pm - Gallery One : Annual Gift Show runs all month 5-7pm

12/4 - Punch Gallery (Thorp, WA), Pop-Up Gift Show 12-4 pm - Wenatchee High School: Holiday Bazaar, 9-4pm - MAC Gallery Foyer: FREE Artistsled Improvisational Dance Workshop, 10:00—11:30am, contact sbailey@ wvc.edu to register.

12/9 - NCWRL: 14th Annual Indigenous Education Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass) register for Zoom talk on website, 6:30-7:30 - WRI (Leavenworth) : Red Barn Event, ‘The Approach’ ski fi lm, 7-9

12/15 - Collapse Gallery : Life drawing session, pre registration req., 5:307:30 - WRI : Red Barn Event, presentation, ‘Written in the Snows’, 7-8 pm 12/16 - WRI : Red Barn Event: Spirit of Giving - Stories of Connection to the Natural World, 7-8 pm

DEADLINES & OPPORTUNITIES

12/4 - Confl uence Gallery (Twisp), Erotic Art Show, ‘Filthy Little Pictures’

2022

2/27 - Gallery One (Ellensburg), ‘Undomesticated’, Nat’l Juried Art Exhibit

UPCOMING EVENTS, JANUARY/ FEBRUARY

1/20-22 & 27-29 - Music Theater of Wenatchee : ‘It’s Only a Play’, 7:30 Matinees 1/22,29 - at 2 pm

LINKS TO VENUES AND RESOURCES

*MAC- Music and Arts Center on the campus of Wenatchee Valley Community College https://ad-wb-wvc01.wvc. edu/academics/art/macgallery.html

*Collapse- Gallery https://www. collapsegallery.com/ *Gallery One- https://www.gallery-one.org/

12/2 -12th Annual Holiday Gift Show, December 2nd, 4-7 pm , top fl oor of NCESD building at 430 Old Station Rd. *WVMCC - Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center https://www.wenatcheevalleymuseum. org/events/ *Icicle Center For the Arts https:// icicle.org/fi nd-events/

*Confl uence Gallery - https://www. confl uencegallery.org/ ,

*Methow Arts - http://www.methowarts.org/

*Cafe Mela- https://melacoff ee.com/

*Mighty Tieton Warehouse - https:// www.tietonarts.org/events

*PAC- Numerica Performing Arts Center https://numericapac.org/about/ news/

*Two Rivers Art Gallery- https://2riversgallery.org/

*Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra- https://wenatcheesymphony. org/

*Wenatchee High School Bazaar- https://www.wenatcheeschools.org/ whs/ C