Last year, individuals and groups from around and beyond the county came together in a grass-roots effort that created a community-wide commemoration of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Centennial. The resulting publications, exhibits, events, performances, and symposia generated a synergy…
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Posted in Arts, Heritage on Dec 26th, 2009

You’ve read the book, you’ve seen the dramatic reading, now experience Two Wheels North through the Seattle Times’ “Newspapers in Education” excerpts. The NIE pieces appeared in the Times while Book-It Repertory Theatre’s adapted staged readings of the book toured sites around…
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Posted in Arts, Heritage, Recommended Events on Nov 20th, 2009
TONIGHT – November 20, 2009. 7:30 pm
Don’t miss the Burke Museum Concert Event;
Tribute to the Spirit: Little Big Band
Native American Artists Gather on Stage to Mark Closing of the 100th A-Y-P Anniversary Year
Representatives from 7 different First Nations gather…
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Posted in Heritage on Sep 30th, 2009

An “action-packed staged reading” sounds like a contradiction in terms, but that’s not the case with Book-It Repertory Theatre’s adaptation of Two Wheels North, which premiered September 25. With fast-paced exuberance, the 75-minute traveling show, adapted and directed by Annie…
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Posted in Heritage, Recommended Events on Jul 15th, 2009
It’s All Downhill from Here
This 4Culture e-newsletter will reach you just in time for the arrival in Seattle/King County of the fifty-four vintage Ford Model T’s that set off to cross the country along the back roads of 12 states…
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Posted in Heritage, Recommended Events on Jun 22nd, 2009
Heritage 4Culture and Book-It Repertory Theatre are excited to present Two Wheels North, the captivating true story of two young men who rode their bicycles from Santa Rosa, California, to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in the fall of 1909. Through this…
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Posted in Heritage on Mar 28th, 2009
Heritage 4Culture and HistoryLink.org are pleased to announce the launch of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Centennial 1909-2009 available as of February 20, 2009. This new curriculum for elementary and middle school teachers connects children with the history and centennial celebration of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific…
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