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 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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It’s finally here; the week that Book-It Repertory Theatre’s Two Wheels North dramatic readings premiere at Nordic Heritage Museum on Friday at 7pm.
Sponsored by Heritage 4Culture and Site-Specific, nine other performances around the county will follow this fall. On Sunday, the…
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Posted in Heritage, Recommended Events on Aug 28th, 2009

This spring, when I picked up, Two Wheels North, I didn’t know what to expect. The book chronicles the real-life adventures of two young men attempting to bike up the West Coast to the A-Y-P. I soon discovered that it…
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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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