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June 2019
Meaningful Movies: “Coming of Age in Aging America”
Meaningful Movies in Ridgefield presents this penetrating documentary that suggests that America’s social and economic institutions will – and must – change to adapt to a staggering demographic transformation where more than half of the world’s population will eventually be over the age of fifty. The film examines the current social security system; looks at the data being collected on the aging brain and body at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lab; explores a town re-designing itself for multi-generational…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »July 2019
Esther Short Park Tree Identification Walk
Vancouver has many species of beautiful trees, but do you know how to tell one tree from another or what characteristics to look for? Learn the tips and tricks of tree I.D. at this free tree walk and basic tree identification workshop. Urban Forestry staff will guide participants around Esther Short Park to highlight many of the square's historic groves and diverse, unique species of varying maturities. The workshop will focus on basic tree terminology and how to identify both…
Find out more »Science on Tap: Living in Earthquake Country
The Pacific Northwest is due for a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and a magnitude 9 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami would likely produce an unprecedented catastrophe much larger than any disaster the pacific northwest, or the nation, has ever faced. At this Science on Tap, Allison Pyrch, a local geotechnical engineer, will discuss Southwest Washington’s earthquake setting, what similar quakes can tell us about what to expect from a Cascadia earthquake, and how the Pacific Northwest is preparing…
Find out more »Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic: Book Launch for Toni Lumbrazo Luna
The next Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic night on July 11 is a book launch celebration for local poet Toni Lumbrazo Luna. Come to Angst Gallery, 1015 Main St., at 6:30 p.m. for open mic sign ups: readings begin at 7 p.m. Food and drinks are provided by Niche Wine Bar. This event is LGBTQ+ friendly and uncensored. "Driven By Hope" is Luna’s third book of poetry. It contains glimpses into the lives of people she has met throughout her…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »Simply Write: A Writer’s Support Group
Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. Snacks provided.
Find out more »Clamshell Railroad Days Lecture, “Stepping Back in Time: Horse Drawn Transportation in the 19th Century”
As part of Columbia Pactific Heritage Museum's Clamshell Railroad Days on July 13 and 14, hear a free lecture with at 1:30 p.m. July 14, "Stepping Back in Time: Horse Drawn Transportation in the 19th Century" with Jerry Bowman, Curator of the Northwest Carriage Museum in Raymond, Wash. Clamshell Railroad Days will be held July 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and features model train layouts hosted by the Peninsula Model Railroad Club. Guests will include the…
Find out more »Forever Young Book Group
The Forever Young Book Group is a monthly book group at Camas Public Library for adults who love to read teen books.
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam
The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, happening on July 19 at 6 and 8 p.m., is a tournament featuring teams of spoken word poets from all over the Pacific Northwest (and beyond!). At this event, four teams of poets will compete in a battle of words at 6 p.m., followed by a different set of four teams at 8 p.m. Audience members selected at random will determine the winner. The public is welcome to attend for free. For more information, please…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »Clark County Historical Museum History Walking Tours
Clark County Historical Museum will kick off its 2019 History Walking Tours with a weekend exploring Vancouver’s Officers Row on Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. This annual and popular series offers Clark County residents and visitors the opportunity to visit several of the area’s most fascinating neighborhoods and city centers. Guides will lead up to 25 people for approximately a mile, making frequent stops along the way to view buildings, tell stories, and answer questions. Good walking shoes…
Find out more »August 2019
Simply Write: A Writer’s Support Group
Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. Snacks provided.
Find out more »Forever Young Book Group
The Forever Young Book Group is a monthly book group at Camas Public Library for adults who love to read teen books.
Find out more »“The History of Botanic Gardens” lecture at Leach Botanical Garden
Attend "The History of Botanic Gardens" with historian Chet Orloff frin 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday Aug. 28. Doors open at 6 p.m. for refreshments and garden strolling. With beautiful photos and entertaining stories, Chet Orloff will take us from the gardens of antiquity forward to the great documentary gardens of the 18th and 19th centuries and finally to the gardens of our own Pacific Northwest. He will discuss the work of some of the great names in garden…
Find out more »September 2019
Simply Write: A Writer’s Support Group
Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. Snacks provided.
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