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The WhatcomTalk Events Calendar shares things to do around Whatcom County including Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden, Blaine and beyond. Find fun activities and adventures throughout the region on our comprehensive events calendar. Have an event that isn’t listed? Click the green “Post your Event” button and our editors will review and approve within two business days.

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Jan
23
Sat
More Murder in the Fourth Corner @ Everson Library
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Jan 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
More Murder in the Fourth Corner @ Everson Library | Everson | Washington | United States

Todd Warger continues his investigation into nineteenth and early twentieth-century homicides with more true crime stories occurring in Whatcom, and Skagit counties, including Sumas and Everson! The region has had a vivid history of slayings. An Emmy Award nominee for the documentary film, The Mountain Runners, Todd Warger is a recipient of the Washington State Historical Society’s 2008 David Douglas award for the documentary film, Shipyard, and co-author of Images of America: Mount Baker. For: Adults, Grades 9-12.

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Categories: Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: adults Author history local history teens
Jun
11
Sat
Barnes & Noble B-Fest @ Barnes & Noble
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Jun 11 @ 11:00 am
Barnes & Noble B-Fest @ Barnes & Noble | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Barnes & Noble Bellingham is proud to present B-Fest! This national book festival is designed to put the focus on teens. Join us for a weekend full of games and activities focused around some of your popular teen books and authors. Also engage in a creative writing workshop. One lucky winner from each store will receive a year supply of advance reader’s copies of the most anticipated teen books. You will also have an opportunity to meet some local authors like Tara Ellis, Raven Oak, Jesikah Sundin & James Wells.

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Categories: Family Events Kids Tags: Author author event author signing Bellingham book club book signing books creativity festival free games local Local Events prizes teen teens trivia workshop
Jun
18
Sat
Story Time with Rebecca Van Slyke @ Barnes & Noble
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Jun 18 @ 11:00 am
Story Time with Rebecca Van Slyke @ Barnes & Noble | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Join us at 11 am on Saturday June 18, 2016, Local author Rebecca Van Slyke will be here to read her new book, “Dad School”.

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Categories: Kids Tags: Author author event barnes&noble barnesandnoble Bellingham book books children Kids rebeccavanslyke storytime
Jul
11
Mon
Meet & Greet with Autumn Veatch @ Barnes & Noble
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Jul 11 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Meet & Greet with Autumn Veatch @ Barnes & Noble | Bellingham | Washington | United States

A harrowing plane crash took the lives of two people and plunged 16-year-old Autumn Veatch into the middle of the rugged Cascade Mountains. Injured, alone, and lost, she defies all odds to make it out alive.

Barnes and Noble welcomes this young brave girl on the Anniversary of her tragic accident. Come in for a meet & greet with Autumn Veatch on July 11, 2016, at 5:00 p.m.
Tara Ellis, author of ‘Getting Out Alive’, will also be here to sign and discuss her book.

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Categories: Family Events Tags: Author author event author signing autumnveatch barnes&noble barnesandnoble book bravery family free summer reading survival truestory
Aug
1
Mon
Feminine Face of Courage @ Deming Library
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Aug 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feminine Face of Courage @ Deming Library | Everson | Washington | United States

“Pure Grit: How American WWII Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific” is the true story of 79 army and navy nurses captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war in the Philippines shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Mary Cronk Farrell is a former award-winning journalist and author of fiction and nonfiction books for children. She writes with passion about little-known people of history who face great adversity with courage. Join her for this fascinating presentation at the Deming Library.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: Author history
Sep
10
Sat
Book Discussion: Crossing Zion @ WCLS Ferndale Library
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Sep 10 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Book Discussion: Crossing Zion @ WCLS Ferndale Library | Ferndale | Washington | United States

Keith Johnson discusses his book Crossing Zion, in which he addresses the joys and perils of mountain climbing, divorce, and love in a gripping tale of heartbreak and triumph.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Outdoor Recreation Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: Author author event international travel library mountain climbing travel
Oct
1
Sat
Julie Trimingham Reads @ WCLS Island Library
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Oct 1 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
Julie Trimingham Reads @ WCLS Island Library | | |

Lummi Island author, Julie Trimingham, reads from her work, including Mockingbird and Way Elsewhere. Save the date for this wonderful event. Celebrate the Island Library with a short annual meeting and great refreshments, sponsored by Friends of Island Library.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: Author author event books literature
Oct
8
Sat
Publish That Book! @ WCLS Sumas Library
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Oct 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Publish That Book! @ WCLS Sumas Library | | |

Local author Susan Colleen Browne will chat about the independent publishing process, and how to get started as an indie author. She’ll also share tips about writing in several different genres, including memoir, women’s fiction, and a middle-grade fantasy-adventure series. The author of the award-winning “Little Farm in the Foothills,” Susan is a WCC creative writing instructor and runs a mini-farm in the Whatcom County foothills.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: Author author event books literature writing
Writing Local Stories in Historical Fiction @ WCLS Blaine Library
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Oct 8 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Curious about writing historical fiction? It’s not all about Tudor princesses or WWII in France. There is a lot of history going on in our own backyard. Hear how award-winning author J.L. Oakley researches and crafts her novels. From the Pig War to the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 30s & 40s to women hiking the North Cascades. This is local history with action and intrigue.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: Author author event books library literature writing
Oct
29
Sat
Character, Plot, Setting: Essentials for Every Story @ WCLS Lynden Library
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Oct 29 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Character, Plot, Setting: Essentials for Every Story @ WCLS Lynden Library | | |

An Interactive discussion on the elements of writing. Abbe Rolnick uses her novel, Color of Lies, and short stories from her newest book, Tattle Tales: Essays and Stories Along the Way, to demonstrate how an author takes an idea, a person, or an event and weaves an intimate layered story for the reader. Become the storyteller.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: Author author event books publishing writing
Nov
19
Sat
Meeting in the Margins @ WCLS Ferndale Library
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Nov 19 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Meeting in the Margins @ WCLS Ferndale Library | Ferndale | Washington | United States

In her new book, Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society’s Invisible People, Cynthia Trenshaw takes us with her when, as a chaplain in a Midwestern hospital room, she holds a man with AIDS who becomes her inspiration to learn massage therapy. We go with her to the San Francisco streets, homeless encampments, and shelters where she practices the art of caring touch, offering seated massage to homeless people right where she encounters them. In a private home in Washington she “massages” an amputated limb for a woman experiencing phantom pain; in a hermit’s shack on Saratoga Passage she learns about silence as she cares for a classics scholar dying of lung cancer. Not many of us go where Trenshaw dares to go. And of those who do go to the margins, few are able to express, as she does, the profound reciprocal effect that encounters of intentional presence can have.

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Tags: Author author event author talk library literature
Meeting in the Margins @ WCLS Lynden Library
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Nov 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Meeting in the Margins @ WCLS Lynden Library | Lynden | Washington | United States

In her new book, “Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society’s Invisible People,” Cynthia Trenshaw takes us with her when, as a chaplain in a Midwestern hospital room, she holds a man with AIDS who becomes her inspiration to learn massage therapy. We go with her to the San Francisco streets, homeless encampments, and shelters where she practices the art of caring touch, offering seated massage to homeless people right where she encounters them. In a private home in Washington she “massages” an amputated limb for a woman experiencing phantom pain; in a hermit’s shack on Saratoga Passage she learns about silence as she cares for a classics scholar dying of lung cancer. Not many of us go where Trenshaw dares to go. And of those who do go to the margins, few are able to express, as she does, the profound reciprocal effect that encounters of intentional presence can have.

Whatcom Talk editor, Please note: This event also occurs at the Ferndale Library at 10:30 AM on the same day. This is not a mistake or a duplicate listing. Thanks

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Categories: Adult Focused Events Author Talk Tags: Author author event author talk literature
Jan
25
Fri
Wholeness Conference @ Alife Church
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Jan 25 @ 6:30 pm
Wholeness Conference @ Alife Church

Salvation isn’t a one-time event, it’s a continuous journey to wholeness.

Dr. Brad Jersak and William Paul Young are pioneers on this journey, bringing wisdom and intellect together for a full and life-bringing picture of what it means to be human. Christ Like. Love’s kind. Whole. Connected and open-hearted.

“When the way of our being matches the truth of our being” – Wm. Paul Young

We live in a world that divides heart and mind. One in which a great chasm exists between what we think we should be and who we really are at the core – so much so that we often feel incongruent. Like we are in a constant tug-of-war between our outsides and our insides as they battle to be on the forefront. What if congruence could be found so that who we are in the world is the same as who we are at our deepest level? When our outsides match our insides and the image of Christ in us becomes the image we portray as we live our lives?

Schedule: Please see registration link.

Childcare is available.

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Categories: Author Talk Family Events Workshops, Classes and Lectures Tags: Author author event christian conference
Aug
3
Tue
Pre-Event Book Signing in Lynden with Cheryl Grey Bostrom, Author of Sugar Birds @ Village Books in Lynden
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Aug 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Pre-Event Book Signing in Lynden with Cheryl Grey Bostrom, Author of Sugar Birds @ Village Books in Lynden

Join us for a pre-event book signing at Village Books in Lynden between 12-1pm! Get your book autographed and meet the author in person before the virtual event at 5pm! Cheryl Grey Bostrom will be signing copies of her brand new book, Sugar Birds.

Say hi, get your book signed, and then attend her 5pm event on Zoom where she’ll be in conversation with fellow author Maggie Wallem Rowe!

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Categories: Author Talk Tags: #Booksale #VILLAGEBOOKS Author
January 2016 – August 2021 Jan 2016 – Aug 2021