Save this Date:
‘Sounds of Sculpture’
Sunday, August 7, 5-8 PM At
The IMA Sculpture Park at Roche Harbor

Hot Music, Food, and Art

We’ll need your presence, support, and fun-loving spirit! Plan now to be there!

The first ‘Sounds of Sculpture’ Event at the Sculpture Park, located at Roche Harbor begins this Sunday, 4-9 p.m. with hot live music, food, and a celebration of the installation of ‘Tides of March,’ an artwork installation by well known Seattle Artist, Mary Coss.

Saddened by the loss of life and displacement following the Japanese Tsunami, Seattle artist Mary Coss, paid homage in this sculpture installation to the people of Japan, who are a part of our global family.

Using a sawzall, Coss transformed fallen logs into bones. The carved bones were placed into a human scaled steel handbag which appears to have drifted into the Puget Sound on the ripples of the Pacific, after the Tsunami. There the sculpture sits in the Bay.

Artist June Sekiguchi, whose family comes from this devastated area, joined Coss in this installation. Together they created the Japanese Star Festival ritual of Tanabata at the IMA Sculpture Park at Roche Harbor.

The ‘Sounds of Sculpture” Event at the park features this installation, hot live music, food, festivities, and an opportunity for you to leave your wish at Westcott Bay for the Japanese people who suffered so much in the Tsunami.

Plan now to attend this August 7th event and add your wish to this ongoing collection of wishes which will eventually find its way to Japan and a group of children who have lost a parent in the Tsunami. The ‘Sounds of Sculpture’ Event includes live, hot music, food, and this wonderful Artwork in Process on Westcott Bay. In addition, over 28 new pieces of sculpture have been added to the Park, along with a Starfish area for children to build their own sculpture after traveling the paths with parents.

Two future additional Sunday ‘Sounds of Sculpture’ events should be placed on your calendars now: September 4, Labor Day and October 2, ARTSTOCK Week-end, both are Sundays.

The Park is open dawn to dusk every day and the IMA Museum on Spring Street is open for the Kurt Wenner ‘Asphalt Renaissance’ Exhibition, Thursdays through Mondays, 11:00- 5:00 p.m. Also, check out the IMA website at www.sjima.org, or call Jennifer Elise, IMA Director at 360.370.5050 or email her at admin@sjima.org for further information.

Castor waits for his turn at the dish. Pollux is taking his time!

Here is some information from “working-class” people about how we can make this country work for all of us and reasons why it does not do so now.

For more information please log on to:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/09-1

Join our fight to raise standards for America’s working people

With the erosion of living standards for many, and new attacks almost daily from Wall Street-funded politicians, all Americans need a new contract, a binding relationship for their security, for their families, and for future generations. To achieve these goals, National Nurses United is launching a new campaign, for all:

1. Jobs at living wages to reinvest in America.
2. Equal access to quality, public education.
3. Guaranteed healthcare with a single standard of care.
4. A secure retirement with the ability to retire in dignity.
5. Good housing, and protection from hunger.
6. A safe and healthy environment.
7. A just taxation system where corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share.
What’s behind the attacks on working people?

The modest pensions and health benefits we have earned, the pay that supports our families, the improved conditions for our patients did not deplete public treasuries or jeopardize the survival of our employers. The banks and other financial giants did — and were rewarded with bailouts and bonuses while our communities pay the price. Over the past 30 years, while wages have fallen or stagnated and insurance premiums and other basic costs skyrocketed, wealth has been shifted from working families to Wall Street. It’s not shared sacrifice when only working people make concessions.

* Corporate taxes are at historical lows. Yet $1.6 trillion, corporate profits for the third quarter of 2010 were the highest on record.
* Hospitals nationally recorded $34 billion in profits in 2009, the second highest ever.
* 42 percent of U.S. companies paid no U.S. income taxes for two or more years from 1998 to 2005.
* The average CEO who was paid $27 for every dollar earned by an employee 25 years ago now gets a ratio of about $275 to $1.

Fred and I have been engaging in Wii activities to keep trim during the long winter nights. Please enjoy the following stills and check out who got the high score!!!
High score 100 points!