Duvall Friends of the Library is hosting a Grand Opening for the new Duvall Library!

We are very excited that the new Duvall Library is scheduled to open to the community with a ribbon-cutting and open house on Saturday, August 25, 9:30 a.m. This will be preceded by an old fashioned Duvall Friends of the Library Book Brigade which starts at 8:45 a.m. in front of the old library. No need to sign up!! Just show up and we will make a chain of Duvall Citizens, passing books hand to hand to the new library!

Here are some more details of this exciting ( and historic!) day:

8:45 a.m. Come meet in front of the old library to take part in the Book Brigade! All ages WELCOME and ENCOURAGED!

8:45 a.m. The Honky Tonk Sweethearts

9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. Opening Remarks from local dignitaries and Grand Opening Ceremony/Ribbon Cutting

10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Eric Herman – Cool Tunes for Kids

1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Budget Funeral Band

For more info visit: Duvall Friends of the Library

Make Some Noise!

Friday, July 13th
5:00 – 7:00PM
Northwest Art Center – 15515 Main Street NE, Duvall, WA
Free, all-ages! Materials and tools provided. Registration required via Brown Paper Tickets (click here)

Get creative with multimedia artist Rumi Koshino at Make Some Noise!, a ceramic chime workshop.

Using earthenware clay, participants will learn hand building techniques such as coil building, pinching, and hollowing to develop Japanese-influenced wind chimes. Once the structures are built, the surfaces can be decorated with underglaze. After the workshop, the chimes will be dried, kiln fired, assembled, and exhibited collectively as an outdoor installation for the Mid-Point Mash-Up (see details below). They will be returned to contributors after the event.

The Mid-Point Mash-Up
Friday, July 27th
6:00 – 9:00PM
McCormick Park – 26200 NE Stephens Street, Duvall, WA
Free, all-ages!

Come cheer on the Long Walkers on the second day of their journey and celebrate summer with residents of Duvall at the open-to-everyone exploration of place, the Mid-Point Mash-Up. Bring something for the grill – it’s a community BBQ too! And, if the sun has been shining, be sure to pack a bathing suit for an evening dip in the river.

Set in bucolic McCormick Park, this year’s Mash-Up includes unique musical theater by the Snoqualmie Floodplain Cabaret (aka the South Meadow Cabaret with performers Sari Breznau and Jed Dunkerley), the Bicycle Choir’s secularized spirituals, story-songs, Bulgarian harmonies, and early American shapenote music, Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang’s silhouetted reflections on travel in Zack Bent’s sculptural pop-up trailer, video projections in the park’s historic train depot by Rodrigo Venezuela, a sonorous installation of ceramic chimes by Rumi Koshino and the Make Some Noise! workshop participants, and Joyce Wong’s socially-engaged palm reading project, An Excuse to Hold Your Hand.

Both the Mid-Point Mash-Up and Make Some Noise! are made possible by 4Culture and King County Parks, with the City of Duvall Cultural Commission and the Northwest Art Center.