FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2020 >>>

1. Thirty-five years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  It's tough to fathom, but it's true.  Today and Saturday, T-town's "oldest and only Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow cast," the Blue Mouseketeers, will help celebrate the momentous birthday - and the Mouseketeers own 10th birthday - with an extravaganza deemed "Northwest Rockypalooza," to be held (quite naturally) at Proctor's Blue Mouse Theatre.  Expect all-day festivities, dancing, partying, scavenger hunts and lots of drag from 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. today.

2. Rainier League of Arts and Lakewold Gardens are presenting the art show A Walk in The Gardens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show features artists George Zantua, Michael Corcoran, Aletha Deuel, Tanya Lemma, Paul Langston and many more along with glassblower artist, Dalin Wiffler.

3. King's Books hosts the Distinguished Writer Series and Open Mic with featured poet Carolyne Wright, whose latest collection of poetry, A Change of Maps, won the 2007 Independent Book Publishers Bronze Award for Poetry, the Blue Lynx Prize, the American Book Award. The words flow beginning at 7 p.m.

4. The Barefoot Collective stages the contemporary dance concert Extension at 8 p.m. inside the Jan Collum Studio at the Merlino Arts Building, 508 Sixth Ave. in Tacoma. Arrive by 7:15 p.m. tonight for a pre-show presentation called "Reading Dance." an engaging lecture/demonstration format with dancers from The Stone Dance Collective and Artistic Director Eva Stone.  

5. If you're down with the bizarre, you're probably down with the annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival, which will impregnate Northern and the Capitol Theater with three days of sonic meanderings and audio oddities this weekend.  Year in and year out - the Oly Experimental Music Festival draws the finest and biggest collection of sound-art pioneers you'll see anywhere. The Festival kicks off at 7 p.m. inside Northern.

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