Performance Dishwashing - ONE DAY ONLY
Bill Fleming
August 15, 11am-2pm 
Olympia Farmers Market

Bringing home the message of the City's "Zero Waste Resolution," throughout this performance piece the artist will wash dishes used by patrons of the Market food vendors.  Interspersed with live music and other offerings, including a free plate-giveaway, the event will create impetus for discussion of, and possibly change, for citizens to move from disposables to re-usables.

Like Everyone Else - ONE DAY ONLY
Tony Perkins
August 16, 6pm 
Yashiro Japanese Garden

A work of fiction set in present-day Olympia, exploring the lives of individuals, families, and the community in the midst of crisis.  The reading takes place in a location pivotal to the narrative, and visitors will receive a limited, art quality chapbook edition of the story.  Unable to attend?Visit likeeveryoneelse.wordpress.com to read the story online.

Bus Station - TWO WEEKS ONLY
Jenn Kliese and Jeff Shannon
August 1-15 
Intercity Transit Downtown Station

The artists create an auditory landscape that activates the mind and our internal worlds, that encourages us to explore our imagination and to feel a public and personal ownership of the space, whether it be on the streets or in our own heads.

Rising Tides
Faith Hagenhofer
August 1-31
Throughout Downtown, Mostly South of 4th Avenue

Working from the City of Olympia report, "Response to the Challenges of Climate Change," the artist has placed 40 small monuments along the new high water line projected for 2100, giving physical presence to the abstract concept of Olympia's new shoreline.  View the City's climate change projection map.

Would it Be
George Kurzman
August 1-31
Percival Landing Park

An installation of six free-standing panels showing the curves of their original camber from the shape of a boat acquired by an Olympia firefighter whose personal dream of restoring the boat had been cut short by work-related cancer.

Public Private Eyes
Shaw Osha
August 1-31
Throught Downtown

Engaging viewers in an exploration of apparent encounters, the artist places images of eyes selected from a series of her portrait paintings in multiple downtown locations.  Coming upon the images in unexpected moments becomes an opportunity for engagement and pause - Who is the subject?  Who is doing the looking?  Perception, association, sensation, memory, and culture are brought to the work through the eye of the viewer.

Leaf and Twig
Dana Squires
August 1-31
North End of Percival Landing

The artist adorns three trees with spice-infused paper leaves, flowers, poems, and recipes, referencing the spirit of trees of Asia and representing the interaction of nature (leaves and twigs) and culture (leaves and twigs used as spices).  Each tree presents a signature spice mixture from three different areas:  garam masala from India, advich from Persia, and ros el hanout from Morocco, becoming an environment of color, movement, and scent.

A Bird in the Hand:  Lesson in Letting Go
Trudes Tango
August 1-31
Throughout Downtown

Referencing the small ways a person is stopped by unexpected and temporary beauty, like a single ginko leaf turning from green to yellow, the aritst will "release" 100 handmade clay birds throughout the city during the month for people to find, pick up, take home or throw away.  Some birds will contain messages.  Birds created by community members will be released during the final week.