Featured Events in Bellingham in June, 2025 (April Updated)

Displays of Belongingilluminates the work of Polish Jewish museologists, who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. It offers a nuanced understanding of the ways Jews in Poland saw their present and dreamed of their future, and sheds light on how ideas about belonging and national identity were negotiated in the space of museums. Sarah Ellen Zarrow is an Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, where she holds the Endowed Professorship in Jewish History. She has also served as a consultant to archival and museum projects at YIVO and Polin: Museum of the History of Polish Jews, designing exhibits and creating educational programming. *Feel free to call Village Books and Paper Dreams for further assistance at 360-671-2626!* Information Source: Village Books | eventbrite

A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast, Wrecked includes stories of vessels that met their fate in the Graveyard of the Pacific and the meanings made of these events by both Indigenous and settler survivors and observers. This lively history highlights the ways in which the three central myths of settler colonialism—the disappearance of Indigenous people, the control of an endlessly abundant nature, and the idea that the past would stay past—proved to be untrue. Coll Thrush is the author previously of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire. He is professor of history at the University of British Columbia and founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press. *Feel free to call Village Books and Paper Dreams for further assistance at 360-671-2626!* Information Source: Village Books | eventbrite

Confessions of a Teletubby Arguments and poo! Sex and swearing! Blood, sweat, tears and giant rabbits! Life on the set of Teletubbies might not have been quite as you imagined… Fresh from sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe, Confessions of a Teletubby lifts the lid on what went on behind the scenes of one of the most globally successful TV shows ever. Nikky Smedley played LaaLaa (the yellow one) in the original series of Teletubbies for six years - that’s a lot of custard for a grown woman to get excited about. Come and hear how she got the job by dressing as a bistro table; what it was really like inside one of those (surprisingly large) Tubby suits; how the NooNoo really worked and why children loved the show so much. Information Source: The Mill Arts & Events Centre | eventbrite