2019 EVENTS
Following an extremely successful fourth year of Orcas Currents lectures in 2018, we are looking forward to an equally strong and enlightening series of events in 2019. The Orcas Currents Steering Committee is working to bring you the best lecturers on science, technology, and culture we can find and afford to bring to Orcas Island. Our special focus has been on broadening our offerings into the cultural arena implied by our mission statement.
RECENT EVENT
Roger Sherman on “Bach by the Numbers: Symbols and Puzzles”
Bach by the Numbers A Lecture by Roger Sherman Artistic Director Emeritus, Orcas Choral Society Sunday, November 4, at 2:00 p.m. in Orcas Island Community Church There is much more to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach than what we hear when it is played. For over a...
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Orcas Currents Lecturer Barry Barish Wins Nobel Prize
Caltech Professor Emeritus Barry Barish, who delivered an engaging Orcas Currents lecture on the subject in July 2016, has just been awarded a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for his crucial contributions to the discovery of gravity waves. These delicate...
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Roger Sherman on “Bach by the Numbers: Symbols and Puzzles”
Bach by the Numbers A Lecture by Roger Sherman Artistic Director Emeritus, Orcas Choral Society Sunday, November 4, at 2:00 p.m. in Orcas Island Community Church There is much more to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach than what we hear when it is played. For over a...
read moreSidney Perkowitz on “Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein”
Two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley created one of the most famous novels ever written, Frankenstein — a remarkable book with a remarkable backstory.
read moreChris Jordan: “Albatross — The Film”
A Film and Lecture by Chris Jordan. Watch the entire film: albatrossthefilm.com/watch-albatross. This feature-length documentary film is a powerful visual journey into the gut-wrenching environmental tragedy occurring on remote Midway Island, which lies a thousand miles northwest of Hawaii.
read moreRussel Barsh on “The Marine Food Web”
Summer brings millions of migratory seabirds, fish, and marine mammals to the San Juan Islands, where hundreds of miles of tightly folded shorelines and nutrient-rich waters foster a dense soup of algae and microscopic crustaceans.
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