Mayor’s Arts Award

Shannon P Laws

Mayor’s Arts Award

35th Annual Recipient

Bellingham, Washington

It is with great joy and thanks to our Mayor Kelli Linville and the Bellingham Arts Commission that I share with you my good news: I am a recipient of the Mayor’s Arts Award, 2013. Truly a once in a lifetime award!

2013 was an outstanding year in the area of community literature and arts outreach. Sparks of creativity, and the desire to extend past the coffee houses, birthed new events for our city. Through events such as the international “Poets for Peace, Read-in, Write-on”, the FAB (Fairhaven Art Block) party, and the radio feature “Poetic Moments”, poets and writers found new ways to bring encouragement, insight, and art to citizens.

Bellingham is a city of artists, a city of poets, a city of musicians, and I am happy to be apart it.

Please join the other recipients, and me for the reception and awards ceremony 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30th at the Mount Baker Theatre in the Walton Theatre located at 104 N. Commercial Street in downtown Bellingham.

ALL RECIPIENTS

Tore Ofteness – Photographer

Margaret Bikman – Entertainment News Coordinator

Laurel Leigh – Author and Editor

Jack Frymire – Opera Singer and Educator

Shannon Laws – Poet

Becky Elmendorf – Former Whatcom Symphony Orchestra President

Alan Rhodes – Community Columnist

The Mayor’s Arts Awards ceremony is an annual opportunity for the Mayor to recognize individual artists and businesses, benefactors, arts organizations, arts community leadership, arts education or support, civic improvement and research, notable achievements and events, and those that have contributed to the arts in our community.

Thank you

Old City Hall

City of Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Award Page

Published by Shannon Laws

Like my writing? Want to hear me read my poetry? Please visit https://chickadeeproductions.bandcamp.com/releases and download some today. Only $1.00 a poem! Shannon Laws is a Pacific Northwest poet. Her story-telling poetry has touched many hearts and minds. She is the author of four poetry books, the most recent “Fallen” published by Independent Writer’s Studio Press. Shannon has received two Mayor’s Arts Awards and the Community Champion Award for promoting local artists on community radio and encouraging peace and understanding through community poetry events. She makes her home in Bellingham, Washington, USA. View more posts