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Tacoma Museum District Announces Museum District Pass

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The Tacoma Museum District announced recently the availability of the Tacoma Museum District Pass beginning Saturday. The pass allows visitors to enjoy Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum and Washington State History Museum. Available at each museum and online at www.tacomamuseumdistrict.com passes are priced at $25 for adults and $20 for seniors (65 and up), students (age 6 and up) and military. Each pass is valid for seven days from first redemption.

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School Board says 'No' to becoming charter school authorizer

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Tacoma Public Schools will not apply this summer to become a charter school authorizer, the School Board decided this evening by a 4-0 vote.

The state Board of Education set a July deadline for school districts to file an application to become a charter school authorizer. A school district that becomes a charter school authorizer can issue a request for proposals from non-profit organizations that want to start charter schools. An authorizing district can set parameters and goals for the type of charter schools that it wants to see in its community.

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Museum of Glass Presents “The True History of Glass?” with William Warmus

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Saturday the Museum of Glass hosts internationally acclaimed curator and author William Warmus for a lecture entitled “The True History of Glass?” at 1 p.m. Admission to the lecture is included in Museum admission.

William Warmus explores how techniques, aesthetics, and narratives emerge and then struggle to find a balance in art and nature. The University of Chicago Magazine described him as a classical modernist; The New York Times called him a stylemaker.

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High School Graduates Could be Honored in a Bigger Way than a Diploma

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There is a new effort in the works of a Education Wall of Honor to acknowledge the high school graduates who make Tacoma great.

There are a couple of proposals on the table, but it is "still a work in-progress," says Kim Golding, one of the project organizers. First, a small wall, possibly made out of wood, would be attached to every school building in Tacoma. Secondly, there could be one wall centrally located at Tacoma Public Schools Central Administration Office downtown.

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Winning entries in the City's annual Earth Day art contest announced

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More than 150 Tacoma students entered this year’s EnviroChallenger/EnviroKids Earth Day art contest. Elementary students illustrated ways they practice earth-friendly activities at home, outside, at the park or while playing/watching sports and other positive environmental behavior that they’ve learned from the City’s EnviroChallenger educators. View the winning works of art at www.envirochallenger.com.

Earth Day art contest winners
Grades K-1 Division

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Lucas Smiraldo selected as Tacoma's 2013-2015 poet laureate

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The Tacoma Arts Commission has announced the selection of Lucas Smiraldo as Tacoma's 2013-2015 poet laureate.

Over the next two years, Smiraldo will participate in and host public poetry readings, workshops and other community events. He will also participate in Art at Work: Tacoma Arts Month each November, and will help produce the 2015 Tacoma Poet Laureate Ceremony to announce the next poet laureate.

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Tacoma Community College Diversity Film Festival Coming Up

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The Tacoma Community College 3rd Annual Diversity Film Festival is April 14-25 at The Grand Cinema.

According to  Tina Celentano a festival organizer the Diversity Film Festival is “to entertain and inspire, to explore and celebrate individual and cultural differences through film.” When the organizers convened in 2009 the organizers were showing films on campus every quarter but the idea for a festival in conjunction with the Grand was an idea and a dream the campus entertained.

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