Shoreline Community College community members can attend the biggest film festival in the US – for cheap.

The college is a sponsor of the Seattle International Film Festival, which starts Thursday, May 15 and runs through June 8, and community members can use a promotional code for $2 off any regular priced screening. The code is “SPONSOR2014” and only applies with a ticket purchased online and can’t be combined with any other discount, including a membership discount.

Shoreline’s strong film and acting program is well represented yet again at the with actors, directors and film crew connected to eight of the films being shown during the festival . The discount code is a great opportunity to support student work and watch a good flick at the same time.

Shoreline is also sponsoring the screenings of the films Burkholder, Desert Cathedral, Razing the Bar, Fly Colt Fly and BFE. Desert Cathedral stars Tony Doupé, program director and faculty member at Shoreline, and has five current and former film students on the crew.

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is the largest and most highly attended festival in the United States and runs May 15-June 8. For this, the festival’s the 40th anniversary, organizers have announced screenings of 440 films: 198 features (plus four secret films), 60 documentaries, 14 archival films, and 168 shorts, representing 83 countries. The films include 44 world premieres (20 features, 24 shorts), 30 North American premieres (22 features, eight shorts), and 14 U.S. premieres (eight features and six shorts).

Here is a list of the films Shoreline is sponsoring:

• Burkholder, Sat. May 17, Harvard Exit, 4 p.m.
• Desert Cathedral, Sat. May 17, Uptown, 9 p.m.
• Razing the Bar, Tue. May 20, Uptown, 9 p.m.
• Fly Colt Fly, Thu. May 29, Uptown, 6:30 p.m.
• BFE, Mon. June 2, Harvard Exit, 9 p.m.

Shoreline Community College celebrates 75 years of parenting education in Washington state from 1938-39 to 2013-14. Bring your whole family for a free End-of-the-Year Celebration for the Parenting Education Program

Ian Dobson’s Steel Drum Party

Date:  Thursday, June 5th
Time:  11:30-12:30
Place:  Shoreline Community College Courtyard

Admission:  Donation for Shoreline Food Bank

Take your kids on a musical vacation!  In the Caribbean a steel drum is called a “pan” and to party is to “leggo”.  Get ready to Pan Leggo!!  Ian Dobson has traveled the world performing and learning about the music of various cultures.  He has been performing on the steel drums since 1995.

Bring a sack lunch,  beverage, and blanket.

For more information, contact Barbara Yasui at 206-546-4593 or byasui@shoreline.edu

Here is a look at some of the events happening on and around campus!

Monday, May 12:

Continuing student registration begins for Summer and Fall quarter!

All players that are interested in being on the Shoreline Dolphin Volleyball team come out to play on May 12 from 3-6 p.m. in the Shoreline Gym!

New art gallery show runs through July 12. Shoreline has three clubs in the fine arts: the photography club, the art club, and the clay club. In this show, the clubs display samples of the best printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and ceramics from students involved in club activities throughout the year.

Wednesday, May 14:

Free workshop in room 1501 at 3 p.m. Improve your ability to identify and use the different parts of a sentence. (For intermediate and advanced ESL students and others wanting a basic review of English grammar)

Thursday, May 15:

Clothing swap donations needed by 5 p.m. in room 4122!

Great discussions 2014 continues at 6:30 p.m. in the boardroom with this weeks topic: Israel and the US. The cost is $35 for the series or $8 for a single event.  Contact Larry Fuell.

Friday, May 16:

Clothing giveaway and swap! Be there from 12:30-2 in the lower level hallway of the 4000 building and pick up some sweet, clean and free new duds!

Hairspray’s first show starts at 7 p.m. get your tickets at the door or online and be there!

Shoreline Community College Trustee Tom Lux listens during the All-Campus Meeting, May 9, 2014. MORE PHOTOS

Charles Darwin might’ve been comfortable with the concepts at the May 9, 2014 All-Campus Meeting at Shoreline Community College.

“This is about evolving,” Interim President Daryl Campbell told the attendees at the PUB Main Dining Room and more than 50 others watching the live-stream webcast. “And we are precisely where we should be.”

First, Campbell addressed the transition from his year as interim president to the tenure Cheryl Roberts, who was recently chosen to be the incoming president and will take over on Aug. 18. Campbell said that he and Roberts have spoken and met and will continue to do so through her arrival.

The meeting agenda then shifted to Ann Garnsey-Harter, Executive Director of eLearning, Virtual College and Resource Development. Garnsey-Harter presented a draft of a “Virtual Campus Initiative” that outlines a possible next step for the Virtual College.

“It has been three years since we wrote the Virtual College Blueprint,” Garnsey-Harter said. “This is a good time to take stock to ask ourselves about the evolution of that initiative and ask ourselves where we want to go.”

Garnsey-Harter said that with three years of data and experience, along with external changes, now is a good time to reassess. One of the most obvious changes in the draft is changing form Virtual College to Virtual Campus. “The change is trying to reduce the confusion I’ve heard around the term ‘college,’” Garnsey-Harter said. “’College’ sometimes gave it a feeling that it was an outside entity. So, we’re using the term ‘campus’ … to be clear that this is part of and an extension of the bricks-and-mortar campus.”

Garnsey-Harter went on to say that the Virtual Campus draft also ties to and supports the core themes of the college.

Campbell came back to discuss the current financial state of the college along with some anticipated year-end budget projections and how the college is using strategic action plans to prepare for the future.

“The college is fiscally very strong,” Campbell said. There are challenges, he said, citing items such as: reduced health-care costs, but potentially larger health-care reimbursements from the state; uncertainty around directed spending by the state; a roughly $100,000 budget cut, and impacts from inflation.

Campbell said that while the college may end up with some surplus this year, those items add up to projected deficit next year. “This is a problem we have every year,” Campbell said.

As for planning, he noted that this is the second year the college has used the strategic action plan process in an attempt to align spending with planning. This year, 59 plans were submitted, totaling $2.65 million. Campbell noted the process developed and applied by the Strategic Planning and Budget Committee.

“We’re very intentional about broadening and increasing the transparency of the process,” Campbell said. He added that he is now reviewing the proposals, asking for additional information where needed and approve selected requests in the next several weeks. Those requests and the rest of a proposed budget for 2014-15 will be rolled up and presented to the Board of Trustees in early June an advance of anticipated approval at the June 25 board meeting.

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Mon – Thursday, June 23 – 26
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Friday, June 27 
7:30 – 4 p.m.