A free movie with free popcorn? It’s happening Saturday at Lacey Timberland Library
Postcard art show
Though the works themselves are small, South Puget Sound Community College’s annual Fine Art Postcard Exhibition is a big draw. The 15th annual exhibition, with the theme “Out of Order,” opens Monday, Jan. 5, and features 198 postcard-sized works by 84 artists from well-known to unknown. The exhibition, a fundraiser for the college’s Leonor R. Fuller Gallery, attracts a steady stream of visitors looking at the contributions of their friends, neighbors and kids, considering which pieces to bid on in the online auction and exploring how each artist has interpreted or ignored the theme. “Out of Order” has inspired political commentary, visual puns, images of the universe and a couple of toilets. The show is on view from noon to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday at the gallery (https://spscc.edu/art-gallery), in The Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, 2011 Mottman Rd. SW, Olympia. There’ll be a closing reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, and winning bidders who attend the reception can take their new artworks home that evening.
‘Unicorn’ on screen at Lacey library
The Lacey Timberland Library is hosting a free screening of the 1982 animated fantasy “The Last Unicorn” on Saturday, Jan. 3 — and there will be free popcorn, too. The film, with voices by Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin and Angela Lansbury, was well received by critics in an era when non-Disney animation often didn’t command the respect it enjoys today. In a New York Times review (https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/19/movies/last-unicorn-an-animated-fable.html), Janet Maslin dubbed the film “unusually good,” complimenting not only the cast but also “a visual style noticeably different from that of other children’s fare and a story filled with genuine sweetness and mystery.” Though it’s rated G, “Unicorn” does include some scary elements. The screening (https://timberland.bibliocommons.com/events/68ff98749b8793410092cc9b) is set for 3 p.m. at the library, 500 College St. SE, Lacey. The library’s regular monthly Movie Night Series happens at 5:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month; this offering was rescheduled for the holiday.
Music from a sunny clime
If the short and chilly days of winter have you feeling blue, Olympia’s Choro Tomorrow might be a perfect antidote — and you won’t even have to venture out after sunset. The popular Brazilian jazz combo is playing a free concert Friday, Jan. 2, as part of First Christian Church of Olympia’s Fridays at the First series. Though the genre’s name literally translates as “to cry,” choro music is joyous and celebratory, and Choro Tomorrow (https://chorotomorrow.com/) is a band of friends who’ve been playing together for more than a decade. The concert is from noon to 1 p.m. at the church, 701 Franklin St. SW, Olympia, with coffee and cookies served beginning at 11:30 a.m. Both concert and refreshments are free, though donations to the band are welcome. Fridays at the First (https://www.firstchristianolympia.org/2025-26-fridays-at-the-first-concerts) continues all month, with shows by The Mud Bay Jazz Band (Jan. 9), Dennis Hastings with David Lee Joyner and Clipper Anderson (Jan. 16), Western swing band Southern Pacific (Jan. 23) and the Lavon Hardison Trio (Jan. 30).