1. Rainbow dash
Spend First Friday, June 7, in downtown Camas at the Unicorn and Rainbow Scavenger Hunt, from 5 to 8 p.m. along Northeast Fourth Avenue. Search inside local businesses for unicorn- and rainbow-themed items to win prizes. Other activities include kids’ games and crafts, art shows and receptions, a cake-decorating contest and auction, a photo booth, an open mic night, live music, after-hours shopping and a chance to get your picture taken with a “unicorn.” Start at Journey Church, 304 N.E. Fourth Ave., to get your scavenger hunt list and collection bag. Costumes are encouraged! downtowncamas.com
2. Put yourself out there
Celebrate National Get Outdoors Day at Fort Vancouver from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 8. Hands-on activities include fishing, archery, soccer, crosscut sawing, and rock climbing, or visit the vendors along East Fifth Street. Attend lectures with storyteller and artist Lillian Pitt and volcanologist Kevin Scott. Visit the Brigade Encampment, where costumed volunteers will share 1840s cooking, crafts, games, dances and music; also see live demonstrations of replica 1840s weaponry. Get Outdoors Day activities are free; entrance to the reconstructed fort is $10 or free for ages 15 and under. 360-816-6230 or go.nps.gov/1ejr0c
3. Coffee talk
At 7 p.m. June 12, come to Vancouver’s Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main St., to learn everything you ever wanted to know about coffee roasting — that’s the topic of the next Science on Tap, featuring Rob Hoos, author and Director of Coffee at Nossa Familia. Hoos will reveal the science and art of coffee-roasting, from basic chemistry to flavor creation in a process whereby the 300 aromatics in a green coffee bean are transformed by heat into a transcendent 1000 flavonoids. Tickets are $9 in advance, $10 at the door or $5 for students; beer, wine and snacks available to buy. 360-816-0352 or www.kigginstheatre.net
4. It has a ‘Curtain’ appeal
Magenta Theater, 1108 Main St., Vancouver, presents “Curtain Up!” running June 7-22, a comedy about five women who inherit shares in a dilapidated theater and undertake hilariously hare-brained schemes to restore it to its former glory. Their most ambitious plan is a concert featuring a world-famous star — but when things go disastrously amiss, they must keep the audience from discovering the truth. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on June 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 21 and at 2 p.m. on June 15 and 22. For tickets ($20 in advance, $22 at the door), call the box office at 360-606-0033 or visit magentatheater.com.
