Community Calendar

We will be discussing “The Berry Pickers" by Amanada Peters at the January meeting.

This book club typically meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Auntie’s Bookstore and is led by Linda. Please send any inquiries to auntiesbooks@gmail.com.

This course is a six-week foundational playwriting workshop designed to guide participants through the essential elements of dramatic writing. Meeting once a week for 2 hours in the evening, this hands-on course is ideal for beginning writers as well as artists from other disciplines looking to explore playwriting for the first time. Some writing will be expected outside of the workshop time.

This workshop is open to adults and teens (16+) at all levels of writing experience. No prior playwriting experience is necessary.

A collection of new literary-based mixed media works and collages by local artist Tracy Poindexter-Canton, inspired by various books.

Some pieces draw directly from written sources, while others are created intuitively as visual vignettes that suggest their own narratives. Through layering, fragmentation, and assembly, the work explores how stories can be built, altered, and experienced through image and material.

Library Hours: Mon–Thurs & Sat: 9–6 Fri: 9–4 Sun: 12–4

Artist Reception: Sunday, January 18, 2–4 PM

The Thanksgiving Address, also called "Greetings and Thanks to the Natural World", is an ancient indigenous statement of gratitude for the gifts of the natural world that sustain us all, as passed down for centuries by the people of the Haudenosaunee Confederation of northeast North America. The Liberty Gallery is pleased to exhibit art inspired by this statement of gratitude, created by nine local artists.

The show opens Dec 28th and continues to Jan 24th ~ stop by the Liberty Gallery on First Friday Jan 2 to Meet the Artists from 5-8:30 pm.

Juaquetta hand spins unique yarn using local wool and alpaca. After washing she dyes and prepares these fibers to spin rustic yarns. She also knits, crochets and weaves garments to keep you warm. This is her 20th January as the guest artist at Pottery Place Plus ~ stop by First Friday Jan 2 from 5-8:30 to meet Juaquetta in person!

The work combines photography, embroidery, and slight collage tendencies to explore the intersections of infrastructure, memory, and identity - particularly the idea of connection in both physical and conceptual terms. Rooted in images of power lines and rural landscapes across the American West, my practice transforms photographic documentation through processes of layering, stitching, and erasure. These gestures act as forms of disruption and repair, reconfiguring the image as a tactile site where fragility and resilience coexist.
This exhibition envisions the power grid and hinterland as both literal and metaphorical systems of connection. These structures sustain communities while reflecting the invisible social and emotional frameworks that bind people to place. Through them, I consider how memory, perception, and belonging are mediated by the systems, both human and nonhuman, that surround us.
Informed by systems theory and object-oriented ontology, my practice examines how nonhuman networks - like power lines and rural spaces - reveal unseen forces of connection and dependency. Each work becomes both an image and an infrastructure: a conduit for exploring how power moves through us, how we maintain and repair what connects us, and how photography can serve as a space for reflection, disruption, and renewal.

Family Hour Community Night Live Music w/ John Firshi

Birding “al fin del mundo” or the “end of the world” in South America presented by Kim Thorburn, long-time member of the Spokane Audubon Society (SAS) who first spent time in Paraguay as an exchange student. She will share her years of outdoor explorations of places, birds, and other wildlife of the southern end of the continent. She notes that species numbers and variety don’t match the more equatorial regions, but the birds in the higher latitudes of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and the lake districts of Central Chile, which are carved by extremes of weather and geography, show remarkable adaptations. Program can also be accessed via Zoom link available atwww.audubonspokane.org.

A collection of new literary-based mixed media works and collages by local artist Tracy Poindexter-Canton, inspired by various books.

Some pieces draw directly from written sources, while others are created intuitively as visual vignettes that suggest their own narratives. Through layering, fragmentation, and assembly, the work explores how stories can be built, altered, and experienced through image and material.

Library Hours: Mon–Thurs & Sat: 9–6 Fri: 9–4 Sun: 12–4

Artist Reception: Sunday, January 18, 2–4 PM

The Thanksgiving Address, also called "Greetings and Thanks to the Natural World", is an ancient indigenous statement of gratitude for the gifts of the natural world that sustain us all, as passed down for centuries by the people of the Haudenosaunee Confederation of northeast North America. The Liberty Gallery is pleased to exhibit art inspired by this statement of gratitude, created by nine local artists.

The show opens Dec 28th and continues to Jan 24th ~ stop by the Liberty Gallery on First Friday Jan 2 to Meet the Artists from 5-8:30 pm.