Community Calendar

Please join us on Friday, January 9th, from 5 to 8 PM, for the opening of “her”, a new exhibit of art and poetry by Janelle Victoria. This ephemeral, multi-media exhibit will present minimal, figurative works of watercolor coupled with original poems about womanhood, the arc of girlhood, and how everything shifts.

We will be showing Healing US with Whole Washington at the UU Church. The show is free, donations accepted. We will hold a discussion after the film.
Approximately 68,000 Americans will die this year due to lack of adequate healthcare and nearly half a million families will file for bankruptcy due to healthcare costs. These numbers only represent a fraction of the trauma that millions people of experience everyday in the American for-profit healthcare industry. The country is divided and wounded and yet 70% of Americans believe healthcare is a human right. Could the fight for healthcare be the last hope for unifying and healing America? Healing Us is a call for unity, a cry for help and a voice for hope in America’s ongoing battle for healthcare justice.

Healing Us features conservatives, liberals, business leaders, medical professionals, influencers, activists and even an NFL running back, who all share a common dream of bringing free and universal healthcare to every American.

Ready to play? Are you ready to WIN?? Too bad! Because in our improvised game show Choose to Lose, in order to win, you have to lose!

Two contestants from the audience will choose the players, decide the games, add challenges, and mix them all together for a wild fusion of comedy and chaos. Unlock hidden games from mysterious folders and see how your choices create the most absurd and funny combinations imaginable.

In a world where bad choices are celebrated and the only way to win is to LOSE. Expect bold humor, outrageous moments, and a night of laugh-out-loud entertainment as our contestants try to get as far in the negative as they possibly can!

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.

Listen to stories of the early fur trade through the eyes of the Spokane Indian Tribe and the people who worked in the fur trade. Visit historic displays and enjoy music from the fur trade era presented by North West Fur Trade Historian (NWFTH) reenactors in period clothing (1806-1840).

PROGRAMS FOR THE DAY START AT 12:00 pm and include:

“Readings from the early Northwest Fur Trade Winter Journals" with fur trade historian, author and NWFTH member/reenactor Mark Weadick

“The Spokanes, the People Who Greeted Jaco Finley” as told by Spokane tribal historian and lecturer of the Spokane Tribe of Indians – Warren Seyler

“The Fur Trade Era & Geopolitical Intrigue of the Time” with Assistant Manager Paul Neddo, Riverside State Park and also a NWFTH member.

"The Life of the Engagees and Voyageurs in the Fur Trade” with Bill Delyea, NWFTH Reenactor

Fur Trade Era fiddle music by Foy DeMoss

The Spokane Folklore Society hosts its 2nd Saturday contra dance on January 10 at the East Spokane Grange beginning at 7PM. The Snow Flake Fling Contra Dance features caller Nancy Staub and the band River City Ramblers. General Admission is $12 and SFS Members & College Students $10. Under 18 Free

Oh the weather outside if frightful
But the dancing is so delightful!
So come to the contra on Saturday
And let us swing, let us swing, let us swing!

All are welcome. Hope to see you there!

Join us for a hilarious adventure at the Blue Door Theatre! Expedition is a fast, family-friendly improv comedy show where audience ideas fuel wild games, bold characters, and unexpected twists. Every show is made up on the spot—and no two journeys are ever the same.