Community Calendar

The Arc of Spokane's Legislative Forum will bring together individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their families, self-advocates, service providers, and policymakers from across Spokane to discuss priorities impacting individuals with IDD and their families ahead of the upcoming Washington legislative session.

This is an opportunity for community members to engage directly with elected officials and candidates in a welcoming, accessible environment, It will provide families with information about local resources and opportunities to become involved in advocacy.

The event is free, but registration is required!

Drawing is the common denominator of all art. This class is an introduction to the four components of drawing: experience, observation, confidence, and creativity.

Six Thursdays, September 3-October 8

6:00-8:00 p.m.

$168

(This is an adult class)

Come together. Share a meal. Join the conversation.
250 seats. One table. One Community.

NIC Foundation
Innovia Foundation
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

In front of Christianson Gym

FREE to all

RSVP today (limited room for the first 250 at the table)
https://bit.ly/4gY6VYi

If you want to rage out and turn this season into an eventful alternative bonanza, here's your opportunity to witness the most thrilling act in the circuit! "For King and Country" brings a top notch showdown across the US this fall as they serve a thrilling new tour! This time, a new album brings different vibes and For King And Country is slated to promote this incredible work in Spokane, Washington! The Grammy-winning Australian duo of brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone brings The Most Beautiful Colours Tour to this city and they're ready to light up First Interstate Center for the Arts with their smashing hits including "God Only Knows," "Burn the Ships," and songs from their forthcoming album The Most Beautiful Colours!

Alick is lost in the underground of an amusement park in 1963 where he meets a cast of strange characters including a washed-up old princess and a sarcastic donkey. He embarks on a journey through the dark underbelly and discovers who he is.

Fern Spores is a femme-folk-rock band rooted in Olympia, WA. Drawing inspiration from musical giants like Janis Joplin, Alabama Shakes, Susan Tedeschi, and The Runaways, Fern Spores infuse their music with a modern edge while paying homage to the raw energy of their predecessors. Gracefully flowing between vintage psych folk, garage rock, clever covers, and soulful Americana ballads they curate a truly original sound. Angsty but uplifting, whimsical yet fierce, and as rock as it is roll. They serve up anthems of empowerment with a sprinkle of sapphic longing and a side of revolt.

Betsy Rogue:
Leading with vocal harmonies, instrumental versatility, and string arrangements, Spokane trio Betsy Rogue mixes a nineties folk-pop sensibility with a strong string section and Americana storytelling—like a fusion of The Chicks and Ani Difranco.

Recorded at J Bones Musicland in Spokane, WA, Love or Fear is the band's debut album release. This collection of seven songs showcases Betsy Rogue's ability to harness a spectrum of sound. From anthems that protest the patriarchy to songs that imagine an easier world, this album underscores the trio's strings, lyrical messaging, and cohesive harmonies.

Summerache: GirlBoy Punk Rock

At Happy Happy Valley amusement park, Alick loses his way into the tunnels beneath the attractions and enters a decaying wonderland inhabited by a washed-up princess, a hapless cowboy, a sarcastic donkey, and other quirky characters. Darkly comic, surreal, and unexpectedly tender, MAD UNDERGROUND follows a child’s journey through illusion, confusion, and identity, and a mother’s struggle to see the child who has been beside her all along for who she is.

• When: Sept. 11-27
• Show Times: Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m. & Sunday, 2 p.m.
• Where: Stage Left, 108 West Third Avenue, Spokane, WA
• Tickets: $30 general admission ($25, senior/military; $20, student; Thursdays, pay what you can). Purchase here.

A portion of ticket sales will benefit Odyssey Youth Movement, which has been promoting equity for LGBTQ+ youth in the Inland Northwest since 1992.

Content advisory: mild profanity, depictions of substance use, mature themes, use of prop weapons

There will be pie. There will be whiskey. There will be heartbreaking, redemptive, and tragic readings about pie & whiskey. We’ll also take four minutes to celebrate the release of P&W co-founder Sam Ligon’s new novel, Miller Cane: A True & Exact History, which first appeared in the Inlander and on Spokane Public Radio.

Not only is honor rarely considered central to the relation between faith and reason, many articulations of the ethical life pit the love of honor starkly against the humility needed for genuinely Christian living.
I contend instead that navigating honor is one of the most central daily ways in which we articulate and witness both faith and reason governing our decisions, and that to properly love honor requires faith. A close consideration of both Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice shows that reason alone would prevent those most deserving of honor from properly benefitting those too vicious to recognize their merit. Instead, proper navigation of this honor to benefit one’s community requires faith.

The members of the Spokane Watercolor Society display their diverse styles in this exceptional show juried by area artist, Linda Hyatt-Cancel. Awards in excess of $700 will be given at the First Friday Opening Reception on September 4, 5:00-8:00 p.m. where you can meet this talented group of water media artists. This is a wonderful FREE "family and friends" activity.