`Old House Workshop’ At Cheney Cowles
Valentine’s Day is the traditional day set aside to express affection in special ways for those we care about. On that day we are reminded to reflect on what our loved ones mean to us. Of course, in daily life, treasured possessions can also hold special meaning for us.
For love of another kind, February is also the month to “Fall In Love With an Old House.”
The Cheney Cowles Museum’s Sixth-Annual Old House Workshop, “Inside, Outside and a Walk Around the Block,” includes programs on Tuesday evenings, Feb. 21 and 28, and Saturday morning, Feb. 25.
The first session is an overview of interior design elements for homes built between the 1890s and the 1930s.
“Landscapes for Older Homes” will be discussed during the second session.
New this year is the Saturday morning family program geared for children from kindergarten through Grade 12. The program includes slides, a walking tour and indoor activities that explore the wide variety of residential architecture on First Avenue in the Browne’s Addition. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Fee for all sessions at the Cheney Cowles Museum, W2316 First, is $21 per person or $40 for couples (including children for Saturday morning session only). Individual session fees are $8 each for an evening session, and $10 for Saturday’s family group. Preregistration is recommended. Call the museum, 456-3932, for more information.
Cupid has dinner and a dance: A “Cupid Caper” progressive dinner and dance, sponsored by the South Hill, Sinto, Corbin and Hillyard senior centers, begins at 4:30 p.m. Monday with French onion soup at the Sinto Senior Center. Stops at the other centers will round out the meal, ending with dessert and dancing at Corbin Senior Center.
Dodie and the Sunshine Boys will provide dance music.
Advance tickets are available at each senior center. Cost is $6.50 with your own transportation, and $8.50 to include transportation.
Dance tickets only will be $2 at the door. For more information, call 625-6297.
A discussion of arts: Amalia Mesa Bains, a San Francisco artist, curator and critic, will be featured in “A Dialogue About Art, Communities and Individuals” at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 21, in the city council chambers at Spokane City Hall, W808 Riverside.
The National Endowment for the Arts Visiting Artist Series program is sponsored by the Cheney Cowles Museum, Eastern Washington University and Spokane Falls Community College with matching NEA funds.
James Lavadour and Jeffry Mitchell will also be on the panel.
Lavadour, an American Indian artist of the Walla Walla Tribe, is known for his abstract landscape paintings. Mitchell, a Seattle artist, is noted for his irreverent mixed-media sculptures.
MONAC art on skywalk: For the first time in several years, pieces from the former MONAC Western art collection will be shown as part of a special Cheney Cowles Museum exhibition downtown in the skywalk level of River Park Square.
“Indian Images - Art of the American West” opens Saturday and runs through April 15. There will be some 30 paintings and bronzes depicting how the American Indian has been portrayed in art for the last 150 years. A nominal fee will be charged for the exhibition, opened during regular River Park Square hours.
Girls, take note: Spokane Falls Community College will host its annual “Expanding Your Horizons” a math and science careers conference, March 25.
The event offers girls in grades 7 through 12, their parents and teachers an opportunity to meet professional area women in technical and non-traditional careers to discuss these career options.
Registration deadline is March 6. For registration, see your school counselor, math teacher, or call 245-3518.
Wanted: Bachelors for bid:
“Evening Of Elegance,” the annual bachelor auction sponsored by the Easter Seal Society of Washington, will be June 23 in the SheratonSpokane Hotel.
First, however, the organizing committee needs bachelors - lots of bachelors, single men between the ages of 21 and 70. Men between 40 and 70 are in particular demand.
The event, now in its fifth year, has raised more than $60,000 to help Inland Northwest children, teens and adults live more independent lives though innovative, therapeutic, recreational and educational programs.
Call the Easter Seal Society at 326-8292 if you will be a 1995 Easter Seal bachelor.
RX: Restoration weekend: Liz Curtis Higgs, nationally known encourager and humorist, will be the featured speaker at the specially designed restoration weekend for women sponsored by Women’s Health Network.
The fourth-annual retreat focusing on healthy minds, bodies and relationships will be March 17-19 at The Coeur d’Alene Resort.
There will be a ‘50s party, line dancing, water aerobics, health awareness workshops and exhibits catering to women.
Conference and meal fees (hotel rooms are extra) are $140 for members of Women’s Health Network and Health Access, and $165 for non-members. Call 624-7770 to reserve a space; 1-800-688-5253 for hotel reservations.