Arts Groups Will Line Up At Comstock
While you’re at the Spokane Symphony’s Comstock Park concert on Labor Day, check out the Season Preview.
The Season Preview?
Sounds like the name of a sports bar, but it’s actually a lineup of booths featuring almost all of Spokane’s arts-and-culture institutions. They’ll be ready to hand you their season brochures and tell you who they are and what they do.
The following institutions will be there:
Academy of Dance
Allegro Baroque and Beyond
American Institute of Architects, Spokane Chapter
Artist Trust
Cavanaughs Entertainment
Cheney Cowles Museum
Christian Youth Theatre
Corbin Art Center
Dance Theatre Northwest
Erdely Dance Ensemble
Inland Craft Warnings
Inland Northwest Bluegrass Association
Holy Names Music Center at Fort Wright
Jundt Museum, Gonzaga University
KPBX-FM, Spokane Public Radio
Opera Buffs of Spokane
Professional Musicians of the Northwest, AFM Local 105
Rogue Players
Spokane Area Children’s Chorus
Spokane Children’s Theatre
SpokaneArts.com
Spokane Arts Commission and City Arts Department
Spokane Arts School
Spokane British Brass Band
Spokane Carvers Association
Spokane Chamber Music Association
Spokane Civic Theatre
Spokane Folklore Society
Spokane Interplayers Ensemble
Spokane Jazz Society
Spokane Opera
Spokane Porcelain Artists
Spokane Potter’s Guild
Spokane Preservation Advocates
Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane Watercolor Society
Zephyr
The Season Preview will run from 4 to 7 p.m. on Labor Day (the concert begins at 6 p.m.) not far from the symphony’s big acoustic shell. This is an annual presentation of the Spokane Arts Commission.
Valley Rep requiem
You won’t see the Valley Repertory Theatre on the above list, for good reason.
This community theater did not run a season last year, and now they have made it official: They are defunct.
The group has dropped the lease on its Sprague Avenue space in the Valley.
The theater had a good seven-year run but ultimately had trouble attracting both volunteer support and audiences.
Remedial Catechism
“Late Nite Catechism,” the hysterical interactive one-woman theater piece from Seattle, is returning to The Met for a third visit.
“Sister” (a k a actress Aubrey Manning) will be giving her Catholic refresher course on Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. A word of advice: Don’t be late. Sister won’t like that.
This show is a must for anyone who attended Catholic school or Catholic catechism, but it is just as entertaining for those who didn’t.
Tickets will be $30 and $18, and $50 for premier seating. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 8 through G&B Select-a-Seat. Tickets sold out fast for the first two visits.
`Cooking With Friends’
A local KSPS-7 TV series, “Cooking With Friends,” is seeking material for an upcoming segment called “Cooking With Friends: Ethnic Treasures.”
Send in your favorite ethnic recipes. If you’re chosen, you’ll be invited onto the program on Nov. 13 to demonstrate. The recipes will also be included in a cookbook.
Send your recipe along with your name, address, phone number, recipe’s country of origin and any interesting family story associated with the recipe to “Cooking With Friends,” KSPS-TV, 3911 S. Regal St., Spokane, WA 99223.
The deadline is Oct. 25.
Streaming KREM video
The KREM-2 Web site at www.krem.com contains a Spokane broadcasting first.
The site has live streaming video of KREM-2 news, or, during those times when KREM is not doing its own newscast, the Northwest News Channel. This means that you can watch news 24 hours a day on your computer.
Other local stations have video clips available on their Web sites, but this is the first one to have 24-hour-a-day live video streaming.
Julie Tylman, director of new media at KREM, said that the convergence of TV and the Web will become more and more important in the future. And right now, she said, “This is an important way to expand our brand.”