Community events

Baha’is to host race unity event

Members of the Baha’i Faith in Coeur d’Alene will host a race unity day celebration and picnic next Saturday in hopes of assembling residents of all racial and ethnic backgrounds for a day of fun and socialization.

The free event, from noon to 3 p.m., will include live entertainment and games. Participants are asked to bring a picnic lunch to Coeur d’Alene City Park; beverages and cake will be provided.

For more information, contact George Mark at (208) 664-5410 or e-mail markgab@earthlink.net.

Benefit car wash

The youths of Audubon Park United Methodist Church are having a benefit car wash for both their camp fund and for the memorial account of Mike Cmos, the city employee who was killed at the Spokane wastewater treatment plant last month. The car wash will be at the Les Schwab Tire Center, 1120 W. Francis Ave., from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. today. For more information call the church office at 325-4541.

Sacred gongs concerts

The Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry St., will host a concert titled “A Calling of Angels with the Sounds of Sacred Gongs” on Friday. The concert will be repeated on June 13 at the Unity Church of Truth, at the corner of 29th and Bernard. Both shows begin at 7 p.m.

Many ancient cultures believe that the sacred gong instruments bring the presence of angels.

Richard Hite, a modern gong master and a licensed therapist who has used the instruments for healing and relief in hospitals and clinics, will perform.

Admission to Friday’s concert is $20; bring a pillow and blanket. The June 13 show costs $10.

Friday’s admission price includes an introductory talk to the temple’s workshop, “Sacred Sounds and Healing Wisdom: The Holopathic Way to Wholeness, Integrating Eastern Wisdom and Western Science,” which will also be held Friday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and continues next Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and June 13 from 1 to 4 p.m.

The workshop will encompass yoga-based exercises for pain, tension and stress; skills to change unhealthy addictions and desires; and ways to make healing entertaining. Cost for the three-day workshop is $175.

Contact Kent Moline at 536-2987 or Connie Stout at 536-7181 for more information.

Cathedral organ concert

The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave., continues its yearlong 75th-anniversary celebration with an organ concert on Sunday.

Presented by J. Melvin Butler, organist and choirmaster at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle and an organ instructor at the University of Washington, the concert will feature music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Sweelink and Tournemire.

The event begins at 2 p.m., admission is free.

For more information, contact the church office at 838-4277.