Spokane calendar
Today
Home Depot Free May Workshops - At Home Deport stores through May. Workshops include: “You Can Have Fun with Faux Painting: Basic and New Techniques,” Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Install a Faucet,” Thursdays at 7 p.m.; “Power Tools 101: You Can Use a Power Drill to Install a Ceiling Fan,” Fridays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Install Hardwood Floors,” Saturdays at 10 a.m.; “You Can Paint or Stain the Exterior of Your Home,” Saturdays at 2 p.m.; and “You Can Lay Ceramic Tile,” Sundays at 2 p.m.; (800) 430-3376.
Upcoming
Planetarium Show - “Mars, the Red Planet,” Wednesday, 1 and 2 p.m., Palouse Discovery Science Center, 2371 NE Hopkins Court, Pullman. Learn facts about our neighbor in the solar system; (509) 332-6869.
Greater Spokane Democratic Women’s Group - Thursday, 12:30 p.m., Cafe Americana at University City; 924-7212.
“Explore Your Life Purpose” lecture - “Sacred Contacts Group: Exploring Your Life Purpose through Your Personal Archetypes,” presented by Candess Campbell, LMHC. Based on the book by Caroline Myss, “Sacred Contacts.” Group will begin Thursday and will meet through June 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 1704 W. 11th; $160; 363-1789.
14th annual Wine and Microbrewery Tasting Auction - Sponsored by Odessa Healthcare Foundation, Friday, Odessa, Wash; (509) 982-0191.
Humanist Focus Group meeting - Doranne Miller will review “Freethinkers,” by Susan Jacoby, Saturday, 8 a.m. at Old Country Buffet, 5504 N. Division. Breakfast will be served for $7; 448-2516.
Gardeners of Spokane Open House and Plant Sale - Wide variety of annuals, perennials and vegetables, Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Hutton Settlement Greenhouse, 9907 E. Wellesley; 926-1027.
Mother’s Day Tea - Sponsored by Hillyard Senior Center, Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Northeast Community Center, Assembly Room, 4001 N. Cook; 482-0803.
Spring Tea - To benefit the Liberty Lake Municipal Library, Saturday, 1-3 p.m., Guardian Angel Homes, Liberty Lake; 255-1441.
Spaghetti Benefit Dinner - All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society, Saturday, 3-7 p.m., Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1435, 212 S. David; $7./adults, $5/seniors/children; 483-8421.
Annual Mother’s Day Historic Neighborhood Tour - 16th annual event with self-guided walking tour of the Audubon neighborhood, plus first-floor interior tours of six houses, Saturday-Sunday. Presented by the Historic Preservation Committee of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture and sponsored by Tomlinson Black. Tickets available at the MAC, 2316 W. First; $15/non-members; 456-3931.
“Seven Weeks in Africa” - Spokane Community College lecture presented by Tammy Filliater, SCC life science instructor, Monday, 11:30 a.m., SCC Lair-Student Center Sasquatch Room, Building 6, 1810 N. Greene; 533-7237, 533-8017.
Spokane’s United Nations Association lecture - “Economic Development and Diversity: Building Our Social and Cultural Capital,” presented by Ben Cabildo, founder and executive director of AHANA Business and Professional Association, Monday, 7 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, 4340 W. Fort George Wright Drive; 624-3608.
EWU Women’s Studies Center - lecture - “Unexamined Assumptions: What’s Holding Us Back,” presented by EV VanderWeil, M.A., doctoral student in leadership at Gonzaga University, next Tuesday, noon-1 p.m., Room 207, Monroe Hall, Eastern Washington University campus, Cheney; 359-2898.