Spotlight: Travolta, friends return to stage holiday musical
Ellen Travolta is once again cooking up some entertainment for the Coeur d’Alene Resort during the holiday season. This year, the holiday musical revue will feature family and friends.
“I Remember Christmas” will feature Travolta, her sister Margaret, and her husband, Jack Bannon. Also on board are Patrick Treadway and Katherine Strohmaier. Troy Nickerson will direct.
“We are inviting audiences to join us for a night filled with music, laughter and memories,” said Ellen Travolta in a news release.
The show will run Nov. 28 to Dec. 21, with showtimes at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 5 p.m. on Sundays. The reserved cabaret-style seating is $25.
Ticket and room packages are available. To purchase or for more information, call (855) 999-7998.
Duke to be honored
Patty Duke, who rose to fame as a child actor and who has stayed in the public eye as an entertainer, activist and writer, will be honored by the Sandpoint Film Festival with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Duke, who lives in Coeur d’Alene under her real name, Anna Pearce, won an Academy Award at age 16 for her portrayal of Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker.” She’s won Emmy Awards and Golden Globes, and has published two best-selling memoirs, “Call Me Anna,” and “A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic Depression Illness.”
The Sandpoint award will be presented during a ceremony at 8 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint. The film festival itself will kick off the night before, on Oct. 31, with a preproduction party and a screening at midnight of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” For details on the award or the festival, visit sandpointfilmfestival.com/.
Photographer/muralist to visit Spokane
The Visiting Artist Lecture Series gets underway for the 2014-15 school year with James “Chip” Thomas, a doctor and artist who lives on the Navajo Indian Reservation in the southwestern United States.
Thomas combines his passion for black and white photography with an interest in guerilla art, street art and graffiti. He creates large-scale versions of his photos and displays them around the reservation on various structures. He also facilitates a community art project, called The Painted Desert, in which street and graffiti artists from around the world create murals on stands or businesses. Learn more about Thomas’ life and work at jetsonorama.net/.
Thomas will give three lectures while in Spokane: at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday at SFCC’s Building 24, Room 110; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s E.A. Johnson Auditorium; and noon Thursday at Eastern Washington University’s Art Building, Room 116, in Cheney. Admission is free.
An exhibit of works from The Painted Desert project will be on display at the SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, Building 6, from Oct. 27 to Nov. 21.