5/20/08

Greetings, Readers!

Come on down to the Socrates Cafe, an event at BookPeople! When was the last time you could discuss your thoughts openly and honestly with others? Have you ever questioned society and its assumptions, or your own? Do you like to have a good discussion without fear of being attacked for having an opinion that is different? Then Socrates Cafe is here for you! The time is 6:00pm, and the Cafe will meet every first and third Sunday of the month. Future meetings: May 18th, June 1st, June 15th, July 6th, July 20th. For more information, find them on the web at www.philosopher.org.

The Curator's Choice exhibition is a focus on local artists who contribute to the wellspring of creativity here on the Palouse. This year's selection of artists include the individual and collaborative works of Gina Murray and Lousie Colson, along with Nicole Taflinger and George Wray. The exhibition runs until July 18, Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-4 PM on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center. For more information, call 509-335-1910.

PCEI Party at Patty's May 24th, 2008
PCEI will be celebrating 22 years of connecting people, place and community on the Palouse this spring and would love to celebrate with you! Join us at Patty's Mexican Kitchen from 5:30pm- 8:30pm on Saturday, May 24th, 2008 for great food, music and company as PCEI celebrates another year of stewardship. Tickets are $10 for PCEI Members, $12 for the public. For more information, contact Aly Lamar <aly@pcei.org>.

Another May 24th event: the documentary Idaho's Forgotten War, the tale of a young Kootenai woman named Amy Trice, who declared war on the United States in 1974 to save the Kootenai people, will be screened at the "Flicks" theater in Boise, Idaho, followed by a Q & A session with Amy Trice. It runs from 1-2pm, and tickets are $10.

Do you like books? Ever wanted to make one the old-fashioned way? The way the professionals of yesteryear did? Then we have some great news for you! Jim Croft of Oldways is hosting some classes on bookmaking! And let us tell you, Jim Croft knows his bookmaking; he's one of the very best! The classes:
Wooden Boards and Clasps - June 6th through 16th - Wherein you make two books, 9 days total.
Tool Intensive - June 24th through 25th - Wherein you learn all about making tools, knives, bones, awls, scrapers and more.
Or, for those of you who want to know everything there is to know:
Oldways of Making Books from Raw Materials - June 26th through July 11th. This gets you everything: tool making and sharpening, lessons on fibers hempen and flaxen, traditional hand papermaking and loft-drying, gelatin sizing and burnishing, and making a book with wooden boards and clasps.
Space is limited, so inquire today! For more information, for dates and times, or to register, contact Jim Croft and Melody Eckroth at oldway@imbris.com, or call 208-245-3043, or visit www.geocities.com/oldways_id

The second annual Palouse Artists' Studio Tour will take place Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15 in Moscow, Pullman, Palouse and Uniontown. This is an excellent opportunity to see some artists' work spaces and get a better understand of the artistic process. Artists who want to apply to be a part of the tour can get applications at moscow-arts.org. Also on Saturday, June 14, Moscow's very own BookPeople will be holding an art walk.

It's time once again (in fact, 104th again!) for the Moscow Bloomsday! celebration, now at recurrence number 104. On Monday, June 16 meet at the 1912 Center in Moscow from 6:30-10:30 pm. There will be both rehearsed and impromptu audience readings from James Joyce's Ulysses, which takes place on a single day: June 16, 1904. Anyone named James, Augustine, Joyce, Nora, Barnacle, Stephen, Dedalus, Leopold, Marian, Molly, Tweedy, or Bloom or anyone born or married on June 16th will get FREE BEVERAGES all night. So there's only a couple months left to get down to the Latah County Courthouse and have your name legally changed to Tweedy for those free drinks! Inquire at BookPeople or e-mail Mirrortheater@roadrunner.com. The event is sponsored by Bookpeople and the Mirror Theater.

For all Bloomsday participants: On Monday, June 9 there will be a rehearsal and assignment of parts for Bloomsday, so arrive at 6:30 pm and be prepared to stay until 9:30 pm.

Any starving artists out there? Of course there are; all artists are starving. But now there's a chance for all you starving artists to get some free money, in the form of grants from a nonprofit state organization. The Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship Program is recognizing professional artists of exceptional talent or quality, and giving out $6500 each to 21 Washington artists in the following four disciplines: Emerging Fields and Cross-Disciplinary arts, Performing Arts, Tradition and Folk arts, and Visual Arts. The application is due June 20 and you can get applications at www.artisttrust.org or by mailing a business size, self-addressed, stamped envelope to: 2008 Fellowship Application, Artist Trust, 1835 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122.

This Fall, the University of Idaho will be offering Nez Perce Language classes. Ever wanted to learn Nez Perce? Here's your chance! The class is open to all UI students, and both first- and second- year levels are offered. For information, contact Harold Crook at hcrook@lcsc.edu, Yolanda Bisbee at yobiz@sub.uidaho.edu, or Hil Priest at 885-6179.

Is it too early to think about that special graduate? Of course not! Give those departing graduates a gift that they will cherish forever - a book! Something, perhaps, that they would like, but not normally buy for themselves; a book of sonnets, perhaps, or a scathing critique of the modern global economy, or some classic detective stories. Or perhaps get them some music, or some movies to enjoy while they're out making their way in the real world. Some nice soothing Iron and Wine to listen to after a hard day's work, or some Belle & Sebastian to lift their spirits? Maybe the Pirates of the Caribbean box set, a perfect gift to break out on those lazy summer afternoons. There are a virtually infinite number of graduates, with a virtually infinite variety of tastes, but we're sure that you can think of something. And whatever it is, book, music, or movie, BookPeople can get it! And what's more, we can mail it directly to the recipient, gift-wrapped, for a mere $2.65 on top of the cost of the book.

The Third Annual Writer's Edge conference is being held in downtown Portland, Oregon from July 25-27. Writers will learn about edge, and its application in their writing, through five workshops on writing innovative fiction, two panels, a faculty reading, an open mic, and "myriad conversations about experimental prose." For more information or to apply to the conference, visit http://fc2.org/edge/edge.htm. Anyone with more questions about the conference please contact Lance Olsen, co-organizer of the conference at writersedge2008@gmail.com. Olsen, who taught at the University of Idaho for 12 years and directed the University of Idaho's Masters of Fine Arts program for two years, will be teaching a workshop entitled "The Mosaic Mind: Fiction as Collage." \

BookPeople of Moscow is sponsoring a showing of The Golden Compass at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre (date to be announced). Any bears interested in playing the part of panserbjorne (armored bears) should submit a resume at BookPeople. No clerical skills are required, and no customer service experience is necessary.

That's all for this time, Readers! Thank you for reading and take care!

-BookPeople of Moscow

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