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5/06/08
Greetings, Readers!
The Mirror Theater presents Shakespeare Sundays! You, the
audience, will do the acting for these performances. Come sign in at 1:15
for the part you're dying to play. No preference is given for race, gender,
or age, and scripts are provided! If you're musically inclined, then come
accompany the acts on your instrument of choice! The last remaining play is
The Tempest which will be performed on May 4th and 18th. A two-dollar
contribution is required to participate. The plays will be based on the
Oxford Shakespeare, second edition, but as noted above, scripts will be
provided! For more information, visit www.MirrorTheater.org!
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 4th, May 18th, June 1st,
June 15th, July 6th, July 20th. For more information, find them on the web
at www.philosopher.org.
Also as part of Idaho Archaeology and Historic
Preservation Month, on May 9 there will be a presentation entitled "Mining
Idaho's History -- Picking Your Way Through the Past" at the 1912 Center
from 7:00-9:00 pm. A display of the same name will be at the UI
Administration Building daily from May 5 to May 16 at 7:00 am to 9:00 pm.
Oldways - Traditional, Low-Tech, People-Power! Come learn
how things were done in the good old days! You'll have so much fun, you'll
finally come to understand why people always call them "the good old days".
The events take place from May 9th through 11th in Santa, Idaho. Here are
the available workshops:
Woodland Crafts - From forest to finished product using hand tools. Making
quick sawhorse, axe use, peevee, bucksaw, crosscutting, and more!
Tool Sharpening - Techniques for sharpening all kinds of tools; bring some
things of your own to work on!
Fiber Processing - From fiber to spun thread or cordage. Linen, hemp, and
wool, using drop spinning and spinning wheels.
Systems - Learn more about 12-volt and solar electricity, grey- and rain
water reclamation, compost, and convection hot water. Everything you need to
know about everything you need to stay comfortable!
Field Trip! - Take a tour of a local oganic farm, learn about wood stove
use, cooking skills, basket-making, mouse-catching, mole-trapping, treadle
sewing machines, and much much more!
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
Dine Without the Whine with the Moscow Parent Toddler
Co-Op! Come join them for a silent auction and wine tasting event on
Saturday, May 10th 2008. The event will take place from 5:00pm - 8:00pm at
the 1912 Center in Moscow, at 412 East 3rd Street. If you would like to
arrange for child care, please get in touch with Kris Wallace at
208.882.2598. Prices are as follow: Hors d'oeuvres and wine tasting, $25.
Hors d'oeuvres only, $20. The food is catered by Dinner in Minutes, and the
wine tasting is compliments of the Moscow Wine Company. To purchase tickets,
contact Cindy Schneider at 208.892.3515 or schneidervandals@aol.com\
The Pullman Community Gardens at Koppel Farm will be
holding a Spring Fair on May 10 from 10:00am to 2:00pm at the corner of Pro.
Mall Blvd. and Derby Street. They will have a Plant Sale and Open House as
well as activities from groups such as the WSU Raptor Club, Whitman Co.
Master Gardener, Whitman County Recycling, Palouse Science Center, Backyard
Harvest, Palouse Prairie Foundation, Community Action Center Food Bank, and
the Whitman County Humane Society. For more information, contact koppelfarm@pullman.com.
Also on May 10 is the Twilight Dinner on the Ranch hosted
by Eaton Natural Beef as a fundraiser for Rural Roots. It runs from 4pm to
7pm and admission is $35 for adults, $25 for Rural Roots Members, Students,
Seniors, or people with Limited Resources, $10 for children 6 and up, free
for children under 6, and $65 for a family of up to 4, $10 for each
additional person. You can register online at www.ruralroots.org or call
208-883-3462.
Anyone interested in a big pile of horse manure should
email Ann Warington at anniewarr@moscow.com who, on May 17th will be having
a Clean Out the Barn party. She says they've got plenty, so I thought we
might offer a heads up to anyone who could use some of the, well, stuff.
PCEI Party at Patty's May 31st, 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 31st, 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>.
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
It's time once again (in fact, 104th again!) for the
Moscow Bloomsday! celebration, now at recurrence number 104. On Monday, June
26 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.
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.
Festival Dance is looking for an Administrative
Assistant! If you want to work in a fun, fast-paced performing arts
atmosphere, then this is the job for you! I won't go over the details, but I
will provide a link to their wonderfully informative website, detailing all
the fun there is to be had working for them. http://www.festivaldance.org/default.asp?PageID=109
That's all for this time, Readers! Thank you for reading
and take care!
-BookPeople of Moscow
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