After dealing with the setbacks of Covid-19, the Chinese Association Board has made a decision to “go big” for the Lunar New Year in 2023.
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Bright Comet Theatre
Bright Comet Theatre will stage their first production, Lord of the Flies. Featuring an entirely femme presenting cast, and involving a multitude of diverse and queer artists.
Browne’s Addition Neighborhood Council
SAGA funding will provide pay for the four poets’ performances and expose a new
audience to our local poets’ work.
Spokane Playwrights Laboratory
SAGA is providing project funding for intensive, month long professional script development workshops for Spokane playwrights.
Spark Central
In a new project titled “Little Libraries, Big Stories,” Spark Central will collaborate with local artists to create and auction three unique little free libraries, stocked with books from local authors and youth, in part generated from a Spark Central workshop designed to ignite young West Central residents’ imaginations and strengthen their writing skills.
Spokane Shakespeare Society
The second half of the company’s
season two will include the show Romeo & Juliet in July, with eight performances,
followed by Goodnight Desdemona, (Good Morning Juliet) in September with eight
performances.
Sindhu Surapaneni
Surapaneni will install a canvas print of her painting in a handful of
public schools across Liberty Lake and Spokane, working closely with each school to
determine size and placement.
Mallory Battista and Lisa Soranaka
Battista and Soranaka will execute a large mosaic sculpture for
the public, to be installed at the base of the Monroe hill. The sculpture will incorporate
tiles made by community members at free workshops, which the two will host
throughout their studio residency at The Hive.
The Smokes
Alexander and Slater will hold youth songwriting workshops, kicked
off by a performance by The Smokes. After a performance, the band provides an
explanation of their songwriting process and a workshop focused on improvisation and
incorporating personal experiences into art.
Marten Norr
Marten (also known as the Actual Flower Prince) is a multimedia artist and recent transplant to the Spokane area. He works in many different mediums – collage, acrylics, oils, watercolors, embroidery, and wood, to name a few! – and draws inspiration from the natural world.
Diane Rowen Garmire
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.” Neil Gaiman