For Kids
Spokane Playwrights Laboratory kicks off its 2025–2026 season with Mad King, an original script by local playwright Henry McNulty.
Stage
Event: November 13
Stage
Performing arts of all kinds! Plays, musicals, staged readings, opera, and more. Local theater houses include the Spokane Civic Theater, Stage Left Theatre, Spokane Children’s Theatre, and many others. The First Interstate Center for the Arts hosts Spokane’s Best of Broadway series, which brings touring productions of acclaimed Broadway shows like Hamilton. Find out more below!
Cultural
Event: October 3
Terrain 16: Flagship Event
Now in its 16th year, the event features new works from 483 artists, poets, photographers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers living and creating in the Inland Northwest.
Comedy
Event: October 18
Comedy for Kids
Spokane native comedian Lyv Babinski is back with brand-new characters, fresh comedy sketches, a cast of kids from the Spokane community, and nonstop opportunities to laugh out loud.
Stage
Event: Opens October 3
Children of Fear: Improv in the Dark
Children of Fear will take your personal fears, worries, and terrors and turn them into terrifying and hilarious scenes right before your very eyes.
For Kids
Grantee
Spokane Civic Theatre
SAGA funding will help cover stipends for 55 teaching artists, coordinators, and production team members.
Music
Grantee
Boomjam Music and Arts Festival
Boomjam is Spokane’s all-ages, one-day music and arts festival designed to fuel the region’s creative economy and spotlight emerging talent.
Music
Grantee
KSPS PBS Inland Sessions
With federal funding cuts to public broadcasting threatening small-station arts programming, SAGA funding is crucial to sustaining Inland Sessions and protecting the visibility and viability of our region’s creatives.
For Kids
Grantee
Olyvia Babinski / Comedy for Kids
August 4–8, 2025 at the Blue Door Theatre, the dance and comedy camp will culminate in a public showcase on Friday, August 8.