For Kids
SAGA is providing Terrain with operational support due to the financial fallout from Covid.
Visual
Grantee
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!
SA Official
Event: April 3
Virtual First Friday
Join Spokane Arts and Downtown Spokane Partnership as we celebrate a Virtual First Friday! Even as we Stay Home, Stay Healthy, our community has a wealth of artwork to share. Share your #VirtualFirstFriday events with us by tagging Spokane Arts, post links to your events below, or emailing details to Artshelper@spokanearts.org! Artists, tag @SpokaneArts here and on Instagram to show us your new work! We’ll be sharing events, live streams, and artwork all day on Friday, April 3 for you to enjoy from your home.
Stage
Grantee
The Traveling Theater Company for Wayward Artists
Finding Your Light: An Evening of One Act Plays is a three-night theater event featuring 10-15 minute plays written by mentored teen playwrights.
Music
Artist
Mr. Sletner
Mr. Sletner is a one man band from Spokane, WA with a penchant for genre bending musical compositions and witty lyricism.
Stage
Artist
Sandra Hosking
Sandra Hosking is a professional editor, writer, playwright, and photographer based in Spokane, WA, USA. Publishing credits include The Spokesman-Review, Journal of Business, Glass International, Corrugated Today, 3 Elements Review, Cirque Literary Journal, Edify Fiction, and more. Her plays have been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Hosking holds an M.F.A. in theatre/playwriting from the University of Idaho and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Eastern Washington University.
Stage
Event: Opens January 24
The Three Musketeers: Spokane Children’s Theatre
Enjoy this adaptation of Alexander Dumas’ classic swashbuckling story of three swordsmen plus one young man who dreams to become one of them, who seek to save their King from the scheming of Cardinal Richelieu. Laughter, antics, music, and dance are the expected fare in this light-hearted and jaunty adventure.
Stage
Event: Opens January 24
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he’s eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D’Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn’t the only thing on Monty’s mind… A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music and non-stop laughs.
Best Musical, 2014 Tony Award
Performance on the MARGOT AND ROBERT OGDEN MAIN STAGE
Dance
Grantee
Spokane Youth Ballet
After staging a performance of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” on January 11, 2020 at the Bing Crosby Theater, SYB will create an educational curriculum that uses “Peter and the Wolf” to teach elements of dance to local school children.
Words
Artist
Alexander Antonio Manzoni
Alexander A. Manzoni has been writing poetry & prose for over twenty years. In September 2014, he moved to Spokane, Washington, from Newfield, New Jersey. He can be found featuring at arts events in the Spokane-C.D.A. area. Publishing credits include: verse-virtual.com, everwritersresource.com, FIVE Poetry Magazine, In-Parentheses, PicturesofPoets.com and Spokane Writes: A Poetry & Prose Anthology. He is the host of the “Manzoni in the Morning” spoken word podcast and is the election correspondent for Headline Poetry: https://lineriderpress.com/headlinepoetry