For Kids
Each October during national arts and humanities month, we celebrate! Join us for a full month of celebrating arts and culture in our region.
Cultural
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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
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2024 Arts Awards Nominations
Arts Awards recognize the accomplishments of artists, arts and cultural organizations and local individuals committed to enriching our community through the arts.
Cultural
Grantee
FEM+FEST Spokane Feminist Art Festival
Spokane Feminist Art Festival FEM+FEST 2019 is presented by Spokane NOW (National Organization for Women) in partnership with the Downtown Spokane Public Library. The Festival will take place on Saturday, April 27th from 6-9pm.
Stage
Grantee
Kemuel DeMoville
SAGA is supporting local playwright Kemuel DeMoville in the creation of an original work, “Fire Melt Stone,” along with the creation of a complimentary education packet for area schools (focused on grades 3-6).
Dance
Grantee
Quiero Flamenco / Monica Mota
Quiero Flamenco was created to promote and encourage the growth of Flamenco in the Inland Northwest. Aire Flamenco was their presentation of Flamenco arts with live music and dance at The Bing Crosby Theater on February 23, 2019.
Stage
Grantee
Stage Left Theater
Stage Left Theater is founded on the belief that live theater provides a mechanism for interpersonal interaction and should be relevant to the daily lives of the audience and the players. We seek to broaden the involvement of the general population by engaging issues of topical value.
Stage
Grantee
Edward Bryan & William Berry
In a significant collaboration between writer, Edward Bryan, and composer, William Berry, the classic tale of a man chasing a whale has been refashioned as a musical.
Cultural
Grantee
One Heart Native Art & Film Festival
The mission of One Heart Native Arts & Film Festival is to share and showcase innovative, compelling, and empowering stories from Native perspectives through film, art, and music, celebrating the diversity and vitality of contemporary Native culture in our community today.
Stage
Grantee
Spokane Civic Theatre
Spokane Civic Theatre is a nationally recognized non-profit theatre located in Spokane, Washington. Incorporated in 1947, our theatre is one of the oldest community theatres in the country.
Visual
Grantee
One Heart Native Arts & Film Festival
The mission of One Heart Native Arts and Film Festival is to share and showcase innovative, compelling and empowering stories from Native perspectives through film and art, celebrating the diversity and vitality of contemporary Native culture in our community today.
Stage
Grantee
Listen to Your Mother
LTYM readers are all community members who have auditioned through a competitive process to be featured in the show, many of whom do not have any experience, and have been guided through the process of public storytelling performance tools developed by Stacey Conner and Elise Raimi.
Stage
Grantee
Patrick F. McManus, Tim Behrens, & Olivia Brownlee
This project is a special collaboration among three artists who have each resided in Spokane for more than 30 years and each of whom has attained a national reputation: humor writer (and retired EWU professor) Patrick F. McManus, composer/arranger and musician Olivia Brownlee, and touring professional actor Tim Behrens.