Words of all types: writing, spoken word, storytelling and more! All genres welcome. Seek out a book club or writing group, mark your calendar for visiting authors, or find ways to tell your story live onstage. If you are specifically interested in poetry, check out our Poet Laureate page, too!
The Voice of the River project is an ecological art project on the banks of the Spokane River June 13, 2021. Part dance, part story, and performance art, it centers on our sense of place and what nature means to each of us.
Patricia Meredith is an author of historical and cozy mysteries. She currently lives just outside Spokane, Washington on a farm with peacocks, ducks, guinea fowl, chickens, and sheep. When she’s not writing, she’s playing board games with her husband, creating imaginary worlds with her two kids, or out in the garden reading a good book with a cup of tea.
Celebrating National Poetry Month through poetry from local community members! In honor of National Poetry Month (happening now), Spokane Arts commissioned a short video featuring eight community members reading their poems from the “In the Neighborhood” project. “In the Neighborhood” is a community-based project created by Spokane Poet Laureate Chris Cook and Spokane Arts to collect and share poetry exploring Spokane neighborhoods. Written by area residents past and present, of all ages and experience levels, the poems here each showcase unique perspectives on our city. Together they do one magical thing: share the many stories of our neighborhoods! All the poems shared by community members to date can be found at www.spokanepoetry.com, and for those who haven’t had a chance to participate yet, there’s a link on the website to share a poem.
While Get Lit! is not celebrating in person in 2021 due to COVID-19, an exciting virtual festival is planned for April 12 – 18! Featuring readings, lectures, workshops, craft classes, contests, book signings, radio/music/film/theater events, and more!
Spokane Arts was able to fund five cultural organizations with a dispensation from the City of Spokane earmarked for the support of cultural groups. This set of grants was awarded by a separate selection panel, composed of Spokane Arts Commissioners, who made their choices independently from the SAGA process. These five organizations have received grants to support their general operations and events in 2021-22.
Kate Lebo will be writing five chapters of her next book: a collection of essays about listening through hearing loss.
Ponies in the Park is a fully illustrated, four-color, hardback picture book, which incorporates Spokane’s Riverfront Park into local art and history education.
As a professional theatre, SVST produces three large mainstage musicals each summer at the Central Valley Performing Arts Center.
This year’s festival will be held from April 12-18 and Get Lit! is working hard to present a wide range of experiences for their audiences.
Who is this Shaun guy, and why is he so awesome? Director, writer, ninja, editor, part-time lover, part-time fighter, and Astronaut Enthusiast.Shaun Springer is a pretty cool guy that you should know. His work includes Directing films, commercials, documentaries and music videos. He was also worked professionally as a screenwriter, and script doctor. His feature film, “The Garageland Chronicles” was shot entirely in Spokane and has played at film festivals all over the US, as well as throughout the UK & Europe. He is the author of the children’s book “Nobody Cares About Jimmy,” and his favorite Batman is Kevin Conroy. As for being so awesome… You’ll just have to find out for yourself.
Visual artist, graphic designer, and I like food and can cook as I have done professionally for 12 years. If you need a logo, web graphics, print media, video editing, an illustration, a collage(digitally too), graffiti, comic, or something yet to be determined…I’m your guy. Been making things happen in my hometown of Spokane over half my life, let’s do this! Contact me at ryanfdesign@gmail.com
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