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SPOK(a)N(e) issue 18
If you haven’t checked out SPOK(a)N(e) magazine yet (said as “Spoken Spokane” magazine), here’s your chance. Issue 18 is now out and viewable online for free. Editor and photographer Michael McMullen has used the magazine to cover a wide range of Spokane artistry: everything from First Friday highlights to local musicians and interviews with local creatives. Though this issue ...
Kinetic: call for submissions
[ August 11, 2010 2:00 pm to September 11, 2010 11:30 pm. ] This October Visual Arts Tour, RiverSpeak needs your help creating energy–kinetic energy–to move forward in Spokane. As a jump-start for our re-designed website (still in the oven), our October 1st and 2nd display “Kinetic” will feature art based around the theme of kinetic energy or motion–whatever that invokes for you. A Kinetic zine will be available ...
Zine Library Challenge
If you haven’t discovered Spokane’s latest gem, here’s a little push: Spokane now has a kickin’ zine library with its own library cards. At last–all of Spokane’s zine culture right at your fingertips, and all for FREE! Patronizing the Bird’s Nest Zine Library (with evidence of your quest) is RiverSpeak’s August Creative Challenge. Trek on down ...
Spokane Peace Arts Festival
[ September 18, 2010; ] One Peace, Many Paths, a peace organization in Spokane, is sponsoring a Peace Arts Festival on September 18, 2010. Activities will include a visual arts display, performances and family activities throughout the day, as well as an Art Raffle to benefit One Peace, Many Paths. The goal is to inspire an inner experience of peace ...
July Creative Challenge: Story Walk
[ July 15, 2010; ] Everyone has special memories of Spokane that together create a collective history of our beloved city. What if a bunch of locals were to get together and share their best stories with one another as they walked through the city? That’s the reasoning behind Story Walk, a project organized by friends who want to share stories, ...
Olive It Cafe Performance V this Friday!
[ May 21, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Get ready for Olive It Cafe’s fifth reading (3402 N. Crestline). Join a group of writers and musicians for an evening of camaraderie. Meet new friends. Have dinner. Listen to poetry, stories, music. Laugh. Contemplate. Sign up to perform. It’s that simple! All are welcome! This is a monthly event organized by Shanti Perez, hosted by ...
Broken Circles: Call for Submissions
Our neighboring town of Yakima, home to Cave Moon Press, is home to a large number of poets and writers. Cave Moon Press is now requesting 2-5 original poems about food for it’s upcoming publication, Broken Circles, which will also be a fundraiser for Yakima Food banks. Translations are welcome. The integrity of the translation and credit ...
Local Book Review: The Truth Lenders by Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen
2510: After the wars, science progressed to the point where other species live and work among the reduced human population. A pharmaceutical news conglomerate called News Now! Corporation controls much of this post-progress society, in which anti-establishment, anti-corporate critics are regularly persecuted and atomically rearranged into more useful items — say, vegetables or water for ...
Open Mic at Coffee Social
Broken Mic Open Mic, hosted by the Spokane Poetry Slam, is now happening at Coffee Social every Wednesday night at 7:30pm. Show up and share your time on the mic. The atmosphere is casual and supportive, and all are welcome. If you’re interested in the Slam Competitions, they will continue to be held on the second ...
May Creative Challenge
Some of you have heard of Steal My Story, the game where you write 1000 words of fiction, which is then stolen by someone else to finish the next month; likewise, you receive someone else’s story to finish the next month. Sounds easy, right? It is–that’s why we made it May’s Creative Challenge. To participate, write ...
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