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Frank Lane as Marius and Kaitlin Lé as Eponine are shown rehearsing for Clarkston High School's production of "Les Miserables."
Art, music, theater and activism round out our curated list of area events for the coming week. Find many more options in the calendar.
Moscow's 3rd Thursday Artwalk, from 4-8 p.m. Jan. 18, features a dozen venues highlighting visual, culinary, literary and performing arts.
Amo ng the offerings are a reception from 5-7:30 p.m. at the McConnell Mansion, 110 S. Adams St., with artist Bobbi Kelly, who created this year’s Latah County Historical Society calendar, “Eateries and Watering Holes of Latah County.”
Other sites include RE/MAX Connections, Moscow Chamber of Commerce + Visitor Center, Third Street Gallery, John’s Alley Tavern, Thrivent Financial, Moscow Food Co-op, Ridenbaugh Gallery, Pour Company, Moscow Elks Lodge No. 249, Craft Artbar and Studio and Moscow Contemporary.
A flyer with venue addresses is at www.ci.moscow.id.us/189/Artwalk.
Washington State University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 18 in the CUB Senior Ballroom, 1500 Glenn Terrell Mall, Pullman, features WSU alumnus and author Marc Robinson, who will speak about the history of activism in the Northwest, including at the university.
Robinson, a faculty member at California State University, San Bernardino, is the author of “Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest,” about activism by Black student unions across the state, according to a WSU news release.
In Moscow, the Latah County Human Rights Task Force presents its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Community Breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 20 at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St.
Mario Pile, director of the University of Idaho’s Black/African American Culture Center will speak about “Moving Forward Together.”
Registration, and the Zoom password for those participating online, is at humanrightslatah.org.
Bluegrass fans can choose from Saturday (Jan. 20) festivals in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley and on the Palouse.
The Valley Bluegrass Stage is from 7-10 p.m. at Lewis-Clark State College’s Silverthorne Theater, 500 Eighth Ave., Lewiston, and Moscow Bluegrass Festival is from 5-10 p.m., at Hunga Dunga Brewing Company, 333 N. Jackson St., Moscow.
The Valley Bluegrass Stage, presented by the Lewis-Clark Bluegrass Organization, features local bands Beargrass, Wanigan and Higher Ground.
Tickets, $10 for adults and free for ages 15 and younger, are at lewisclark bluegrass.com. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Moscow Bluegrass Festival, $10 at the door, includes performances by The Pond, Moscow Mules, Steptoe, Ice Cream Band, Pine and Dead Set.
Clarkston High School’s production of “Les Misérables” opens Friday at the school’s auditorium, 401 Chestnut St., and includes performances by high school and middle school students as well as community members.
Performances are set for 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday (Jan. 19-20), Jan. 27 and Feb. 1-3, and 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 20-21), Jan. 27-28 and Feb. 3-4.
Tickets, sold at the door, are $12 for adults and $10 for students.
The show is directed by Larry Goodwin with vocal direction by Amy Baker Stout.
“We have performed a lot of comedy here at CHS, and they were ready for something heavier,” Goodwin said in a news release.
The play, a musical adaptation of the novel by Victor Hugo, has been performed in 53 different countries and in 22 different languages, according to a Clarkston High School news release.
The University of Idaho’s Auditorium Chamber Music Series continues at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday (Jan. 25) with the Jupiter String Quartet performing in the Administration Auditorium, 851 Campus Drive, Moscow.
courtesy Jupiter Quartet
The Jupiter Quartet will perform in Moscow next Thursday as part of the University of Idaho's Auditorium Chamber Music Series.
Described as “one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene,” by The New Yorker magazine, the quartet, founded in 2001, has performed across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Americas, according to its website, jupiterquartet.com.
Area young people will have the chance to experience chamber music at several related events, including:
- Young People’s Concert for fourth and fifth graders from 10:30-11:30 a.m. next Thursday in the auditorium,
- Jupiter Quartet “rug concert” for children ages 3-6 at 9 a.m. Jan. 26 at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow, and a workshop with Palouse Chamber Music from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 27 in the university’s Haddock Performance Hall, 709 Deakin Ave.
- and a workshop with Palouse Chamber Music from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 27 in the university’s Haddock Performance Hall, 709 Deakin Ave.
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