EVENTS ROUNDUP: A week full of culture

Books, authors, movies, music and cultural heritage await eventgoers this week. More can be found in the calendar, and you can sign up for a weekly events newsletter highlighting more calendar entries on the inland360.com homepage.

The Moscow Movement Arts Center brings the holiday classic “The Nutcracker” to the stage this week with a “region-inclusive” cast at the Jones Theater at Daggy Hall, 1060 NE College Ave., Pullman.

Performances of the Tchaikovsky ballet that tells the story of Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker are set for 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, according to a Moscow Movement Arts Center news release.

Clara and the Nutcracker “battle the Mouse King and his army of menacing mice before venturing to the land of sweets” in the production that includes performers of all ages from throughout the area.
Tickets, $15-$45, are at moscowmac.ticketleap.com.


A Native American Heritage Month powwow and scholarship fundraiser is set for 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at Lewiston High School, 3201 Cecil Andrus Way.

The event, organized by Lewiston High School senior and ASB President Lillian Samuels for her senior project, raises money for a Native American student scholarship. Donations will be accepted at the door.
Drums include Strong Spirit, Whaapqaqun and Lightning Creek, and there will be a veterans’ honor song.

Grand prize is a TV, and dancers can qualify for door prizes.


Music and movies come together from 7:30-9 p.m Monday, Nov. 13, at Moscow’s Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 S. Main St., for “A Night at the Movies,” a fundraiser for the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music Excellence Fund.

Students and faculty members will provide live musical accompaniment to films from a variety of genres and visual art, according to information from the music school.

Tickets, $25-$100, are at kenworthypac.square.site. The $25 price includes admission and popcorn, and there will be a no-host bar. A limited number of $100 VIP tickets include an adult beverage, priority seating also a pre-concert talk with the artists backstage starting at 6 p.m.


Native American Heritage Month events continue at the University of Idaho with indigenous author Emma Noyes speaking at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the UI Library, 850 S. Rayburn St., Moscow.

Noyes will discuss her book “Baby Speaks Salish: A Language Manual Inspired by One Family’s Effort to Raise a Salish Speaker.”

The book is described as “a one-of-a-kind manual created by a mother seeking to learn and share more Okanagan Salish language with her dau ghter than she herself was exposed to as an infant or toddler.”


BookPeople of Moscow’s Birthday Open House, from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 521 S. Main St., celebrates the store’s 50th year with a visit by its founder and welcomes a new co-owner.

Refreshments and book signings by area authors and poets are slated for the event, where longtime owners Carol Price and Steffen Werner will be joined by a new co-owner, employee Breanne Pickens, a Boise native and University of Idaho graduate, who has worked at the bookstore for more than five years, according to a BookPeople news release.

The store’s founder, Ivar Nelson, also is scheduled to be present for the celebration.