EVENTS ROUNDUP: Celebrate art, Black history and the music of love

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The arts will be celebrated at eight downtown Moscow locations from 4-8 p.m. Thursday during the city’s monthly 3rd Thursday Artwalk, including a reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. for a show at the Moscow Food Co-op.

Palouse Watercolor Socius members Ryan Law and Cheryll Root will donate proceeds from sales of items in their co-op exhibit, “For the Animals,” to the Humane Society of the Palouse.
The show, which continues through March 4, includes a mix of watercolor and oil paintings.

“Nationwide, shelters are overwhelmed and overflowing with abandoned or unwanted animals waiting for adoption,” Root said, via email. “(We) hope to celebrate these shelter animals, fostering empathy and action on their behalf.”

Both she and Law are animal lovers, she said. Law founded Palouse Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, a nonprofit volunteer organization that provides a haven for sick and injured wildlife on the Palouse.
Humane Society of the Palouse will have an information table at the co-op during the reception.

Other artwalk locations are Pour Company, Moscow Chamber of Commerce + Visitor Center, RE/MAX Connections, John’s Alley Tavern, Moscow Elks Lodge No. 249, Ridenbaugh Gallery and Thrivent Financial.

Host location addresses and more details are at ci.moscow.id.us/189/Artwalk.


The audience will have a chance to meet Metropolitan Opera soprano Makeda Hampton during a Black History Month event today at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, 508 S. Main St., Moscow.

North west Public Broadcasting radio host Anjuli Dodhia will lead an in-person discussion with Hampton, a performer and music scholar, at 6 p.m., before a rebroadcast of the Met Live in HD performance of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”

Hampton, who earned a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Kentucky, is an adjunct assistant professor of voice at the University of Delaware. She performed in the Met’s production of George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” that won a Grammy award for best opera recording.
Tickets — $20 for adults, $15 for students and free for University of Idaho students — are at kenworthypac.square.site.

The event is presented by a variety of groups, including the Idaho Humanities Council and UI’s Black Research Institute for Flourishing & Thriving, Black/African American Cultural Center and Black Studies.


The Palouse Choral Society celebrates love with a Valentine’s Day cabaret concert series this weekend in Lewiston and Moscow.

The group will perform “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” from 7:30-9 p.m. Saturday at Lewis-Clark State College’s Silverthorne Theater, 500 Eighth Ave., Lewiston, and 4-5:30 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 332 East Third St., Moscow.

The society’s chamber choir, children’s choir, soloists and small groups will share favorite songs about love, including selections as varied as Renaissance and romantic music, musical theater tunes and songs by singer-songwriters, according to a Palouse Choral Society news release.

Tickets, $20 or free for WSU students, are at bit.ly/PalouseLove.