Wicks at the Buttercup Market, 1221 Helen Ave. 5-6 PM. $25/$12 for SBC members and UM students. Tackle a new-to-you skill with the Coptic Bookbinding Class, where you’ll make a neat journal or sketchbook at The Vespiary Book Restoration and Bindery. 1221 Helen Ave. 5:30 PM. $45. Call 396-1911 or email info@thevespiary.com to learn more.
March 27–April 3, 2014
The Missoula Marathon Eat & Run Series features sports nutrition expert Carla Cox chatting about pre-workout nutrition. Run/walk at 5:45 PM, class at 6:30. Visit runwildmissoula.org for location and registration info. Burns St. Events Center hosts a dinner benefit for Pattie Fialcowitz, a Clark Fork Market seller who’s recovering from a brain aneurism. Includes music, live and silent auction and numnums provided by the Bistro chefs. Cash bar. 1500 Burns St. $15/$5 for kids. The 45-plus Singles of Missoula party down with a birthday dinner at the New Hong Chef, 2009 Brooks St. 6 PM. Call Nancy at 251-3330 with any questions. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free. Be high, fly and too wet to dry after an evening out with tunes from Kristi Neumann at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. No cover. Bluesy singer-songwriters Jake Ilika and Mike Munson play tunes to drink by at Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.
Supersize busking. Bassist Clipper Anderson plays as part of the University of Montana’s Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival, at the Dennison Theatre Fri., March 28 and Sat., March 29, at 7:30 PM nightly. $18 per night/$30 both nights. $10 students and seniors per night/$15 students and seniors both nights.
THURSDAYMAR27 Shut up and get rad at Martyfest 2014, featuring Long Island’s Iron Chic, along with Providence’s Atlantic Thrills, Bozeman’s Battlestations and a slew of local troublemakers, including Buddy Jackson, Mountain Shark, The Hounds and Jacob Osborne. ZACC. 6 PM. $8/$6 in advance at Ear Candy. All ages.
Heads up, creative peace-lovers, tomorrow is the deadline to submit for the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Search For Peace art contest, open to anyone, including students from kindergarten to college. Visit jrpc.org to learn more and find submission form. Forest ecology experts chat about “The Future of Forests and Forest Management: Change, Uncertainty and Adaption” as part of the 2014 Plum Creek Lectures. University Center Theater. 9 AM.
The Thursday Young Artists After School Program meets at the ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555. Seattle’s own Barefoot Band (aka one-manAmericana-outfit Micah Wyatt) plays an in-store show at Ear Candy. 4 PM. Things might even move outside if’n it’s nice out. Free.
nightlife The Sustainable Business Council hosts a Beautiful Business Reception with author Judy
Nationally recognized sustainable business advocate Judy Wicks chats about “Beautiful Business: New Models for Local Living Economies” as part of the Sustainable Business Council’s annual lecture. Book signing to follow. UM Gallagher Business Building, room 106, 6:15-8 PM. Free. You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations are at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. Enter through the alley door. 7 PM. RSVP required prior to the orientation by emailing info@missoulatimebank.org, and visit missoulatimebank.org. Check out some very special dollies when Alan Scott Pate discusses and presents some of the 1927 Friendship Dolls sent to American chil-
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