place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If you’re after non-edibles, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample. Smack around a softball or just watch a slew of female softball players do the same during the Porky’s Wo m e n ’ s B e n e f i t S o f t b a l l Tournament, which raises money for a cancer patient in Missoula and occurs today and tomorrow at around 8:30 AM at McCormick Park. $175 per team, but players must be sanctioned by the Amateur Softball Association of America. The tournament is free for spectators. Call Elaine at 728-4179. Get the good word on owning your own digs during homeWORD’s Get Ready for Home Ownership workshop, which meets from 9 AM–6 PM at Mountain West Bank, 3301 Great Northern Ave. Childcare vouchers are also available for the Busy Hands Fun Center. $10 per person. Register online at homeword.org.
another installment of The Met: Live at the Roxy with a screening of Wagner’s Die Walküre, which clocks in at just over five hours and begins at 10 AM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $19/$17 students and seniors. Get tickets every Thu. at the Roxy Theater, or at Rockin Rudy’s and online at morrisproductions.org.
photo courtesy Jack Hartin
Aerial moonwalkers. The world famous Irish dance company Riverdance performs at UM’s Adams Center Wed., May 18, at 7:30 PM. $50–$60 plus fees depending on seats. Visit griztix.com for tickets or call 243-4051.
Teens in the Flathead can get an intro to leadership development during the workshop The Roots and Wings Movement, which meets from 9 AM–3 PM, with registration at 8:30 AM, in Room 139 of the Arts and Technology Building at Flathead Valley Community College, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. Open to teens ages 14–18. Free. Call 250-3138 to RSVP.
Missoula Independent
Keep the liquid love fair and tasty when Fair Trade City Missoula presents a celebration for World Fair
Trade Day during Missoula’s third annual Largest Coffee Break, which features free Fair Trade coffee samples from 10 AM–noon at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Zootown Brew, The Good Food Store, Butterfly Herbs, Le Petit Outre Breads and the Missoula Community Food Co-op. Free.
Leave your stained shirt at home and get swirly when the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents its Saturday Family Art Workshop: Tie Dye T-Shirts with Erin Roberts, where kids and their families can dip into tie dying from 11 AM–12:30 PM. Participants should bring a white t-shirt, and children under age 7 should be accompanied by an adult. $5, with scholarships available. Call 728-0447.
Expect nothing more than epic arias when Morris Productions presents
Enjoy an afternoon of films by students from the Bitterroot Valley when
Mary & Rose feature some of Missoula's finest handmade quilts in varied designs.
Local pottery and pottery lessons. Home of the famous "Missoula Peace Sign" T-shirts and pins, too!
THANK YOU
If you have some non-perishable canned food lying around your pad, donate it to a good cause during the Missoula Food Bank/U.S. Postal Service Food Drive, which runs throughout today. All you need to do to participate is to leave donations by your mailbox. Call 549-0543.
The 34th International Wildlife Film Festival finishes off its run with an array of wildlife films on a variety of topics, with the first screening starting at 10 AM at the Wilma Theatre. $7/$6 seniors/$5 students/$3 youth per film, or $45 full pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a complete schedule. (See Scope in this issue.)
Gene & Vilerne Herter offer some sweet Montana-made puzzles and custom knives.
TO OUR SPONSORS & PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS 119 Employers, and everyone listed below A Carousel for Missoula Adventure Cycling Association ASUM Office of Transportation Bagels on Broadway Bernice’s Bakery Betty’s Divine Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Board Big Dipper Big Sky Brewing Bike Doctor Bike Walk Alliance for Missoula Bitterroot Flower Shop Bob Oaks BOB Bike Trailers Bonner Milltown History Center Bookstore at UM Break Espresso Buttercup Market and Café Butterfly Herbs Camp Mak a Dream/RATPOD Chief Charlo School
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Russell Elementary School Selvedge Studio Shirt Shop Sotto Voce Southgate Mall St. Patrick Hospital Trauma Center Sussex School Taco del Sol UC Market UC Movie Theater UM Dining Services UM Facilities Services UM President’s Office UM Public Safety Vital Ground Watershed Education Network Willard School Chain Links Wilma Theater YMCA YWCA Secret Seconds Zimorino’s Zoo City Apparel Zootown Arts Community Center