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Each year for the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Spokane Falls Community College, Eastern Washington University, and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture bring several internationally renowned artists to share their work and artist perspectives with the Spokane community. This year’s artists are linked by the motif “Recasting Tradition.” New York-based artist Sabrina Gschwandtner is the second speaker in the lineup. Her work — quilts sewn together from strips of abandoned 16mm films — integrates the major themes of the footage and celebrates the women who starred in the films. Gschwandtner specializes in contemporary craft culture, as she uses classic patterns to compliment her unusual materials, and links both gender roles and feminism in each quilt she designs. — EMERA L. RILEY Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sabrina Gschwandtner • Wed, Feb. 12, at noon; at EWU; also at 6:30 pm; The MAC • Thu, Feb. 13, at 11:30 am; SFCC, Bldg. 24 • Free • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931
52 INLANDER FEBRUARY 6, 2014
THEATER THE OTHER V-DAY
WORDS MEN RIDING TINY BIKES
The Vagina Monologues • Thu, Feb. 6-Sat, Feb. 8, at 7 pm • $12-$18 • Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre • 508 S. Main St., Moscow • kenworthy.org • 208-882-4127
PNBA Awards Night feat. Jess Walter • Thu, Feb. 13, at 7 pm • Free • Auntie’s Bookstore • 402 W. Main • 838-0206
For the 12th year, the University of Idaho Women’s Center is staging a production of The Vagina Monologues, an annual V-Day event. V-Day, not Valentine’s Day, is a global campaign to bring awareness to and ultimately stop violence against women. Written by feminist playwright Eve Ensler, the play portrays a woman’s experience from a place of pain, power and everything in between. Each year, Ensler continues to write a spotlight monologue to highlight a visionary initiative to combat gender-based violence. — CLARKE HUMPHREY
Anchoring Jess Walter’s 2013 book of short stories We Live in Water is “Statistical Abstract for My Home of Spokane, Washington,” his numbered essay about our fair city, from the median family income to the number of adult men per capita riding children’s BMX bikes on any given day. But Spokane has changed in the five years since he wrote it, so ahead of the ceremony for winning the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, he wrote an addendum that picks up where he left off: the bike lanes, the beards, the “nine new organic locavore restaurants that open here every day… ” — LISA WAANANEN