Doors open at 6 p.m. today for movie history trivia and a poster archives sale before the 7 p.m. screening of the 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film “Metropolis.” Trivia players vie for a Golden Ticket, which grants free admission to most movies for the next year.
Local DJ Arman Bohn will perform ambient music during the film, creating an “electronic soundscape drawn from multiple homemade synthesizers and generative beats,” according to a Kenworthy news release.
Tickets, $15, are at kenworthy.org/events-calendar/metropolis.
Friday’s Backstage Banquet Dinner, at 6 p.m. in the theater’s backstage speakeasy space, features dishes prepared by Cellar Door Cooking chef Ian Pecorano, with wine pairings accompanying each course, live music, a raffle, silent auction and games.
Tickets, $100, are at kenworthypac.square.site.
Artwalk returns to downtown Lewiston this weekend, with a Nimiipuu, or Nez Perce, opening ceremony and performance at 5:30 p.m. in Brackenbury Square, 605 Main St.
Beautiful Downtown Lewiston’s 12th annual Artwalk runs from 5-9 p.m. Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, with a variety of local art, music and food offerings at more than 30 businesses.
Among the artists whose work will be on display are Ray Esparsen at Blue Lantern Coffee House, DeeDee Wood at Skalicky’s Sweet Sensations Bakery and Josh Hayne and Jennifer Hayne at the YWCA.
A map of participating businesses is at beautifuldowntownlewiston.com/downtown-artwalk.
Fans of fall can welcome October with a free, family-friendly Bavarian block party from 4-8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Moscow.
The third annual Moscowberfest, organized by the Moscow Chamber of Commerce, promises food and drink by local breweries and restaurants, live polka music and games on Main Street between Third and Sixth.
Wristbands and drink tickets will be available for purchase the day of the event for those 21 and older who wish to consume alcohol.
Insights from Nez Perce tribal leaders, an arts fair and a performance of the play “According to Coyote” are part of Washington State University’s Indigenous People’s Day observance set for Monday on the Pullman campus, which resides on the homelands of the Nimiipuu Tribe and Palus people.
Nez Perce Executive Committee member Samuel Penney, Cultural Resources Director Nakia Williamson and Education Manager Joyce McFarland will discuss the history of Nimiipuu territory, current tribal priorities and future plans at 3 p.m. at the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center, 405 SE Spokane St. Nez Perce WSU students and alumni also will share their stories, and a Nimiipuu Arts Fair with vendors will be open during this time. The talks will be livestreamed at native.wsu.edu.
A free performance of “According to Coyote,” a Nez Perce origin story, begins at 7 p.m., at the CUB Auditorium.
The play, starring Kellen Trenal, was written by John Kauffman, directed by Josephine Keefe and produced by the Spokane Ensemble Theatre. It is described in a WSU news release as “an immersive hour of creative storytelling that teaches lessons from the deep familial roots of its creators.”
An Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration on Monday at the University of Idaho in Moscow includes a tepee raising and keynote address.
The tepee raising and honoring, organized by the Native American Student Association, is set for 10 a.m. on the Idaho Student Union Building Plaza lawn, 875 Perimeter Drive.
Keynote speaker Arnold Thomas’s talk, “Healing, Hope, Education: The Power of Indigenous Resiliency,” is at 5 p.m. in the ISUB Clearwater-Whitewater Room. Thomas serves as the vice-chairperson of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Idaho and Nevada.
The event is organized by the Native American Student Center.
Poet and essayist Monique Ferrell will read from her work at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts & History, 415 Main St., Lewiston.
The free event is part of the LCSC Humanities Division’s Fall Visiting Writer Series.
Ferrell, a professor at New York City College of Technology, teaches African-American and gender studies, and her poetry collections include “black body parts” (2002), “unsteady” (2011) and “attraversiamo” (2016).
Her work has been published in more than 20 creative writing journals, magazines and anthologies, and she has been a finalist or honorable mention in a variety of competitions, including the Joy Harjo Poetry Award in 2020 and 2021, according to an LCSC news release.
Ferrell’s writing also has been featured on “The Slowdown” podcast, hosted by U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, and in the documentary film short “Reading the Body: Poetry & Dance on Recovery.”
She is working on her fourth poetry collection, “bone,” and a collection of nonfiction essays, “Things They Did To Me: My Family in Shades.”
