Kids 11 and older can learn filmmaking, using cinema-level equipment, from a crew visiting from the University of Washington on Friday and Saturday at the Asotin County Library, 417 Sycamore St., Clarkston.
The free Youth Film Project, from 5-8 p.m. Friday and 12:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, will focus on the topic of misinformation, according to a library news release.
Students will learn about directing, screenwriting, camera skills, sound and lighting, acting, editing and producing.
Parents or guardians must sign a waiver for students to participate. Waiver forms and more information are at bit.ly/ascolibraryfilm.
Participants can join only one of the days if they can’t make it to both. Pizza and drinks will be provided for dinner Friday; light snacks and drinks will be available Saturday.
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Earth Month activities are underway, including volunteer opportunities with Moscow’s Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute.
Volunteers can choose two-hour time slots or stay for the whole event. Individuals, businesses, clubs, student groups and other organizations are encouraged to participate.
Options include:
- Transplanting at the Palouse Nature Center, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
- Stream restoration site planting in Troy, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 12.
- Stream restoration site planting in Troy, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 19.
- Earth Day restoration site planting in Troy, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 26.
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Orders are due Thursday (April 3) for the Colfax Community Native Plant Sale set for Friday and Saturday at the Whitman Conservation District office, 614 N. Mill St.
Native trees and shrubs, including golden currant, serviceberry, elderberry, black raspberry, smooth sumac, red alder, big leaf maple, peachleaf willow, ponderosa pine and showy milkweed are available.
Orders can be reserved by calling the office at (509) 288-4644 or emailing ghodapp@whitmancd.org. More information is at whitmancd.org/wcd-hosts-annual-native-plant-sale.
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Author Kim Barnes, of Moscow, will deliver Lewis-Clark State College’s 43rd annual Stegner Lecture at 7 p.m. Friday at the Lewiston City Library, 411 D St.
Barnes, an LCSC graduate who also taught in the school’s creative writing program, will discuss “The Unknown World: Stegner and the Wilderness of Grief” at the free event.
Her 1996 memoir, “In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country,” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for Nonfiction, and her essays, poems and stories have appeared in publications including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, according to an LCSC news release.
It was 2013 when Barnes last delivered the Stegner lecture, which is named after Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner and features discussions about writers’ relationships with the physical and psychological territories in which they reside.
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Indivisible Moscow, a newly formed activist group, will lead a rally protesting government cuts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Fourth and Main streets, in Moscow’s Friendship Square.
The #HandsOFF 2025 event is part of a nationwide effort “to demonstrate opposition to the current administration’s process for reducing the role of the federal government and its impacts on the health and wellbeing of all Americans,” according to an Indivisible Moscow news release.
The gathering will start with music, and materials for making posters will be available. All people are welcome, according to the news release, regardless of political affiliation.
The group can be contacted by emailing IndvisibleMoscow@gmail.com or on Bluesky @indivisiblemoscow.bsky.social.
