Community Calendar

Join us for our annual Dinner Under the Stars — a beautiful evening in the garden filled with delicious food, live music, and a silent & live auction.

This special night is also our biggest fundraiser of the year, helping support Shared Harvest Community Garden and our mission to nourish our Coeur d'Alene community.

Enjoy an evening of classic country music with Ed Shaw's Legends of Country Unplugged every Saturday at Outlaw BBQ in Spokane. This free, family-friendly solo acoustic show features songs by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, Hank Williams, Roger Miller, and other country legends. Great food, cold drinks, and live music make for a relaxed summer evening. Music is from 6:00–9:00 p.m. No cover charge.

Think you know your classic rock? Prove it! The 2nd Annual Rock 'n' Roll Game Show, directed by Lee Duke, is back at the Circle Moon Theater for six high-energy performances, August 13-15 and 20-22. This NPA production blends the excitement of a live game show with the soundtrack of classic rock, inviting audiences to sing, shout, laugh, and play right along with the cast. With live music, fast-paced games, audience participation, and enough unexpected twists to keep everyone guessing, no two performances are ever alike. Grab your friends, bring your best rock trivia, and get ready for a night you'll be talking--and humming--about long after the curtain falls.

The Regional Theatre of the Palouse (RTOP) invites audiences to experience one of the most moving and uplifting musicals of our time with Come From Away, running August 20 through August 30, 2026.

RRAFA members are BUSY in August. Over 25
artists with 75+ works at Barrister Winery (1213 W Railroad Avenue), 15 artists showing 30 works at the Liberty Gallery (203 N Washington), Janene Grende, Katie Garner, and Mary Thomas at Indaba Coffee (512 W Riverside), and Joni Michels at the Garland Sandwich Shoppe (3903 N Madison). All addresses are Spokane unless otherwise noted. For many more events, see River Ridge Association of Fine Arts on Facebook and visit www.RRAFAofSpokane.com.

In John’s words: "I love to paint portraits and chose musicians from my young adult years. As I age, loss and death of good friends is ever present. In this series, my choice of subject matter links my memories of good times and great friends to these music legends. Some are deceased and some are still performing. All of the work is painted in oil on canvas."

Stop by the Historic Liberty Building this Aug to view John's paintings ~ stop by First Friday Aug 7 to Meet the Artist 5-8pm.

Kelley “Kel” Hudson is an artist and photographer currently living and working in Spokane, Washington. With community always at the heart of her work, Kel focuses primarily on photorealistic landscapes of daily, reoccurring life scenes and what Hudson refers to as “Mindcities;”aerial communities that she builds from memories. Her work resides in hushed restraint and aims to include many elements of silence and repetitive order. Alongside her love of symmetry and straight lines, she tends to reject the notion that human presence is necessary to describe the chaos or calm of a landscape. She instead focuses on the scene as having its own personality.

Robyn Smith finds that art is an adventure that never gets old, with so many possibilities to
explore. Through her teaching she has a passion for guiding others in exploring art in a way they might not have thought of before, finding that mixed media opens the door to experiment with different textures, layers, and mediums by repurposing items into art - old records, maps, sheet music, patterns, tissue paper.

Stop by Pottery Place Plus in the Historic Liberty Building this Aug to view Robyn's mixed media artwork ~ stop by First Friday Aug 7 to Meet the Artist 5-8pm.

Escape the heat and join us inside for a free Sunday concert. Local group CdA Brass will serenade you with an array of familiar classics. Some Dixieland, some old standards, some movie music, something for everyone.

Bestselling author Emily Ruskovich will be reading portions of her book, "Nightjar," as well as talking about the book and answering questions.