Gonzaga students are getting ready to hold their 12th annual spring dance concert later this month.

The concert, which features 90 student dancers, will include several different styles. Ballet, jazz, modern and musical theater routines will all be presented. Between dances, several videos will be shown celebrating Gonzaga's 125th anniversary.

In a statement from Gonzaga University, dance director Suzanne Ostersmith says the dance students worked all semester to prepare and are excited to present this final performance.

“This is a much bigger experience in that these students are not only learning a subject, they are applying it physically, living it and then presenting it before a live audience,” Ostersmith said. “The stakes are high. How often do you present a term paper to a public audience?”

Tickets are $5 each and available for purchase online here. To reserve a ticket, call the Gonzaga Theatre Box Office at (509) 313-6553. Cash, Visa, or MasterCard are accepted.
 

Students at Spokane Community College were surround by flowers this morning putting together displays for the Spring Flower Show this weekend. But these aren't ordinary floral arrangements. These are giant koi fish crafted from hundreds of flowers. Ranging in colors and varieties the horticultural program is bringing their theme, Swimming in Flowers, to life.

Students began building the forms earlier this month out of ply wood and chicken wire. Yesterday they started adding the flowers, and by the time their done it will have taken upwards of six hours to complete most of the arrangements.

Big things have been happening at the Interplayers Theatre in Downtown Spokane. In the last year and a half they have seen both physical and administrative remodels. However, it may not have been enough to keep the non-profit a float, and now Interplayers has until May 31st to raise $150,000 to keep the curtain from closing for good.

When Pamela Brown took over as Executive Director in the fall of 2011 she was greeted by an administrative nightmare. There were no books, and the records from 30 years of board meetings were in disarray. The theater was $80,000 in debt and the building was in desperate need of repair. Brown, along with Artistic Director, Reed McColm, went to work and the results are extraordinary.