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Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College are opening up an amazing opportunity for the region by bringing Seattle-based author Ijeoma Oluo (pictured) to town (virtually) as its Martin Luther King Jr. speaker for 2021. The author of New York Times best-seller So You Want To Talk About Race and the new Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America has had essays appear in the New York Times and Washington Post, and her ideas on race, feminism, social justice and community are sure to be both inspiring and thought-provoking. Oluo’s appearance will stream free for the entire community, and marks the launch of a series of “Diversity Dialogues: Conversations on Race and Equity” coming up through the spring and presented by SCC’s Hagan Center for the Humanities. — DAN NAILEN “So You Want to Talk About Race” with Ijeoma Oluo • Thu, Jan. 14 at 10:30 am • Free • Online; details at scc.spokane. edu/News-Events/Live-Events
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MUSIC LIFE IS A CABARET
WORDS DARK TIMES
Northwest Bachfest: The Singing Siren • Sat, Jan. 16 at 7:30 pm • $20 • Online; details at nwbachfest.com/calendar
Let it Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion • Fri, Jan. 15 at 6:30 pm and Mon, Feb. 8 at noon • Free • Online; details at humanities.org
In normal times, Northwest Bachfest would be staging concerts all over the region. But in these exceptionally not normal times, the group has instead created an online performance series called Across the Miles, which has turned the virtual spotlight on artists from all over the country. This weekend’s web event will feature New York City-based cabaret performer Shelly Watson, a Juilliardtrained singer who puts on a show that promises to blend bawdy comedy with great old standards. Along with the performances, the Across the Miles series will also feature conversations between the artists and Grammy winner Zuill Bailey. Upon purchasing a digital ticket, you will be sent an access code through Bachfest’s YouTube channel; the event will be broadcast live followed by a four-day viewing window. — NATHAN WEINBENDER
While we’re living in a dark moment of the present, a different grim time in American history was also taking place more than 75 years ago. During World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and unjustly incarcerated in remote camps. Learn more about this dark time from Bainbridge Island resident Clarence Moriwaki, who’s been dedicated to preserving the memories of more than 200 Japanese American residents of his island home, during his upcoming talk for Humanities Washington’s Speakers Bureau program. Moriwaki shares how Bainbridge was the starting point for this forced imprisonment of America’s own citizens, and asks listeners to compare these past events with the country’s current racial and political tensions. — CHEY SCOTT
