Nov 11 Wednesday
Free In Person Financial Course! Want to learn more about money? How to make your dollar stretch? How to create a budget? Well this free course is for you! Come join us on Wednesdays at the WECU Education Center on 511 E. Holly Street, Downtown Bellingham, starting February 4th-March 25th from 3:00pm-5:00pm. Scan the QR code or visit www.oppco.org/flare-registration/ to register. Hope to see you there!!!
Nov 12 Thursday
Each year, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art presents selections from its growing permanent collection in an exhibition, offering fresh perspectives through thematic exhibitions, recent acquisitions, and curated installations.
Open August 25, 2026 through March 13, 2027, “JSMA Collects” explores the many ways artists, curators, and visitors connect with nature, place, and one another. Works on view reflect the relationships between environments and communities, while spring installations expand the conversation to themes of home, family, and everyday life, inviting reflection on the natural world and our place within it.
From its founding collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European paintings, the museum's holdings have grown to more than 4,000 works of art. Today, the collection spans the eighteenth century to the present and features a diverse range of regional, national, and international artists whose works illuminate the breadth and evolution of visual culture.
IMAGE | Etsuko Ichikawa, Vitrified, 2020
LOCATION | The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. Museum hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Closed Sundays, Mondays, and during University holidays and breaks.
Jim Hodges’ “Unearthed” exhibition is a monumental bronze cast of an uprooted tree stump. The truncated form resonates with majesty while also serving as a mournful reminder of humankind’s impact upon the natural world. The sculpture is suspended in stillness, suggesting what might have been above, stretching branches that had reached into the air towards the sun that once contained life in green and barky rough wildness. With this implication, and through our interaction with the sculpture, “Unearthed” opens generative thought toward relationships between environments and their communities. The work beckons us to consider fragility, ephemerality, as well as the sacredness of life.
This work-in-becoming had its first residency in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral in 2019. Imagine that in the confines of that edifice the sculpture absorbed metaphysical power from everyday spiritual practice, from a celebration of life observed in rites of faith, musical performances, readings, by a community’s presence, participation, and social interaction. “Unearthed” has its second residency at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, providing the academic and regional community an occasion to approach the work through intentional participation.
In time, its roots will be reunited with the ground through burial, transferring its accumulated goodwill charged with incorporeal memories and energies into the Earth. Only its severed trunk will remain visible, indicating a new role in nature.
IMAGE | Jim Hodges, Unearthed, 2015 to present
KPAC presents Season 1 of the groundbreaking TV series TWIN PEAKS on the big screen for the first time! Every Monday in January, we will be screening two episodes of the surreal crime drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. FBI Agent Dale Cooper travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of the seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters, and wild dream sequences drive the point home. Sponsored by Orchard Farm Soap. Episode 3: “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer” ~ Agent Cooper demonstrates an unusual deductive technique for the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department.Episode 4: “Rest in Pain” ~ The people of Twin Peaks gather together to attend the funeral of Laura Palmer. Rated: TV-14 | 1 hr 34 min | Tickets: $8 Adult / Film Pass
Nov 13 Friday
Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, actor, writer, podcaster, and radio contributor, as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT and THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON. Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time.” Her special, TIG NOTARO: HELLO AGAIN, premiered in March of 2024 on Amazon, garnering multiple Emmy nominations.
Notaro can be seen in THE MORNING SHOW on Apple TV and both STAR TREK: DISCOVERY and the upcoming STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY on Paramount+. She also appears in the Netflix films, YOUR PLACE OR MINE and WE HAVE A GHOST, and Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD. Notaro wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show ONE MISSISSIPPI and co-directed the GLAAD-nominated feature film AM I OK? with her wife, Stephanie Allynne, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and premiered on HBO MAX in 2024.
Notaro hosts the critically acclaimed podcast, HANDSOME with friends Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin. She is also the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, I’M JUST A PERSON. Additionally, Tig produced the documentary COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, which won the Festival Favorite award at Sundance in 2025 and premiered on November 14th on Apple TV and in select theaters.
Purchase as part of your Washington Center 26/27 subscription now on sale. Individual tickets will go on sale at noon July 16, 2026.