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Red Barn Festival set Oct. 10 at Colton

Red Barn Farm fall festival and pumpkin patch will be Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival will feature over 25 vintage and artisan vendors, hayrides, kids korral, live music, food, beer garden, jumping castle, pumpkin carving contest and demos.

Live music line up for Saturday includes country music by Shiloh Sharrard; 60-70s Classics by Dan Faller/Marti Lukinbill and Bluegrass/Country by Beargrass. Sunday’s musical lineup will include the German traditional music by Aufghets, Americana music by Just Plain Darrin and Blues/Rock by BareWires.

The Red Barn is located one mile north of Colton, off highway 195.

Christmas Story auditions

Director Andrea Gonzales will conduct auditions for a Pullman Civic Theatre production of “A Christmas Story” over three weekends in December. All actors 13 and older are asked to have one comedic contemporary monologue of 1-2 minutes in length to present at auditions. Younger actors are not required to have any memorized pieces prepared. Audition dates are Oct. 3 and Oct. 4, 1-2 p.m. for youngsters 9-12; all others, 2-5 p.m. Callbacks: Monday evening, Oct. 5.

Births

Roper daughter born

A girl, Autumn Rose, was born Sept. 18, 2009, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax, to Kathy and Matt Roper. Maternal grandmother is Cindy Wallace, Garfield. Paternal grandparents are Janna and Bruce Roper, Garfield. Weighing seven pounds, 10 ounces at birth, the baby joins sibling, Avery.

On Campus

ART

WSU Museum of Art will display Don Normark’s 1948 photos of three Mexican American neighborhoods in Chavez Ravine at Los Angeles Oct. 2 to Dec. 19. The neighborhoods were eventually razed to make way for Dodger Stadium. Title of the exhibit is “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, Issues of Eminent Domain.” Normark will give a lecture Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Gallery hours are 10 to 4, Monday through Saturday.

University of Idaho’s Prichard gallery in downtown Moscow will present the work of Mark Klett and Peter Vincent, two photographers who have produced extensive work focusing on the American West. Klett traces the influences of human interaction with the environment, and Vincent has a particular interest in car culture and its expression at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Aug. 19-Oct. 11.

“Busy Signals,” an exhibit by printmaker Emily Ginsburg, will be on display at WSU Gallery II in the Fine Arts Center through Sept. 30. Ginsburg’s exhibit consists of large-scale black and white digital prints that were originally created as part of a portable public art project for Seattle City Light.

Gallery II is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.

MUSIC

Clear Cut Jazz Trio will present a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The trio includes WSU faculty members Dave Hagelganz and Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn, along with Lincoln Middle School band director Joe Covill.

WSU School of Music Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band and Orchestra will welcome a new season of concerts at 8 p.m. tonight, Sept. 24, in Bryan Hall Theater. David Turnbull and Timothy Robblee will conduct the Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony respectively and will be sharing the podium with Ruth Boden in her premiere performance as conductor of the Symphony Orchestra.

Wind band classics from John Phillip Sousa, Gustav Holst and Mark Williams of Spokane will be on the program. The orchestra will close with Mozart’s 25th Symphony in G Minor. This concert is free and open to the public.

DRAMA

Dracula will haunt the stage of WSU’s Jones Theater in Daggy Hall Oct. 22-24 and 29-31 at .7:30 p.m. Students Jason Keene of Camas and Syleanna Campbell of Auburn play the lead roles of Count Dracula and Mina. The production may not be suitable for young children and those with sensitive constitutions. Tickets cost $15 general admission, $10 for age 65 and over and for WSU students, $5 for age 17 and younger. Daggy Hall box office is open 2-5:20 p.m. Tuesday-Friday the weeks of performance and an hour before curtain time.