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Local Events - Workshops, Photopoetry, Rodeo, Dance Performance, Food Trucks, and Lemonade

This week we share about the Flathead Food Truck Festival, Lemonade Day, Flathead Valley Community College workshops, photography and poetry at the Hungry Horse Dam, Brash Rodeo, and a Feat x Feet tap dance performance. Watch and listen to this episode on your favorite platform.

Learn more about what was mentioned this week:
Concrete Planters Workshop
FVCC Summer 2024 Workshops
Photopoetry: Montana and Beyond
Brash Rodeo Summer Series
Tap Live 2024
Flathead Food Truck Festival
Last year's interview with Lemonade Day Youth Entrepreneur of the Year
June 17, 2024

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TRANSCRIPT

hi friends it's the daily in Lakes local events podcast and I'm your host Melissa Wells back again this week to share about the fun and exciting things happening in your backyard find all these events and more at Daily in.com events you can even add your event for free let's find your next best time our beloved Flathead Valley Community College has installed a maker space inside the brisard library on the fbcc campus again this summer they are inviting students and the community to a variet of workshops for a small donation you can sign up to create a t-shirts with a cricket learn how to crochet make soap learn to sew or practice on their 3D printers this week you can create a concrete planter on Monday June 17th learn to crochet gamy squares on Tuesday June 18th or create a junk journal on Thursday June 20th workshops are offered until mid August and you can find them all online on The Daily Interlake events calendar if you haven't popped in the brousard library is a beautiful and cozy space to enjoy and includes a full coffee and snack bar offering lunches and treats from the students in the culinary arts program head out to Hungry Horse Dam Visitor Center on Thursday June 20th at 6:30 p.m. for a unique opportunity to experience photo poetry with two Montana artists this event is free and features H poet Charles Finn and Missoula photographer Barbara Melman as they present photo poetry Montana and Beyond photography and poetry combined to create a unique third art form that places the reader and viewer at the center of the interpretation on your way back from the dam stop by the Blue Moon arena in Columbia Falls for the Brash Rodeo summer Series held each Thursday from 7: to 9:30 p.m. toet tapping fun await you on Saturday June 21st at 8:00 p.m. at the oan cultural art center in Whitefish as the Whitefish Theater Company hosts New York City professional tap dance Derek K Grant and white fish's feet by feet youth tap ensemble in tap live 2024 this performance is a one-time opportunity and also features a five-piece jazz band and don't miss the Flathead food truck festival on Friday June 21st and Saturday June 22nd at the Flathead County Fairgrounds in cisel we can't get enough of these tasty trucks from tacos to tie to Sweets and Treats stop by for all the best mobile leads be sure to pick up your taster tickets as many of the trucks will be offering small bites of their best dishes so you can try them all head over to Flathead tickets.com to save your spot and load up on taster tickets before the rush Friday hours are from 3: to 9:00 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 9:00 p.m. flatheads Lemonade Day is on Saturday June 22nd keep your eyes and your lemons peeled for kiddos hosting lemonade stands as the Kalispel Chamber of Commerce once again host these mini entrepreneurs check out the daily Interlake News Now podcast for our conversation ahead of last year's Lemonade Day for an overview of this great and tasty event thanks for tuning in to our local events podcast check out the description for links to all mentioned events and don't forget to like subscribe and share with a friend I'm your host Melissa Wells and I'll be back each Monday with more events to get you out and about it's easy to add your event to our online local events calendar just visit Daily Inter lake.com events and select create an event posting a simple listing is free events from our online local events calendar are also printed weekly in the daily in Lake on Thursdays and also in the white fish pilot Hungry Horse news and Big Fork Eagle not to mention they also have a chance of appearing here on our local events podcast if it's happening in Northwest Montana you'll find it on daily.com events see you out there