World harmony under the Big Sky! Choirs from all over the world come to Missoula for another amazingly unique choral festival, July 13 - 16, 2016. Admission buttons cost $20. Children 12 and under attend for free. Go to the Choral Festival's website for schedules and venues, and to purchase your button today!

Sunday Streets Missoula returns for its 11th year on July 17 from 12 - 4 PM. Over 50 local businesses and organizations gather on Higgins Street from the XXX's to 5th St. to provide FREE, fun, family-friendly activities in a safe walk/bike environment. Do yoga on the bridge, get your face painted, learn flamenco and oula, or play hop skotch! The activities are endless. Bike downtown and join in on the fun!

Zootown Arts Community Center hosts the 5th annual Northside/Westside Block Party on Saturday, July 16, from 3 - 9 PM. N. 1st St. will be closed down between ZACC and the Kettlehouse to accomodate an amazing evening of music, arm wrestling, food trucks, T-shirt printing, games, circus arts, and more! This event brings awareness about the great culture and organizations that reside in the north and west neighborhoods of Missoula. Visit ZACC's site for more information.

Local artist collective, VonCommon, and the Roxy Theater are collaborating to bring you "VonCommon VonDays!" a screening series every Monday night that showcases the work of local, regional, and national media artists. Expect great documentaries, short films, and stop motions about artists and art movements. The inaugural VonDays screening takes place Monday, July 11, at the Roxy Theater at 8 PM. Check out the Roxy Theater's schedule for details about this Monday series.

Tuesday, July 12,  Montana native  Chad Dundas  reads from his new historical fiction novel,  Champion of the World at 7 PM.

Friday, July 15, poets Jeff Alessandrelli and Lisa Ciccarello read from their new books starting at 7 PM.  Alessandrelli reads  THIS LAST TIME WILL BE THE FIRST , and Ciccarello reads  At Night (Black Ocean). 

Visit Shakespeare & Co. to find biographies on the authors and descriptions about the books.

The Colony begins a new chapter in the 21st celebration of the playwright's craft! From July 21 - 24 at the Masquer Theatre, come enjoy staged readings of five new plays by guest artists, including Chelsea Marcantel, Kevin Kicking Woman, Heather Benton, and more. Participate in a public forum examining the needs of a new generation of playwrights, as well as a keynote address from visiting writer Samuel D. Hunter, recipient of a 2014 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship. To learn more, contact Salina at 243-6809 or visit Missoula Colony's website.

Missoula Writing Collaborative is offering several July writing camps for young writers ages 8 - 14 and high school age writers. Workshops and camps include poetry, fiction, non-fiction, songwriting, and more.  Please visit MWC's website to register your kids for these amazing young writers' camps today!

Zootown Arts Community Center always offers a colorful variety of art classes and workshops to fulfill your creative cravings. This summer, sign up for watercolors, silkscreen printing, glass fusing, kids puppet theater and mosaic camps, drop-in studio time, and more.

Visit ZACC's site for info or call 549-7555.

The Missoula Art Museum offers several day camps for children, including printmaking, plein air painting, costume-making, and puppet-making. Be sure to register soon as slots fill up fast.

Visit MAM's website for details about upcoming summer camps for the kiddos!

	Summer Star-Gazing at the Planetarium The University of Montana Department of Physics and Astronomy invites the public to its summer planetarium shows in the Payne Family Native American Center Star Gazing Room this May through August. T ickets and showtimes are limited. Shows generally sell out far in advance and are not available the night of the show.  Purchase your tickets online here.
	Missoula City Band Free Summer Concert Series at Bonner Park Missoula City Band's open-air c oncerts are on each Wednesday evening at the Bonner Park Band Shell (corner of Ronald & Hastings Streets) at 8 PM, June 22 - August 12. This community service is provided by the generous support of the City of Missoula, hundred of willing musicians and supporters, and YOU!
	This Month at Radius Gallery Radius Gallery is delighted to present new works by Michael Haykin, Dana Boussard, and Dale Livezey, three highly accomplished painters. Exhibition dates: June 17 - July 23. Upcoming Exhibit Events: Jul 8 - 5pm - Artist Talk with Michael Haykin Jul 22 - 5pm - 10 Questions with Dale Livezey Visit Radius Gallery's  website for more info.
	MMAC Summer Exhibitions & Events The Montana Museum of Art & Culture at the University of Montana carved out time this summer and space in its galleries for engravings by Frederic Remington, as well as 51 contemporary artists from around the world. "Dramatic Moments: Frederick Remington's Early Engravings, 1882-1895" and "The Wood Engravers' Network Triennial Exhibition" will be on display from Thursday, June 9, to Saturday, Sept. 17, in the Meloy and Paxson galleries in UM's Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Free docent tours: July 7 and August 5 at 5 PM Free public lecture: "Remington's Formative Years," by art collector and educator Lee Silliman, September 8 from 7 - 8:30 PM For gallery hours and more info, visit MMAC's website.
	Current Exhibitions at MAM Missoula Art Museum is a contemporary art museum with free admission every day.  Current exhibitions include: NEW:  Devin Leonardi: In Memoriam July 5 - September 10 Holly Andres: The Homecoming April 8 - August 20 Abbie Miller: Exit Strategies April 1 - August 13 Larry Thomas: Ammophilia March 4 - July 23 Frank Stella: Henry Garden April 18 - August 20 Karen McAlister Shimoda: Field Notes June 3 - October 1 MAM Studio Art Teachers' Exhibition June 1 - August 27
	On View at ZACC This Month ZACC welcomes the traveling show "Bitter Pill:  Montana Lives Affected by Rx Abuse", an art exhibition that aims to express the human side of prescription drug abuse and recovery.  This powerful show is the product of The United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the District of Montana U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Montana Attorney General's Office Resolve Montana initiative. ZACC also welcomes  "Emotion in Motion" an art exhibition by Kelly Loder to the hallway gallery.  Loder is a bipolar abstract artist who does not limit herself to one medium. Visit ZACC's website for more info.

	Magnificent Obsession Morphs Into a Stained-Glass Museum Passageways lined in stained glass snake through a museum in progress on a quiet side street here, and workers are filling the galleries with iridescent mosaics, opalescent glass vases and ornate clocks that contain tiny mechanical birds and acrobats...  Keep reading
	Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? On July 14, 1916, the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to "get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything nice and right, blinkered, moralistic, europeanised, enervated." This aim could be achieved simply by saying: "Dada." Read on...

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