Learn the Fandango, dance at Royal library
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ROYAL CITY — The North Central Regional Library is sponsoring a series of lectures in the Columbia Basin in May.
Yesenia Hunter will talk about – and demonstrate and teach – fandango dancing at 4 p.m. on May 11 at the Royal City Public Library, 136 Camelia St.
“Fandango and the Deliberate Community” will be outdoors, so there will be ample room to dance. Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
Antonio Gomez will talk about the intersection of cultures in 14th- and 15th-Century Spain. “Saffron and Honey: Muslims, Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain” is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 11 at the Ephrata Public Library.
Author Jack Nisbet will talk about artist and sculptor Leno Prestini in a lecture at 6 p.m. on May 24 at the Moses Lake Public Library. Prestini worked from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, focusing on the Inland Northwest.
Nisbet also will talk about his new book, “Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest.”
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