Thursday

Friday

Flathead Valley Community College Theatre will open its fall season with ÒHoles in the Wall,Ó an original play by Cohen Ambrose, a graduate of Flathead High School and FVCC. His recent travels and studies in Prague inspired a tricky love story and comedic and cultural observation centering around three sets of characters, a hotel room in Seattle, a lounge act in Vegas, and a couple of gunshot holes leading from one room to the next. Productions are scheduled for Sept. 17, 18, 19, 23, 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 students and seniors, available online at www.fvcc.edu, in advance at the FVCC Bookstore, or before the performance at the FVCC Theatre box office. For more information, call 756-3962.

The Boomers Singles Group will hold its September meeting and street dance, spaghetti feed at Village Greens Community Center, in Kalispell, on Friday, Sept. 17, with social hour at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and dancing to music by Andre Floyd at 8:15 p.m. RSVP by Sept. 13 to Melody at 253-9249. Cost is $8. All singles 40 plus are welcome.

Saturday

The Don Lawrence Orchestra and the Feat by Feet tap dance company will join Irish Minstrels, Heart of the Rivers ChildrenÕs Choir and the Columbia Falls High SchoolÕs percussion ensemble for a benefit concert at the Whitefish Middle School auditorium on Saturday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. The concert is a fundraiser for Orphans Lifeline of Hope International, a local nonprofit charity that aids children in the U.S. and nine countries. Tickets are $10, which includes a drawing during the event for a Mark Ogle print, available at Montana Coffee Traders. For more information, visit online at www.orphanslifeline.org or call 257-0868.

The Flathead Democratic Party will host its 2010 Harvest Dinner at the County Fairgrounds Expo Building on Saturday, Sept. 18, beginning at 5 p.m. Special guest speaker will be Missoula journalist George Ochenski. Entertainment will be provided by the Singing Sons of Beaches. Tickets are $24 available from Nancy Fenner at 752-0298.

Sunday

Monday

The Whitefish Theatre Co. will hold auditions for its Black Curtain production ÒThe Secret GardenÓ on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 20-21. The Black Curtain staged-reading series will include ÒOpusÓ by Michael Hollinger, on Oct. 23-24; ÒMaryÕs Wedding,Ó by Stephen Massicotte, on Jan. 29-30; and ÒReasons to be pretty,Ó by Neil LaBute, on March 12-13. ÒThe Secret Garden,Ó by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, a musical version of the childrenÕs classic by Frances Hodgson Barnett, will run Dec. 2-19. All auditions will be held at the OÕShaughnessy at 7 p.m. Perusal scripts are available at all county library reference desks. For more information, call 862-5371 or visit online at www.whitefishtheatreco.org.

Tuesday

Muldown Elementary School will hold open houses on Tuesday, Sept. 21, for second grade from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and fourth grade from 6:30 to 7 p.m., and on Thursday, Sept. 23, for kindergartenÊfrom 6 to 6:30 p.m., third grade from 6:30 to 7 p.m. and first grade from 6 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday