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A benefit concert will be held at Bing Crosby Theater tonight at 7 p.m. to raise funds for Transitions for Women.
Transitions is a local organization working to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane.
Tonight's concert will feature local female artists. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online.
A second fundraiser for the organization will be held June 1. Creative Healing: First Friday is an open house and art show featuring a variety of artwork made by women at the Women's Hearth. Light refreshments will be served.
More information is available here.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
