Wenatchee Empty Bowls dinner 5 p.m. Saturday, Wenatchee Community Center, 504 S. Chelan Ave., $15 for dinner and bowl; $5 dinner only, free for those who painted a bowl 662-6156

The community painted 216 bowls and brought in over $3,000 for local food banks. And now, it’s time to celebrate by fi lling them with soup from McGlinn’s Visconti’s and Olive Garden. Wenatchee Empty Bowls holds its culminating event Saturday, where artists will raffl e off bowls they painted. If you don’t have a bowl, you can buy one for $15, or bring your own and enjoy dinner for $5. All proceeds benefi t the Wenatchee Food Distri-bution Center, which serves area food banks.

“Pedal Driven: A Bike-umentary,” documentary 7 p.m. Tuesday, Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 127 S. Mission St., $5 888-6240

Locally produced and shot in Leavenworth, “Pedal Driven” shows both sides of the confl ict between mountain bikers and U.S. Forest Service Rangers over public lands. The 60-minute documentary earned Wenatchee’s Howell at the Moon “Best Feature Film Cinematography” at the 2011 DocUtah Film Festival, the “Audience Choice” award at the Twisp Mountain Film Festival. It was also named a fi nalist at the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival. Stay

after the screening for a panel discussion with Mary Bean of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Mat Lyons of the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, bike trail builder Matt Rose and fi lmmakers Jeff Ostenson and Jamie Howell.

Chelan“Simply Ballroom” by the Utah Ballroom Dance Company 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Lake Chelan Performing Arts Center, 303 E. Johnson Ave., $20 adults, $10 children 12 and under, brownpapertickets.com, chelanvalleyplayers.com.

From the elegant foxtrot to the intense Spanish Paso Doble, one of the countries best ballroom dancing troupes will wow the audience with breathtaking lifts, beautiful costumes and enchanting theatrical story lines.

Leavenworth“Awakening the Skeena,” documentary 7 p.m. today, Barn Beach Reserve, 347 Division St., $5 548-0181

The Skeena is British

Columbia’s second-longest river, and one of Canada’s richest wild salmon rivers. There is an epic battle under way to save its pristine habitat from those who would turn it into an industrial landscape. To make her case, one woman sets out from the headwaters and swims the length of the river in a monthlong journey to the mouth at the Pacifi c Ocean.

Book Buzz 1 p.m. Saturday, A Book for All Seasons, 703 Highway 2, free 548-2062

A Book for All Seasons brings in several authors that will represent the four R’s. Resilience: Local author Patricia Nikolina Clark shares her latest compelling and uplifting coming of age story, “Fisher-man’s Daughter.” Reconcil-iation: Steve Sparks reveals his personal journey through heartbreak into reconciliation

as his family wrestles with PTSD. Resourcefulness: Mary Ellen McCaff ree and Anne McNamee Corbett inspire as a housewife-turned-politician shows how we all have the power to make the political arena work on our terms. Romance: Kaycee Daniels reveals steamy secrets in a tropical island romance that swirls with alternate realities.

Methow ValleyMethow Minds 7 p.m. today, Saturday, Methow Valley Community Center gym, 201 S. Methow Valley Highway, $10 per session or $15 for both, methowarts.org 997-2926

Methow Minds is like a local version of Ted Talks. The series features local speakers a night who will deliver short presentations about a wide range of topics, such as agriculture, beauty, the Big Bang, elderhood, giving, history, satire and

Shakespeare.

Eric and Encarnacion, fl amenco 8:30 p.m. today, Twisp River Pub, 201 N. Highway, $5; 7 p.m. Saturday, Community Cultural Center of Tonasket, 411 Western Ave., Spanish tapas dinner served at 5:30 p.m., $18 members, $20 general, show only $9 members, $10 general, children under 10 free (meal half price) 486-1328

You’ve got two chances to see this amazing husband-wife fl amenco duo this

weekend. Eric has been playing fl amenco guitar for 20 years and studied exten-sively in Andalucia, Spain. He was taught by Martin Chico of the famous gypsy fl amenco family los Revuelos. Encar-nacion was born in Barcelona and also studied the art of fl amenco in Andalucia. She dances, sings and plays guitar with grace and intensity.

— compiled by Rachel Hansen, World staff

Chad Yenney photo

Oly Mingo, a cameraman for Howell at the Moon, shoots footage for “Pedal Driven” at Duthie Hill in Issaquah.

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Eric and Encarnacion will perform in the Methow Valley today and Saturday.

BY HILLEL ITALIE

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — After decades of making history, Herbie Hancock is ready to tell it.

The award-winning, ground-breaking jazz performer and composer has a deal with Viking for a memoir expected in 2014.

“Quincy Jones is a dear friend of mine and he keeps saying to me, `You’ve got to do a book,”’ Hancock said Tuesday during a telephone interview from Shanghai, where he is currently on tour.

“I’ve had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I’ve learned a lot from mentors who were instru-mental in shaping me and I want to share what I’ve learned.”

Hancock, who turns 72 this week, has won 14 Grammys and for decades has been mixing jazz with blues, soul, funk and electronic music. He won an Academy Award in 1986 for the score to “’Round Midnight.”

He is known for his pioneering work with Miles Davis, for such standards as “Cantaloupe Island” and “Chameleon” and for the hit instrumental “Rockit,” the video of which helped make him the rare jazz performer to catch on with MTV fans. Hancock is currently a goodwill ambassador for UNESCO.

He has not only played with such jazz greats as Davis, Coleman Hawkins and Donald Byrd, but with such pop performers as Joni Mitchell, Sting and Stevie Wonder. His 2010 album, “The Imagine Project,” includes contributions

from Seal, John Legend and Dave Matthews.

“I am hoping this book will not only appeal to jazz fans,” he said.

He will work on the book with a collaborator, still to be determined. Financial terms were not disclosed for the memoir, which interested

several publishers, but was landed by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). Hancock was repre-sented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose clients range from President Obama to Barbra Streisand.

The book will be, in part, a

spiritual journey. Hancock will tell of being a Buddhist and how he does not see himself primarily as a musician, even though he has been playing piano since age 7.

“Being a musician is not what I am, it’s what I do,” he explained. “To my wife, I’m not Herbie

Hancock the musician. I’m her husband. When I’m talking to a neighbor, I’m a neighbor. When I vote, I’m a citizen.”

He also promises plenty of stories about music, including one about touring with Davis in the 1960s. They were playing in Europe and were having an especially good night, the audience rapt.

“And just as Miles was about to start his solo for “So What,” at the peak of the concert, I hit a note that was so wrong I thought I had crumbled the show down like a falling tent,” Hancock recalled.

“And Miles took a breath, and played some notes that made my note right. It took me years to understand that Miles didn’t judge what I played. He worked with it. That lesson wasn’t just about music. It was about life.”

Herbie Hancock’s got a story to tell

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Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock performs on the stage of the Stravinski Hall during the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2008.

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