Live Storytelling: Light in the Dark
✨ It’s almost time to bring these stories to light! ✨
6 Storytellers have been working with Marc Moss of Tell Us Something to prepare for the stage, sifting through personal experiences of loss, love, change, and connection.
Join us for Light in the Dark: A Live Storytelling Event.
📅 Wednesday, November 4, 2026
📍 Free Cycles, Missoula
🚪 Doors open at 6:30 p.m. | Stories begin at 7 p.m.
Come listen, bear witness, and be part of an evening that celebrates the power of sharing stories amidst grief.
✨ Because, sometimes, having a story brought into the light helps us see ourselves, our grief, and each other a little differently.
Open to the public. We hope to see you there!
Missoula Resists Fundraiser
Join Missoula Resists at Free Cycles for our First Annual Fundraiser on November 5th, 2026!
What?!
A Missoula Resists fundraiser to connect with our community and raise funds to help cover activist and immigration legal fees, along with the costs of hosting community events that bring together organizations, volunteers, and supporters!
Snacks and beverages will be provided to keep everyone fueled for an evening of music and community! Alcoholic beverages available with proof of age. :)
$10 suggested donation, cash or Venmo accepted at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Excited to see you and some friends there!
Featuring acoustic music sets by Rough Buffalo and Jordan Lane, PLUS silent auctions and door prizes!
Rough Buffalo and Jordan Lane bring a wholehearted acoustic experience to our community stage. With soulful sounds and their Montana vibes, they create the perfect atmosphere for an evening of community and live music. Come enjoy great tunes, good company, and some notable musicians from Missoula's local music scene.
Fall bike sale!
Come find your dream bike! Ready to ride bikes will be 20% off, and warehouse ‘project’ bikes will be $15.00 instead of our typical $30.00.
Sale is from 10AM to 5PM, with hundreds of bikes to choose from. Regular programming will be on hold for this special day.
Support your local non-profit, re-use, and pedal power! Proceeds from the fundraiser will help keep our Open Shop and Build a Bike program free for the community. Thank you!
Honoring Extinct Species, Co-Create an Evening of Ritual, Art and Dance
Penélope Baquero of Ecosapien Theater, is facilitating a co-creation of ritual art and dance with participants. The main purpose is to connect with our love for the other than human, embrace the grief in our hearts for what has been lost, and nourish our interconnectedness to keep tending to the fires of life, resistance and change with JOY.
Space is limited and free registration is encouraged here:
Ritual art starts promptly at 7:15. At 8:30 doors re-open for an Earthy Remembrance Dance Party.
More info:
We will be co-creating a moment of honoring the other than human. All you need to bring is an open heart to your love of the natural world and to the connections you may have to the spirit of the Earth. We will be circling up inside a container created by storytelling, masks, ritual offerings, words from the heart, gratitudes and poems. There will be space for your voice to come through and express these connections. After the ritual art, we will open the dance floor with music curated to speak to our bodies and souls with other than human voice.
Refreshments provided by Families for a Livable Climate! https://livableclimate.org/
Penélope is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Colombia involved in social arts aka group facilitation, eco-pedagogy, theater, dance and eco-spirituality for over 30 years. The suggested donation for this event is $5 to $25- thank you!
Sustainable Clothing Swap
A community gathering to trade, buy, & sell sustainable clothing.
There will be a donate/swap bin for fast fashion, too.
All ages and sizes of clothing are welcome!
Yoga & Chai
Come stretch and strengthen at Free Cycles with our yoga classes!
Join us this fall for morning yoga sessions led by Kelsea Spotts.
All ages and experience levels are welcome!
The class is free, yet donations are appreciated.
Located in the Streetside Learning Center
Sugar Water Canyon, w/ Give Me A Dollar
Great night of live music. $10 at the door.
doors open at 630pm; Give Me A Dollar 7pm; Sugar Water Canyon plays from 8:30pm to 10pm. All are welcome!
Sugar Water Canyon is the songs of Charlie Freiburger and the collaboration of lifelong friends and brothers. Their published music is home recorded mostly by Charlie with Fin Geiger's pedal steel help and other people's additions. When live the band loosens up, digging into an improvisational, collaborative feeling. Sugar Water Canyon is largely folk, pop, indie, and country songs that features guitar, bass, pedal steel, and drums on stage
DUENDE LIBRE, w/ CANTA BRASIL
An evening of global rhythms, with: SEATTLE BASED TRIO DUENDE LIBRE and locals: CANTA BRASIL.
$10 suggested donation at the door.
Faction Skis: Evening of free ski films
Come share an evening of free ski films from Faction Skis and presented by Missoula Ski Education Foundation and Missoula Freestyle Team!
This is a open community event and all are welcome to get psyched for the ski season!
Beer is provided by Big Sky Brewing!
Soil Cycle Re-Harvest Party
✨🍂 Soil Cycle Re-Harvest Party 🍂✨
Join us Nov 18 at Free Cycles to celebrate the harvest and ensure no fruits of our labor go to waste!
Each year, Soil Cycle collects folks’ old Halloween pumpkins to ensure they find their way to the bellies of cows and pigs at @turnerfarms406 instead of ending up in landfills
Historically, we’ve collected up to 6,000 lbs of pumpkins in just a week - enough to fill a small dump truck & eliminate nearly 30,000lbs of CO2 from the atmosphere!
This year, we’ll be celebrating this & other “re-harvest” efforts with a party at Free Cycles, complete with
🎶 Live music from @milkmademt
🍺 Local brews from @bayernbrewing & @westerncider
🍵 Matcha from @coolearthcreamery
🍕 Pizza made fresh in Free Cycle’s earthen oven
🔥 Live biochar burn 🔥
🍏 Cider pressing
👕 Block printing (sick new art coming soon!)
🎟️ A raffle with awesome prizes from our partners at @bedrocksandals @bitterrootflowershop @drumcoffee and many many other generous partners
+ Other family friendly activities like seed planting, pot painting, lavender bunching, and more!
We hope you’ll join us in doing all we can to save usable organics from the landfill.
Bring your pumpkins, apples, tasty treats, clothes to upcycle, boogie shoes, and love for the autumnal offerings!
Yoga & Chai
Come stretch and strengthen at Free Cycles with our yoga classes!
Join us this fall for morning yoga sessions led by Kelsea Spotts.
All ages and experience levels are welcome!
The class is free, yet donations are appreciated.
Located in the Streetside Learning Center
The Missoula Ukulele Club
The Missoula Ukulele Club
Required: Bring your ukulele, and a music stand (a couple stands are available at Free Cycles- especially for those that can bike to the meet up!)
Optional: Sheet music to share (12 copies)
Located in the Streetside Learning Center (down the sidewalk from the main entrance)
Snail Fest
Join us for a community bikepacking film festival and fundraiser celebrating trans, non-binary, gender-expansive, and women riders with short films, raffle prizes, limited edition merch, and more!
💥 SNAIL FEST IS OPEN TO ALL 💥 and is a great way for folks to learn about what we’re doing in the Missoula community — bring your friends, family, and neighbors!
💖 SEEKING VOLUNTEERS - We will need some support making this awesome + huge event happen! Please let us know if you’re able to volunteer, we have lots of roles to fill. Plus, volunteers get 5 free raffle tickets!
⛺️ DIY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS - In addition to our professional film screenings, we want to showcase the wonderful bikepackers right here in our community! If you’re a snail (trans, nonbinary, gender expansive, or woman rider) and you went bikepacking this year, we would love to see a lil DIY reel-style video from you. Show us your bike joy, your sillies, your giggles, your flat tires, your hard days - whatever backpacking looked like for you this year.
Videos can be up to 2 minutes long - once you’re done, just upload your video to Google Drive and share it with slowspokes.mt@gmail.com. Folks who submit a DIY video will also get 5 free raffle tickets!
The Missoula Ukulele Club
The Missoula Ukulele Club
Required: Bring your ukulele, and a music stand (a couple stands are available at Free Cycles- especially for those that can bike to the meet up!)
Optional: Sheet music to share (12 copies)
Located in the Streetside Learning Center (down the sidewalk from the main entrance)
Graveyard Stomp! A Magical and Musical Evening…
Celebrate the Season! doors at 630pm. River Ramblers at 7pm and Cash for Junkers 8:30 to 10pm. $10 to $20 at the door (sliding scale, you choose). All are welcome. Special treats and surprises provided. You gotta dress up please! thank you.
Haunt in the Halls!
…an interactive mystery to experience the other world of spirits and haunts! $5 suggested donation to support Free Cycles Forever campaign! This event is 6pm to 8pm, on Oct 28, 29, 30 and 31st. All are welcome!
Yoga & Chai
Come stretch and strengthen at Free Cycles with our yoga classes!
Join us this fall for morning yoga sessions led by Kelsea Spotts.
All ages and experience levels are welcome!
The class is free, yet donations are appreciated.
Haunt in the Halls!
…an interactive mystery to experience the other world of spirits and haunts! $5 suggested donation to support Free Cycles Forever campaign! This event is 6pm to 8pm, on Oct 28, 29, 30 and 31st. All are welcome!
Haunt in the Halls!
…an interactive mystery to experience the other world of spirits and haunts! $5 suggested donation to support Free Cycles Forever campaign! This event is 6pm to 8pm, on Oct 28, 29, 30 and 31st. All are welcome!
Zootown Swing: Halloween Social Dance, the Lindy Hop! Featuring the Jive
This Halloween Swing Dance will feature live music by the Jive and a costume contest!
Costumes encouraged!
Come on down and learn Lindy Hop, the "root of all swing dance!"
We will be teaching an intro lesson to this 1920s originating dance at 6:30 on the dot, then will dance the night away to some swingable jazz from 7-9!
No dance partner is needed, come as you are!
$20 suggested donation
As a non-profit we run solely on donations, but won’t turn anyone away for lack of funds.
Full Schedule:
6:15- Doors
6:30- Intro Lesson
7-9- Social Dance
contact: zootownswing@gmail.com
People’s Guitar Workshop
People's Guitar Workshop
A free, weekly beginning guitar workshop taught by local musicians in an effort to provide a foundation for guitar playing. Groups will be sectioned off with different teachers and will work on different parts of songs according to skill level.
All ages and skill levels are welcome!
If you have questions, contact Charlie at charnock808@gmail.com
Located in the Streetside Learning Center, right at the corner of 1st and Walnut
NextGen Square Dance and Mingle
Join us as Montana Conservation NextGen and Back Country Horsemen throw their annual fall square dance! Live music, rustic fun, and a Best Dressed Cowboy Contest! We look forward to seeing you there!
Return to the Earth: A Community Death Care Gathering
Return to the Earth: A Community Death Care Gathering
Get your death questions answered...
...and answer questions you didn't even know you had!
Join the Western Montana End of Life Collective for an immersive day of learning about all things death-related. The day will include a demonstration of what a home funeral can look like, a panel about green burial and other practical end-of-life planning topics, and an introduction to human-powered farewells through Missoula's bicycle hearse. We aim to create a space that engages these challenging topics through curiosity, participation, joy, and creativity.
Local deathwork practitioners and partners will be tabling throughout the event, showcasing holistic, community-oriented, and ecologically attentive end-of-life practices.
Join for the whole time or just for the parts that interest you. This is a family-friendly event; we will have age-appropriate activities, a resource table that includes children's books, and creative activities like painting a cremation box.
The Western Montana End of Life Collective is an organized group of Certified Death Midwives whose mission is to educate, empower, and support community members navigating end-of-life care. Find more information about us on our website.
Visit our event page for more details, including the schedule, and to reserve your spot: https://events.humanitix.com/return-to-the-earth
Suggested ticket price: $35
Sliding scale: $15 (community supported)-$60 (help sponsor another attendee). No one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will support continued deathwork education & offerings in our community.
We recommend that you purchase tickets in advance. However, tickets will also be available at the door.
Reach out ot ecotoneEOLguide@gmail.com if you would like to sponsor this event or partner with us as a community practitioner.
Schedule:
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Arrive & Mingle
Coffee, Tea, & Treats from Bernice's Bakery
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Welcome & Orientation
Why we’re here, an overview of the day, and an orientation to the space.
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Home Funeral Demonstration
Learn about the history of home funerals, how personalized they can be, and what it could look like in your own home. Hands-on demonstration will include how to cool, wash, shroud, and move a body safely, as well as rituals and how loved ones can be involved. Facilitated by Kendra Potter (death midwife, birth doula, yoga teacher, and owner of Sistermoon Wellness)
11:45 pm - 12:45 pm
Community Panel about Green Burial & Practical End-of-Life Care
An opportunity to learn and ask questions of community practitioners about green burial and other practical end-of-life care topics.
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Bike Hearse Introduction & Demonstration
Bob Giordano, Director at Free Cycles and MIST, will introduce Missoula's bicycle hearse, home grown at Free Cycles, as a gentle and fossil-free way to honor a body and soul's ride to their final resting place. Instead of being driven to your final resting place, you could be biked there by your family and friends!
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Continue the Conversation
Time to explore the community resource tables, ask questions, sign up for upcoming workshops, and connect with fellow event attendees.
Costume Making Party
Someone say COSTUME MAKING PARTY?!
That’s right! Join us on October 23rd @freecyclesmissoula from 2-10pm for an all ages, family friendly day of crafting and creating 🎨 🧵
Featuring skill shares from fiber artists:
@brimber
@ceweljewel
@lucyschermy
+more
Find open sewing machines, clothing & craft swaps, and a live dj set from 6pm-10pm.
Bring an existing project or start a new one 👀
$5 suggested donation goes to support the @freecyclesmissoula forever campaign <3
Missoula Resists Community Meeting
Join Missoula Resists for our quarterly meeting where we’ll discuss recent progress (No Kings! Non-profit!) and discuss priorities for the next quarter while we connect as a community.
17th Annual Missoula Tweed Ride
Are you looking for an excuse to don some wool, ride around on your old-timey bike, and enjoy a cuppa’? You’re in luck! Fall is upon on us and it is time to dust off your cruisers and join in one of Missoula’s most beloved community rides.
The Tweed Ride is a leisurely family-friendly bike ride through town, in which ride participants are encouraged to wear tweed, wool, or other vintage attire.
No charge for tickets, this ride is donation based…come join us! Any donations support the Free Cycles community bike shop.
Here’s this year’s Tweed Ride Plan
Meet at Free Cycles anytime at 3:30pm, and enjoy a cuppa
Ride leaves from Free Cycles at 4:00pm
We’ll do a 5 mile loop, along the river, around Greenough Park, thru downtown and back to Free Cycles
From about 5pm to 7pm, at the shop: Soup, fire, tea and such, games, ‘best of’ contest.. and music by Chris Capozzoli and Friends!
We’ll have plenty of Tea on hand (Thank you Lake Missoula Tea Company!), and some soups.. if you are feeling inspired, please bring tasty food to share!
Yoga & Chai
Come stretch and strengthen at Free Cycles with our yoga classes!
Join us this fall for morning yoga sessions led by Kelsea Spotts.
All ages and experience levels are welcome!
The class is free, yet donations are appreciated.
Located in the Streetside Learning Center
GEM Night
GEM Night + Bonfire
October 15, 6:30–8pm at Free Cycles
Wondering how to prepare your bike for fall and winter? Got weird mechanicals you’ve put off addressing all summer? Or maybe you just want to learn more about bike mechanic basics in a comfy space free of mansplaining?
Join Slow Spokes and Free Cycles for this hands-onskill-building clinic next Thursday! Never worked on a bike before? No problem! All skill and knowledge levels welcome ⚙️🧰 Bring your bike ifyou have specific questions or just show up and watch us demo repairs. As always, we’ll meet you where you’re at without judgement.
After some skill-building, we’ll hang by a warm autumn bonfire, meet new pals, and maybe share tales of bike seasons past and dreams for the future ✨
See you there!
Missoula Social Mixer
Join us for a night of mingling and community at the Missoula Social Mixer! All welcome.
People’s Guitar Workshop
People's Guitar Workshop
A free, weekly beginning guitar workshop taught by local musicians in an effort to provide a foundation for guitar playing. Groups will be sectioned off with different teachers and will work on different parts of songs according to skill level.
All ages and skill levels are welcome!
If you have questions, contact Charlie at charnock808@gmail.com
Located in the Streetside Learning Center, right at the corner of 1st and Walnut
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Special Event-Album Release Bill Kautz's "And the light from which you came is now the [love] work we must do
“And the light from which you came is now the [love] work we must do”. All are welcome. Doors open at 630pm. Show is 7pm to 9pm.
More:
Missoula based composer and trumpet player Bill Kautz celebrates the release of his quartet recording And the light from which you came is now the [love] work we must do on Redshift Records (Vancouver, BC) on October 2, 2026 with an album release show. He will be joined by Jessica Catron, cello; Jeremy Drake, guitar and Aria Peters, violin to play his 4 movement piece live again with some new material as well.
And the light...is a four movement chamber work by Kautz that draws inspiration from the story of the life, death and ongoing influence of his infant son Sterling, harnessing each family member's unique voice, contribution and influence to their ongoing story. This work balances composed material with improvisation while highlighting the healing power of love and the ongoing journey of grief.
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Kelly Terwilliger, Oregon poet, storyteller, and visual artist, presents a collaborative reading of her recently published Endnotes.
A book of curiosity and abundance, Endnotes unfolds a poem of pandemic uncertainty into a cascade of illustrations and notes to illuminate a richly interconnected world.
Tonight's reading will expand beyond the container of the book to incorporate musical comments from Missoula artists, offering a unique and fleeting version of this creative work.
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Revel! Sunday Song and Dance
Revel: Sunday Song & Dance is a gathering that blends live singing and free dance into a playful, all-ages space to get into your body and come alive together. No experience required. $10-25 suggested donation. Songs led by Julia, dj'd by Kristina D.
Live music featuring Izaak Opatz with Junior!
Come enjoy live music at Free Cycles featuring Izaak Opatz with Junior! $10 at the door. Doors open at 630pm.
7pm, Junior :At the junction of folk, pop, and cosmic country, you’ll find Junior, a Montana-based trio composed of songwriters Hermina Jean, Caroline Keys, and Jenny Lynn. Set in an unsentimental West, their songs explore themes of grief, aging, ending relationships, and life transitions.
8:30 to 10pm, Izaak Opatz and his band. Like many of his favorite songwriters (John Hartford, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Tweedy), Izaak Opatz is an ungulate in life’s winter pasture, chewing on and metabolizing disappointment, heartbreak, and the other tough stuff into enjoyable musical carbohydrates. A compulsive metaphorager (and inveterate wordplayboy), Opatz breaks it all down with enzymes of wry humor, thoughtful simile and close observation - a therapeutic process of narrativizing his own life that, almost as a byproduct, turns out savory nuggets of literate, confessional pop.
Learn more at: https://www.izaakopatz.com/
the Pulp 3rd birthday party!
The Pulp’s throwing a party to celebrate their third birthday and you’re invited! 🥳
A night of live music, comedy and games to celebrate the readers, writers and rabble-rousers who make this whole thing possible. 🙌
Hosted by Sarah Aswell, with music from The Spills. Also performing: Jeff Medley, Kendra Potter, Kate Morris, Duane Raider and Ken Grinde — plus more acts TBA! 👀
📅 RSVP at link in bio / thepulp.org
Thunder Garden Puppet show!
Expect adult themes!
Thunder Garden is a performance event for puppeteers and other performing artists to showcase and develop new work. Performers will have 3 - 5 minute to perform new work for a live audience of supportive enthusiasts. All styles and skill levels are warmly embraced.
This is a free show.
End-Of-Life Documents Workshop: Your Wishes Your Voice
Your Wishes, Your Voice: END-OF-LIFE DOCUMENTS WORKSHOP.
If something unexpected happened tomorrow, would your loved ones know what you want?
Most of us mean to complete our end-of-life paperwork, but we just don’t get around to it. Not because it isn’t important — but because it feels overwhelming, confusing, or easy to postpone.
This workshop helps you move it from “someday” to done.
Join three local death midwives for a small, guided working session where you will:
Learn what end-of-life documents are actually needed in Montana
Reflect on your personal values and wishes
Begin your advance directive
Designate a healthcare representative and a financial power of attorney
Understand the basics of estate planning and related documents
Ask tough questions in a supportive, grounded space
Access a notary to finalize documents before you leave
We will present key information, but this is not a lecture. This is dedicated time to sit down and take care of something that matters.
This workshop is for:
Adults of any age without an advance directive
Caregivers
Those supporting aging parents
Anyone who wants to reduce stress for their loved ones
People who value preparedness and clarity
You do not need to be ill. You do not need to be elderly. You simply need to care about the people who would be left making decisions.
We often hear families say, “We didn’t know what they wanted.” Planning ahead is one of the most practical and loving things you can do.
Walk away with meaningful progress, greater clarity, and peace of mind.
Register in advance: We intentionally keep this workshop small so everyone can receive individual support.
Early bird and buddy deals
Register early (before September 15th) and save $5 on your ticket with the code EARLY5. Early registrants will also receive copies of the main forms in advance, for review.
Because these topics can feel easier with support, we offer a Buddy Discount. Register with a partner, friend, or parent and receive $5 off each ticket using the code BUDDY10.
Plan ahead. Ease the burden. Leave clarity behind.
sign up link: https://events.humanitix.com/end-of-life-documents-workshop
The Missoula Ukulele Club
The Missoula Ukulele Club
Required: Bring your ukulele, and a music stand (a couple stands are available at Free Cycles- especially for those that can bike to the meet up!)
Optional: Sheet music to share (12 copies)
Located in the Streetside Learning Center (down the sidewalk from the main entrance)
People’s Guitar Workshop
People's Guitar Workshop
A free, weekly beginning guitar workshop taught by local musicians in an effort to provide a foundation for guitar playing. Groups will be sectioned off with different teachers and will work on different parts of songs according to skill level.
All ages and skill levels are welcome!
If you have questions, contact Charlie at charnock808@gmail.com
Located in the Streetside Learning Center, right at the corner of 1st and Walnut
Live show featuring Johnny Bell
Come over for a night of live music featuring Johnny Bell! All welcome, $10 suggested donation at door.
Johnny Bell is a Northern New Mexico-based musician whose work explores the banjo as a vehicle for expansive, progressive instrumental music. Working from within the lineage of American Primitive music but drawing equally from heavier experimental influences, Bell juxtaposes traditional technique with acoustic drone, recursive patterns, and layered sonic textures, foregrounding the banjo’s darker and more resonant possibilities.
To learn more about Johnny Bell, visit his website here:
