ARTS – Live & Local! March 31 2023

Friday, March 31st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Dr. Vincent Centeno, Conductor of the Cascadia Chamber Opera Chorus, and CCO Board member, Lauri Kramer Serafin, with “A Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan”, at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Dr. Margaret Frimoth, founder of The Healing Circle – VOCA, with…

Poems for Company – March 27th, 2023

“Unrequited Love,” Part One: Poets respond in a variety of ways when their strong desires for another are not returned: from anger to bewilderment to resignation.  Over time, a number of episodes of Poems for Company will focus on this theme.  Today’s show features these poems: Sappho, Poem # 94, translator Michael R. Burch (thehypertexts.com/Sappho Longer Poems in Translations by Michael R. Burch.htm), read with…

The Human Beat – March 13th, 2023

A discussion with Carrie Cantrell in Portland and Anna Kaufman in Astoria about clean water, community watersheds and how they are affected by forest practices in Oregon. Carrie and Anna are working with North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection.   They are collecting stories from people in Clatsop and Tillamook counties about personal experiences with…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 10 2023

Friday, March 10th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Ceramic Artist Molly Schulps with classes and workshops at the new Columbia Clay Studio in Astoria.   Tolovana Arts Colony Program Director Andrew Tonry with the Cannon Beach Comedy Festival.   Astoria High School Thespians with “Into the Woods”;  Aria…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 03 2023

Friday, March 3rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Musicians Betsey Ellerbroek & Pam Fleming of the North Oregon Coast Symphony with Stage & TV Actor Liz Cole; in concert at St Catherine’s in Nehalem & the Charlene Larsen Center in Astoria. Cellist, Composer, Singer/Songwriter Anna Fritz in concert at…

Talk of Our Towns, March 03 2023

Donna’s guest is Melissa Meadow, a licensed funeral director, who is pioneering the first not-for-profit funeral home and conservation burial park for people and pets in the Pacific Northwest through her 501-c3 organization, The End Foundation …website TheEnd.green.  Melissa is based in Long Beach, Washington where she currently offers green cremations for pets among other…