ARTS! – Live & Local August 16th, 2024

Friday, Aug 16th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests:   Roberta Gumbel, Librettist & Director of dwb (Driving While Black), Brendan Hartnett, director of The Elixir of Love and Deac Guidi, Baritone & Board Member of CCO, with the Cascadia Chamber Opera Festival at the Larsen Center in Astoria….

ARTS! – Live & Local August 9th, 2024

Friday, Aug 9th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Michelle Valigura, Ceramic Artist and Owner of Basalt, with >100 artists in Coastal Craft Uprising in Seaside.   Artists Lezlie Amara Piper, Rachel Siegel and Derek Ecklund on their installation ’Synapse’ at AVA Gallery.   Artist, Writer, Entrepreneur Ramey Holsman with…

Episode 2: Oregon Black Pioneers

In this episode of Beach Grass Roots, we hear from some of the staff at Oregon Black Pioneers: Oregon’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of African Americans statewide. Public Programs and Exhibits Manager Mariah Rocker and Executive Director Zachary Stocks talk about the work Oregon Black Pioneers has been doing…

ARTS! – Live & Local August 2nd, 2024

Euphonium player Dr. Paul Niemisto, founder & director of the 7 piece Finnish American Brass Band ‘Ameriikan Poijat’, in concert in Astoria, Naselle, WA and more. Diana Thompson, coordinator of Water Music Society’s Jazz & Oysters 2024, at the Port of Peninsula in Nahcotta, WA. CCO Director & Soprano Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Astoria Conservatory Director Lisa…

ARTS! – Live & Local July 26th, 2024

Friday, July 26th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Astoria Visual Arts Executive Director Annie Eskelin with participating Artists Joanne Lumpkin Brown & Philip Barasch in the AVA Astoria Open Studios Tour. Director of Appelo Archive Center Annika Kay and Serena Travis with ‘A Taste of Festival’, this year’s…

Poems for Company – July 22nd, 2024

“Swimming”: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet’s solitary naked swim in a pond in the early morning mist. Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald), from Book V, lines 403-408, 415-437, 441-486. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 506-510, 515-518, 532-581…

The Preservationists – July 16th, 2024

In this month’s episode we dive into the fascinating world of architectural salvage. This month our host Astronemis Ray is joined by the owner of Astoria Vintage Hardware, Becky Johnson. Join us as we discuss the unique stories of salvaged materials, how architectural salvage is a sustainable practice, and how antiques and architectural pieces retain…

ARTS! – Live & Local July 12th, 2024

Friday, July 12th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Executive Director Danyelle Tinker & Committee Member Nancy Montgomery with The Ten Fifteen Theater’s PERFORMATHON. Artist, Pianist, Composer Jennifer Goodenberger on her show The Art of Collage at Astoria Art Loft. Store Operations Manager Patrick Kint on the 50th Anniversary…