ARTS - Live & Local!

A weekly highlight reel of upcoming arts and culture events in the lower Columbia Pacific region, hosted by Carol Newman.

ARTS – Live & Local! December 5th, 2025

Friday December 5th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Sam Dinkowitz, Writer, Director, Actor with “Holidazed: A Spectravagasm Christmas” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Leila Collier and Lloyd Bowler on “Light in the Darkness”, the Astoria Scandinavian Heritage Association’s ceremony of remembrance at Nordic Heritage Park. Greg Neitzel,…

ARTS – Live & Local! November 28th, 2025

Friday November 28th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Ceramic Artist Randy McClelland on his solo show “Hafu Potter – Random Yokai” at the Cannon Beach Gallery; and “Local Materials” at the Hoffman Gallery in Manzanita which he curated. Vocalist Aleesha Serrita Nedd with her new Jazz Trio; Bradford Blight…

ARTS – Live & Local! November 21st, 2025

Friday November 21st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Committee Chair Dan Foss and Dancers Athena Farrow & Zoey Thorne with the 50th Anniversary of Little Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” at Astoria H.S. Printmaker, Ceramicist, Painter, Professor Ben Killen Rosenberg on his exhibit “Haphak” at CCC Royal Nebeker Gallery. Poet,…

ARTS – Live & Local! November 7th, 2025

Friday November 7th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Susi Brown, Playwright Rick Gray with Jason & Brandy Hussa in “Marley’s Last Chance” by ART – Astoria Readers Theatre at KALA Performance Space. Curator Cliff Taylor and Producer Liz Harris with “Indigenous Visions” an exhibit & chapbook of Native…

ARTS – Live & Local! October 24th, 2025

ARTS – Live & Local! Guest Host Patrick Webb Brad Pletzyk and Sean Davis, Founders of Rogue Cell with the premiere of their documentary “Backroads and Battlefields” at the Liberty Theatre. Deac Guidi with Cascadia Chamber Orchestra on CCO’s Halloween Pint Sized Opera at Pacifick Distillery in Astoria. Co-Founder, Publisher, Editor Dinah Urell on the…

ARTS – Live & Local! October 3rd, 2025

Friday October 3rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Chair Diane Marshall with the 40th Anniversary Concert of the Water Music Festival at the Chinook Event Center in WA. Philosopharian Seth Tichenor with a myriad of community offerings: Wit & Wisdom; Chinese Philosophy; and Community Philosophy classes on Aesthetics all…

ARTS – Live & Local September 26th, 2025

Friday September 26th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: An Evening of FisherPoets: Writer, Photographer Patrick Dixon with “Mending Holes”, his first full length collection of poetry; and Historian, Folklorist, Musician Hobe Kytr at KALA in Astoria. Play Director & Board Member Ryan Hull and Executive Artistic Director Danyelle Tinker…

ARTS – Live & Local! September 19th, 2025

Friday September 19th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Writer, Editor, Educator Heather Douglas and Painter & Gallery Owner Kirista Trask with the inaugural Astoria Zine Festival at Cambium Gallery. Singer Minntah Haefker and Drummer, Producer, Founder Brent Follis with Minntah & Friends Seasonal Jazz Series at Cargo in Astoria….

ARTS – Live & Local! September 12th, 2025

Friday September 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Painter Darren Orange with “Prismatic Pareidolia”, his 5th Solo Exhibit at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Sunday Afternoon Live’s Board Member Candy Nichols and Julie Overby with Season 22’s first concert, Good Co, at the Raymond Theatre in WA. Jen Dixon, Director…

ARTS – Live & Local! September 5th, 2025

Friday September 5th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Poet & Coordinator John Ciminello with Poet Florence Sage on the ten week ENCORE Local Author Series featuring published poets & authors at Astoria Senior Center. Director Suzanne Harold on the Grand Reopening Celebration of the Astoria Public Library after a…

ARTS – Live & Local! August 29th, 2025

Friday, August 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Saxophonist, Journalist, Author RJ Marx on his lecture ‘Seaside Riots 1963’ at the Seaside Library; his Jazz Fundamentals class at CCC; and music performances in Clatsop Co. Historian, Preservationist, Author John Goodenberger with his upcoming book on the Flavel Family of…

ARTS – Live & Local! August 15th, 2025

Friday, August 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Artistic Director of the Cascadia Chamber Opera, with Stage Director Brendan Hartnett and Stacey Murdoch, Paige Cook & Brandon Michael in CCO Festival’s production of “La Boheme” at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Poet Marj Hogan, Writer’s Guild of…

ARTS – Live & Local! August 8th, 2025

Friday, August 8th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director/Producer Alejandra Lopez Nestor, Filmmaker/Editor Jasmine Garcia Delossantos & Host Liz Harris with Raices Clatsop Documentary Premier & Exhibit in the Anita Building in Astoria. CCO Artistic Director & Co-founder Bereniece Jones-Centeno with Mezzo Soprano Lisa Nelson & Baritone Zachary Martin…

ARTS – Live & Local! August 1st, 2025

Friday, August 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Deanna Duplechain and Stage Manager & Sound Designer Jaime Britton with Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Marble Sculptor M.J. Anderson with “Inextinguishable”, her exhibit on our age old relationship…

ARTS – Live & Local! July 25th, 2025

Chelsea Rose, Director of Southern OR University Lab of Anthropology, on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project: Uncovering and Maintaining Chinese-American History in Oregon presented by Dr. Jennifer Fang at Obelisk Brewery in Astoria. Artists Luisa Mack & Gregory Gorham with “Oysterville, Pearl of the Peninsula”, an exhibit by eight artists in diverse mediums at Marie…