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 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…

ARTS – Live & Local June 28th, 2024

Friday, June 28th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Actors Katherine Lacaze, Cathey Ryan, David Sweeney in “Meshuggah-Nuns” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. Conductor Terry Dahlgren & Musician/Publicist Kathleen Strecker with the North Coast Symphonic Band’s “Spirit of America” at the Liberty Theatre in Astoria. Executive Director…

ARTS – Live & Local! May 31st, 2024

Friday, May 31st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Radio Producer & Filmmaker Barbara Bernstein with her documentary “Once a Braided River” screening at the Columbian Theater in Astoria. Performers at the 14th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts: Gerry Carthy, Baron Collins-Hill,…

ARTS – Live & Local! May 17th, 2024

Friday, May 17th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Ukrainian American ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and singer Nadia Tarnawsky leads the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana in village folk songs, sacred chants, and choral works for A Ukrainian Wedding at Grace Episcopal Church in Astoria. Board member Ken Richards, Delores Richards & Mary…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 26th, 2024

Friday, April 26th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Jessi Just, Executive Dir of the Heart of Cartm on the Trash Bash Art Festival 2024 at White Clover Grange in Nehalem. Cannon Beach Gallery Director Summer Peterson and Science Illustrator and Wildlife Artist Nora Sherwood with “Reserve Inspiration” opening for…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 12th, 2024

Friday, April 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Deputy Director Norma Hernandez with Consejo Hispano’s first annual ‘Golpetazo del Año’ at CC Fairgrounds expo annex.   Photographer Don Frank with a new exhibit “Inky Daydreams” at Imogen Gallery in Astoria.   Artist and Printmaking Instructor Ben Killen Rosenberg &…

ARTS – Live & Local! April 5th 2024

Tillamook Artist, carpenter, craftsman, beekeeper and surfer Henry Stanley on his Surfboard exhibit at Bay City Arts Center. Editor-in-Chief Asher Finch and Faculty Advisor Kama O’Connor with RAIN MAGAZINE at CCC Towler Hall. Classical Pianist Andrei Andreev performs a benefit concert for Cascadia Chamber Opera’s summer Festival at the Charlene Larsen Center in Astoria; joined…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 1st 2024

Friday, March 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Band member Jack ‘Yankl’ Falk on Trio Deloria concert of Klezmer, Romanian & Hungarian fiddle virtuosity and more at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Tolovana Arts Colony Program Coordinator Andrew Tonry on the fourth annual Cannon Beach Comedy Festival. Astoria H.S. production of…

ARTS – Live & Local! February 23rd, 2024

Friday, February 23 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Anna Kaufman, NCCWP Astoria Coordinator with Poet Jennifer Nightingale, on the North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection Forest Poets Event in the Lovell Taproom at the Fort George in Astoria. From the 27th annual Fisher Poets Gathering: Nels Ure (Commercial Fishermen…

ARTS – Live & Local! February 9th, 2024

Friday, February 9 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Author & Storyteller Paula Charles launches her debut novel “Hammers and Homicide” at Lucy’s Books in Astoria. Operations Manager Mary Korte and Owner Thandi Rosenheim on the 2024 Sou’Wester Art Week in Seaview, WA. LaRee Johnson with her program on Mary…

ARTS – Live & Local! January 12th, 2024

Friday, January 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Painter & Printmaker Nicholas Knapton with “Conversations with Gavi”, an exhibition of diverse works created in Astoria & Berlin; at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Lower Columbia Preservation Society’s VP Astronemis Ray and AA Jaime Lump with an update on LCPS, including…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 29th, 2023

Friday, Dec 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: CCC Historic Preservation Program Founder and Instructor John Goodenberger with Ales & Ideas lecture “Searching for Astoria’s Pauper Cemetery” at Fort George Lovell Showroom. Indigo Artist and Weaver Iris Sullivan Daire and son M. Tully Daire, currently a Student and Weaver…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 15th, 2023

Friday, Dec 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Textile Artists & Painters Jenny Rideout and Amelia Santiago from Hook, Pulp & Weave, on exhibit at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Pianist Jennifer Goodenberger and Flutist Shelley Loring with their Holiday Concert at the Cannon Beach Community Church. Artist & Musician…