Friday, November 26th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Program coordinator Andrew Tonry on Tolovana Arts Colony happenings: Wreath workshop; Caesar the Llama live; Holiday bazaar. ChrisLynn Taylor & Cheryl Capellen from the North Coast Chorale with Karl Jenkins’ “The Healer” at the Larsen Center for the Performing…
ARTS - Live & Local!
A weekly highlight reel of upcoming arts and culture events in the lower Columbia Pacific region, hosted by Carol Newman.
Friday, November 19th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Conductor Cory Pederson with the North Coast Chamber Orchestra’s “Minor Alterations” & Columbia River Symphony’s holiday concerts. Mystery/thriller author & former crime reporter Jennifer Greer with the North Coast Mystery Writer’s Group and her novels. English dept chair…
Friday, November 12th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Director Katherine Lacaze and actor Molly Oien with Arsenic and Old Lace at Astoria High School. Executive director Jennifer Crockett on The Liberty Theatre Gala, the Heritage Piano Trio and more. Astoria artist Autumn Hurd on her art, life,…
Friday, November 5th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Musicians Brian Bergman & Dennis Hale on the North Coast Symphonic Band’s 42nd season opening concert at the Liberty Theatre. Fused glass artist Christine Kende with the Astoria Art Loft series of Children’s Art Workshops. Richard Motchman with his…
Friday, October 29 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Painter & installation artist Paul Rutz & CCC art instructor & gallery director Kristin Shauck on new exhibit “Being Moved” at the Royal Nebeker Gallery. The duo Adams & Costello present their new album at The Coaster Theatre in Cannon…
Friday, October 22nd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Author & historian Sydney Stevens with her latest book “Historic Haunts of the Long Beach Peninsula”. Founder & director Ron Craig on the Astoria International Film Festival showing at the Liberty Theatre. Executive director Madeline Matson & Curator…
Friday, October 15th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Multidisciplinary collaborative artists Anna Daedalus & Kerry Davis with Palūs, a meditation on the tidal wetland by their home in Rosburg, WA. Writer Heather Hirschi hosts First Person: Authors Talk, a monthly conversation at KALA in Astoria; Oct with…
Friday, October 8th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Benz and Chang with “Islands”, psychological portraits in watercolor, at the RiverSea Gallery for Astoria Art Walk. Dave Ambrose on the Netel Grange celebration and fun/fundraiser; plus ACCC happenings. Local artists Sally Lackaff & Roger Hayes on life…
Friday, October 1st at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Director Karen Bain on “The Weir” with Danyelle Tinker, executive director of The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Steve Forrester, Jane Kirkpatrick & R. Gregory Nokes, authors of “Eminent Oregonians: Three Who Matter” on their respective subjects, Richard Neuberger,…
Friday, September 24th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Kristine Torset, Judith Altruda & Earl Davis on “Eugene Landry: An Artist, a Time & a Tribute” an exhibit at the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe Heritage Museum. The Clatskanie Arts Commission founders & chairs Dee & Elsa Wooley on the…
Friday, September 17th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Author and activist Judith Arcana on her latest book “Hello. This is Jane.”, much of it based on the pre-Roe underground history of the Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. Cambium Gallery Abstract Artist Kirista Trask and Sparrow…
Friday, September 10th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Artist Jody Miller opens her solo exhibit “Lone” at Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria. Oil Painter Darren Orange with his new work in “Chrysalis” at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Musician and co-chair of the Clatsop County Cultural Coalition on the 2022…
Friday, September 3rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Brian Bergman with the North Coast Big Band Labor Day concert in the Clatskanie City Park. Development Director Andrea Suarez & Board President Kimberley Speer-Miller on the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum Cottage Tour. Musicians Marisa Anderson…
Friday, August 27th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Poet Mary Lou McAuley with her new book “Terra Obscura: Poems and Hidden Maps”. Board chair Jessi Just on the newly opened Heart of Cartm in Wheeler, OR. Rainmar Bartl with his book “The Best Thing That Ever…
Friday, August 20th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Grammy nominated cellist Sergey Antonov & Liberty Theatre director Jennifer Crockett on the Third Dimension music festival with The Hermitage Piano Trio & guests. Eeva Lantela, owner of DragonFire Gallery, and Daniel Dancer, founder of Art for the Sky,…
Friday, August 13th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Artist and coordinator Bette Lu Krause and PAA president JoAnne Webster and others, on site at the Peninsula Summer Studio Tour. Marble sculptor MJ Anderson on her dual exhibit “To the Ends of the Earth” at Imogen Gallery in…
Friday, August 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Julia Gingerich of Sparrow Dance Company and Jennifer Crockett with the Liberty Theatre Block Party. Artist and musician Jennifer Goodenberger with a new body of work at Astoria Art Loft First Saturday Art Walk. Kassia Nye, executive director…
Friday, July 23rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Oil painter Carrie Williams & woodblock printmaker Karina Andrews, 2 of the 55 artists taking part in the Astoria Open Studios Tour. Cascadia Chamber Opera director Bereniece Jones-Centeno & Board secretary++ Lauri Krämer Serafin on CCO’s performance of Menotti’s comic…
Friday, July 16th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: INDIE Award Winning Novelist Alan E. Rose with “As If Death Summoned” at KALA’s First Person: Authors Talk in Astoria. Singer/songwriter/musician Leigh Jones as Eugenia Riot, performs at Pickled Fish and the Shelburne Pub on the Long Beach Peninsula,…
Friday, July 9th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Jim Fitzgerald, large format film photographer & carbon transfer printer with a solo show @ Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria; plus Members Showcase Exhibit. Proprietor Jane Brumfield and featured painter Ruth Hunter in a solo show of abstracted…
Friday, July 2nd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Coaster Theatre Executive Director Patrick Lathrop directs Shakesperience Sixty Second Shakespeare and Katherine Lacaze directs Mystery Hour The Case of the Coaster Clambake at the Cannon Beach Park all summer. Visual Artist Bette Lu Krause and Singer/Songwriter/Musician…
Friday, June 25th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Dr. Mark Ross Clark, Professor of Music and Theatre and Artistic Director of the Astoria Apprentice Artist Program; on the 2021 Virtual & Phenomenal program and the Final Astoria Concert. Artist, writer and fourth generation Astorian Ali…
Friday, June 18th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Liberty Theatre Executive director Jennifer Crockett on the North Coast Performing Arts Alliance, 45th Parallel Universe Orchestra and A Block Party. Sarah Buckmaster, Astoria Visual Arts & Astoria Writers Guild newest Writer in Residence, on her work in progress,…
Friday, June 11th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Chairperson and Vocalist Dida DeAngelis tells all about Lower Columbia Q Center’s celebration of Astoria PRIDE. Artist Stan Peterson with “Out on a Limb” wood sculpture opening at Imogen Gallery for Astoria Art Walk. Ally Bruser and Thandi Rosenbaum…
Friday, June 4th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Helena Graves and Cheryl Capellen with the North Coast Chorale’s concert “A Belated 30th Anniversary” live at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Artist Steph Littlebird, curator of “Phot Choch” featuring an all-Indigenous collection of traditional and…
Friday, May 28th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Tenor Guitar Foundation president Harriet Balmer on the 11th annual Tenor Guitar Gathering virtually in the TGG capital of the world, Astoria OR.. Artist and director of the Cannon Beach Gallery Scott C. Johnson on “Beauty Deconstructed”, AIR, Summer…
Friday, May 21st at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Art professor & Royal Nebeker Gallery director Kristin Shauck and Jurist Deanna Antony on the 2021 CCC Annual Art Student Show. Lisa Nelson, Director of the Astoria Conservatory of Music, the premier school of music on the North Coast,…
Friday, May 14th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Astoria Art Loft owners and artists Jo Pomeroy-Crockett & Jeannette Davis on the exhibit by the Knappa Art, Acrylic and Photography 4-H Group. Director Katherine Lacaze and actors Kestley & Aria in Astoria H.S. virtual production of The…
Friday, MAY 7th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Margaret Wall, owner, director, choreographer of Astoria School of Ballet, with a Scavenger Hunt & Performance at the Liberty Theatre for Astoria Art Walk. Dinah Urell, creator of KALA Performance Space, and interview host Heather Hirschi introduces…
Friday, April 30th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Watercolor artist Gheri Fouts at Trail’s End Gallery for Gearhart First Saturday Art Walk Visual artist & poet Lucca Etienne “With a Voice of Stone” at RiverSea Gallery for Astoria Second Saturday Art Walk Vocalists, musicians & songwriters Merideth…