Friday, February 25 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Christy Martin & Aodh Og O’Tuama as Four Shillings Short in concert at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Ashley Mundel directs the Astor Street Opry Company Teen Company in Clue: On Stage. Dr. Chelsea Vaughn, Curator of Collections…
ARTS - Live & Local!
A weekly highlight reel of upcoming arts and culture events in the lower Columbia Pacific region, hosted by Carol Newman.
Friday, February 18 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Patrick Dixon releases his memoir ‘Waiting to Deliver’ – Alaska fishing in stories, poems and photographs. Amy Carleton with Coast Craft Cooperative offers a Wasco Weaving Workshop @ Anita in Astoria. Bill Dodge with his long history as an artist &…
Friday, February 11 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Scott Leahing with an update on Astoria’s Dots ’N Doodles Art Supplies and upcoming guest artist Don Colley. Bette Lu Krause on the four women band Oyster Crackers’ concert at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts in…
Friday, February 4 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Cannon Beach Arts Assn treasurer Lila Wickham & FPG founder Jon Broderick on the CB Gallery exhibit “Working Shores”, the North Coast & the fishing industries. Plus a new anthology of fisher poetry and art. Musician & President Brian…
Friday, January 28 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Artists Sally Lackaff & Roger Hayes on life and the arts in their new hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Jennifer Crockett, Liberty Theatre ED, on The Brosius Academy, acting and stagecraft classes for youth and adults; plus full steam ahead…
Friday, January 21 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Harriott Balmer, president of the Tenor Guitar Foundation, on TGG12 and all things Tenor Guitar. Speaker, Writer and Holocaust survivor Ruth Lindemann with her latest book, “We Chose Survival – A Memoir of My Early Life”.
Friday, January 14 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Author Tina Ontiveros with her award winning memoir ‘rough house’ & Nancy McCarthy on the Cannon Beach Library’s NW Authors Series and upcoming events. Artist Marcia Wilson with her exhibit at Bay City Arts Center focused on nature & animal portraiture….
Friday, January 7 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Painter blis, aka Kristen Nekovar, artist-in- residence, with ‘the mess and the minutiae’ at Astoria Visual Arts. Printmaker and art educator Miki’ala Souza with ‘Ao’, her second solo show at Imogen Gallery.
Friday, December 31ST at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Clay artist David Campiche, Painter Rhonda Grudenic and Photographer/Writer Dwight Caswell with “Seeking the Sacred” at RiverSea Gallery. Musician & Sound engineer Nevada Sowle with the art of a life of music.
Friday, December 24th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Astoria School of Ballet’s founder and director Margaret Wall with the ‘Gift of Dance’ program and more. Fisher, Writer and Poet Dave Densmore on his writings, aspirations, life.
Friday, December 17TH at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Writer and host Heather Hirschi with author Robert Michael Pyle for First Person: Authors Talk at KALA. Writer Mark Mizell & artist Stirling Gorsuch with their new book “What Are The Chances?” Marcy Dunning, president of Clatsop Animal…
Friday, December 3rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Theater executive director Danyelle Tinker & performance director Susi Brown with ‘Almost Baroque for Christmas – A Holiday Review’ at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Ceramic artists Richard Rowland and Randy McClelland on ‘Ahikaaroa: Under the Beaver Moon’…
Friday, December 3rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Bereniece Jones Centeno, Director of the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts, with an Afternoon of Stars at the Bridgewater Bistro. Kirista Trask of Cambium Gallery on Handmade for the Holidays pop ups – 5 venues, over 40…
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…
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…