Friday, Dec 18th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with:  Coaster Theatre’s Jenni Tronier & Patrick Lathrop with Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol”, a radio style play written, workshopped & performed by community members.  Brian Bergman on the annual Astoria Tuba Quartet Tuba Christmas, virtual for 2020….
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A weekly highlight reel of upcoming arts and culture events in the lower Columbia Pacific region, hosted by Carol Newman.
Friday, Dec 11th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Author Florence Sage launches her book of family stories “The Man Who Whistled, The Woman Who Wished” Program director Andrew Tonry on the Tolovana Arts Colony 2020 Holiday Bazaar Artist Roger Hayes with Beacon Clubhouse and other artists in…
Friday, Dec 4th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Tom Cocklin, directer of Riverbend Players live virtual fundraiser ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and Tom Campbell, board member of Fulcrum Community Resources cosponsor of the performance. Columbia River Symphony Conductor Cory Pederson & first violinist Angela Calvin Pederson with…
Friday, Nov 20th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Executive director Jennifer Crockett on The Liberty Theatre’s first Virtual Gala. Alyssa Evans, editor of the Coast Weekend on the CW Book Club starting with Swedes in Oregon; and more.
Friday, Nov 13th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Painter and Tattoo artist Aaron Toledo showing at Imogen Gallery. Rob Russell, Bay City Arts Center president and KAYN radio station manager, with news from both. Â Â
Friday, Nov 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with:Â Â Two guests from the 33rd annual Stormy Weather Arts Festival in Cannon Beach:Â Official Festival poster artist Hazel Scaling Schlesinger showing at Northwest by Northwest Gallery. Artist & Cannon Beach Gallery director Scott Johnson with an overview of…
Friday, Oct 30th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with:  The Writers Guild founder Marianne Monson & Board member LinMarie DiCianni with the Literary Masquerade at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria  Sculptor, painter, wordsmith & architect Don Stastny, featured at NWxNW Gallery for Stormy Weather Art Festival in…
Friday, Oct 23rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Executive Director of Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts with all the news. Founder & Dancer Julia Gingerich with the Sparrow Dance Co’s Witches, Wizards & Waffles!
Friday, Oct 16th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Author and book store owner Deborah Reed with her new book Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan. Designer, Gallery founder, Seaside Art Walk chair Denise Fairweather with Fairweather Gallery art scout and curator Sara Vickerman.
Friday, Oct 9th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Sculptor Carolyn Hopkins with “In the Depths” at the Sou’Wester Lodge in Seaview, WA and Thandi Rosenbaum, proprietor of the SW Lodge. Ceramic artist Molly Schulps at Imogen Gallery for Astoria Art Walk.
Friday, Oct 2nd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Erin Carlsen, program director of Beacon Clubhouse, a project of NAMI; and artist Clarence Larkins Jr Award winning artist Chris Sheridan with paintings inspired by recent residency in Finland at the Royal Nebeker Art Gallery; and Clatsop Community College…
Friday, Sept 25th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Founder Julia Gingerich with the Sparrow Dance Company Street Show featuring Musical Theater.  North Coast Chorale Conductor & Director Denise Reed with a concert in the parking lot of the Astor Street Opry Co Playhouse.  Â
Host Carol Newman speaks with: Naturalist, poet, author Dr. Robert Michael Pyle on The Dark Divide showing at the Columbian in Astoria Apricot Irving & Deborah Reed, Authors in Conversation, zoom in the Manzanita Writers’ Series
Carol Newman speaks with award winning graphic designer Garland Kirkpatrick showing at AVA Gallery. Oil painter Laura Hamje with ‘In The Clouds’ at Imogen Gallery. Artist Hope Montgomery leads a Printmaking workshop at Bay City Arts Center.
Jane Brumfield with “Dawning Splendor” in her new Astoria Gallery;  Photographer Richard Newman at Trail’s End Gallery in Gearhart;  Jill McVarish and Chris Minnick from the Secret Gallery in Astoria with “Sins of the Father”.
Host Carol Newman speaks with Nancy Anderson, director of the Knappton Cove Heritage Center, on Women’s History & more at Knappton Cove on Hwy 401, WA.  Christine Harrison, Board member & founder of Art Accelerated in Tillamook.  Cannon Beach Gallery director Scott Johnson with new works in a group show at the gallery.
Friday, August 21st at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with:  Liberty Theatre Director Jennifer Crockett on a month of films in the theatre Artist Judith Altruda with the Eugene Landry Project Ceramic artist and Board president Mary Roberts on the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita
Host Carol Newman speaks with:  Allyn Cantor, artist and owner of the White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach with Deborah DeWit, featured artist for Aug and Sept.  Painter Phyllis Taylor from the Tempo Gallery formerly in Astoria.  Charlene Larsen, co chair of the Clatsop Co Cultural Coalition, with news of Coronavirus Relief Fund money…
Host Carol Newman speaks with Abstract artist Kirista Trask and clay artist Audrey Lord open their new Cambium Gallery in Astoria. Painter and co-owner Jo Pomeroy-Crocket with Astoria Art Loft’s children’s art camps. Portland artist Tom Cramer shows color saturated paintings and wood relief furniture in his third show at Imogen Gallery in Astoria.
Carol Newman speaks with:Â Â Astoria Visual Arts Executive Director Annie Eskelin & metal worker/sculptor Tabor Porter talk of the 10th Annual Astoria Open Studios virtual Tour July 25 & 26. Â Cannon Beach Arts Association Arts Education Director Meagan Sokol & bilingual camp staffer Andrea Suarez speak on the 18th Annual Summer Art Camp…
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This week on ARTS! Not Live But Still Local guest host Cindy Price talks with high school arts teachers Mickey Cereghino from Astoria and Brian Vollner from Warrenton, Astoria Library Director Jimmy Pearson, and artist Morrison Pierce. Music by Horse Feathers from their album Appreciation. Â
Elephants, turtles, and wooden fish. Guest host Cindy Price talks with artist Jill Mulholland, Hipfish Monthly editor Dinah Urell, The Pop-Up Drive-In bringer of Joy Jeff Daly. With special commentary on the value of the arts by Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson.
A conversation with local Clatsop County resident, Alex Carney. While Alex is a musician and performs in multiple bands, the focus of the program is with Alex mixing instruments and sound bites to make original tracks and also existing vinyl into music sets. Â
It’s been a month and a day since the governors of both Oregon and Washington shut down all but a few businesses in an attempt to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus.  How has the quarantine affected our local artists and the arts and cultural institutions in our region? We talked with RiverSea Gallery owner…
Poets Mary Lou Mcauley & Jim Dott tell how the flame of poetry will be shared in three different media: Internet, Print, Radio, during April, National Poetry Month; DragonFire Art Gallery’s Eeva Lantela shares news of the art scene in Cannon Beach and her philosophy on the impact art has on all our lives.
Director Patrick Lathrop & cast members Barbie England & Danyelle Tinker with the chaotic comedic “Play On” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach April 3-18; Writer & Director Judith Niland, Musical Director & actor ChrisLynn Taylor & actor John Howe in the ninth annual “The Real Lewis & Clark” at the Astor Street Playhouse…
Friday, March 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman and guests: Â Director Karen Bain and cast member Rick Gray in The Weir, haunting stories in rural Ireland, at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria; Â Â Advisor Deac Guidi & students Jabrielle Jones & Bethlehem Huntley from the CCC Gay Straight…
Friday, Feb 28th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman and guests:  Loretta Brockhoff turns 90 this year. She worked at Nelson cannery in Tokeland while her husband Jack ran F/V Shirley Lee out of Willapa Bay;   Ken Kachia Smith, at 86 the oldest male speaker of the Wasco language, shares history and…
Friday, Feb 21st at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman and guests:  Marianne Monson releases her new historical fiction novel, “Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator”, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of US Women’s Suffrage;  International Film Fest founder Ron Craig & Philosofarian…