Linfield University hits its streaming stride
David Bates
February 28, 2021
Poetry, podcasts, theater, dance, and music are all available virtually from the McMinnville school.
Poetry, podcasts, theater, dance, and music are all available virtually from the McMinnville school.
The Portland writer and former clown is in demand for her book-cover designs. Next: Beth Kephart’s new memoir.
Our movement may still be restricted, but books are still available, along with online events in and around books. Amy Leona Havin’s LitWatch has the details.
ArtsWatch Weekly: All around Oregon, the cultural Covid freeze of 2020 begins to thaw. Will it continue?
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival meets the times with a hybrid season of new and old: video now, maybe onstage later.
In a strange Oscar season, virtuoso work by Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan stands out.
Good music in hard times: We can’t let 2020 slip away without noting some recordings by Oregon musicians, several explicitly in response to crisis.
So near, and so far: K.B. Dixon turns his lens on downtown Portland, before the pandemic and the plywood.
A conversation about the difference between America’s ideals and its reality leads to a Newberg fiber arts show.
In a world of trouble, Clowns Without Borders lightens the load. At the benefit Pandemic Pandemonium, you can pitch in.
Dance critic Martha Ullman West looks back on a year of isolation and remembers moments of beauty that broke the spell.
ArtsWatch Weekly: I Am MORE, Broadway Rose’s ‘Story of My Life,’ PDX Jazz Fest, art around Oregon.
Jennifer Rabin was moved to tears by Sophia Wright Emigh and Jaleesa Johnston’s project “Bodies Apart, Moving Together.” A conversation about the pandemic, art, and finding connection.
Ian Doescher has built a mini-empire of modern pop tales retold Shakespeare style. May ye Force be withe hym.
The Cannon Beach Library hosts a virtual reading Saturday of pieces inspired by life during COVID.
Poet David Abel and friends moved a poetry benefit for Linda Austin’s Performance Works NW to Zoom and the words poured forth.
Portland’s I Am MORE helps traumatized young people heal by sharing their stories
What’s the nation’s current mess mean? We asked a few literary and artistic experts. You might be surprised.
The 10-day festival starts this week, bringing 127 films, none longer than 20 minutes, to the comfort of your home.
Portland Jazz Festival, rewatching Motchisuki, African films, Black composers, Sybarite5 and more.
Blake Andrews on how labor plays a starring role in Dan Nelken and Edward Pabor’s photo shows in Springfield and Eugene.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon Symphony picks a new leader; we begin a Black-music column; finale for Fertile Ground.
PIFF plans, Cinema Unbound Awards, some indie highlights, a little M.C. Escher – and are theaters opening up?
Covid changed the game for the new-performance festival. But going virtual was a renaissance, not a retreat.
In Black History Month, a good time to freshen up and start a new tradition of seeking out and hearing Black music.
Newport Symphony brings a concert to your living room, and the Coaster Theatre gets Shakespearean.
Lindsay Costello reviews the February show of works by Bill Traylor and Billy White at Adams and Ollman.
Documentaries play a big role in the festival, with particular focus on the environment and Native Americans.
Fertile Ground 2021: Sue Mach’s “Madonna of the Cat” fills in the 16-year gap in Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale.”
Veteran Portland actor Tobias Andersen remembers talking with Plummer about how to play Prospero.
Fertile Ground 2021: In “Livin’ in the Light,” opera singer Onry seeks a space for a Black man to breathe.
Fertile Ground 2021: An overlooked character from “A Christmas Carol” gets his close-up in “Fezziwig’s Fortune.”
Fertile Ground 2021: “The November Project,” which takes place in a bathroom, has roots in a life-turning crisis.
The Astoria artist has gone from designing giant inflatables to painting the city’s landmarks.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Fertile Ground marches on, film fest updates, Hal Holbrook on jackasses & politics.
Now Hear This scours Bandcamp for new work from local artists. This time around: Quadraphonnes and quarantined overdubs, delicate synths and deconstructed metal, moody rap and all-ages kids music.
Marc Mohan’s sneak peek at the Portland International Film Fest; the “Citizen Kane” of awkward first-date movies.
Fertile Ground: Mark LaPierre and Ian Anderson-Priddy’s zombie comic-book musical will make your pulse rush. If you have one.
February on the literary arts front is looking warm and cozy, surrounded by cups of hot chocolate and coffee, and seated in comfortable chairs.
Fertile Ground 2021: Joni Whitworth and Hannah Piper Burns find the mythic amid the reality of Covid-19.
The vibrancy of Portland’s art scene is the perfect antidote to a gloomy February. Lindsay Costello gives a run down of the many options.
The Bend filmmaker talks about ‘Tutu Grande’ in the upcoming McMinnville Short Film Festival.
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