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Stack YachatsNews.com Categories -Ism Youth Files podcast 2022: A Year in Review 2023: A Year in Review 2024: A Year in Review Architecture & Design Art on the Road Arts Education ArtsWatch Weekly Black Music Matters Book Bans Books Catching Up With Choral City Arts/RACC Coast Cultural Hubs Cultural Landscape Culture Dance DanceWatch DramaWatch Exquisite Gorge I Exquisite Gorge II Family Fertile Ground '21 Film FilmWatch Gender Deconstruction Hillsboro In Oregon Classrooms Indigenous History & Resilience Libraries LitWatch Media Music MusicWatch News Northwest Now Hear This Photography Portland Book Festival 2024 PuzzleWatch Stage & Studio TBA 2024 Theater Top Vision 2020 Visual Arts VizArts Monthly What Are You Reading? Yamhill Violinist Rob Diggins: Keep on smiling February 9, 2025Elizabeth Mehren The veteran Portland Baroque Orchestra violinist, who'll be featured in PBO's "D'amore" concerts Feb. 15 and 16, takes an effervescent and ecstatic approach to music and to life. Between treasure and trash at Oregon Contemporary February 8, 2025Jason N. Le Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales' "Waste Scenes" pulls its source material from a literal dump. The two-channel video installation is a compilation of the artists' experiments and performances inspired by their finds. The Cultural Landscape: Part 19 February 8, 2025K.B. Dixon Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of theater director Brian Weaver, writer & filmmaker Perrin Kerns, writer & editor Rajesh K. Reddy, visual artist Jo Hamilton, and architectural preservationist William (Bill) Hawkins III. The music is the message: A conversation with KMHD’s Matt Fleeger February 7, 2025Brian Libby The station’s longtime program director discusses the past, present and future of jazz radio in Portland. More colors, more timbres, more palette: 45th Parallel Universe premieres new Andy Akiho composition at The Reser February 7, 2025Angela Allen The Oregon composer’s new chamber piece “Copper Variations” was featured in a concert of contemporary classical music alongside works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Daniel Wohl. Art Center East in La Grande: Bringing art opportunities and access to Eastern Oregon February 7, 2025Marc Mohan The nonprofit center serves a 10-county swath of the state with exhibitions, classes, and annual events, often engaging with the past in ways that speak to the present. A conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones on Black history and ‘The 1619 Project’ February 6, 2025William C. Stack The celebrated journalist, historian, activist and onetime Portlander gives a revealing and triumphant talk in the Oregon Historical Society's Hatfield Lecture Series. MusicWatch Monthly: Black History Month February 6, 2025Matthew Neil Andrews An abbreviated consideration of Black music in Oregon, from Jimmie Herrod and Darrell Grant to Machado Mijiga and esperanza spalding. NEA cancels Challenge America grant and changes its guidelines and deadlines February 6, 2025Laura Grimes In a sign of how the Trump administration is changing the funding landscape for the arts, the National Endowment for the Arts has eliminated its grant aimed at underserved communities. FilmWatch Weekly: Where to see Oscar nominees, plus an Irish feud in ‘Bring Them Down’ and the inept ‘Love Hurts’ February 6, 2025Marc Mohan This year's Best Picture contenders return to theaters this month, while most other nominees are available to stream or rent on demand. At the intersection of empathy and creativity: Naomi LaViolette February 6, 2025Daryl Browne The “unflappable” composer, pianist, and choral accompanist discusses her life in music. (De)Mystifying New Music: Fear No Music’s “Scenes from Adolescence” February 5, 2025Daryl Browne An impression of how FNM’s “De-Mystifying New Music” series–most recently with composer David Schiff and host Robert McBride–supports and highlights their all-Oregonian season. Brenda Mallory’s threads of time, family, culture, and nature at Hallie Ford Museum February 5, 2025Dee Moore In a show that began at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Portland artist's sculptures at the Salem museum call on influences ranging from her Cherokee heritage to the art of Marcel Duchamp. DramaWatch: Michael Allen Harrison, composing a new musical, lives by his father’s advice to ‘love what you do’ February 4, 2025Linda Ferguson The prolific composer thrives on his packed schedule, which includes rehearsing for "JC: Gospel According to an Angel," a new musical at Triangle Productions. Plus: Other openings, still running, and theater news. VizArts Monthly: Love all around February 4, 2025Raylee Heiden There's plenty of art to love in Oregon this February. Raylee Heiden rounds up some standout options. Dance Maker Discussion: Linda Austin on making work, getting inspired, and 25 years of PWNW February 4, 2025Amy Leona Havin The celebrated dance maker and co-founder of Portland’s Performance Works Northwest is celebrating 25 years of the studio and roughly 40 years of making work. Remember Sowelu? The experimental ensemble is back with three new plays February 3, 2025Bobby Bermea Bobby Bermea: After several years of shifting to award-winning independent films, the ensemble returns to the theater stage with a short run of one-act plays. ‘The Bridge of the Gods’: Frederic Homer Balch’s novel of Indigenous people, ministry, and romance February 2, 2025Richard W. Etulain Some literary historians consider the book the most important novel of the Pacific Northwest written during the 19th century. Photo essay: A juror’s-eye view of Portland that not many people get a chance to see February 2, 2025Laura Grimes If the court system is a foundation for a civil society, it seems fitting to explore the building blocks and high-rise vistas of a city while serving as a juror. Cappella Romana survives Trump Administration’s attempt to shut down federal grants February 1, 2025Bob Hicks A $35,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant is still stalled, but private donations have helped fill the gap, and a crucial concert will go on. Meanwhile, nonprofits across the nation aren't sure what comes next. Simon Tam & The Slants: Worth the Fight February 1, 2025Dmae Lo Roberts In her new podcast, Stage & Studio's Dmae Lo Roberts talks with The Slants' cofounder about the band's battle to trademark its name, the Portland Chinatown Museum's exhibit on the band's history, and more. Ashland’s Bellwood Violin plays on under new ownership January 31, 2025 Stephen Bacon, who founded the respected Southern Oregon sales and repair shop in 1985, sells it to store manager Will Scharen – and the tradition continues. Dylan Hankins’ ‘Faena’ at PETE: A bull, a matador, and button-pushing comedy January 30, 2025Caitlin Nolan The short-run play, performed in Spanish with English interpretation, challenges convention, its author says: “I like pushing buttons. I like being kind of wrong and perverted.” FilmWatch Weekly: Brazil’s ‘I’m Still Here,’ India’s ‘Santosh,’ and Hong Kong’s ‘The Prosecutor,’ plus more January 30, 2025Marc Mohan Three newly released international features grapple with themes of corruption and the rule of law. Also this week: the sci-fi fable "Love Me," the 35th Cascade Festival of African Films, and more. Eugene Public Library Foundation wins national award for its ‘Love Your Library’ campaign January 30, 2025Amy Wang Patrons designed promotional logos for the library and, during a “Library Love-In,” wrote postcards about what the library means to them. Review: Lauren Yee’s ‘Samsara’ at Profile is not to be missed January 30, 2025Darleen Ortega Playful and richly unsettling, Yee's drama about surrogacy and impending parenthood and a kind of colonialism is a gift in the best and most complicated ways. “Neglected music”: Pianist and composer Stephen Lewis performs and champions modernist music January 30, 2025Charles Rose Dr. Lewis, who performs the music of Messiaen and Bartók alongside Bach and Chopin, explains why “Classical music has been dying for over a hundred years–but it’s still alive.” Togetherness counts: The Florestan Trio returns to The Old Church January 29, 2025Angela Allen The Portland trio–pianist Janet Guggenheim, violinist Carol Sindell, and cellist Hamilton Cheifetz–performed an evening of Mendelssohn, Haydn, and Beethoven. “Forever thine, forever mine, forever us” – Northwest Sinfonietta and violinist Denise Dillenbeck premiere Nancy Ives’ Beethoven-inspired violin concerto January 29, 2025James Bash The Tacoma orchestra, part of the commissioning consortium for Ives’ Immortal Beloved Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, delivered intensity in quest for Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved.” The piano ain’t got no wrong notes: Aaron Diehl Trio at The Reser January 28, 2025Angela Allen The jazz pianist, with bassist David Wong and drummer Aaron Kimmel, performed a set of originals and uncommon tunes by Jobim, Monk, and Shorter. 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