Finding freedom in adversity
Lori Tobias
September 18, 2020
A pandemic, a wildfire – while the hits keep coming, the Lincoln City Cultural Center responds online.
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A pandemic, a wildfire – while the hits keep coming, the Lincoln City Cultural Center responds online.
A musical tale with mules, trolls, a bumblebee, a dog, a cat, a composer, a writer, and a little imagination.
Technology challenges an online drama club, but the tradeoff is lessons in creativity and self-reliance.
Oregon Coast Aquarium partially reopens this week and other news from the art and animal worlds.
Carrie Lewis, CEO of the Oregon Coast Aquarium, says the Newport attraction awaits the governor’s OK to reopen.
The Newport Symphony Orchestra has to forgo its July Fourth concert, but an encore broadcast keeps the spirit alive.
Kids in Newport’s Online Summer Drama Club will learn all about theater — and put on a play — via computer.
The “Invest in Inspiration” campaign will add greenery, paths, and patios around the Delake School.
Limited hours and requests to wear masks are common as galleries start welcoming back visitors.
In Newport, films will be shown outdoors, and the Lincoln City Cultural Center has reopened to the public.
Astoria dials back the 35th-anniversary celebration of the cult classic, but fans will still find ways to fete the film.
McMinnville’s Third Street Books rides out COVID-19 with home deliveries, curbside pickup, and mail order.
Creative Quarantine provides activity kits for kids and online entertainment for adults.
Young filmmakers, stories inspired by Cinderella and Dr. Suess, and a documentary about Anne Frank.
From horse-racing to Newberg’s 99W drive-in, there’s a lot to like in this weekend’s McMinnville Short Film Festival.
Commercial fishermen will share poems, stories, and songs during the 23rd annual FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony director talks full STEAM ahead about the links among science, education, and the arts.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony leader: In a troubled world, schools need to teach the empathy of the arts.
A student show at The Gallery at Ten Oaks provides an encouraging view of arts education in Yamhill County.
Leaders of Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center look forward to more performing arts and a new culinary center.
Leaders of an art center in La Grande say funding cuts could have been dire, but the community stepped up.
A Newport dance teacher’s “small” goals: keep kids motivated to dance, give low-income kids a place to go.
It seems dark and stormy at the end of December, but upcoming events promise a lot of merry and bright.
The Chehalem Cultural Center fills its galleries with masks by Tony Fuemmeler and other artists.
Fossil fanatics Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson will visit Salishan Resort to talk about their latest book.
Lincoln City seeks public art; Sitka Center holds a fundraiser; Floyd Skloot reads from his new book.
Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. and a 6-year-old boy collaborate on a Newberg installation.
Lincoln City’s Bijou Theatre hosts the six-day Oregon-Made Film Festival.
Collections in Pendleton, La Grande and Baker City range from rocks to Lee Marvin’s yellow-striped pants.
Founder of Ships to Roam at Walnut City Music Festival credits influences from yodelers to grunge.
“I was really on fire”: PHAME Academy and Portland Opera collaborate on original rock opera.
Before we get to this week’s most exciting theater opening — an open-air production of As You Like It — let’s quickly cast our gaze just south of Yamhill County, where an intriguing Hamlet will be found. Western Oregon University keeps Shakespeare
Twenty-odd years ago, Cindy McEntee found herself with a sewing machine she had no interest in, but that a well-meaning aunt thought she should have. There it sat in its cabinet, unwanted and taking up space in McEntee’s living room. One gray
In many towns along the Oregon Coast, boating isn’t just a livelihood or a means of recreation, but a way of life, the foundation that defines a community. In coming weeks, two towns will celebrate their maritime history with festivals that have
Biological Dissonance, a collection of paintings and sculpture by Portland-area artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Amanda Triplett, is the newest exhibit to take up residence in the Chehalem Cultural Center’s largest gallery. While I was visiting it recently, two other names came
This week’s survey of Yamhill County’s cultural scene is All Things Musical — or as close to “all” as is possible to get without being omniscient. The opera-oriented Aquilon Music Festival is in the thick of it, but they’re not the only
Penguin Productions was the new kid on Yamhill County’s theater scene just a couple of years ago, mounting productions of Macbeth and As You Like It right out of the gate. Last year, they forged ahead with Hamlet and Oscar Wilde’s An
Can a festival founded three decades ago and dedicated to chamber music remain relevant today with a younger crowd? As a matter of fact, says Siletz Bay Music Festival conductor Yaacov Bergman, it can and does. The festival hasn’t been about
School’s out, but here on the Coast, classes are just beginning, and they’re not just for kids. The Cannon Beach Arts Association has opened registration for its 17th Annual Art Camp, July 8-12. Five-day classes for the younger set include yoga (ages
A press release recently landed on my desk seeking proposals to build a “Culture Stand” for the upcoming “Live Culture Coast” to be held on the southern Oregon coast in October. I confess I was duly – and dually – baffled. A
If there was any doubt the new exhibit at the Oregon Coast Aquarium was a success, one only had to listen last weekend as visitors discovered Seapunk: Powered by Imagination. “This is awesome,” said one. “This is so cool,” said another. And
It’s not happening on the Coast, but you could say it is of the Coast. That’s the opening of an exhibit of poetry and photography by Oregon State University faculty member Joseph Ohmann Krause in The Little Gallery on the OSU campus
Portland prides itself on keeping weird, but this weekend, McMinnville owns bragging rights for Oregon Weird. Saturday afternoon on Third Street, the restaurant-and-tasting-room-thick thoroughfare downtown, the weird will be out in force during a parade celebrating the city’s annual UFO Festival. Every
Lovers of local art and the Oregon Coast can combine their passions May 17-19 during the Art on the Edge Studio Tour along the Central Coast. More than two dozen artists will open their studios to visitors. The Lincoln City Cultural Center
The artist’s statement that accompanies Linden Eller’s Little Small exhibit, on display through June 1 in Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center, makes a fascinating point about the nature of individual memory, which is integral to the images she’s given us. Amnesia is popularly
More than 100 students and their teachers will arrive in Newport next week for four days of workshops and performances, a visit to the Oregon Coast Aquarium – and of course, ample time on the beach. They’ll stay in oceanfront hotels and
Barbara Herkert’s story is the classic tale of the would-be artist who shelves her dreams to pursue a more practical path. Starting out as an art major in the 1970s, Herkert switched to nursing at her parent’s urging. Ten years later, she
When Margo Klass boards the plane in Fairbanks bound for Oregon, she’ll be carrying a most unusual book. Open, it stretches 6 feet. It’s a work of art, a memoir in abstract, the story of nine days Klass spent with her writer
When I’m paying attention, I occasionally catch word about a Yamhill County artist showing his or her stuff at the Bush Barn Art Center in Salem. So let’s kick off this week’s round-up of what’s going on arts-wise with Totem Shriver. Shriver
We’ve set the clocks ahead, spring is coming, and that means Oregonians are tentatively emerging from their abodes with a mind to hit the road for day and weekend trips. What’s on the state’s cultural menu? For starters, it’s showtime at the
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