Monthly Archives: October 2010

Opera Night at the Hoffman Center on Friday, November 19th

Portland Opera mezzo-soprano Sarah Norton will present an evening of arias and songs Nov. 19 at the Hoffman Center

Portland Opera mezzo-soprano Sarah Norton will present an evening of operatic arias and Broadway songs Friday, Nov. 19 at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. The performance will start at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10 and will be sold at the door.

Norton grew up in the Northwest and is a seventh-generation Oregonian. She began singing classical music at the age of 16. She performed many recitals and won competitions throughout her early education in Olympia, Wash.

She attended the University of Southern California with a scholarship in Vocal Performance where she performed many roles in the main stage opera workshop and scene productions. After graduating from USC in 2004, Norton obtained a position with the San Diego Opera Chorus.

In 2007, she was hired by the Portland Opera to perform the role of Hansel in their education and outreach tour program. She then joined the Portland Opera Chorus and continues to perform with the company at the Keller Auditorium.

Norton has performed concerts and recitals throughout Washington, Oregon and California and has a passion for classical musical theatre. She currently lives in SW Portland with her fiancé Michael and her maltipoo Bubbles.

Arias and songs during the Hoffman Center concert will include works by Puccini, Dvorak, Verdi, Menotti, Gershwin, Bernstein, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Norton’s appearance is another offering of the Hoffman Center’s new “dell’Arte Series” program, which features appearances by a wide variety of performers, including musicians, magicians, comedians, clowns, and just about anything else.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers Screening and Costume Party on October 30th

Original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers to be screened on October 30.

The Manzanita Film Series is proud to present The Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956) on Saturday October 30th at 7pm.  Admission is $6 and we are encouraging attendees to dress up in their favorite costumes to add to the festivities.  There will be prizes and giveaways all night long.

In this disturbing classic science fiction/ alien invasion film, Kevin McCarthy is Dr. Miles Bennell, a physician who returns to his small town practice to find his town has been taken over by an evil presence. Several of his patients are suffering from the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors. The doctor is skeptical at first but then there are too many signs that the people in the town are being replaced by emotionless doppelgangers. When it becomes apparent that he and his finance are the only ones not yet “possessed” they make a desperate escape to get out of town and warn others.

The Manzanita Film Series is a program of the Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Oregon. Films are screened on the 4th weekend of the month through out the year.  Admission is $6 and theater concessions, as well as beer and wine, are available for purchase.

Please contact Franz Hasslacher, at franzhass@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.

Terry Brooks will read at 7pm on Saturday, October 16

Bestselling author, Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks will read from his latest book Bearers of the Black Staff at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at 7 pm on Saturday, October 16, at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita.
 
Bearers of the Black Staff, released August 24, 2010, quickly reached #5 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Bearers of the Black Staff is the first of two in a new set subtitled Legends of Shannara. 
 
Brooks has written 25 New York Times bestselling novels in the past 30 years. His groundbreaking The Sword of Shannara became a runaway best-seller in 1977. It was the first fantasy novel to be listed on The New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months.
 
Brooks received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and went on to earn his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.
 
The Sword of Shannara took him seven years to finish as he wrote it in time squeezed out of his law practice. After publishing his first three Shannara novels, even though he was hesitant, Terry quit his practice of law to pursue a full-time writing career.
 
Following the author reading and Q&A, the popular Open Mic session will provide opportunities for the audience to hear nine local writers read from their original work. Interested writers sign up at the door to read; first come, first to read.
Writers interested in reading should check out the Open Mic guidelines at hoffmanblog.org <http://hoffmanblog.org> and come prepared to read your original piece of work in five minutes or less.
 
The series is a program of the Hoffman Center and will be held at the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) The building will be set up in a café style with coffee/tea and snacks available. Admission fee is $5.