Monthly Archives: March 2011

Film Series Offers “Adaptation” Friday Night

The Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Film Series will present the 2002 feature “Adaptation” Friday, Mar. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be $7. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

Note: The showing is on a new night – Friday — rather than the usual Saturday evening.

Directed by Spike Jonze, the R-rated film tells the story of a tortured writer trying to turn a non-fiction book – The Orchid Thief — into a screenplay. Not having much success, he turns to his less talented but much happier twin brother for help.

Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote the award-winning “Being John Malkovich,” wrote “Adaptation.” It stars Nicholas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Steep and Chris Cooper.

Film Series leader Jonathan Feder will offer commentary on the feature before and after the presentation.

The Hoffman Center is located at 594 Laneda Ave. in Manzanita.

 

 

 

Neahkahnie Middle Schoolers Hit the Stage March 18

The Hoffman Center in Manzanita will host a performance of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” by 18 students of Neahkahnie Middle School, Friday, March 18 at 5 p.m.

Joseph Robinette dramatized the play, based on a story by C. S. Lewis. Annie Naranjo-Rivera will direct.

The play tells the story of the great lion Aslan, the White Witch, and four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the land of Narnia.

The suggested donation for admission to the play is $10.

Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen and three other accomplished poets at the Manzanita Writers’ Series

PoetryFest on March 19

Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, and fellow award-winning poets Margaret Chula, Carlos Reyes and Penelope Scambly Schott 
will participate in a Poetry Fest at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at 7 pm on Saturday, March 19, at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita.

Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen has five full-length books of poetry: The Wild Awake, Blood-Silk, A Bride of Narrow Escape, Kindle, and The Voluptuary, published by Lost Horse Press in 2010. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2006 Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts, she serves on the board of Friends of William Stafford, organizing the January Stafford Birthday Events. (http://www.paulann.net)

Margaret Chula is a poet, performer and world traveler. In 1977 she traveled overland through Asia and Southeast Asia with her husband before settling in Japan, where she taught English and creative writing at universities in Kyoto. She has published six books of poetry. Her one-woman performance of Three Women Who Loved Love premiered in Krakow in 2003 and toured to Canada, Japan and the US. (http://www.margaretchula.com or www.margaretchula.blogspot.com)

Poet and translator Carlos Reyes lives and writes in Portland, Oregon when he is not traveling. He travels a lot, and whether he journeys to Panama, Spain, Alaska or Ireland, those experiences inspire and inform his poetry. In 2007 he was honored with a Heinrich Boll Fellowship, which gave him two weeks to write on Achill Island, Ireland. He has had fellowships to Yaddo and the Fundación Valparaíso (Mojåcar, Spain). He was poet-in-residence in 2009 at the Lost Horse Ranger Station in the Joshua Tree National Park.

Penelope Scambly Schott has published eight full-length books of poetry. Her verse biography A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and her most recent collection Crow Mercies (2010) received the Sarah Lantz Memorial Award from Calyx Press.

 To help you prime your own poetry, join the poets during the day on Saturday in a series of mini-workshops called Prompting New Work. Spend an hour with each of these acclaimed poets. They’ll share their favorite writing prompts. You’ll come away inspired and with new material for your work. Pick and choose, or spend time with all four; the price is the same, $40 for the day. Just download a registration form.

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.

Paste Paper Making (with a twist)

This class takes the standard paste paper class that John has been teaching to an expanded level. He will be encouraging students to experiment with working on a larger scale this time (there will be lots of 9″x12″ paper on hand too) to see what they can create by expanding the workable area. This will also tie in to a second class, bookmaking, so that those who attend the second class already have paper to work with.

Returning students are encouraged to bring their previous work to add a second coat to, if desired. New tools will also be available for use at the class.

Date and Time:  Sunday, March 13 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Location:  Hoffman Center 594 Laneda Ave

Price:  $25, all materials included

There are only 4-6 spots still available (depending on table availability).  Contact John Freethy at johnfreethy@gmail.com or at 207.776.4868.