One of a Kind Celtic Concert Series Comes to Pacific Northwest

Kathryn Claire and Hans Araki to play October 28th

Acclaimed Irish Musicians Join Together for a Unique and Memorable Show

Musicians Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire are proud to present a series of unprecedented concerts. These two diverse musicians lend their individual expertise and lyrical knowledge to four theme-based concerts that present some of the strongest and most beautiful elements of the Celtic tradition. This October, they’re celebrating the release of the first of four accompanying albums, Songs of Love and Murder.

The murder ballad is a mainstay of the folk idiom in many cultures,perfected in Scotland, Ireland and England long, long ago. From the humorous to the Shakespearean to the downright macabre; with pen-knifes and swords, by hanging or drowning, Songs of Love and Murder is a collection of traditional murder ballads, as well as some dance tunes — jigs and reels with some rather grisly titles — to keep your toes tapping.

“Each of us bring to the table a varied collection of songs and stories that reflect the same themes of longing, love, loss, beauty, and celebration. These concerts give us the freedom to explore some of these experiences thoroughly through the music that has arisen from the last several hundred years of human existence.”

They will perform on Friday, October 28th in Manzanita, OR at the Hoffman Center. Show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are $7.00.

In the late winter, “As I Roved Out” welcomes better weather and represents the traditional Maying celebrations of the British Isles and beyond, while the plight of the emigrant and laborer is presented in a collection of songs and tunes in the late summer entitled “The Emigrant Song.” Some of the darker and more macabre themes found in Celtic love songs are explored in “Songs of Love and Murder,” and completing the series is the Winter Solstice Celebration; celebrate the darkest night of the year with the light of music, storytelling and wonder.

Billed as “The next generation of trad’ music,” Irish flute player and singer Hanz Araki is the quintessential world music musician. He has toured internationally with Juno award-winning The Paperboys and The Casey Neill Trio; also The Bridies, Portland’s all-star Pogues cover band KMRIA among others, and is featured on over a dozen recordings and soundtracks, along with his own acclaimed CD’s. www.hanzaraki.com

Kathryn Claire has asserted herself in a new generation of traditionally-inspired musicians. Her violin-playing exhibits a technical grace which is matched only by her truly captivating voice and she possesses the rare ability to move seamlessly across genres. Her deep love and respect for traditional music has long been a driving influence and those roots can be heard in her own original music.

 

Free Writing Workshop and Poetry Recording Session

Patricia and Vince Wixon will be teaching a free poetry workshop on Saturday, October 15.

The Oregon Poetic Voices Project (OPV) will host a free writing workshop, open to the public, at The Hoffman Center (594 Laneda Avenue) on Saturday, October 15, from 1-3 pm. There will also be a recording studio set up across the street in the Hoffman House Studios Classroom on Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, and on Saturday from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. for members of the community to record original poetry. Poets may record up to four poems, at no expense, to be included in the OPV archive, which is hosted by Lewis & Clark College and available on the web at www.oregonpoeticvoices.org.

On Saturday, October 15, from 1 pm to 3 pm, Vince Wixon will facilitate a Poetry Workshop called “Getting Started and Keeping it Going”.

Vince is the author of two books of poetry, The Square Grove (2006) and Seed (1993), as well as a recent chapbook, Blue Moon, 29 poems developed from lines from the Chinese masters (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010). He has poems in three anthologies, including From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. With Paul Merchant, Wixon co-edited William Stafford’s Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer’s Vocation (Michigan, 1998) and The Answers Are Inside the Mountains (Michigan, 2003) and helped edit Stafford’s The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 1998). Wixon is also co-producer of two videos on William Stafford, What the River Says and The Life of the Poem, and one on Lawson Inada, What It Means to be Free. He and his wife Patricia are long-time poetry editors for “Jefferson Monthly,” the Jefferson Public Radio program guide. The couple has spent more than three decades bringing poets and poetry-related events to the Rogue Valley area and the past decade promoting the works of Oregon’s most famous poet, the late William Stafford. They live in Ashland, Oregon.

Oregon Poetic Voices will also have a recording studio set up on the premises, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm on October 14, and from 3:30 to 5:30 pm on October 15. All poets, published or not, are welcome to record. This will be a first-come, first-serve event and poets will have about fifteen-minutes allotted to them. Poets should consider these time constraints when deciding which works they want to record.

All participants must be prepared to sign a waiver to allow the recordings and texts to be displayed on the website (www.oregonpoeticvoices.org). Please also bring paper copies of the poems and a biographical statement. All participants will be mailed a CD of their readings at a later date.

Recognizing the need for poetry in our lives, the Oregon Poetic Voices Project (OPV) began in 2010, in order to create a comprehensive digital archive of poetry readings that will complement existing print collections of poetry across the state. This sound archive is available online to Oregonians of all ages and geographic locations at libraries, in schools, at home, or visiting the State Library Poetry Room. OPV is funded by the Library Services and Technology Act FFY2011.

For more information, please direct any questions to Poetry Project Fellow, Melissa Dalton at 503-768-8190 or mdalton@lclark.edu. All poets are also welcome to schedule an individual appointment to record in the OPV office, located on the Lewis & Clark campus in Portland, Oregon.

 

 

 

Jess Walter to read at Manzanita Writers’ Series, Saturday, October 15th

Jess Walter to read from his book The Financial Lives of PoetsJess Walter will read from his book The Financial Lives of Poets at the Manzanita Writers Series event at 7 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2011.

After hearing Jess Walter read at Wordstock 2010, the Manzanita Writer’s Series coordinators vowed to get him to come to Manzanita. He’s funny, engaging, and so-very-down-to-earth. You won’t want to miss this.

Take a look at some of the reviews of The Financial Lives of Poets.

“The hero of Jess Walter’s novel is like a stoned Humbert Humbert … The funniest way-we-live-now book of the year.” – TIME

“Brilliant–and brilliantly funny.” – ESQUIRE

“Lifts off like a rocket … This vigorous, engaging novel is one of the sharpest satires to come along in years.” — BOSTON GLOBE

“Gasp-out loud funny.” — New York Daily News

The book has been chosen in lists of best novels of the year by Time, NPR’s Fresh Air, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Oregonian, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salon.com, and others.

A former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter is the author of five novels and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published, in Playboy, McSweeney’s, ESPN the Magazine, Details, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe among many others.

Following Walter’s reading and Q&A, we’ll have our popular Open Mic where up to nine local writers will read 5 minutes of their original work. The recommended theme for this month is “Trouble.”

Admission for the evening is $5.

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 Hoffman Center presents MONOTYPE MADNESS with Lynn Thomas

 

Local artist Lynn Thomas to teach monotype class in October

Monotypes are prints made using printer’s inks, painted directly on a plexiglass plate, and printed on a press. Water based inks are used in this process, and are not only easy to clean up, they are a fun and forgiving medium which encourages experimentation. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

The classes will be held on 3 consecutive Wednesdays, October 19, 26 & November 2 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Lynn’s studio at the Hoffman House, across the street from the Hoffman Center. The cost is $45 per session, or $120 for all three sessions.  To register, download this registration form and mail it in to the Hoffman Center at PO Box 678, Manzanita, 97130.

The first session will introduce the inks, the tools, and the press.

The second session will provide an opportunity to work in a painterly way with brushes.

The third session will explore the use of stencils, demonstrate the viscosity method, and discuss how to set up a home studio.

Please bring an image (photo, sketch) or an idea to the first class.

For additional information about the class, contact Lynn Thomas directly at 503.812.4240.

About the Instructor

Lynn received her BA in printmaking from Marylhurst University. She taught printmaking at Pacific Northwest College of Arts in Portland from 2004-2006 and in her Portland home studio from 2004-2007. She received a Gordon Gilkey Award from the Portland Art Museum for her printmaking in 2004. After moving to Nehalem permanently in 2008, Lynn opened “Green” Printmaking studio in Wheeler where she taught several one day workshops. In 2010 she moved into a studio in the Hoffman Center. In spring of 2010 she taught a printmaking class based on the figure.

Lynn derives ideas for her monotypes from feelings, thoughts, and experiences with nature and personal relationships. Many of her prints begin with one or two textural shapes or figures. A dialogue between forms is sometimes suggested, inviting the viewer to add their own thoughts and feelings to the composition. Lynn uses various plate surfaces to develop her subject matter, including wood veneer (Nehalem Valley) and textured plexiglass (Beyond the Surface). She also likes to work using a resist method and large rollers, which allows for a greater degree to movement and rhythm in her work (New Mexico Series). Ultimately, Lynn strives to create works on paper that are interesting, thought-provoking, and beautiful.

Letterpress Fundamentals Class on 9/22

LETTERPRESS FUNDAMENTALS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd. 11am -4pm, $60

Only two spots left!

By designing and printing a poster together, participants in this class will learn typesetting of both metal and wood moveable type, hand inking technique, shop procedure, and operation of the Vandercook no. 2 galley proof press (& the badass 26in Chandler and Price lever paper cutter!). We will also cover basic typography, some printing history. & a little color theory. Participants will thereafter be qualified to use the proof press– perfect for printing linoleum and wood image blocks as well as type– during supervised open studio hours.

email me to register, or comment on the website announcement
thanks!

Sarah (Skye) Archer
accidentalpress ‘at’ gmail.com
http://accidentallibrary.com/peoplesprint

p.s.  look out for another Intermediate class in October, & maybe even an Advanced/Digital Letterpress (printing with photopolymer plates) workshop if there is interest..

Talent Show Back by Popular Demand!

Come audition on Wednesday, September 28th from 5 to 8 p.m.

It’s Back!

The Hoffman Center’s first Community Talent Showcase held in January was such a success, we’re going to stage another one on Saturday, October 1st at 7 p.m. We’re encouraging everyone to consider auditioning for this fun event. In addition to musicians and singers, we’re looking for actors, dancers, jugglers, maybe even baton twirlers to strut their stuff.

Auditions will be held Wednesday, September 28th from 5 to 8 p.m. A panel of judges will select 12 to 15 acts that show a particular skill or originality to fill a fun evening. Individual acts should be appropriate for all ages and about five minutes long.

The general public will be invited to the Community Talent Showcase for a $10 admission. All proceeds will go to the Hoffman Center‘s operating budget.

Click here for a talent showperformer registration form and bring it to the audition. Questions can be e-mailed to hoffmancenter@nehalemtel.net or phoned to 503-368-3846.

 

Workshop: Short Story Writing and Publishing September 17

Miriam Gershow leads short story workshop

Join us Saturday, September 17, 2011, from 11 to 130pm to learn how to write and publish short stories.

Spend the first half of the workshop using writing prompts to generate short story ideas. The second half will focus on how and where to place your short fiction. The fee for the workshop is $25.

Miriam Gershow is a novelist, short story writer and teacher. Her stories appear in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Journal, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. Miriam’s stories have been listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories of The Best American Short Stories 2007 and appeared in the 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories.

Miriam is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, as well as an Oregon Literary Fellowship.

She received her MFA from the University of Oregon. She taught fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin as well as descriptive writing to gifted high school students through Johns Hopkins University. She currently lives in Eugene with her husband and son, where she writes and teaches writing at the University of Oregon.

Saturday evening, Gershow will read from her new novel, The Local News, at 7pm at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at the Hoffman Center.

To register for the workshop, download the registration form here.

Click here for the 2011 Schedule.   If you’re planning to attend the workshop, contact vwildauer@gmail.com.  Contact Kathie Hightower at (503) 739-1505 or kathie@jumpintolife.net for more information.

 

Hoffman Center Announces Show Times for Peter Pan

With a cast of 13 children ages 4-12, ranging from beginners to seasoned performers, dancers and singers. Under the wing of Director, Annie Naranjo-Rivera, the cast has put together this “whimsical” version ofPeter Pan, complete with pirates, fairies, mermaids, and more!

The production features original choreography. The members of the cast will have had 3 weeks of rehearsals, including designing and constructing the sets, props and costumes. This is a performance not to be missed!

Admission is $10 for evening shows, and $5 for the daytime show.  Advance tickets are available at Cloud & Leaf and Moxie’s.

SHOW TIMES:

Wed, August 24 – 6:00 pm

Thur, August 25 – 11:00 am

Fri, August 26 – 6:00 pm

Sun, August 28 – 6:00 pm

Mon, August 29 – 6:00 pm

Tue, August 30 6:00 pm (earlier time!)

 

Thursday, Sunday and Monday performances will include a talk back with the actors where the audience can ask questions.

Two Letterpress Workshops Scheduled

Announcing two letterpress workshops in August:

LETTERPRESS FUNDAMENTALS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18 11-4

$60

prerequisites: none

By designing and printing a poster together, participants in this class will learn typesetting of both metal and wood moveable type, hand inking technique, shop procedure, and operation of the Vandercook no. 2 galley proof press (& the badass 26″ Chandler and Price lever paper cutter!). We will also cover basic typography, some printing history. & a little color theory. Participants will thereafter be qualified to use the proof press– perfect for printing linoleum and wood image blocks as well as type– on their own during open studio hours.

 

INTERMEDIATE LETTERPRESS

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8  (NEW DATE)

$80

prerequisites: Letterpress Fundamentals or instructor approval

This class is for those who have taken Letterpress Fundamentals (or ANY workshop from Sarah Archer in the past) and would like to learn to operate the Chandler and Price platen job press (or refresh their muscle memory). By designing and printing a postcard together, participants will advance their typesetting skills and learn to lock up the form, pack & ink the press, & troubleshoot until achieving ideal registration and impression. Participants will go home with an edition of at least 20 beautiful postcards and will thereafter be qualified to use the job press for their own projects during open studio hours.

To register or for more information, contact Sarah Archer

accidentalpress (at) gmail.com

(503) 739-1939

http://accidentalpress.com/peoplesprint

Film Series to screen D.O.A. on August 27

 

On Saturday, August 27, the Manzanita Film Series will show “D.O.A.” at 7:30 pm. It has been called by one reviewer “a high-concept movie before its time”.

A film noir drama, directed by Rudolph Maté, is considered a classic of the genre. The frantically paced plot revolves around a doomed man’s quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies.

This film explores the question of what you might do if you were to meet your own killer.

There will be a short discussion about the movie at the end. Come for the popcorn. and a classic film on the silver screen. $7 Suggested donation.