ARTS - Live & Local!

Friday, January 17th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Sara Meyer with AAUW Astoria’s presentation ‘Women Bringing Artistic Performance to Astoria’ with two local guests. Faculty advisor Kama O’Connor with news on RAIN, CCC’s literary magazine. KMUN BTS reader Bruce Williams with Murmel, Murmel, Murmel and the joys of stories...

Carol Newman interviews a rotation of guests on art, culture, music and local events. Guest details to follow.

ARTS! Live & Local host Carol Newman interviews a rotation of guests on art, music, culture and local events. 

Friday, November 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Experimental & Poetic Documentary Artist Rankin Renwick with their installation “Translation Please”, plus a night of films at Anita in Astoria. Author, Poet, Storyteller Cliff Taylor, enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, on “Authors of Earth”, a presentation with...

Friday, November 22nd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Soprano Terri Miller & Alto Nancy Word on the annual North Coast Chorale Messiah Singalong / Playalong Benefit at the Larsen Center in Astoria.   Artist & Board Member Rachel Siegel with “Small Treasures”, an exhibit, auction, party & winter fundraiser...

Friday, November 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Cello Looping Musician, Composer, Singer Helen Gillet plays a concert at KALA in Astoria. Cascadia Bagpiper John Goff with a Bagpipe Swap Meet @ First Presbyterian & open jam session @ Breakside Brewery in Astoria. Artist Penny Treat with the exhibit “In the...

Friday, November 8th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Multi-disciplinary Artist Nhatt Nichols with “The Willapa Oyster & Its Environs” graphic story at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, WA. Renee Fruiht, Jimmy Mandes & Alex Cantrell with the CCC Ceramic Student Club show and sale of their works...

Friday, November 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Guitarist & Composer Aaron Larget-Caplan with “Death, Dreams, and Delusions” celebrating All Hollow’s Eve and the Day of the Dead at the Coaster Theatre in CB. Brent Follis with the Brent Follis QTET featuring Marilyn Keller play the Coaster Theatre during...

Friday, October 25th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Astoria Conservatory’s Artistic Director of Dance Sarah Cohen, Founder & Director Lisa Nelson & Dancer Alex with “Grimm Tales – Hansel & Gretel” at the Charlene Larsen Center.   Clatskanie Arts Commission Board Members & Organizers Donavon ‘Dee’ & Elsa Wooley...

Friday, October 18th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Producer Michael Downey on the filming of ‘The Cycle’, a horror-thriller set in Astoria and surroundings. Marianne Monson of The Writers Guild with Harvest Moon and Susan Banyas on the 2024 Astoria Creative Writers Festival. Dr. Julie Brown with Clatsop Community...

Friday, October 11th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: WMF Chair Diane Marshall on the Dan Brubeck Quartet at Water Music Festival 2024 at the Chinook Event Center in WA. Artists Jill Mulholland & John Mueller from the AVA/Recology Coastal Oregon Artist Residency – COAR – at Anita Building for...

Friday, October 4th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: CCC Ceramics Instructor Brad Menninga with “The Country I Come From is Called the Midwest”, a group exhibit at the Royal Nebeker Art Gallery. Director Susi Brown, Actor Bonnie Lively & Venue Host Sally Musemeche with Astoria Readers Theater debut production...

Friday, September 27th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Mick Alderman and Actors Arnie Hummasti & Marc Weaver with “The Woman in Black” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Bruce Watts from Astoria Jazz Festival, with pianist Brad Bleidt, presents the Beacon Street Titans with Shirley Nanette at...

Norma Hernandez with Consejo Hispano’s Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Celebration at Sunset Recreation Center in Seaside.   Cannon Beach Library Manager Jen Dixon on the Annual Fall Festival Fundraiser at the CB library.   Studio Manager Hans Miles with Ilwaco Artworks Community Clay Studio and his personal exhibit “Dryer 15” in Ilwaco, WA.

Friday, September 13th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Founder Karin Temple and Jane Hill on the Autumnal Equinox Peace Labyrinth at Grace Episcopal Church in Astoria. Photographer/ Writer Roger Dorband, Painter Darren Orange and Poet/ Podcaster Ellie Dunklee on North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection’s “Deep Dive: Stories of...

Friday, September 6th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests:   Fisher Poets Jay Speakman & Rob Seitz will be joined by Jon Broderick & Geno Leach in “A Special Harvest of Fisher Poets” at KALA in Astoria.   LCPS Board Members Lauri Serafin & Eric Wheeler with a monthly...

Friday, Aug 30th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests:   Alejandra Lopez Nestor & Rosendo Talancon-Botello present Raices Clatsop highlighting the local Latino community, history and culture at Anita Building in Astoria; with Liz Harris proprietor.   Co-Owner Todd Robinett & Manager Mark Barsekian on the history of labor...

Friday, Aug 23rd at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Events Coordinator Delphine Criscenzo & Owner/Manager Kathleen McDonald with ‘Jazz on the River’ at the Little Island Creamery in Cathlamet, WA. Astoria Public Library Director Suzanne Harold & Clatsop Community College Library Director Dan McClure on the Astoria Library renovation....

Friday, Aug 16th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests:   Roberta Gumbel, Librettist & Director of dwb (Driving While Black), Brendan Hartnett, director of The Elixir of Love and Deac Guidi, Baritone & Board Member of CCO, with the Cascadia Chamber Opera Festival at the Larsen Center in Astoria....

Friday, Aug 9th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Michelle Valigura, Ceramic Artist and Owner of Basalt, with >100 artists in Coastal Craft Uprising in Seaside.   Artists Lezlie Amara Piper, Rachel Siegel and Derek Ecklund on their installation ’Synapse’ at AVA Gallery.   Artist, Writer, Entrepreneur Ramey Holsman with...

Euphonium player Dr. Paul Niemisto, founder & director of the 7 piece Finnish American Brass Band ‘Ameriikan Poijat’, in concert in Astoria, Naselle, WA and more. Diana Thompson, coordinator of Water Music Society’s Jazz & Oysters 2024, at the Port of Peninsula in Nahcotta, WA. CCO Director & Soprano Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Astoria Conservatory Director Lisa...

Friday, July 26th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Astoria Visual Arts Executive Director Annie Eskelin with participating Artists Joanne Lumpkin Brown & Philip Barasch in the AVA Astoria Open Studios Tour. Director of Appelo Archive Center Annika Kay and Serena Travis with ‘A Taste of Festival’, this year’s...

Friday, July 19th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Susie McLerie and Joseph Stevenson on the music & dance legacy in Clatsop Co and the world by Jeanie McLerie. Katrina Gasser Sturgeon and Amy Boyovich on Community Competitions, exhibitions by and for all at the Clatsop County Fair in...

Friday, July 12th at 3pm ARTS! – Live & Local with Carol Newman & guests: Executive Director Danyelle Tinker & Committee Member Nancy Montgomery with The Ten Fifteen Theater’s PERFORMATHON. Artist, Pianist, Composer Jennifer Goodenberger on her show The Art of Collage at Astoria Art Loft. Store Operations Manager Patrick Kint on the 50th Anniversary...