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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 11 Folk festival goes to the movies PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK Nine skits will be featured in the Sisters Wild West Show. Sisters puts the wild in the West this weekend For the seventh year, Sisters will get a little Western with the annual Wild West Show on the corner of Main Avenue and Oak Street on Saturday and Sunday, August 17-18. <Once a year, the third week of August, we build a Western town that comes to life for everyone to enjoy.= Show promoter Richard Esterman told The Nugget last year. <Our Wild West Show offers Wild West shoot- outs through well-acted skits that are free to the locals and visitors of Sisters.= Besides the nine shoot- out performances and skits, the show will feature a beer garden and vendors with a variety of Native American and Western-themed arts and crafts for folks to meander through looking for that spe- cial Old-West-style treasure to purchase. Creative Round-Up set at Sisters Art Works Artists Andrew Myers and Loo Bain will present current works in progress, talk about their creative practices and answer questions about their work and residency experi- ence at Pine Meadow Ranch during a Creative Round-Up at Sisters Art Works on Tuesday, August 20, at 2 p.m. <We are pleased to share such interesting artists with the community,= said founder Kathy Deggendorfer. <Being Pine Meadow Ranch9s sec- ond year operating artist residencies, we are pleased to engage and exchange with the local-area community and look forward to growing our capacity for such.= Loo Bain is a fiber art- ist from Portland. She was most recently the Fibers Department Studio Manager at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She received her MFA in fiber and material studies at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA and her BFA in fiber, material studies, and sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Andrew Myers is a visual artist who explores the con- cepts of conservation and preservation of wild places and creatures in work that is drawing-based with elements of installation, printmaking and sculpture. He received his undergraduate art degree f r o m E a s t e r n O r e g o n University and an MFA in drawing and painting from Portland State University. He currently teaches at Oregon State University. Pine Meadow Ranch, a project of the Roundhouse Foundation, creates engage- ment with a historic working ranch and the community of Sisters. Artists and makers wanting to explore connec- tions to the landscape, agri- culture and the local-area community are invited to Pine Meadow Ranch. Residents are asked to contribute to the Ranch or the community. At the same time, artists are given time and space for their own artistic practice. Sisters Art Works is located at 204 W. Adams Ave. Tasty THURSDAY August 15, 5 to 7 p.m. LIVE MUSIC Sat., August 17, 7-9 p.m. Doc Ryan and Whychus Creek Band 39 W. 391 W Cascade C ascad d e Ave. Ave . | 54 A 541-549- 541-549-2675 4 1 549 5 4 49 267 2675 26 5 corkcellarswinebistro.com Sisters Movie House will host a special screening of the movie The Independents on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:45 p.m. as part of the run-up to the festival set for September 6-8. < T h e I n d e p e n d e n t s = d e b u t e d a t t h e S a n t a B a r b a r a I n t e r n a t i o n a l Film Festival where the Hollywood Reporter hailed it as <An extremely engag- ing film& An unconven- tional and sharply written script which subverts all the cliches of the star-is-born story.= It then won the jury prize for Best Feature Film at the Omaha Film Festival and went on to win audi- ences and plaudits at many top U.S. festivals including Deadcenter Film Fest, Dallas International Film Fest, Virginia Film Fest, Naples International Film Fest, and The Mill Valley Film Festival. The film is based on the story of The Sweet Remains, one of the performing bands at the 2019 Sisters Folk Festival. The band members also star in the movie. The general release of <The Independents= is com- ing in the fall of 2019, with preview showings now in select cities, including this very special screening lead- ing up to the Sisters Folk Festival. There is no admission charge, but donations will be collected at the door to PHOTO PROVIDED The Sweet Remains are booked for Sisters Folk Festival — and featured in the movie “The Independents.” cover the costs of bringing festival, September 6-8. The this movie to you. Seating is festival9s 11 venues through- limited, so organizers request out downtown Sisters feature that you do not take tickets performances by 46 artists over three days. that you will not use. Artists in the final lineup A short Q & A with Greg Naughton, the film9s writer for 2019 include: Bruce and director, will take place Cockburn, Peter Rowan9s Free Mexican Airforce fea- afterwards. The official trailer can turing Los Texmaniacs, Ron be viewed at https://vimeo. Artis II & The Truth, Le Vent com/253262536. For tickets du Nord, Rising Appalachia, visit https://theindependents. The East Pointers and more. eventbrite.com. For tickets and more The Sisters Folk Festival has announced the final information visit www. schedule for the annual sistersfolkfestival.org. Camp Sherman Open 7 days a week, 12-9 p.m. 541-595-6420