THE NYE BEACH WRITERS' SERIES presents
JUDITH BARRINGTON & ANITA SULLIVAN
BROADSIDE EXHIBIT & POETRY
READING AT MARYLHURST
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19,7 PM
ADMISSION: $6 ($5 for OCCA members)
STUDIO THEATRE, PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
777 West Olive, Newport, Oregon
The Nye Beach Writers' Senes, based in Newport, Oregon, is pleased to
present August's featured authors: Judith Bamngton and Anita Sullivan.
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Judith Bamngton is an Anglo-Amencan poet, workshop instructor and
memomst. She is the author of "Wnting the Memoir From Truth to Art"
(1997), and two volumes of poetry: "Trying to be an Honest Woman" (1985),
and "History and Geography" (1989). Her memoir, "Lifesaving," was
published this year by Eighth Mountain Press.
Her awards include the Dulwich (London) Festival International Poetry
Contest, the Andres Berger Award in Creative Nonfiction, and jointly with
Ruth Gundle, the Stuart H. Holbrook Award from Literary Arts, Inc. for
contributions to the literary community. She has received grants and
fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts Inc., the
Barbara Deming Fund, Hedgebrook, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland,
and many others.
Judith has taught at the Haystack Program in the Arts, the Split Rock
Arts Program in Minnesota, the Ashland Writers' Conference, the London
Poetry School, and many universities in the US and Britain. For several
years she traveled extensively as part of the Artists in the Schools
programs of Oregon and Washington. She is the founder and co-director of
The Flight of the Mind Writing Workshops for Women, now in it's 17th year,
and President of Soapstone, Inc., a writers' retreat in the Oregon coast
range.
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Anita Sullivan's newest book, "The Family Piano," is a collection of
forty short essays first broadcast on National Public Radio's "Performance
Today" from 1989 to 1999. These essays are about piano tuning and
performance; some are funny, some serious. Anita is also the author of
"The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament," a book on the
philosophy of piano tuning which won the Western Sûtes Book Award for
creative nonfiction in 1986, and "I Hear the Crickets Laughing,” a chapbook
of poems published in 1996.
She was bom in Boston, grew up in Florida, California and South
Carolina, received an MA in English in 1970 from Clemson University in
Clemson, South Carolina, and has lived in Corvallis since 1981 where she
tunes pianos for a living. In addition to writing, AniU translates Greek
poetry and prose. She is working on a novel about a piano tuner who tunes
pianos in a haunted music building.
Accompanied by a juried group show
August 5th - August 29th
Opening Reception 6pm August 5th
At the Cannon Beach Gallery
1064 S. Hemlock, Cannon Beach
(503)436-0744
The Nye Beach Writers' Series is a monthly literary program that
brings highly Ulented playwrights, poets, essayists, science fiction and
mystery writers, novelists, journalists and nonfiction authors to the
Oregon Coast. Readings uke place in the café-type atmosphere of the
Newport Performing Arts Center Studio Theatre — with blood-red Ublecloths
and candles, and coffee, tea, wine and snacks available on a help-yourself
basis. An open mike session takes place after intermission. Audience
members can read their own work for up to five minutes each. No prior
sign-up is required.
Writers' Series events now begin at 7 p.m. in the Studio Theatre of
the Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 West Olive Street. Admission is $6
($5 for members of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts.) Tickets are
available at the box office just prior to the show.
The Nye Beach Writers' Series is a project supported in part by the
Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, the City of Newport, and the Sylvia
Beach Hotel. Lodging of featured authors is generously provided by local
hotels including The Whaler, Hallmark, the Elizabeth Street Inn and the
Sylvia Beach Hotel. Guest accommodations are provided this month by the
Sylvia Beach Hotel and Hallmark Inns. For additional information call
Carla Perry, series coordinator at 541-574-7708 or send e-mail to
cperry @ pioneer, net.
"Like Frost on a Window — The Beauty
of the Written Word," a traveling exhibit of
broadsides by thirty-six contemporary
writers, will be on view in the Streff Gallery
of the Shoen Library at Marylhurst College,
August 3-29, between 9 A M -10:30 PM on
weekdays, 9 AM-6 PM on Saturdays, and
noon-5 PM on Sundays.
On Thursday, August 24, at 7 PM, several
local poets will present a poetry reading of
their poems along with works included in
the exhibit. The readers are Dorothy
Stafford, Carlos Reyes, Shelley Reece,
Joseph A. Soldati, Jane Glazer, Paulann
Petersen, and Joan Maiers. Ms. Maiers is
also the coordinator for the Marylhurst
exhibit and poetry reading, which is
sponsored by The Friends of Shoen Library.
The exhibit, which has traveled
throughout the United States, features
poems by William Stafford, whose work
originated the exhibit, and other Oregon
writers, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry
Lopez, Kim Stafford, Ralph Salisbury,
Ingrid Wendt, Carlos Reyes, Vi Gale, and
Sandra Lopez. Among the other writers
included in the exhibit are Robert Bly,
Marvin Bell, Madeline DeFrees, Gary
Snyder, Rita Dove, W.S. Merwin, Naomi
Shihab Nye, and E. Ethelbert Miller.
The broadside exhibit is the property of
The Friends of William Stafford, a non
profit organization committed to the reading,
writing, and enjoyment of poetry
nationwide. Most recently the exhibit has
been on display in Lake Oswego, in
Lewiston, Idaho, and in LaConner,
Washington, under the curatorship of FWS
board member Nancy Winklesky.
For further information about the exhibit
and poetry reading at Marylhurst, call Joan
Maiers at 503-636-8955, or Shoen Library,
503-699-6261.
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ADVANCE NOTICE: Actor and author PETER COYOTE is scheduled to
read FRIDAY, October 13,2000, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance (and for
OCCA members); $15 day of event (no discounts). Reserved seat tickets are
available at the OCCA box office (265-ARTS or toll-free at 888-701-7123.)
Péter Coyote will also present the keynote address to the OCEAN Gathering
(Oregon Coast Extended Arts Network) on Saturday afternoon. That
event is open to the public with an admission fee.
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