Raymond Theatre marks ‘musical month of May’ with live events every weekend
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the Raymond Theatre in May.
Sunday Afternoon Live
is sponsoring three events
including one fundraiser for
the theater. The local Willapa
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cert takes place one weekend.
The third weekend features
Battle of the Bands winners in
an event sponsored by Pitch-
wood Alehouse on Saturday,
followed on Sunday by an
organ recital on the old Wur-
litzer and a silent movie. And
the popular Red, White and
Blue military concert ends the
month’s events.
The wide range of enter-
tainment promises something
for everyone, and theater sup-
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for each performance.
May’s line-up is as follows:
• Saturday, May 2 — Pearl
Django, 2 p.m. Tickets are $20
with all ticket revenue going to
the theater, thanks to sponsors
who are covering the cost of
the band plus other expenses.
For tickets, go to Sagen’s in
Raymond, South Bend Phar-
macy or the Raymond The-
atre; call 360-942-4127; or go
to www.sundayafternoonlive.
org and buy through PayPal.
• Sunday, May 10 — Jack
Quinby Orchestra, 2 p.m. This
Mother’s Day performance
ends Sunday Afternoon Live’s
12th season. SAL season tick-
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Pearl Django will perform May 2.
ets will be accepted; advance
tickets are $12 at Sagen’s,
South Bend Pharmacy and the
Raymond Theatre; or www.
sundayafternoonlive.org.
Tickets are $15 at the door.
• Sunday, May 17 — Willa-
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cert, 7 p.m. Admission is free;
donations are appreciated.
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Jack Quinby will perform a Mother’s Day
concert May 10.
• Saturday, May 23 — Proj-
ect Lionheart, doors open at 6
Oregon Arts Commission hosts talk on creative economies
ASTORIA — The current con-
ditions, needs and aspirations
of artists, patrons and the cre-
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ative economies of Clatsop
County will be the focus of an
in-depth community conversa-
tion hosted by the Oregon Arts
Commission from 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, May 6 at
Clatsop Community College.
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the Ford Family Foundation,
the Arts Council of Clatsop
County and Astoria Visual
Arts’ Mechanisms to Support
Visual Artists will identify
resources, activities and local
commitment required to bet-
ter support artists within the
county, and articulate how to
engage the private, govern-
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provide resources to individu-
al artists.
Doors open at 5 p.m. The
event will take place in Room
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CCC Astoria Campus. Artists,
supporters and those interest-
ed in the creative economy of
Clatsop County are invited to
attend.
Space is limited. Organiz-
ers ask that attendees RSVP
to oregon.artscomm@oregon.
gov
In partnership with the
Ford Family Foundation, the
Oregon Arts Commission is
working to document Ore-
gon’s visual arts ecology in
an accessible, permanent, vir-
tual collection. The collection
will gather historic and con-
temporary content, creating a
clearinghouse of history, in-
spiration and aspiration. This
work begins with a series of
active conversations hosted
by partners across the state
that will help elucidate vital
issues to the allied professions
that make up our ecology.
Each conversation will have
p.m. This event, sponsored by
Pitchwood Alehouse, features
the 2014 Willapa Festival Bat-
tle of the Bands winners. Pre-
sale tickets are $10 for adults
and $5 for students age 13 to
18. At the door, $12 for adults;
$6 for students; kids 12 and
under are free with a paying
adult. Tickets are available
online at www.brownpaper-
tickets.com. Drawings will
be held for band merchan-
dise, and beer and wine will
be available for those 21 and
older.
• Sunday, May 24 — Silent
Movie Wurlitzer Organ Con-
cert, 2 p.m. Tickets are $10
for this theater fundraiser fea-
turing Anacortes organist Fred
Beeks followed by the 1926
Buster Keaton classic silent
movie “The General.”
• Sunday, May 31 — Navy
Band Northwest, 2 p.m. SAL
season tickets will be accept-
ed for this annual Red, White
and Blue concert sponsored
by Sunday Afternoon Live;
all others must have a com-
plimentary ticket available at
Sagen’s, South Bend Pharma-
cy, the Raymond Theatre or by
calling 360-942-3749.
All events will be held at
the historic Raymond Theatre
located at 323 Third St. Built
in 1928, this historic structure
attracts performers, who ap-
preciate the great acoustics in
the theater, as well as tourists
who appreciate the architec-
ture from another era.
a targeted topic of discussion,
some of which may be repeat-
ed in multiple locations in Or-
egon. To date, conversations
have been held in Bend, New-
port and Portland. They will
continue in Eugene, Ashland
and Pendleton.
This is a conversation
where all are encouraged to
engage. Lead participants will
help seed the discussion, in-
cluding Mary Bess Gloria of
the Cannon Beach Arts As-
sociation; Charlene Larsen,
co-chairwoman of Clatsop
County Cultural Coalition;
Kevin Leahy of Clatsop Eco-
nomic Development Resourc-
es and CCC Small Business
Development Center, and Dar-
ren Orange, artist and chair-
man of A.I.R. Program: Asto-
ria Visual Arts.
Mechanisms to
Support Visual
Artists
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 6
Doors open at 5 p.m.
Columbia Hall, Room 219
Clatsop Community College
1651 Lexington Ave., Astoria
Master gardeners hold edible gardening workshop
Bring questions to plant clinic, pick up peonies at plant sale Saturday
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1046 Grand Avenue
Astoria, OR 97103
503-325-2280
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County, in partnership with
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Museum, is sponsoring their
second gardening workshop
this year on Saturday, May
2, titled “Edible Gardening:
Growing Vegetables in a Vari-
ety of Spaces” at the museum.
The intent of this joint
venture is to create a Pacif-
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ic County Master Gardener
demonstration garden. The
museum’s Discovery Garden
is located behind the muse-
um’s parking lot at 115 S.E.
Lake St.
The workshop lecture be-
gins at 10 a.m. WSU Mas-
ter Gardeners will speak
on varieties to plant in the
local short growing season,
ground and container gar-
dening, intensive gardening,
and common problems.
After the workshop, there
will be a work party to spruce
up the Discovery Garden for
the summer. Stop by the mu-
seum garden to see a third
self-watering container plant-
er.
If you have plant ques-
tions or problems, come ask
a master gardener. Stop by
the museum anytime between
10 a.m. and 1 p.m. with your
plant questions. If possible,
bring samples of your plant
problem.
The workshop and plant
clinic are free and open to the
public.
Master gardeners will also
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plants. There will be single
and double bloom herbaceous
peonies as well as an intersec-
tional peony (cross between
an herbaceous and tree peo-
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Master gardeners will hold a peony plant
sale on May 2.
ny) for sale at this workshop.
Contact Bev Arnoldy at
bevarnoldy@gmail.com for
more information.