Beach Fire plays three shows Art:
ASTORIA and LONG BEACH, Wash.
— Hear Beach Fire perform
on both sides of the river this
weekend.
First watch the Portland
group play in the Pickled Fish
atop the Adrift Hotel at 9 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, Aug. 21
and 22 in Long Beach, Wash.
Then, see them rock the Fort
George Brewery in Astoria at
8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23.
Beach Fire is Sloan Mar-
tin’s new project. After the
death of drummer Kipp Craw-
ford from Martin’s old proj-
ect Celilo, the band realized
things would never be the
same. Martin moved to Los
Angeles to get his musical
bearings, discovered new in-
Àuences, and came back with
rock ‘n’ roll songs stripped of
alt-country twang.
He brieÀy formed Steel
Head to test out this new
style only to start playing
piano to while away the rain
blues, which set him off into
another direction: back-beat,
soulful pop injected with
disco and Pink Floyd-type
ambiance. Thus Beach Fire
came to be.
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was a change from her child-
hood in Poland.
“It’s just sad that people
don’t have as much knowl-
edge about native plants that
grow in this area, and then
they don’t keep them — I hear
about so many people tearing
out salal and tearing out na-
tive trees or native shrubs,”
she says. “Kids are growing
up in this vacuum; they’re
disconnected from not know-
ing where food comes from
— I mean even some adults
are just so disconnected.”
Haber-Lehigh says she
wants to encourage locals
to appreciate native plants.
One way she does this is
with her coloring books.
While field guides exist,
she hadn’t seen any educa-
tional material for children
about native plants, and she
hopes her coloring books
can help fill the void.
Another way is by teach-
ing botanical drawing classes
and giving presentations in
the community.
“Since I’ve always en-
joyed teaching, it just natural-
ly translated into me wanting
to share this with other peo-
ple,” she says. “I wanted to
offer a class because I wanted
to kind of give back. I don’t
see a lot of affordable art
classes.”
The workshops started
at Seaside Public Library
and have spread from there.
Haber-Lehigh has taught or
presented at Clatsop Com-
munity College, Fort Clatsop,
Trail’s End Art Association,
Cannon Beach History Cen-
ter & Museum, and Cannon
Beach Arts Association. She
recently wrapped up two
classes at the Columbia River
Maritime Museum’s Barbey
Maritime Center in Astoria
and at the Hoffman Center
for the Arts in Manzanita.
Up next is a workshop Aug.
23 and 24 at the Sitka Center
for Art and Ecology, located
north of Lincoln City. And
this October, Haber-Lehigh
will teach an intro to botan-
ical drawing class on Satur-
days at CCC’s Seaside cam-
pus for four weeks.
“I felt good that I was
able to offer something for
the community that was
some sort of enrichment,”
Haber-Lehigh says. “I believe
in life-long learning. I like
taking classes and workshops
and going to lectures, so I felt
like it was kind of my turn to
reciprocate that for the com-
munity.”
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