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Musica Maestrale presents Renaissance flute, lute music Mara Winter, Hideki Yamaya to play CHINOOK, Wash. — Early mu- sic ensemble Musica Maes- trale will present the concert “Passaggi: Virtuosic Renais- sance Music” at 7 p.m. Sat- urday, April 9 at Chinook Lutheran Church, located at 767 U.S. Highway 101. Ad- mission is $15 at the door. The concert will feature Mara Winter on the Renais- sance Àute, a notorious- ly dif¿cult yet hauntingly beautiful instrument. Musi- ca Maestrale artistic direc- tor Hideki Yamaya will also perform on the Renaissance lute. Included in the program will be masterworks by At- taining, De Rore, Dowland and Palestrina. %ased in the Paci¿c Northwest, Winter is a spe- cialist in historical Àute per- formance. She can be heard performing chamber music on period instruments span- ning from the 11th century to the present. In the past she has been featured at the Berkeley and Vancouver Early Music Fes- tivals. Winter has also per- Submitted photo Mara Winter will perform. formed with the historically informed Berwick Academy Orchestra during the Oregon Bach Festival under the di- rection of Matthew Halls. Winter is the recent recipi- ent of the Early Music Amer- ica Barbara Thornton Memo- rial Scholarship. She holds an Artist Diploma in early music ! Vo i K au he a from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Other principal teachers include Molly Barth and Kim Pineda at the Uni- versity of Oregon and Michel Debost and Kathleen Chastain at Oberlin Conservatory. Yamaya, based in Port- land, is a lutenist and guitar- ist who actively teaches and performs all over the West Coast. He has a Bachelor of Arts in music and a Master of Arts in ethnomusicology from University of Califor- nia, Santa Cruz, where he studied with Robert Strizich, and a Master of Fine Arts in guitar and lute performance from University of Califor- nia, Irvine, where he studied with John Schneiderman. In demand both as a solo- ist and as a continuo/cham- ber player, Yamaya has per- formed for Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland Opera, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, Baroque Northwest, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, L.A. Master Chorale, Cali- fornia Bach Society and the Astoria Music Festival. Musica Maestrale a Port- land-based early music en- semble, brings together local musicians with national and international reputations to perform the exquisite, varied repertoire from between the 16th and 18th centuries. Us- ing only historically accurate instruments, Musica Maes- trale explores the tone, depth and character of the quieter, temperamental Renaissance and Baroque instruments, and aims to provide an inti- mate musical experience. For more information, visit www.musicamaestrale. org Speaker talks female-to-male experience Lower Columbia Diversity Project hosts transgender discussion ASTORIA — Over the past few years, male-to-female transgender individuals have received a great deal of national attention. From Chelsea Manning to Laverne Cox to Caitlyn Jenner and beyond, trans women have been in the public eye. But what about “the other di- rection”? What about the female-to-male experience? Where are the trans men in this life-and-death conver- sation about gender identity and expression? That will be the subject of “The Other Direction: Fe- male-to-Male in the Transgen- der Continuum,” a discussion with Laird Young presented by the Lower Columbia Diversi- ty Project. The talk will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sun- day, April 10 at the Boyington Oregon Humanities presents free talk about nature in Astoria ASTORIA — Oregonians across the political spectrum place a high value on the diverse natural resources of the state, but they are divided about how these re- sources should be used and talk- ed about. What do Oregonians want from nature? What do they understand nature to be, and how do they see themselves ¿tting in? “What We Want from the Wild,” a free discussion about humanity’s relationship to nature and part of Oregon Humanities’ statewide Conversation Project, RU N S TH RU SU N D A Y , A PRIL 30TH Friday & Saturday nights at 7pm (doors at 6:30) Sunday matinees April 17 & 24 at 2pm (doors at 1:30) Tickets $8 to $15 w ith a ll sea ts o n the n ew “Fa m ily Frid a ys” n ight $5 (kid s 12 & u n d er) a n d $10 (a d u lts) 129 W. BOND ST. T ickets ca n be purch a sed a t th e door on e h our before ASTORIA sh ow tim e, but reserva tion s a re recom m en ded by ca llin g 503-325-6104 or on lin e a t w w .a storstreetoprycom pa n y.com Sponsored by The ARC, 94.9FM , The Brid ge, HIPFISH, M erry Tim e Ta vern , Co lu m bia Veterin a ry Ho spita l, The Sho p fo r Gu ys & Do lls Sa lo n • Stu d io • Spa , Do n a ld a n d Cha rlen e La rsen , Riverszen Y o ga a n d Resista n ce Stu d io 8 | April 7, 2016 | coastweekend.com VISUAL PLE ASURE FOR GENER ATIONS ASOC PLAYHOUSE Building, located at 857 Com- mercial St. Young is a native of St. Louis who has lived in the Paci¿c Northwest since 1990. What do Oregonians want from the wild? The Real Lewis and Clark Story! or how the Finns discovered Astoria! O pen s Fr id a y, A p r il 8th Submitted photo Laird Young will speak about transgender issues at an event hosted by the Lower Co- lumbia Diversity Project on April 10. In 2012, at age 51, he decid- ed he’d waited long enough to bring his inner and outer selves into alignment and tran- sitioned from female-bodied to male-bodied. He also decided that while things were in a state of change, it was a good time to leave a 25-year career in sales and sales management and do something that mattered more in the world. He now works in the nonpro¿t ¿eld for the Pa- ci¿c NW Hospice Foundation and does occasional speaking engagements and workplace trainings on transgender is- sues. This Lower Columbia Di- versity Project presentation is free, and everyone is welcome. For more information, email lcdiversityproject@gmail.com or call 503-325-1895 WIEGARDT STUDIO GALLERY • ERICWIEGARDT.COM 2607 BAY AVE, OCEAN PARK, WASHINGTON • 360.665.5976 MONTHLY SPECIALS • ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS & ACRYLICS FINE ART PRINTS • PRODUCTS • FRAMING will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, April 8 at the Astoria Public Li- brary, located at 450 10th St. The guest speaker will be Adam Davis, executive direc- tor of Oregon Humanities. His previous roles include directing the Center for Civic ReÀec- tion, where he helped the Aldo Leopold Foundation develop its Land Ethic Leader training, and working for the United States Forest Service, where he led backcountry trail crews and occasionally fought wild¿res. He has taught courses and led workshops on the human rela- tionship to nature. Through the Conversation Project, Oregon Humanities offers free programs that en- gage community members in thoughtful, challenging conver- sations about ideas critical to their daily lives and the state’s future. For more information about this free community dis- cussion, contact Ami Kreider at 503-325-7323, or email akreider@astoria.or.us Submitted photo Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will lead the discussion “What We Want from the Wild” on Friday, April 8. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonpro¿t af¿liate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust. Find more information at www.oreg- onhumanities.org This program is hosted by Astor Library Friends Associa- tion and sponsored by Oregon Humanities.
