JUNE 2, 2016 // 7
College students show of skills
Royal Nebeker art scholarship awarded
CCC Graduate
Showcase set for
inal Ales & Ideas
Fundraising dinner
at Shelburne Inn
set for June 5
ASTORIA — Clatsop Com-
munity College and the Fort
George Brewery will present
the inale event in the 2015-
16 irst Thursday Ales &
Ideas community lecture
series on Thursday, June 2.
CCC faculty Deac Guidi
and Nancy Cook will emcee
the irst, hopefully annual
CCC Graduate Showcase.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
The multimedia lecture will
start promptly at 7 p.m.
The Fort George Lovell
Showroom is located at
426 14th St. Minors are
welcome.
Highlights of the program
will include a presentation
by the CCC Remote Oper-
ated Vehicle Club, a one-act
play by the community col-
lege’s irst cohort of honors
students, a dance itness per-
formance, original student
ilms, a graphic design recap
of 2016 RAIN Magazine, a
multimedia celebration of
historic preservation proj-
ects, and more. A portfolio
of student paintings will also
be on display.
Student presenters in-
clude Alex Autio, Georges
Oates Larsen, Tessa Hoe-
lscher, DLen Tomasian, Alec
Chapa, Kimber Peterson,
Nick Ketchum, Beth Bauer
and more.
Goonies weekend activities on tap
ASTORIA — “Goonies”
fans can ind a number of
activities to participate in
during the weekend of June
3 to 5 — and the oficial
Goonies Day, June 7 — to
celebrate the 31st anniver-
sary of the 1985 cult classic
ilm “The Goonies,” which
was ilmed in Astoria and
Cannon Beach.
This year’s celebration is
simpler than last year’s 30th
anniversary. Some events
are still to be announced.
For an up-to-date schedule
of events, visit www.the
goondocks.org
The Oregon Film Muse-
um, which is located inside
the former Clatsop County
jail that was used in the ilm,
will be open from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. daily.
A treasure hunt and trivia
game will be set up each day
for attendees; visit local busi-
nesses or ilm-related sites
to earn rafle tickets and an
oficial Goonies Day button.
Lower Columbia Bowl
will offer “Cosmic Bowling
Goes ’80s” at 9:30 p.m. Fri-
day and Saturday. Astoria’s
Glam Tram will offer a Shot
in Astoria Guided Tour on
Saturday and Sunday. De-
tails and ticket info are TBA.
Production illustrator
Jack Johnson will lead the
free art presentation “Shot
in Astoria” from 1 to 2 p.m.
both Saturday and Sun-
SEAVIEW, Wash. — The sec-
ond annual Royal Nebeker
Scholarship Fund Dinner is
set for Sunday, June 5 at the
Shelburne Inn, located at
4415 Paciic Way.
After evaluating the art,
passion and plans expressed
by many artists in their
applications, the board of the
Royal Nebeker Scholarship
Fund has selected one artist
to receive the irst $500
scholarship.
Attendees of the dinner
will meet the artist and enjoy
a Scandinavian smörgåsbord.
Chef Randall Hoff is work-
ing with inn co-owner Laurie
Anderson on the menu,
promising salmon, Swedish
meatballs, pastries and other
Scandinavian treats.
A no-host bar will start at
5 p.m., followed by dinner
at 6 p.m. Works by local art-
ists, including Nebeker, will
be auctioned to beneit the
fund. A work by the recipi-
ent will also be auctioned.
Nebeker was an
award-winning, internation-
ally known artist living in
Astoria; he died in 2014. A
group of his friends and his
wife, Sarah Nebeker, started
the scholarship fund in his
name in 2015.
“Royal dedicated his life
to his art and to art educa-
tion,” Sarah Nebeker said.
“His generosity to students
and to his art community
continues with this scholar-
ship in his name.
“I am grateful for the
ongoing contributions of the
organizers and supporters
of this scholarship, who
understand the importance
of art in education,” she
said. “Their contribution of
time, energy, organization
and inances to this worthy
endeavor of scholarship
awards will go on to assist
many in far-reaching ways
through the arts, as Royal
would have done.”
The purpose of the
scholarship is to encourage
those pursuing an education
in two- or three-dimensional
visual arts. Applicants may
be of any age and must
reside in Clatsop County,
Oregon, or Paciic County,
Washington.
The dinner costs $65 and
includes wine. Proceeds go
to the scholarship fund. For
more information or reserva-
tions, call 360-642-2442.
Music festival swaps out
‘Figaro’ for ‘Little Women’
SUBMITTED PHOTO BY DON FRANK PHOTOGRAPHY
The Oregon Film Museum, which is located inside the former
Clatsop County jail that was used in the ilm “The Goonies,” will
be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
day. Saturday’s event will
be hosted at the Astoria/
Warrenton/Seaside KOA;
Sunday’s location is still
TBA. In the 1980s and ’90s,
Johnson worked in the ilm
industry as a production
illustrator, conceptual artist
and art director for feature
ilms, including those made
in Astoria: “The Goonies,”
“Kindergarten Cop” and
“Short Circuit” as well as
other beloved ilms such as
“Jurassic Park,” “Edward
Scissorhands” and “The Per-
fect Storm.” As an illustrator
he did sketches and paint-
ings of sets before they were
built. His paintings have
been in traveling exhibitions
throughout California and
the nation. Johnson will
have some of his ilm illus-
tration work available for
sale at his presentations.
Patrick Lines, a retired
park ranger with Oregon
State Parks, will give the
presentation “On Location at
Ecola State Park” from 2 to 4
p.m. Saturday and Sunday at
Ecola State Park. Lines was
on the set during the ilming
of “The Goonies” at Ecola
State Park and will share
stories about his time work-
ing with the crew and how
the folks from Hollywood
underestimated the weather
of the Oregon Coast.
A 1980s and mov-
ie-themed community Roller
Inferno Skate Party with a
DJ is planned at 8 p.m. Sat-
urday. Details are TBA.
By PATRICK WEBB
FOR COAST WEEKEND
It’s all change at the
Astoria Music Festival.
Behind-the-scenes talks
with the Eugene Opera have
led to a switch in programs
for the concluding weekend.
Instead of having the fes-
tival’s young opera singers
stage Mozart’s “Marriage
of Figaro,” they will instead
perform “Little Women.”
The work, written in
1998, was the irst opera by
American composer Mark
Adamo and is based on
Louisa May Alcott’s tale of
sisters growing up in New
England after the Civil War.
The opera references text
by John Bunyan and Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe.
Mark Beudert, general
director of Eugene Opera and
head of the festival’s Appren-
tice Vocal Artist Program,
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Mark Beudert is the director
of the Apprentice Program.
will direct the production.
Beudert, who has sung
around the world and taught
in New York and Oregon, is
the former director of the Bel
Canto Northwest Vocal Insti-
tute at Portland State Univer-
sity. Years ago, he appeared
in the New York Shakespeare
Festival’s production of “The
Pirates of Penzance” opposite
Kevin Kline.
Keith Clark, artistic director
of the festival, is enthusiastic
about the change, which was
suggested by Beudert during
the auditions and happened
just before the programs were
printed. “The cast combines
established, professional
singers with some of the inest
emerging talent in the Paciic
Northwest, including some
of the intended ‘Figaro’ cast,”
Clark said.
“This exciting opportuni-
ty was too good to pass up,
so we decided to make this
last-minute change.”
The opera will be
performed at 7:30 p.m. July
1 and July 2 at the Clatsop
Community College Per-
forming Arts Center at 16th
Street and Franklin Avenue
in Astoria.
The festival starts June
18 and runs three weeks. For
details, visit astoriamusic
festival.org