OCTOBER 13, 2016 // 9
Meet and greet Bay Avenue Gallery artists
OCEAN PARK, Wash. — After
seven years in operation,
Bay Avenue Gallery is again
celebrating a great year
of representing local and
regional artists. To celebrate,
the gallery will host A Day
With the Artists event from
noon to 5 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15.
The public is invited to
come meet the artists, watch
technique demonstrations
and enjoy some sweet treats.
This year, Jill Trenholm
has returned to the gallery.
Her talents have taken her to
the Southwest with singing
engagements, and she has
marketed a kindness pro-
gram to schools. She returns
with her “Sea Sprites,” fan-
ciful faces made from clay,
sea-glass and shells, and
“Super Sea Stars” starish
that brighten every room.
Painter Carol Thompson
is celebrating 44 years as an
artist. She has priced several
originals at 1980s prices.
Thompson’s specialty is
painting the many moods
of the ocean. She visits the
ocean each day gathering in-
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Grupo Condor uses Spanish string instruments, American
lutes, and both African and American percussion.
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A Sea Sprite sculpture by Jill
Trenholm.
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A seascape by Carol Thompson.
spiration for her realistic sea-
scapes. Her paintings show
the local beaches in sun, rain,
summer and winter.
Ed Thompson has worked
hard this year creating con-
crete fountains from Carol
Thompson’s clay sculptures.
Each is different; he plays
with colored concrete and a
variety of textures.
The gallery also houses a
studio, and there will be art-
ists working on clay lowers.
Owner Sue Raymond has
created “Garden Guardians”
to add to any outside space.
The studio also produces
fairy doors, birdbaths, totem
poles of shells and a variety
of outside mosaics.
Bay Avenue Gallery is
located at 1406 Bay Ave. For
more information, call the
gallery at 360-665-5200 or
visit bayavenuegallery.com
Grupo Condor
to perform at
Birkenfeld Theatre
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A Garden Guardian by Sue
Raymond.
Author Robin Cody to tell Columbia River stories
Nature Matters
gears up for new
season of lectures
ASTORIA — Nature Matters,
a lecture series exploring
the intersection of nature
and culture, is starting up its
2016-17 season with Oregon
writer Robin Cody, who will
give the talk “To Astoria in
82 Days by Canoe, or Why
We Love Rivers.”
Hear Cody speak at 7
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 at the
Fort George Lovell Show-
room, located at 426 14th
St. The program is free and
open to all ages. Doors open
at 6 p.m.
Cody will be talk about
his experiences on the
Columbia River, as informed
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Oregon author Robin Cody
will talk about his experienc-
es on the Columbia River.
by his 82-day solo canoe
journey from the river’s
source in Canada to its
mouth at Astoria. The trip
inspired his book “Voyage
of a Summer Sun: Canoeing
the Columbia River,” which
won the 1995 Oregon Book
Award for literary non-ic-
tion and the 1996 Paciic
Northwest Booksellers
Association Book Award.
“It’s about the river,” he
says about the book, “not
about me. This was a voyage
of discovery on a river I
thought I knew.”
Cody was born in St.
Helens, raised in Estacada
on the Clackamas River,
and had his appendix out
in Ilwaco. His mom gradu-
ated from of Astoria High
School, as did his nieces
Leslie and Brooke. His sis-
ter, Sue, lives in Astoria.
A graduate of Yale, Cody
taught at the American
School of Paris for a decade
and was Dean of Admissions
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music of Latin America
at Clatskanie concert
at Reed College in Portland
before taking up freelance
writing in 1984.
He now lives in Portland
with his wife, Donna.
Cody is also the author of
“Ricochet River,” a novel.
His most recent book, “An-
other Way the River Has,”
is a collection of short true
Oregon stories.
Nature Matters takes
place on the second Thurs-
day of each month, October
through May. The lecture se-
ries is hosted by Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park, the North Coast Water-
shed Association, and Fort
George Brewery. The series
delves into the many ways
that humans look to the
natural world for inspiration,
sustenance and survival.
CLATSKANIE — The Clats-
kanie Arts Commission will
present Grupo Condor, a
touring folk music ensem-
ble representing traditional
styles of Spanish-speaking
America, for a performance
Friday, Oct. 14.
The concert will take
place at 7:30 p.m. at Clats-
kanie’s Birkenfeld Theatre,
located at 75 S. Nehalem St.
Grupo Condor’s con-
certs focus on the blend of
Spanish, Native American,
and African inluences that
have created the tri-cultural
art form of Latin American
music. The band combines
high-energy entertainment
with multicultural and
educational information and
exploration.
The band has traveled
throughout the U.S., Canada,
Mexico and Europe. Mem-
bers of Grupo Condor are
natives of Mexico and Peru,
and are currently residents
of Oregon. The ensemble is
dedicated to the preservation
of their musical heritage,
culture and traditions.
The instruments used by
Grupo Condor are com-
prised of three groups:
• the string family of
Spanish inluence, including
the guitar, charango and
ronroco;
• the lute family of
American inluence, includ-
ing the quenas, zampoñas
and antaras; and
• percussion instruments
of both African and Ameri-
can inluences, including the
bombo leguero, chaj-chas,
palo de lluvia and tambor de
agua.
During the concert, band
members discuss the in-
strument names and origins
between songs, giving the
audience a more extended
spectrum of the music itself.
Tickets are $18 for adults,
$16 for seniors age 60 and
older and students, and $14
for children age 12 and un-
der. Seating is limited.
Tickets are available
at Hump’s Restaurant in
Clatskanie. They may also
be reserved at will-call by
calling Elsa Wooley at 503-
728-3403 or 503-338-9770.
Tickets will also be available
at the ticket booth, which
opens at 7 p.m. the night of
the performance.