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Cultural coalition grants to be awarded Dec. 6 in Seaside
SEASIDE — The organiza-
tions and individuals that are
receiving Clatsop County
Cultural Coalition Grants
for 2017 will be awarded
in a ceremony at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 6. The event
will be held upstairs at the
Clatsop Community College
South County Campus,
located at 1455 N. Roosevelt
Drive.
Charlene Larsen, Co-
Chair, Clatsop Cultural Coa-
lition will emcee this event,
where Carol Newman, host
of KMUN’s “Arts Live and
Local” show, will present
a short talk, “It’s true: Art
saves lives,” and special en-
tertainment will be provided
by the Seaside High School
Jazz Choir, directed by
Vanessa Rush.
Those receiving grants
will briefly describe their
projects and be presented
checks for projects being
funded in 2017. Refresh-
ments will follow the
ceremony.
Clatsop County Cultural
Coalition Grants are funded
by the Oregon Cultural Trust
and awarded to projects that
support, maintain, preserve
and protect cultural pro-
grams in the arts, heritage
and humanities within Clat-
sop County.
Oregon Community
Foundation provides addi-
tional funding to allow over
$11,000 in grant funds to
be distributed for fiscal year
2017.
Interested community
members are encouraged to
attend to learn more about
the Oregon Cultural Trust,
Clatsop County Cultural Co-
alition, and the exciting new
projects planned for funding
in 2017.
The next cycle for fund-
ing will be open in Septem-
ber 2017.
For more information,
contact co-chair Janet Bowl-
er at 503-325-2431, email
info@clatsopculturalcoali-
tion.org, or visit the website
at www.clatsopculturalcoa-
lition.org
‘Fearless Watercolors’
show opens in Nehalem
Art exhibition
opens Dec. 2 at
NCRD gallery
NEHALEM — Award-win-
ning professional artist
Audene Jay will present her
watercolors in the solo show
“Fearless Watercolors” at
the North County Recreation
District’s art gallery during
the month of December.
Exuberant and full of
vibrant color, “Fearless Water-
colors” will open with a recep-
tion from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday,
Dec. 2. The NCRD gallery is
located at 36155 Ninth St.
Jay was awarded a
scholarship to the presti-
gious Museum of Fine Arts
School in Houston, Texas. A
performance artist as well as
visual artist, she performed
solos shows at galleries in
Houston, including Munchies
Performing Arts Center. Jay
is a published poet and was
chosen as a juried poet to
perform at the famous Hous-
ton Poetry Fest at St. Thomas
University in Houston.
She was a gallery artist
with Aries Gallery (former-
ly Toni Jones Gallery) for
10 years before moving to
California, where she was
awarded a scholarship to the
Advertising Arts Collage in
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Artist Audene Jay will open
a solo art show Dec. 2 in Ne-
halem.
San Diego, graduating with
honors.
After owning and running
an advertising agency in
California, the travel bug hit.
Jay, her husband and their
hundred-pound white Ger-
man shepherd traveled full
time for several years before
finally settling in Nehalem.
On the coast, Jay not
only continues painting but
began teaching her Fear-
less Drawing class at the
Hoffman Center for the Arts
in Manzanita. Her work has
been shown in numerous in-
vitational and juried shows.
She has work in private
collections in San Francisco,
Houston and Minneapolis.
Stage Manager Natalie Calkins, center, creates havoc for actors
Shaoraina Powell, left, and Kayden Nissell in “All I Really Need
to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play.”
Play within a play takes
the stage in Raymond
RAYMOND, Wash. — Miss-
ing props? Flubbed lines?
Moody actors? Theater is
life education in “All I Real-
ly Need to Know I Learned
by Being in a Bad Play” pre-
sented by the Willapa Play-
ers at the Hannan Playhouse,
located at 518 Eighth St. in
Raymond, Washington.
This play within a play
is a hilarious look at theater
where bad plays teach
comedic lessons to the cast
and crew, as well as the
audience.
Join the Willapa Players
as the organization cele-
brates 60 years of providing
live theater to the local
community.
Performances of “All
I Really Need to Know I
Learned by Being in a Bad
Play” are scheduled for 7
p.m. Friday and Saturday,
Dec. 2, 3, 9 and 10, with two
Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
Dec. 4 and 11.
Tickets cost $10 for
adults, $8 for ages 62 and
older, and $5 for students.
Tickets are available at
South Bend Pharmacy in
South Bend, Everyone’s
Video & More and the Pitch-
wood Ale House in Ray-
mond, or at the door.
Are you an artist in
need of a studio?
Apply to be an
Astoria Visual Arts
artist-in-residence
ASTORIA — Astoria Visual
Arts’ Artist-in-Residence
program (AVA a-i-r) seeks
applications from local art-
ists interested in working in
a rent-free studio from Jan. 1
through April 30, 2017.
The deadline for appli-
cations is midnight Dec. 11.
Artists will be notified of
their selection by Dec. 18.
The successful candidates
are provided with one of
two studios available in the
Astoria Downtown Historic
District free of charge for a
four-month residency peri-
od, beginning Jan. 1.
The AVA a-i-r program
is designed to encourage
the creative, intellectual and
professional growth of local
artists. Residency finalists
are chosen on the basis of
merit by an independent
selection panel of working
artists and arts patrons.
Those who have applied
in the past are encouraged
to reapply with an updated
portfolio and statement
reflecting changes.
For more information
on AVA a-i-r and to apply
online, go to:www.astoria
visualarts.org/ava-a-i-r.
html
AVA a-i-r is supported
by membership dues and
contributions from support-
ers of Astoria Visual Arts
and by Astoria Coffeehouse
& Bistro, Astoria Co-op
Grocery, City Lumber, Dots
’N Doodles and Fort George
Brewery.
Brian Bovenizer and band
to hit the San Dune Pub
MANZANITA — Astoria band
Brian Bovenizer and the
New Old Stock will perform
at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3 at
the San Dune Pub.
The New Old Stock is
comprised of Jamie Greenan
(Cedar Shakes), Jeff Munger
(Sallie Ford and the Sound
Outside), Luke Ydstie (Blind
Pilot/Hook & Anchor) and
Olaf Ydstie.
In its first year of
inception, the band pulls
from a collective interest in
quality country, alt-country,
folk-country, country-blues
and other music not rooted
in any sense of the genre
country. Influences include
John Prine, Guy Clark, Ja-
son Isbell, Tom T. Hall and
Michael Hurley.
Brian Bovenizer and
the new Old Stock have
just released the debut of
“All the Pretty Girls Go to
the Grocer,” a live music
video. This is the first music
officially released from Bo-
venizer, though he has been
around the Pacific Northwest
music scene for a while,
most notably drumming
for Astoria bands Holiday
Friends and The Hackles.
Recorded live at Hamley’s
Slickfort Saloon in January
2016, the song is a tongue-
in-cheek stab at the market-
ing of online dating.
Bovenizer says, “For a
while there, for some reason
Facebook seemed to be
persistently advertising odd,
genre-based dating sites like,
‘Meet Cowgirls in Astoria
Oregon Now!’ (The song)
is also about being caught
up in the constant modern
struggle of digital vs. physi-
cal interaction.”
Learn more about the
band at BrianBovenizer.com