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How can recipes
preserve history and Lace weaving workshop
nourish community?
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The Skamokawa Swamp Opera will perform Feb. 5 in Astoria.
Skamokawa Swamp
Opera takes over the PAC
ASTORIA — Do you enjoy
unusual instrument combi-
nations like cello and banjo?
Guitar and Jew’s harp? Solo
voices that come together in
tight harmony? If you do,
head to the Clatsop Commu-
nity College Performing Arts
Center at 2 p.m. Sunday,
Feb. 5 to hear the Skamoka-
wa Swamp Opera.
The group is headed by
Skamokawa resident and
string musician Andrew
Emlen. Kyleen Austin
sings and plays guitar. Eric
Friend plays percussion
and mandolin and sings
tenor. Jillian Raye plays
banjo and sings.
Skamokawa Swamp
Operaplays almost every
kind of music — hip-hop,
opera, folk, pop standards
and more. Their concerts
include lots of “sidebar”
comments to the audience,
and they are family friendly.
Tickets are $15 and will
be available at the door
the day of the concert.
Children under 12 are free.
Doors will open at 1:30
p.m. The Performing Arts
Center is located at 588
16th St.
The Coaster Theatre Playhouse Presents
History center
hosts scholar
Jennifer Roberts
CANNON BEACH — How do
recipes work? Why do we
collect them? Who do we
write them for? How can
recipes help us connect
and create communities
across time, distance and
culture?
This is the focus of
“Stone Soup: How Recipes
Can Preserve History and
Nourish Community,” a free
conversation with writer and
scholar Jennifer Roberts at
7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 at
the Cannon Beach History
Center and Museum, located
at 1387 S. Spruce St. The
event is free and open to the
public.
In this Oregon Human-
ities’ Conversation Project
event, Roberts will introduce
historical and current reci-
pes, examining how these
overlooked objects can offer
insights about ourselves and
others.
Participants are encour-
aged to bring any treasured
recipes they’d like to share
with the group. These
recipes may end up in a sto-
ry-based collection compiled
throughout this Conversa-
tion Project program.
Roberts is a writer and
independent scholar who
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Jennifer Roberts will speak
about how recipes Feb. 9 in
Cannon Beach.
lives in Josephine County.
She received her Ph.D. in
English literature from the
University of Minnesota,
where she discovered her
fascination with the history
of science and medicine.
Studying alchemy and early
pharmacology sparked her
interest in recipes of all
kinds.
She is currently work-
ing on a novel set in the
17th century that involves
witchcraft, alchemy and, of
course, recipes.
Communities around the
state have year-round access
to free discussions through
the Conversation Project, a
program of Oregon Human-
ities that brings Oregonians
together to discuss provoca-
tive issues and ideas.
March 3 - April 15, 2017
Tickets $20 or $25
Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday shows at 3:00p.m.
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ASTORIA — Clatsop Weav-
ers and Spinners Guild, in
conjunction with the Astoria
Fiber Arts Studio, is offering
Linen and Lace, a two-day
weaving workshop.
Taught by Suzie Lilies of
the Eugene Textile Center,
the class will be held March
9 and 10 at the Astoria Fiber
Arts Studio, located at 1292
Duane St.
In this workshop, partic-
ipants will thread four- or
eight-shaft looms in various
sizes of linen and cotton
yarns and in round-robin
fashion. They will also ex-
plore various lace patterns,
including hand-manipulated
laces.
Beginning, intermediate
or advanced skill levels are
welcome, but participants
must have some experience
dressing a loom.
Cost for the workshop
is $100 for guild members
or $120 for non-members,
plus a materials fee of $30.
Looms will be provided.
The deadline to register is
Feb. 17. Call 503-325-5598
for more information, or
mail your payment to Clat-
sop Weavers and Spinners
Guild, P.O. Box 211, Long
Beach, WA 98631.
Film festival presents
‘Barefoot in the Park’
ASTORIA — The Astoria
International Film Festival
will present the second and
final film in its annual Win-
ter Film Series this weekend.
The film “Barefoot in the
Park” will be screened at 2
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5 at the
Liberty Theatre, located at
1203 Commercial St. Tick-
ets cost $5.
Presented as a tribute to
actor Robert Redford’s 80th
birthday, the 1967 film was
directed by Gene Saks and
stars Robert Redford, Jane
Fonda, Charles Boyer and
Mildred Natwick.
Based on the play of the
same name by Neil Simon,
“Barefoot in the Park” is
a romantic comedy that
follows newlyweds Corie
and Paul as they begin
married life in a tiny, fifth-
floor walk-up apartment in a
Manhattan brownstone. He’s
a straight-as-an-arrow law-
yer, and she has a far more
spontaneous, free spirit.
As the young couple
contend with a lack of
heat, a skylight that leaks
snow, several long flights
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Watch “Barefoot in the Park”
Feb. 5 at the Liberty Theatre.
of stairs, oddball neighbor
Victor Velasco, and Co-
rie’s well-meaning mother,
they must also reconcile
their own personal differ-
ences.
Paul just doesn’t under-
stand Corie, as she sees it.
He’s too staid, too boring,
and she just wants him to be
a little more spontaneous.
Running “barefoot in the
park” would be a start.