FEBRUARY 9, 2017 // 7
Chocolate, art combine
to celebrate art education
TV makeup artist visits Astoria
Clatsop County
Historical Society
presents FX artist
ASTORIA — The Clatsop
County Historical Soci-
ety’s Thursday Night Talks
lecture series continues at 7
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 with
a presentation by special
FX makeup artist and prop
maker Christina Kortum.
Kortum’s work has appeared
on television shows such as
“Portlandia,” “Leverage,” “The
Librarians” and “Grimm” as
well as numerous independent
features. She is also the owner
of Ravenous Studios, a makeup
effects company that supplies
custom makeup and props for
the film industry.
The TNT lecture series
is a free event at the Fort
George Lovell Showroom
on the third Thursday of
each month. Doors open at 6
p.m. Seasonal beers on tap,
food and other beverages
are available for purchase.
Minors are welcome with an
accompanying adult.
For more information,
call 503-325-2203 or e-mail
cchs@cumtux.org
Clatsop County Historical
Society is a 501(C)(3) non-
profit educational organiza-
tion dedicated to preserving
and presenting the history of
Clatsop County Oregon and
the surrounding area. The
Society operates the Flavel
House Museum, The Heritage
Museum, the Oregon Film
Museum and the Uppertown
Firefighters Museum.
Your Art’s Desire
event to benefit
Community Arts
Project program
SUBMITTED IMAGE
In season two of “Grimm,”
makeup artist Christina Kor-
tum transformed actress
Mary McDonald-Lewis, in-
set, with stretch and stipple
makeup into the aged char-
acter Frau Pech (main image).
Register for PoetryFest weekend
Registration for
second annual
Manzanita event
opens Feb. 15
MANZANITA — Last year’s
PoetryFest was the first
three-day event sponsored
by Manzanita Writers’
Series and the Hoffman
Center for the Arts.
“All 24 registration
spots filled before we could
even get a press release
out,” says Phyllis Mannan,
one of the event coordina-
tors.
PoetryFest features three
days of poetry workshops,
writing, reading and net-
working — all immersed in
the inspiration and creativ-
ity that a long beach week-
end provides. This year’s
PoetryFest is set for March
31 to April 2. Registration
opens Feb. 15.
The topics for 2017 are
“moods” and “modes.”
Workshops will be
taught by poets Carl
Adamshick and Emily
Kendal Frey and will focus
on understanding poems
as modes of expression.
Rather than focusing on
poems with formalized
structure, like sonnets,
haiku, villanelle or pan-
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Emily Kendal Frey
toums, classes will focus
on poems that have a mode
and governing purpose,
like elegies, odes, aubades
(love poems about dawn),
blazons (poems in which
the speaker describes his
lover’s body) and epithala-
miums (wedding poems).
Participants will then
pick and invent their own
modes of expression and
ascribe different tones and
feelings to each mode.
Workshops will begin
with lecture/discussion
and will include ample
opportunity for generative
writing.
Adamshick is the author
of “Curses and Wish-
es,” which won the Walt
Whitman award from the
Academy of American
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Carl Adamshick
POETRYFEST
March 31 to April 2
Hoffman Center for
the Arts
594 Laneda Ave.,
Manzanita
hoffmanblog.org
$165 before March 15
$195 after March 15
Poets, and “Saint Friend.”
Both titles received an
Oregon Book Award. He
has taught at Catlin Gabel
and lectured at Stanford
University and the Amer-
ican International School
in Vienna, as well as been
a writer-in-residence at the
William Stafford Archive at
Lewis and Clark College.
His work has been pub-
lished in Harvard Review,
American Poetry Review,
The Missouri Review and
Narrative. He is a founder
and editor at Tavern Books,
a nonprofit press dedicated
to poetry and the preserva-
tion of books.
Frey is the author of
several poetry collections,
including “The Grief Perfor-
mance,” winner of the 2012
Norma Farber First Book
Award from the Poetry Soci-
ety of America, and “Sorrow
Arrow,” winner of the 2015
Oregon Book Award Staf-
ford/Hall Award for Poetry.
She teaches at the
Independent Publishing
Resource Center, Maryl-
hurst University, Portland
Community College and
Portland State University.
Cost for the weekend of
workshops and an introduc-
tory networking evening
on March 31 is $165 if you
register before March 15.
Cost is $195 if you register
after March 15. Register at
hoffmanblog.org
PoetryFest will be held
at the Hoffman Center,
594 Laneda Ave. For more
information, contact Kathie
Hightower at kathiejhigh-
tower@gmail.com
PACIFIC CITY — Your Art’s
Desire: A Celebration of
Chocolate, Wine & Art will
be held Saturday, Feb. 11
to benefit Community Arts
Project’s Art Literacy pro-
gram in Tillamook County
schools. It will take place
at the Kiawanda Communi-
ty Center in Pacific City.
The art preview and
silent auction will be from
noon to 4 p.m., with no ad-
mission charge. Then 6:30
to 9:30 p.m. the Chocolate,
Wine & Art Celebration
happens, and tickets are
required.
Complementary wine,
beer, sparkling cider, appe-
tizers and desserts will be
served. An art sale, silent
auction, student art, raffle
and live music complete
the evening festivities. Art-
ists will depict reflections
on the theme of “passion”
on 6-by-6-inch panels
that will sell for $75. All
proceeds from these sales
will support Community
Arts Project’s Art Literacy
program. Artists will also
sell studio art with 50 or
100 percent donated to
Community Arts Project.
Currently, Art Litera-
cy programs are held at
Nestucca Valley Elemen-
tary School in Cloverdale
and Garibaldi Grade
School. Each month an
age-appropriate 90-min-
ute art education session
is conducted in each
classroom focusing on a
famous artist or art move-
ment. The lesson includes
art history, technique and
aesthetic analysis, as well
as an opportunity for each
student to create their
own artwork in the style
of the artist or art move-
ment presented. More than
450 students are taught
every month. The program
is privately funded and
sponsored by Community
Arts Project, which also
presents the children’s
summer art program Slug
Soup. Funding relies on
special events, grants and
donations of local individ-
uals and businesses.
Tickets to the evening
event are $30 advance, $35
at the door.
For information or to
purchase tickets, contact
503-550-9655 or visit com-
munityartsproject.net
Enjoy a community
contra dance Friday
ASTORIA — Monthly
community contra dances
continue at the Astoria Arts
& Movement Center.
The next dance is set for
7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10.
There will be a lesson for
beginning dancers starting
at 7 p.m.
All ages are welcome;
this is an alcohol- and
smoke-free event. Admis-
sion is on a sliding scale of
$5 to $10 depending on your
wallet. Children under 12
are admitted free.
Bringing along a dance
partner is not absolutely nec-
essary as contra dancers are
encouraged to dance with as
many new partners as they
are comfortable with. Come
alone or with a group.
The Astoria Arts &
Movement Center is located
at 342 10th St.