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Winter nourishment taught at Sou’wester
SEAVIEW — The Sou’west-
er Workshop Series presents
“Nourishing Ourselves into
Winter with Food and Herbs,”
with instructors Lara Pacheco
and Paige Common, 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14.
Common, chef and owner
of Eatin’ Alive, and Pacheco,
a clinical herbalist of Seed and
Thistle, will lead participants
through a hands-on workshop
to learn how to prepare for the
winter season.
Attendees will make elder-
berry syrups and fire cider to
take home while learning the
folklore and medicinal uses of
this age-old medicine.
Paige will nourish partici-
pants with a hearty, warming
lunch while they prepare broths
to deepen the support for their
immune systems in the coming
cold and flu season.
Lara Pacheco is a Latina
mamita, clinical herbalist and
community organizer who runs
Seed and Thistle Apothecary,
an herbal company that pro-
vides education for youth and
adults, health consultations and
a monthly herbal CSH through
homegrown medicine. She
runs a full-year apprenticeship
program and is starting a pop-up
clinic to address access to plant
medicine and bodywork in the
Cully community of Portland.
Paige started preparing plant-
based foods in her Portland
kitchen giving life to Eatin’ Alive
in 2010. She is available for one-
on-one health coaching, recipe
development, pre- and post-natal
consultations, small-event cater-
ing, speaking engagements and
classes.
The cost is $40. Please bring
notebooks and pens to take
notes. Hot tea and coffee provid-
ed. Common will provide lunch.
All workshops are open to
the public, and all skill levels
are welcome. RSVP via sou-
westerfrontdesk@gmail.com or
360-642-2542.
Paige Common,
left, and Lara
Pacheco
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Gaze upon the ‘Body Politic’ at CCC
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3 Leg Torso
3 Leg Torso band takes
the Nehalem stage
NEHALEM — The North
County Recreation Dis-
trict Performing Arts Cen-
ter in Nehalem (36155
9th St.) will host 3 Leg
Torso 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 14.
“This amazing band
recently performed at the
Astoria Music Festival,
and we are thrilled to
bring them here,” the dis-
trict said in a release.
3 Leg Torso creates
charming, elegant and
daring modern chamber
pop music infused with
equal parts tradition and
innovation. Influenced by
tango, Eastern Europe-
an folk and other world
music traditions, their
cosmopolitan musical
style embraces wit and
humor within thoughtful,
uncommon and beautiful
musical arrangements.
Advance sale tickets
are available at TicketTo-
mato.com.
For more information,
contact Mary Moran at
971-308-0309 or theatre@
ncrdnehalem.org.
ASTORIA — The Clatsop Community
College Royal Nebeker Art Gallery
will open its 2017-18 exhibition
season with a two-person show titled
“Body Politic: Contemporary, Classi-
cal Drawings by Ghislaine Fremaux
and Henk Pander.”
The show will run Thursday, Oct.
12, through Thursday, Nov. 30, with a
reception for the artists scheduled for
6 p.m. Oct. 12. The gallery reception
and exhibit are free and open to the
public.
Both artists were selected to show
their work in the 2017 international
“Au Naturel” competition.
Pander, born in Haarlem, The Neth-
erlands, is represented in prestigious
museums and collections across the
globe, including the Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam. In addition to winning
the first place award in the 2017 “Au
Naturel,” Pander was an award-win-
ning participant in CCC’s ninth annual
“Au Naturel” in 2015.
Ghislaine Fremaux, born in Wash-
ington, D.C., is Assistant Professor
of Art in the discipline of Painting at
Texas Tech University in Lubbock,
Texas. She holds her MFA from the
Pennsylvania State University. Her
undergraduate studies began in 2003
at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and
culminated in a BFA from Tufts Uni-
versity with SMFA, Boston, in 2007.
“Henk and I will present a show
that is immense in both scale and
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content,” Fremaux said. “We both
draw with fervor, and the stuff of our
drawings crosses notions of violence,
terror, intimacy, the body, death and
social criticism.”
In addition, Pander and Fremaux
will conduct workshops that provide
participants with insights and actu-
al hands-on practice of each artist’s
unique approaches to drawing.
Fremaux’s workshop, titled “Know
Thyself: Tactile Mapping and Self-Im-
age,” is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, with a one-hour
lunch break and will take place in
Room 112 of the Drawing/Painting
Studio of the CCC Art Center.
This workshop is free to CCC stu-
dents enrolled in fall term art classes
and open to the public for a $20 fee.
Space is limited; pre-registration is
required. For more details, a materials
list, and to register, contact Kristin
Shauck by phone 503-338-2472, or
e-mail kshauck@clatsopcc.edu.
Henk Pander’s workshop will be
held in the later weeks of fall term
(exact time and date to be announced)
and will focus on the practice of draw-
ing from the imagination using the
medium of quill pen and ink.
The CCC Royal Nebeker Art
Gallery and the Drawing/Painting
Studio are ADA accessible. Both are
located at 1799 Lexington Ave. in
Astoria. The gallery hours are 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and
on weekends and holidays by appoint-
ment only.
For more information, contact
Shauck at 503-338-2472.