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‘Birddog’ explores racism,
greed, class in a corrupt city
COURTESY COLUMBIA PACIFIC HERITAGE MUSEUM
Watercolorist Eric Wiegardt.
Meet master watercolorist
Eric Wiegardt in Ilwaco
ILWACO, WASH. — The
Columbia Pacific Heritage
Museum will hold a special
“Afternoon with the Artist
Gallery Talk” at 2 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 30.
Nationally recognized
watercolorist Eric Wiegardt
will guide us through four
decades of his paintings on
view in “Form and Fluidity:
Eric Wiegardt and David
Campiche.”
“Form and Fluidity” is a
retrospective of more than
40 years of work by two
well-known Long Beach
Peninsula artists. The
exhibition will be on view
through Saturday, Oct. 6.
A talk with Campiche will
take place in September.
“Afternoon with the
Artist” is free and open to
the public.
Wiegardt is a signature
member of the American
Watercolor Society, Na-
MANZANITA — The Hoff-
man Center for the Arts
will screen the feature film
“Birddog,” directed by Ore-
gon independent filmmaker
Kelley Baker, at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 24. Admission
is $5.
Released in 1999, “Bird-
dog” tells the story of a used
car salesman in a trashy part
of town who accidentally
comes into possession of a
rare 1948 Kaiser automobile.
Acquiring the car leads to
disturbing revelations about
the 1948 Vanport flood,
which destroyed an entire
city.
Portland serves as the
backdrop of the film, which
explores racism, greed and
class in a corrupt city. It stars
Harris Matarazzo, Dougald
Park, Janet McIntyre and
Gloria Peterson.
An Oregon native, Baker
COURTESY HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
‘Birddog’ poster.
graduated from the Univer-
sity of Southern California
film school. He has written
and directed two other full-
length features — “The Gas
Café” and “Kicking Bird” —
eight short films and several
documentaries.
Baker’s works have aired
on PBS, Canadian and Aus-
tralian television, and have
been shown at film festivals,
including in London, Sydney,
Annecy, Sao Paulo, Sun-
dance, Chicago, Aspen, Mill
Valley and Edinburgh.
He has authored three
books — “Road Dog” and
“The Angry Filmmaker
Survival Guide” Parts One
and Two.
In addition to his own
films, Baker served as sound
designer on six of Gus Van
Sant’s feature films, in-
cluding “My Own Private
Idaho,” “Good Will Hunting”
and “Finding Forrester.”
The Manzanita Film
Series is a program of the
Hoffman Center for the Arts.
Films are screened monthly
throughout the year.
The center is at 594 Lane-
da Ave. in Manzanita.
Author of ‘Everything Girl’ reads at Astoria Library
COURTESY ERIC WIEGARDT
tional Watercolor Society,
Transparent Watercolor So-
ciety of America and others.
He has been awarded many
national and international
awards.
The Heritage Museum
is located at 115 S.E. Lake
St., in Ilwaco. Museum
hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday.
Admission is free on Thurs-
days, thanks to the Port of
Ilwaco.
For more information,
call 360-642-3446 or visit
columbiapacificheriatgemu-
seum.org.
ASTORIA — Meet author
Holly Lörincz as she reads
from and discusses her lat-
est release, “The Everything
Girl: A Novel,” at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the
Astoria Library.
Lörincz is a success-
ful collaborative writer
with multiple books
out with St. Martin’s
Press, Skyhorse Publishing
and Benchmark Press.
“The Everything Girl”
is being considered for
a movie by the producer
of “A Devil Wears Prada.”
Her collaborative nonfiction
book, “Crown Heights,”
was used to launch the Am-
azon Original Stories pub-
lishing imprint. Her own
novel, “Smart Mouth,” won
the national 2014 Bronze
Ippy Award in Fiction.
Besides writing profes-
COURTESY ASTORIA LIBRARY
Author Holly Lörincz.
sionally, Lörincz has been
editing books for more than
20 years. She established
Lorincz Literary Services
in 2010. Once a teacher and
a debate coach, and before
that the editor-in-chief of a
literary magazine, Lörincz
loves words.
The Astoria Library, at
450 10th St., is guided by
the mission statement: “Ex-
plore ideas, engage minds,
excite imagination.”
For more information
about library programs and
services, contact library
staff at 503-325-7323 or
comments@astorialibrary,
or visit astorialibrary.org.