Thursday, January 31, 2019 // 7
CCC presents ‘The Vagina Monologues’ to help The Harbor
ASTORIA — “The
Vagina Monologues”
is on stage at the Royal
Nebeker Gallery at Clat-
sop Community College
at 7 p.m. Friday and Sat-
urday, Feb. 1-2. Tickets
are $10 each.
An Obie Award-win-
ning whirlwind tour of
a forbidden zone, “The
Vagina Monologues” intro-
duces a wildly divergent
gathering of female voices,
including a 6-year-old girl,
a septuagenarian, a vagina
workshop participant, a
woman who witnesses the
birth of her granddaugh-
ter, a Bosnian survivor of
rape and a feminist happy
to have found a man who
“liked to look at it.”
Attend for an evening
of laughter, tears and push-
ing the envelope as college
staff, students and local
feminist activists celebrate
women.
All proceeds bene-
fit The Harbor: Where
violence ends and hope
begins.
The play is directed by
Mindy Stokes, director of
CCC’s Lives in Transition
Program and Women’s
Studies faculty. Through-
out the last decade, Stokes
and her students have pro-
duced multiple feminist
events including “The
Vagina Monologues,”
“The Clothesline Project”
and “One Billion Rising.”
Courtesy of Clatsop Community College
Mindy Stokes
Astorian selected to be part of Many
Hats Collaboration production
PORTLAND — Asto-
rian Martha Johnson
wrote a story about her
mother, grandmother
and herself. It has been
selected as part of a
Many Hats Collaboration
script being performed
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
Feb. 2, and 2 p.m. Sun-
day, Feb. 3, at Portland
State University’s Lincoln
Recital Hall, 1620 S.W.
Park Ave., Room 75.
Photo courtesy Off The Grid studios
Jack Buccola, left, and Judd Field in the “NexGen” film about fly-fishing.
Local fly-fishermen star in upcoming film
PORTLAND — Pete
Field and his 14-year-old
son, Judd, are in “Nex-
Gen,” showing at 4 p.m.
and 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb.
9, at the Aladdin Theater as
part of the 2019 Fly Fishing
Film Tour.
Off the Grid Stu-
dios filmmaker RA Beat-
tie tells the story of genera-
tional bonds and friendships
formed through fly-fishing.
“NexGen” is told from the
point of view of Jack Buc-
cola — a 12-year-old angler
from Bend. The film fol-
lows Jack as he experiences
living in a fly-fisherman’s
house, witnesses the impact
of fires on his home waters,
and explores new waters on
a road trip with his father
Ryan, friend Judd Field and
Judd’s father Pete.
Throughout the journey,
Jack grows to appreciate the
steelhead of the Northwest,
the native cutthroat trout
found on the South Fork of
the Snake River and other
tributaries.
“Our 2019 production
‘NexGen’ takes viewers
along for a ride on a more
attainable, grassroots adven-
ture here at home in the
American West,” explains
Beattie. “I’m very proud of
our entire team and excited
to bring the young cast, epic
eats, and stunning nature
scenes to the big screen in
theaters.
Tickets are at http://bit.
ly/2S0qBjy
Learn more at http://bit.
ly/2sFUFmr
Tick-
ets are
$25; $15
for stu-
dents and
seniors.
In “The
Martha
Under-
Johnson
taking,”
a mother
faces death as her adult
daughter struggles to
become a caregiver.
According to the web-
site, “Death pounds at the
door and they both won-
der, could someone this
pissed off actually be
dying? The Undertaking
portrays end-of-life care
using theater, dance and
Dmitri Shostakovich’s
Piano Trio No. 2, played
live by Northwest Piano
Trio musicians.”
Learn more at many-
hatscollaboration.org/
tickets-for-the-undertaking/
Bonsai! Small talk about tiny
trees at the Astoria Library
ASTORIA — Alan
Taft of the Bonsai Soci-
ety of Portland will share
his knowledge and joy of
bonsai at 6 p.m. Satur-
day, Feb. 2, at the Asto-
ria Library. Admission is
free.
Taft — a self-described
“crazy plant nerd” — will
talk about the history, art
and culture of bonsai. He
will display a selection
of the small trees at var-
ious stages of develop-
ment, ranging in age from
5 to 125 years old, some
which he has taken care of
for more than 40 years.
The Bonsai Society of
Portland has been active
in the Portland area since
1966. It was founded to
promote the art of bonsai
through education, exhib-
its and social activities.
The Astoria Library is
at 450 10th St. For infor-
mation about library pro-
grams and services, con-
tact 503-325-7323 or visit
astorialibrary.org.
Alan Taft