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2 // COASTWEEKEND.COM 24-hours of nonstop entertainment at Pier Pressure Production’s Performathon 2019 fundraiser ASTORIA – Pier Pressure Productions’s presents Performathon 2019, a 24-hour fundraising event running non-stop from 7:15 p.m., Saturday, July 27, to 7:15 p.m., Sunday, July 28, on the Ten-Fifteen Stage at 1015 Commercial St. Admission is $10. Larger donations are accepted. Admission buttons, which allow full access, are available at Ex Libris Anony- mous, 1191 Marine Drive, or at event. The event will feature local entertain- ment including music, comedy, poetry, dance, performance art and more. There will also be a cakewalk, raf- fle, art for purchase, improv and rendi- tions of Pier Pressure Productions’ shows. Local filmmaker Mick Alderman’s 2011 Astoria-based horror film Haunted Shore (Crimps) will be shown. Festivities include performances by Wil- liam Ham, also the emcee, DanPa, Maggie and the Katz, The Sharon Hartley Band, Dragonfly Moon, Niall Carroll, Peter Unander, Brian Bovenizer, Jeff Munger, Shelleyne Winans, Jessamyn Grace, Jenni- fer Crockett, Dylan Hauser-Schalk, Gabe White, Katrina Godderz, Ann Branson, Daric Moore, Graham Nystrom, Bill Honl, The Brownsmead Flats, Rock Fish Blues Band and Barbie Gaidosh. For more information, contact Wil- liam Ham at whambino@hotmail.com or 360-214-1012. Photo courtesy Pamela Alegria Jessamyn Grace’s CoastFusion Belly Dance Company will perform during Pier Pressure Production’s Performathon 2019 24-hour fundraiser. Walk the Discovery Trail in Long Beach with the Angora Hiking Club July 27 LONG BEACH – The Angora Hiking Club will walk a section of the Dis- covery Trail at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, July 27. This hike is appropri- ately 5 miles one way. Walkers will pass the Basalt Monolith, Clark’s Tree and Whale Skeleton along the Pacific Ocean on this easy trail. Interested participants should call Linda Dugan by Friday, July 26, at 503-440-3909. All hikers will meet at 9 a.m. for car pooling at the parking lot on Marine Drive in Astoria just west of Burger King between 2nd and 3rd Streets. You do not need to be a member to participate. Join us as “we blaze the trail.” We are a friendly club! Call the hike leader or visit our website, angorahikingclub.org. Annual dues are $10.00. Dogs are not allowed on our hikes. Trails End Art calls for art for juried show Courtesy Trails End Art Association. 2018’s Best In Show by artist Kathy Samsel. GEARHART– Trail’s End Art Association calls all local artists to participate in the 69th Annual Judged Show, Aug. 3-24 at 656 A St. Sub- mit work Sunday, July 28, or Monday, July 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wet, mixed media, pho- tography and 3D art wel- come. Two age catego- ries will be offered: youth, 14-years and younger, and adult and high school stu- dents, 15-years and older. Youth category will not be judged. Each young art- ist will receive an award and have work displayed in a special exhibit on Aug. 3 from 2-5 p.m. The adult category offers cash prizes for Best in Show and the Mayor’s Award, plus business donations for firsts in each category. Judges this year include professional artist and Astoria’s Imogen Gallery owner Terri Sund, profes- sional artist and Neskowin’s Hawk Creek Gallery owner Michael Schlicting and Asto- ria professional fine arts pho- tographer Dwight Caswell. More information includ- ing entry fee, size dimen- sions, commissions and more can be found at trailsendart. org or at the gallery.
