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The Columbia Press
February 19, 2021
National park offers listening adventure
park.
Want to explore
“Taking time to
the sounds of nature
stop
and listen to
without leaving your
the
world
around
easy chair?
us
is
important,”
Lewis and Clark
Job said. “It can
National Historical
enrich our lives
Park can take you
and provide a men-
on a sound adven-
tal break from the
ture, allowing you to
stress of daily life.”
hear local birds, bab-
Incorporating the
bling streams, rus-
sounds
of a place
tling reeds, even the
Re-enactors shoot muskets as if they were mem-
while
telling
a sto-
sounds of shotguns
bers of the Lewis and Clark party hunting food.
ry
can
help
bring
during an elk hunt.
the story to life, he
The sounds were recorded
said.
Listening adventure
by Jacob Job of the Colorado
“This is what we’ve tried
To
view
the
story
map
State University Sound and
to achieve in producing this
and
hear
the
sounds,
visit
Light Ecology Team as part
story map. We hope you en-
of the national park’s Sound- nps.gov/lewi/learn/nature/
joy listening to these sounds
soundscape.htm.
scape Project.
as much as we did recording
A Lewis and Clark Listening
them and working them into
Adventure story map high- what they might have heard. this story.”
lights the sounds of Lewis The story map is filled with
Ultimately, the park hopes
and Clark National Historical high-quality images, inter- the Soundscape Project en-
Park.
active maps, immersive re- courages people to visit the
Park staff collaborated with cordings, quotations from park to hear and see every-
Job to create a map that tells the journals, and a capti- thing firsthand.
the story of the explorers and vating narrative that guides
For more information, call
their experiences as well as the viewer to experience the the park at 503-861-2471.
County arts groups receive operating grants
The Oregon Arts Commis-
sion awarded small grants to
97 organizations statewide,
meant to be a lifeline ensur-
ing arts access for Orego-
nians, the agency announced.
The
Small
Operating
Grants are designed to pro-
vide support to arts organi-
zations with budgets under
$150,000. Eligibility was
limited to nonprofit organi-
zations at least two years old
that provide ongoing, sus-
tained artistic programming
and outreach programs. Each
organization received $1,159.
“So many grants are proj-
ect-oriented when what most
small organizations need is
basic operating support to be
able to even offer program-
ming,” said Jessamyn West,
the movement center’s exec-
utive director. “Because this
grant can be used for expenses
like rent and utilities, it truly
Members participate in a Bollywood-style performance at Asto-
ria Arts and Movement Center.
supports organizations at their
most fundamental level.”
The Arts Commission is
supported with state general
funds, federal funds from the
National Endowment for the
Arts, and money from the Or-
egon Cultural Trust.
Small Operating Grants
went to the following Clatsop
County organizations:
Astoria Arts and Movement
Center, Cannon Beach Arts
Association, Cascadia Concert
Opera in Astoria, Hoffman
Center for the Arts in Manza-
nita, North Coast Chorale in
Astoria, Partners of the Per-
forming Arts Center in Asto-
ria and Tolovana Arts Colony.