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Clothesline Project focuses
on the silence of violence
Clatsop Community Col-
lege invites the community
to share in breaking the si-
lence around gender violence
through the Clatsop Clothes-
line Project kick-off event
from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday,
March 4, in the Towler Hall
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ington Ave., Astoria.
The event will include a
display of T-shirts painted by
community members.
Presentations also will be
made by speakers who have
experienced violence in their
lives.
Community members can
decorate T-shirts. at com-
munity gatherings from 7 to
8:30 p.m. Feb. 17, and 12:30
to 2 p.m. Feb. 23. Both gath-
erings will be in the Lives in
Transition resource room,
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1775 Lexington Ave, Asto-
ria. Shirts can be decorated
at the gathering, or they may
be completed elsewhere and
dropped off before March 4
at the resource room. Shirts
and materials for decorating
are available free of charge.
The 2015 Clothesline
Project is sponsored by the
Women and Social Action
class. Men, women, and in-
dividuals of all gender iden-
tities attend this course at
Clatsop Community College
every winter. Each class cre-
ates a new activist experience
for the self, each other, and
the North Coast region. The
Clothesline Project is a visual
display dedicated to raising
awareness about the reality
of violence in society. It is
composed of T-shirts created
by survivors of violence, or
in honor of someone who has
experienced violence. Each
shirt is one survivor’s testi-
mony of their personal expe-
rience with violence. Some
shirts display fear, anger or
pain, while others show hope
and healing.
Parents are asked to dis-
cuss issues with their chil-
dren prior to and following
the viewing. The Clothesline
Project’s goals are to break
the silence of violence and to
support and encourage survi-
vors in their healing process
and their efforts to help others
understand the horrors of vi-
olence.
The Clothesline Project
originated in Hyannis, Mass.
in 1990 when members of
Cape Cod’s Women’s De-
fense Agenda learned that,
during the same time 58,000
soldiers were killed in the
Vietnam War, 51,000 U.S.
women were killed by the
men who claimed to love
them. For additional infor-
mation, visit the Clatsop
Community College Wom-
en’s Studies Facebook Events
Page at https://www.face-
book.com/CCCWomens-
Studies/ events?key=events.
To volunteer for the Clatsop
Clothesline Project, or for in-
formation about CCC Wom-
en’s Studies events and proj-
ects, contact Suzi Denight at
503-325-2560 or sdenight@
clatsopc.edu.
‘Listening to the Land’ series looks at
north coast area through Indian eyes
To the indigenous peo-
ple of Oregon’s north coast,
geography and culture are
inseparable: Tribal beliefs
and lifeways all begin with
the land.
Join Richard and Roberta
Basch, members of the Clat-
sop-Nehalem Confederated
Tribes, as they speak and
share stories about the spirit
of the land and the public’s
responsibility to care for it in
“Our North Coast Through
Indian Eyes,” the second of
this year’s Listening to the
Land programs.
The program will begin
at 6 p.m. Feb. 18, in the
Seaside Public Library. Ad-
mission is free; refreshments
will be served.
A member and vice-chair-
man of Clatsop-Nehalem
C o n f e d e r-
ated Tribes,
Richard
Basch,
of
Seaside, has
worked in
Indian and
tribal edu-
cation for
35
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and serves
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as tribal li-
aison for Lewis and Clark
National Historic Trail. His
wife, Roberta Basch, is also
a long-time educator and
past president of the Wash-
ington Indian Education As-
sociation. She is a member
of the Puyallup and Coeur
d’Alene tribes and has been
adopted into the Clatsop
tribe.
They were deeply in-
volved in the creation of
NeCus’ Park, on a portion of
the site of the former Cannon
Beach Elementary School.
The site is considered to be
the location of a Clatsop vil-
lage when explorers Lewis
and Clark visited the area.
Listening to the Land is a
monthly winter speaker se-
ries presented by the North
Coast Land Conservancy
and the Necanicum Water-
shed Council in partnership
with the Seaside Public Li-
brary and with generous
support from the Seaside
Chamber of Commerce.
This year’s Listening to the
Land series is focused on the
natural and cultural heritage
of the Oregon Coast.
More details are available
at www.NCLCtrust.org.
Artist donates ‘’night, Mother’
paintings to Coaster Theatre
Justin Lacche
depicts
emotional
scenes
By Erick Bengel
Cannon Beach Gazette
Those attending “’night,
Mother,” the Coaster The-
atre show running through
Feb. 21, may want to lin-
ger in the lobby to check
out a wholly different in-
terpretation of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning drama.
Five original paintings
depicting moments of peak
emotion in Marsha Nor-
man’s play were painted
by Justin Lacche, a former
Coaster Theatre performer
and Cannon Beach Ga-
zette reporter who is now
a professional artist living
in Hillsboro. The paintings
will be on display until the
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Though not part of
the production per se, the
8-by-10-inch mostly acryl-
ic paintings are meant to
complement the scenes
without upstaging the
Coaster’s work, Lacche
said.
“’night, Mother” is a
play about an aging moth-
er trying to persuade her
middle-aged daughter not
to commit suicide. It deals
with “people who have un-
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les the hard questions”
that arise “when someone
thinks about choosing to
end their life,” he said.
Lacche intended to cap-
ture the spirit of the play,
“raise some of the themes
that the playwright raised,”
while avoiding spoilers. He
did not set out to morally
judge the daughter’s deci-
sion to end her life, he said,
“but to show the extreme
emotion that Marsha Nor-
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A painting by Justin Lacche, a former Coaster Theatre
performer and newspaper reporter, depicts a scene in
“‘night, Mother,” a play at the Coaster Theatre. Four of
Lacche’s paintings are displayed in the theater.
man was trying to portray
in these two characters.”
Lacche’s hope for the
audience is that they have
one
thought-provoking
experience watching the
Coaster performance, di-
rected by Sheila Shaffer,
and another viewing his
paintings.
“I’m very grateful the
Coaster provided me with
a venue,” Lacche said.
Performance artist
Lacche, who has been
selling paintings since
1997, reached out to Pat-
rick Lathrop, the Coaster’s
executive director, and
asked if the theater would
be open to a special exhibi-
tion. For the past few years,
as sales of his paintings
have improved, Lacche
has donated his artwork to
several institutions, includ-
ing the cities of Hillsboro
and Beaverton, “that have
helped me along the way,”
he said.
The Coaster often fea-
tures artist exhibitions,
though they don’t always
dovetail with the current
show, Lathrop said.
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who has actually ... read
the script and taken actual
moments from the script
and recreated those in his
artwork,” he said, adding
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an artist has approached
the theater and volunteered
his artwork without ex-
pecting anything in return.
The cast and crew of
“’night, Mother” have
“just loved (Lacche’s
paintings),” he said. “They
thought (his work) was ap-
propriate.”
The paintings are “kind
of visceral,” Shaffer said.
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get noticed because of the
bright colors and the prim-
itive nature of the paint-
ings.”
If any local artists would
like to be considered for a
future exhibition, Lathrop
wants to hear from them.
“I am trying to feature a
different artist (with) each
show in the lobby, and, if
indeed, the artwork can tie
in to the show, then it’s an
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Robert Morse, D.O., Cardiologist
Sally Freeman,
Interpretive Park Ranger
Providence Seaside Hospital, in partnership with
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park invites you
into the woods for a Heart Healthy Hike.
92343 Fort Clatsop Rd.
Astoria, OR 97103
Robert Morse, D.O., cardiologist, will speak about the
risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Following the heart healthy presentation Sally Freeman,
Interpretive Park Ranger, will lead a 2-mile hike into the
woods of our Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.
After the hike enjoy refreshments,
Providence gifts and a prize drawing.
The event is free but please register
by calling: 800-562-8964
